Project Eyeball, 29 August 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Tuesday, August 29, 2000 80 CENTS
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      58 1 A hand grenade tossed into the Malaysian embassy in Jakarta exploded in a parking lot without causing any injuries, or doing much damage, police said. See Page 10 Foot-in>month syndrome Reporters following the presidential campaign of George W Bush are having a field day with his mastery of opism. See
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      193 1 The biggest JERKS in sports Round 1: Manchester United’s Roy Keane (left) vs Arsenal’s Patrick Vieira. See Page 19 Give your views on who you think the biggest jerk should be, and vote for your choice (but be nice) http://eveball.asial.com.sg Hostel hotbeds for marriase Undergraduates will be a prime target
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      70 2 ITALIAN psychologist Guiseppe Cirillo has invented a modern chastity belt. The “chastity timer” is attached to a piece of underwear and begins ticking when the elastic band slackens. Microchips record how often and for how long the pants are pulled down. Spouses get a record of what happened to
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      786 2  -  Government presents package of pro-family policies By Ng Hwee Koon AND Sue-Ann Chia hweekoon@sph.com.sg sueann@sph.com.sg THE Government is seriously playing matchmaker. It has announced a slew of measures in a bid to create “a total social environment for having children”. When it comes to boosting fertility rates, even
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      676 3  -  Romance and marriage could result By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg JIMMY Cham, 28, and his wife Eileen, 24, stayed in the same block in Temasek Hall during their university days. Sparks flew, love grew, and five years later, they tied the knot. In fact, they walked
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        726 4  -  They’re riled about paying for unwanted calls from rival telco’s telemarketers By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg YOU subscribe to a mobile phone service from one company. Its competitors call you on that phone, and make a sales pitch. An unwelcome intrusion? Or
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      638 6  -  Many NUS graduates indifferent to changes in upcoming graduation ceremony By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg JUST like a rose, a convocation by any other name would still be the same. At least that’s what the consensus seems to be. Seventeen out of 20 National University of
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      Lock icon More TV lovers than bookworms
      299 6  -  NATIONAL LIBRARY BOARD SURVEY By Kim-Kyna Tan kimkyna@sph.com.sg THE textbook truth is out: Books may become moth-eaten relics in the Knowledge Economy. That is if Singaporeans continue to watch more TV and listen to more music than read the written word, according to a recent
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      Lock icon Oil price up, petrol follows
      438 8  -  ASK EYEBALLS: Costly fuel Organ pledges Water checks Denyse Yeo THIS whole petrol price saga has left me confused. What’s going on? In the past year, petrol pump prices here have increased seven times and by 27 cents a litre an average hike of about
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      Lock icon Inflation hits mid-level incomes most
      142 8 Families hit by food, power costs ALTHOUGH the inflation rate for the first half of the year was at a low 1 per cent, some income groups were hit harder than others. According to the Department of Statistics, the middle 60 per cent of the
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      Lock icon Exiting in style
      28 8 Entrepreneur Peter Knipp showing his New Economy “flair” as he roars out of the Singapore Eearning Symposium, where he was speaker yesterday. Yen Meng Jiin
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    • Local LOG
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        84 8 MEDIACORP has been dealt yet another blow when popular host-turned-scriptwriter Wang Yanqing resigned on Friday to join Singapore Press Holding’s new television outfit, Media Works. The 27-year-old Shanghai-born woman, who won the Best Compere Award at the South-East Asia Television Awards 1998, is
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        Lock icon Hello Kitty fighters jailed for 4 months
        121 8 THEY picked a fight, all for the charms of a soft toy. See Chet Pin, 45, and his 20-year-old son Bernard, were each jailed four months for starting a fight at a McDonalds outlet in Boon Lay Place last New Year’s Day. The
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        Lock icon Changes to Accountants Act
        122 8 PUBLIC accountants, look out for changes to the Accountants Act. The Government is in the process of amending the Act to allow for the formation of Public Accounting Corporations (PAC). This would bring Singapore on par with other countries like the United States and Britain, said
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      Lock icon TV tower lift plunges, killing 4
      411 9 Russian structure in danger of collapsing after fire Wires MOSCOW Four people stuck in an elevator 270 metres above ground inside Russia’s burnt out Ostankino television tower have been killed after the lift crashed to the ground. All that firemen and rescuers found last
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      Lock icon SAS set to deal with West Side Boys
      284 10 Commandos sent to Sierra Leone as militia takes hard line on kidnapped troops Wires FREETOWN THE British government has despatched a crack Special Air Service (SAS) hostage rescue team to Sierra Leone to deal with the West Side Boys, in case negotiations
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      Lock icon Grenade attack on Malaysian embassy
      446 10 BLAST DOES NO HARM Wires JAKARTA A hand grenade flung into the Malaysian embassy in Jakarta exploded in the parking lot, causing no casualties and doing little damage, said Indonesian police yesterday. The grenade attack happened late on Sunday night at about 11 pm and
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      Lock icon Napster’s new ‘allies’ help out
      233 10 SAN FRANCISCO The plot thickens. In an unexpected move, several technology trade groups have filed “friend-of-the-court” briefs in the Napster case. Not that they are necessarily friends of Napster. Rather, they fear the consequences of the US Court of Appeals shutting down the popular music-sharing
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      Lock icon Protest against hike in power tariffs turns violent
      88 11 Protesters rushing to help two of their comrades who were wounded after a clash with policemen in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad yesterday. The agitators are angry over a recent hike in power tariffs and are demanding that the decision be
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      Lock icon Jakarta to probe 2 loan scandals
      239 11 Gus Dur Linked to them Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia’s disgruntled Parliament agreed yesterday to launch probes into two loan scandals linked to President Abdurrahman Wahid, a move likely to renew political tension in the country. A majority of Parliament’s 500 members voted to launch the
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    • World WIDE
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        135 11 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia’s chief economics minister, Rizal Ramli, last night unveiled a 10-point plan to boost the embattled economy, saying one of the most pressing tasks was to boost public confidence in the country’s new Cabinet. At a news conference, Ramli said the 10-point programme
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        Lock icon Anwar man faces raps for leakage
        178 11 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian opposition-party official went on trial yesterday for leaking secret reports of Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) investigations into two leading ruling-party figures to the press. Mohamad Ezam Mohamad Noor is accused of possessing “classified documents pertaining to the ACA investigation” into
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        126 11 AFP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian AIDS Council, headed by Marina Mahathir, yesterday criticised a proposal to introduce pre-nuptial HIV tests for Muslim men in Johor state to check the spread of AIDS. Marina, the daughter of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said that
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        118 11 AFP CEBU Muslim extremists in southern Philippines freed their last South African hostage yesterday in time for him to join his wife and four Europeans released a day earlier for a flight home via Libya. The Abu Sayyaf gunmen still hold six other westerners and
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        Lock icon Woman alleges affair with Gus Dur
        100 11 Reuters JAKARTA An Indonesian official yesterday rejected as rubbish a magazine report that quoted a woman who said she had an affair with President Abdurrahman Wahid, also known as Gus Dur, in the mid-*****. “It’s rubbish rumour that has no news value at all.
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      866 12  -  Response to Internet bank’s fixed deposits ‘very good’ By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S first Internet bank, finatiQ is off the starting block with a bang. It is offering interest of 3.08 per cent on six-month fixed deposits between 33 and 133 basis points higher
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      80 13 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Brieriey *****000 31.5 SingTel 8,878,000 277.0 Medi-Rad 8430,000 64.0 Top 3 Gainers CENTS UOB 1400 90 6.9 DatacrftUSS 830 30 3.8 OUB 860 25 3.0 Total number of gainers: 107 Top 3 Losers CENTS PacCent 2280 -30 -1.3 Venture 2270
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      44 13 Nothing goes to waste at repair shops like this one in Hanoi, where workers would fix broken TV sets and audio-video appliances to be resold. Many second-hand electronic appliances continue to be smuggled into Vietnam for this purpose. AFP
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      397 13  -  Golf retailer Transview distances itself from botched IPO By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg “WE are not the same as eWorldofSports.com.” That was the most important message that Tan Ching Khoon, executive chairman of Transview Holdings, had for investors agonising over whether to sink a buck or two into
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      Lock icon Ban on IPOs for UOB Asia
      192 13 PARENT BANK RAPS SUBSIDIARY UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) has taken the drastic step of barring its own subsidiary, UOB Asia, from undertaking any new work related to the public listing of companies, with immediate effect. The ban will last till the Big Four bank
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      155 13  -  THIS site from Londonbased research house IDEA is clearly not a place for the amateur investor. The clue: it says its clients include 42 of the world’s top 50 financial institutions, 25 central banks and 1,700 dealing rooms. If that wasn’t impressive enough,
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      Lock icon Sex spam: Doc wants name cleared
      386 14  -  He has same name as spammer By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg THE mystery porn e-mail spammer has caused one person more discomfort than most. He shares the same name as that used by the spammer, “Wong Chee Kong”. He now wants his name cleared, as
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      Lock icon Pill ‘Videos’ the stomach
      318 14 AFP JERUSALEM Exploring the inner space of your body is now almost a reality with a breakthrough called a “video pill”. An Israeli company announced yesterday it will hold clinical trials for the capsule containing a miniaturised camera, flash, battery and transmitter, which has been developed
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      Lock icon New Counter-Strike ‘mod’ out
      375 14  -  INTERNET GAME Winston Goh THE latest version of the wildly popular “mod” (modification) for Half-Life, Counter-Strike (beta version 7) is now available for download. This latest revision was made available on www.counterstrike.net sometime in the wee hours of Sunday. But it is best to download from
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      Lock icon Open source may bridge gap
      100 14 Wires IN A report to President Clinton last year, a group of leading computer scientists warned that the nation faced a troubling “software gap”. The group said that programmers simply could not keep pace with the demand for high-quality software. Known as the President’s Information
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon US online users shun ‘.us’ names
        97 15 AP AMERICANS are anything but proud of their country if Internet domain names are anything to go by. United States sites simply prefer top-level domain names ending with “.com”, “.net” and “.org”, instead of something ending with “.us”. The US Commerce Department believes the
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        Lock icon No Crusoe chips for Toshiba laptops
        99 15 TOSHIBA’S product manager for notebooks in the UK didn’t think much of Transmeta’s Crusoe chip, which is why Toshiba has no plans to use it in its line of laptops. This was revealed in an interview by VNUNet in the UK and reported by
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        Lock icon Deep Blue high on popularity chart
        105 15 AP DEEP Blue, the IBM computer, is as famous as Baywatch babe Carmen Electra in the name-recognition stakes in America. This was confirmed in a recent survey by Marketing Evaluations/TvQJnc. The survey, which quizzed 1,200 adults in the US, revealed that 50 per cent
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      Lock icon Sony’s latest digital gadget
      46 15 New to Sony’s digital family are the HDyoo series digital TVs, which deliver much higher quality pictures than the standard sets. They will he available in Japan from November, in time for the December launch of digital broadcasting services in Japan. Reuters
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      Lock icon For better or verse
      745 16 Getting personal Think Singapore hasnt a drop of poetry in its barren, money-driven soul? Think again, for JEANNETTE NG (jeanng@sph.com.sg) finds local poetic voices blossoming on the Net The Poetry Billboard http://poetry. s-one.net.sg/ ONE of the best torch-bearers of Singaporean poetry in cyberspace. Run by energetic
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      Lock icon $500 isn’t much of an incentive
      655 17 ‘Baby Bonus is not bait’ ‘3-day paternity leave for civil servants’ (Aug 28) 1 AGREE with PM Goh that we should not have babies just because of the new incentives given by the Government. Having a baby means having more responsibilities. The incentives given
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      Lock icon Bonus may reinforce materialism
      549 17  -  NOT THE MOST APPROPRIATE SOLUTION MUHAMMAD HANIFF HASSAN Manager (Secretariat), Perdaus THE Baby Bonus Scheme announced by the Prime Minister during his National Day Rally speech is a welcome incentive to couples who want to have more children. Nevertheless, the Association of Adult Islamic Religious Students
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      Lock icon Foot in mouth disease
      723 18  -  THE NEW YORK TIMES By Bob Herbert REPORTERS covering George W Bush’s presidential campaign are having a field day with his so-called Bushisms. It’s understandable. They’re irresistible. “We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbour just like you like to be liked yourself,”
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      653 18  -  DAVE BARRY The Miami Herald WE’RE moving. I blame my daughter. She’s only five months old, but she has somehow acquired, at a conservative estimate, 250 million toys. In my youth, toys were passive lumps of wood or metal that were silent unless you whacked
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      27 2 For more details on other pro-family policies that the civil service have or for a Q&A on the baby bonuses, visit our website at http://eyeball. asial.com. sg.
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      32 4 Do you think that Sing Tel and Star Hub are being unfair to Ml subscribers, who have to pay for air-time during the telemarketing calls? Tell us in our poll at http://eyeball.agiaLcom.gg.
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      152 5 f<K. ht: His Think Pad i Series stays up to chart his patients’ progress. Dawn: It stays wide awake as he analyses findings for skin culture research. Morning: Takes a rest as he goes for his 10-kilometre run I- ViSfe .jp... I w i s' j In ThinkPad* i Series
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      183 6 B.Sc. (HON’S) MASTERS BA (HON’S) COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 5 majors 1. Software Development 2. Computer Science 3. Networking 4. Multimedia 5. Computer Systems Engineering B.Sc. Final Year Degree Advanced Higher Diploma students in IT related fields and local Polytechnic 8 majors 1. Advertising 2. Business Admin 3. Finance
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      23 6 Commencement is more than just an initiation rite. Discover more about the spirit of commencement at the US Ivy Leagues at httpV/eyebalL asial.com.sg.
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      244 7 Wm-w m liummmmmm £MM MW fife Mb, 5 tMUSIf! •>;•.. v W»SW«Ml|!ttS«^^ 4 4*^ >»;. v *i -M i3S BUM I f UK Ml f# P'« mpwm 1000 Mbps on your IT superhighway. Simply purchase two SuperStack 8 II Switch 3300-24 port and get a FREE Super Stack II 1000Base*SX
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      258 9 He'? King of tbe e-world. Lord of the virtual Jungle. Alpbi-male of tbe digital pack. And armed to tbe teeth. Witb a top-of-tbe-line state-of-tbe-art matte-alloy njobile phone, wbi<b he'd whip out farter than you could jay "WAP-<apable". After hours, he'd be seen at lavish bipper-tban-tbou, by-invitation-only-mind-you parties, rubbing shoulders witb
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      25 10 www.zdnet.com/ zdnn/special/ napster.html ZDNet one-stop Napster page, complete with guide to online file-sharing. www.theregister. co.uk/content/ 32/*****.html More on Napster’s tussles with Metallica and The Offspring.
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      225 12 is nuinttr enuro. .mm. K«jii«rt The guarl «ws is. fwaSiflPfe ffccsri k tfan n»it out there The great warn is, it car; get ®«i! higher; (4s a mattered £s& the money landed fmm t kss f4*k 'Aupr will asm? 8.88%, rrom August.! Thanks w our unique pooling system the-more funds
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      5 12 Making Dollars Sense with finatiQJ
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      165 15 NEC Monitors Imagination. Sol utions. -m PS 1■: pcwhsu 99 2COO t.MHIR WARDS The complete range of LCD CRT monitors follows the tradition of quality and reliability set by previous generations of NEC award-winning monitors to give you peace of mind. NEC monitors are designed for superior display quality which
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      86 16 CALLING web critics! Here’s your chance to shoot off on the coolest sites and hottest happenings that you discover on your cyber-explorations. Give us a peek at the view of the Net from your window. It can be in the form of a review like the one on this page,
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Keen to be bad boys
      647 19  -  One game in and kicking butt already SPORTS’ BIGGEST JERKS: ROY KEANE VS PATRICK VIEIRA By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg IF YOU had to pick two villains in the English Premier League so far, who would it be? Would your choices include a certain Frenchman and
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      Lock icon Women players hog the limelight
      346 19  -  US OPEN By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg IT’S time men’s tennis got its act together. In the past, women struggled to steal the spotlight from their male counterparts. Today, with colourful personalities like the Williams sisters, Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova, women’s tennis is the centre
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      Lock icon Dream Team III
      490 20 They’re not superstars, but they’re young and ambitious Wires SOME 30 minutes before the bus was to leave for the first practice, Antonio McDyess stood alone outside the front door of the US Olympic basketball team’s hotel, eager to get rolling. While Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant
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      Lock icon Medical experts say not all drugs are detectable
      265 20 SAMARANCH CLAIMS WAR ON DRUGS IS WON Wires SYDNEY Maybe Juan Antonio Samaranch should be tested. The way he is talking, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president is positively on something. Samaranch is claiming the war on drugs is won. Australian medical
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        Lock icon A track like no other
        580 22  -  BELGIUM’S TRICKY SPA By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg MENTION Spa, and you’d think of that steamy room at your health club. But to many in Formula One racing, Spa in Belgium represents one of the most favoured racing circuits in the world. Spa, or Circuit de
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      Lock icon Breaking through
      30 22 Mexican Enrique Montiel crossing the line to win the 18th International Marathon in Mexico City on Sunday. His time was two hours, 16 minutes and eight seconds. AP
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        Lock icon Anelka returns with a bang
        438 22 French striker nets brace for Paris St Germain Wires NICOLAS Anelka scored his first goal since his return to Paris St Germain from Real Madrid in a 3-1 home win over Bastia on Sunday. The French international striker, who had an effort denied against Sedan
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      Lock icon Vialli blows up
      536 23  -  Chelsea manager lashes out at critics following 1-1 draw with Aston Villa By Zaki Amrulla zaki@sph.com.sg CHELSEA drew 1-1 against Aston Villa in the English Premiership, but manager Gianluca Vialli is far from happy. After the match, Vialli lashed out at what he perceives as a hate
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      Lock icon Celtic drubs Rangers
      348 23  -  SCOTTISH LEAGUE By Zaki Amrulla zaki@sph.com.sg FOR Martin O’Neill, all’s well that begins well. The newest manager of Celtic came out of his first litmus test with flying colours. And how, as Celtic drubbed Rangers 6-2 at Parkhead. O’Neill was unable to hide his glee: “We got
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      26 19 Who’s the bigger jerk, Roy Keane or Patrick Vieira? Or is there someone else we’ve missed out? Take part in our online forum at httpV/eyebalL asiaLconusg.
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      254 21 Check out at eyeball.asial .com.sg I •U, i» X 7 Coolest CyberCafe i) Cineiesiure Orchard #O5-02 S 2 LAN GAMNG FOR ALL Sunday Thursday Please refer to our staff for details LAN Gaming Internet Surfing Emailing Online Chatting Call us at 738-6861 (We are just Deside Orchard Cineplexes Ticketing Booth)
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon The alternative feminist
      1029 24 Qrace Quek, aka Annabel Chong, has left the acting component s of her past behind. She now prefers to write feminist articles and produce movies, she tells SANDITAN (sandi@sph.com.sg). LAST month’s Singapore Elle ran an article on feminism entitled The Nouvelle Femme. Ordinarily, the article, which examined
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    • Gender
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        Lock icon AWARE’S VIEW
        223 25  -  Jeanmarie Tan EYEBALL asked local woman’s organisation Aware what it thinks of Annabel Chong’s radical brand of feminism, which celebrates female sexuality and promiscuity as a “progressive triumph” for women. Halijah Mohamad, vice-resi-dent of Aware has this to say: “It is OK for her to have the ability
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        Lock icon GRACE’S VIEW
        152 25  -  Jeanmarie Tan WHY Grace Quek/Annabel Chong did what she did is probably a mystery to many people. She however, justifies her dubious stunt by having sex with 251 men as an “attempt to subvert the normal parameters of sex, positing questions about the role of women as sexual
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        Lock icon Menopause has negative impact on IQs
        352 25 The New York Times ENOPAUSE L T J reduces a i J I woman’s r A T intelligence and ability to juggle work, friends and family. It also turns her into a chatterbox, researchers told the American Psychological Association’s annual conference recently. A preliminary
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          Lock icon No way to treat a lady
          675 26 How do you communicate with someone whose sex cannot be determined? SAM I-SHAN (ishan@sph .com. sg) finds herself at a loss. HAVE always prided myself on being egalitarian and enlightened in the way I interact with the sexes. But when I found myself face-to-face
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      • Gender BENDERS
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          Lock icon Bridge designers turn bra builders
          148 26 THE designers who came up with London’s unstable Millennium Bridge are working on another new engineering project: A new bra. And hopefully, it will be less wobbly than the shaky pedestrian bridge spanning the Thames River. Called the Bioform bra, the new underwire mammary support
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          Lock icon Roll over after sex? It’s only natural
          145 26 HAS your girlfriend ever begrudged you for feeling sleepy after sex? For not being able to rise to the occasion for the second round? Fear not, for German doctors now have scientific proof that the human libido decreases after orgasm. Researchers from the
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          Lock icon If gas is a problem, pump up
          68 26 DON’T want to be caught unawares with toxic fumes emitting from your anal cavity while on an important date? Then work out more. According to Minnesota gastroenterologist Dr Michael Levitt, considered as one of the world’s leading flatulence experts, exercising helps the body
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        154 27 f The single Singapore woman has very unrealistic expectations. She is uniquely superficial The bulk of the women I encountered listed the earning power of a man as their No. i criterion in selecting a partner.’ Shockwave m ‘Women today are better educated, better paid and most of
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        574 27 SERENE GOH (sereneg@sph.com.sg) flags off the latest episode of gender wars with an explosive subject: the Singapore woman □YEBALL has been an eye-opener. In more than one aspect. Just when you thought it was safe to talk about the sexes again, Eyeball readers proved us wrong. Make
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        150 27 Sometimes, it is the guy who feels uneasy and uncomfortable when he has a girlfriend who has higher qualifications. It may not he the ladies who cannot accept the non-grads. Bubbygirl ‘Advice for non-grad guys: You can outdo those guys with a degree by being more sensitive to
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        261 28 THE stylishly wristed will have noticed fewer Ebel watches in the market. Is the brand dying out? Definitely not. In fact, now that it is part of the mighty LVMH conglomerate, Ebel has decided to streamline its product line in order to reaffirm its
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        152 28 Invented in 1821 but still ticking in style today, JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) makes time for chronograph watches ACKin 1821, a Frenchman named Rieussec invented the first chronograph. Its ability to measure time in different ways with accurate precision made it a practical choice for sportsmen and the
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          554 29 Scandal doesn’t stick on Hong Kong’s sugar-coated sweetheart, who speaks to ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph .com.sg) about her love for simplicity and a weakness for bags. TRY digging up dirt on Gigi Leung and you would do better finding fossils in your backyard. The doe-eyed 23-year-old is squeaky
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          78 29 MEMBERS of the Gucci family are supposedly alarmed over reported plans by director Martin Scorsese to make a film on the tempestuous and bloody history of the family, ending in the murder of Maurizio Gucci, heir to the empire, by his ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani in 1995. No
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          89 29 KATE Moss’ latest beau is Jake Chapman, one half of the British bad-boy art duo The Chapman Brothers. Their medium is grossly deformed dummies, and previous subjects include pubescent girls with deformed genitalia and a Pinocchio with a penis for a nose. It’s probably kismet: The British press
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          77 29 TOMMY Hilfiger’s going to school. Well, not really. Amidst his marriage break-up dramas and falling financial figures, the all-American designer has decided to “adopt” an American student. Hilfiger has launched his Full Ride Sweepstakes, which will see entrants compete for a university grant of around US$5OO,OOO
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          47 29 BO DEREK is returning to modelling, and the limelight. The actress, best known for her role in the 1979 movie 10, has just signed up with Company Management. The red-hot modelling agency represents Elle Macpherson and James King, current flame of American bad-ass Kid Rock.
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          82 29 FASHIONISTAS, stroke that mouse! The world of Giorgio Armani is now available online at http://www.giorgioarmani.com. Everything from Armani Collezioni to updates on the jeans line and Armani perfume is up for grabs. The distinctively urban site also boasts paparazzi shots and news on celebrity Armani devotees like Ricky
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        209 30 Rich textures andfah colours make Agnes Vs new collection for men truly stylish, reports JUNE WAN junewan@sph.com.sg). QLOVE making clothes for men,” designer Agnes b once said. “It’s a great pleasure for me, because I can be discreet and understated, and I love that look for men.”
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      739 31 Tube Talk Movies Tootsie 12.30 pm Cinemax (Channel 59) A stubborn and unemployed actor disguises himself as a woman to secure a part on a soap opera. As his popularity on television mounts, his love life becomes increasingly soap operatic. Dustin Hoffman, who won an Academy Award for best actor
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    134 32 We said it first here at Eyeball. Want to get girls and boys together? Start with co-ed hostels for students. The Government seems to think it’s one way to get the marriage figures up, that’s why it’s building more hostels. Are hostels really marriage hot-beds in the making?
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