Project Eyeball, 11 September 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Monday, September 11, 2000 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon Free download: Smashing Pumpkins release 25 new songs
    271 1 ALTERNATIVE MUSIC NEW YORK The music industry was rocked over the weekend when the Smashing Pumpkins released 25 new songs to be distributed for free over the Internet, reported the Drudge Report. The move marks the largest free music release ever by
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      142 1 simplified How does one separate great condominiums from good ones to the ones that should be avoided? Here at Eyeball, we understand, so we’ve tracked down six of the best home buys for consideration. See Pages 14,15 As if that wasn’t enough, check put the video of several showflats around
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      255 1 Piracy Central Incessant raids may have forced software pirates to quit Sim Lim Square, but they’ve apparently found a new home in neighbourhood pasar malams. A number of stores at such night markets in the HDB heartland display rows and rows of pirated CDs: Adobe Photoshop 5.0 for $B, Play
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  • News & Views
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      152 2 A SMALL Baltic Sea island, and its sole inhabitant, is for sale. The resort, and its resident chef, has been owned by the German group Siemens since it bought the East German Greifswald electronics company. Goermitz island had been Greifswald workers’ holiday camp, said the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita. Siemens
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      Lock icon 2 Koreas, 1 flag at Sydney opening
      163 2 A FIRST IN OLYMPICS HISTORY AFP SYDNEY North and South Korea will march as one team at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, International Olympic Committee chief Juan Antonio Samaranch announced yesterday. It will be the first time they have marched together
      – AFP  -  163 words
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      Lock icon Pirated software at a pasar malam near you
      579 2  -  Pirates cleaned out from Sim Lim Square seek refuge in HDB heartland By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg MARKETS in the heartland of Housing Board estates are attracting a new type of customer. Educated and tech-savvy, he doesn’t come for the delicious tidbits or
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon Let’s rejoin M-Cup
        955 3  -  It can raise standard of local team and revive interest in game By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg THIS is what we have to say if you care for our two cents’ worth: Singapore should join the Malaysia Cup again. For two reasons: one, it can raise the standard
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      Lock icon We should return, say many
      274 3  -  Luke Pachymuthu TO SWALLOW or not to swallow our pride that is the question. Five years ago, when Singapore pulled out of the Malaysia Cup, fans reacted with an outpouring of words and strong emotions. Several Singaporeans reflected on the events that led to our
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      Lock icon From fishing village to e-community
      614 4  -  Cheng San GRC plans to wire up entire community By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg ANYONE can get on the Net, but it’s something else altogether to get an entire neighbourhood of more than 52,000 people online to form a virtual community. How about personalised websites for
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      Lock icon MRT won’t be fined for service disruption
      387 4  -  NO NEGLIGENCE Thao Hua MINISTER for Communications and Information Technology Yeo Cheow Tong said Singapore MRT will not be fined for the recent disruptions in services. The minister said the company will not be fined for the August disruptions because it did not
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      Lock icon Need some info? Call the library
      608 5  -  Librarians answer queries for free By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg AMY Tan (not her real name) wanted a special poem read out to cap the perfect wedding ceremony she had been planning for months. But she had a problem she could only remember the
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      Lock icon For kids’ sake, parents are going back to school
      684 6  -  Diploma courses in child education are getting more popular By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg SURE, you’ve heard of parents quitting their jobs to look after their kids. But how about parents who quit and take up early childhood diplomas, or change
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      Lock icon MORE FUN THAN ACCOUNTS
      114 6 LOO Meng Choo, 37, who has not been working for the past 10 years, started an enrichment centre just two months ago. “I used to be an accounts clerk. But since I quit to look after my kids and took an early childhood diploma course (in
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon Cash scarce in the arts, says report
        178 7 Arts rank low among Singaporean priorities THERE’S hardly any money in the arts here in Singapore. A report by National University of Singapore associate professor Chow Kit Boey and Institute of Policy Studies’ Ooi Giok Ling, titled The Economics Of The Arts, points
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        Lock icon S’pore pledges $6.4m to ADF
        133 7 THE bad news is that two-thirds of the world’s absolute poor come from Asia and the Asia-Pacific region. The good news is that Singapore wants to help them. The Republic has pledged US$4 million (556.4 million) to the Asian Development Fund (ADF) of which the
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        Lock icon No govt official will listen in
        151 7 DON’T expect a team of civil servants police, feedback unit or otherwise to run after the speakers at Hong Lim Park, hanging on to every word, and recording it so that the Government can take up the issue. Why? Because Wong Kan Seng, Minister
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        Lock icon Flexing those foam muscles
        29 7 Law Kian Yan A mascot trying out the flex-arm hang at the Sports For Life Road Show held over the weekend at Parco Bugis Junction.
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      Lock icon Screaming rage
      49 9 Policewomen carry ing away a protester from a polling station in Hong Kong s business district yesterday, where Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa cast his vote in the Legislative Council elections. Demonstrators protested against the administration in the second polls to take place under Chinese rule. AFP
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      Lock icon Crack troops rescue hostages
      275 9 British raid on Sierra Leone rebel site Wires FREETOWN British troops yesterday attacked a militia base in Sierra Leone and freed six British soldiers held hostage since Aug 25, a British military spokesman said yesterday. The attack on the West Side Boys, a gang of brutal
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Atlantis docks safely despite problems
        239 9 AP CAPE CANAVERAL Space shuttle Atlantis flew up to the International Space Station and docked early yesterday, a complicated job made even tougher by a failed navigation device. The link-up took place nearly 370 kilometres above Kazakstan, with both spacecraft zooming along at 28,200 kph.
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        Lock icon Suite taste of freedom
        256 9 AFP CEBU Four Europeans released by Muslim rebels after 140 days in the Philippine jungle enjoyed fresh coffee and continental food among other unfamiliar luxuries on their first full day of freedom yesterday. Frenchman Stephane Loisy, German Marc Wallert and Finns Seppo Fraenti and Risto Vahanen
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        124 9 AP TAIPEI A strong earthquake jolted east-central Taiwan yesterday, cutting off power and damaging roads in some areas. No building collapses or deaths were immediately reported. The 6.2-magnitude tremor hit nearly one year after a massive quake killed about 2,400 people and destroyed thousands of homes
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        Lock icon Mahathir: Malays lagging in IT
        88 9 AP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad warned Malaysia’s majority ethnic Malays that they are slipping behind the rest of the world in information technology skills, news reports said yesterday. “There are Malays who are very far behind in this field,” he
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      Lock icon Cellphones invade army
      349 11 British soldiers avoid outdated combat radio system, but mobiles could be security risk LONDON British soldiers are using cellphones during training exercises because they find the army’s combat radio system unreliable. This has raised security concerns that the military is becoming reliant on civilian technology, and allowing
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      Lock icon Opec discusses output increase
      530 11 IT WON’T HELP, SAY ANALYSTS Wires VIENNA As international pressure mounts on Opec to pump more oil to stem surging fuel prices, members of the petroleum producers’ cartel met yesterday to discuss an expected increase in the group’s official output by at least half a million
      – Wires; Sources: Reuters, Associated Press; © GRAPHIC NEWS  -  530 words
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      Lock icon Murder he wrought
      421 12 Book alleges that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle plotted friend’s death Reuters LONDON It’s a crime that would have intrigued Sherlock Holmes himself -a well-respected author stole the idea for a hugely successful book from his friend and then murdered him. But in a twist that might have
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      Lock icon Pet food palmed off on humans
      296 12 GANG BUSTED LONDON Fancy a plate of pet food for your main course? Over the weekend a jury in Hull learnt of this stomach-churning possibility when they were told that hundreds of tonnes of pet food had been deliberately sold to restaurants and food
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      Lock icon Marathon Men
      26 12 The Berlin Marathon went off with a hang yesterday with 27,000 athletes competing for honours. In the background is Berlins landmark “Victory Column AP
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      Lock icon CONDO MANIA
      201 14  -  Apartment hunting? We clue you in on... By Sam I-Shan ishan@sph.com.sg SPARKLINQ white sands, clear water, lounging beach bums, acres of greenery and frolicking children in the middle of Toa Pay oh? As the hype behind the advertisements and brochures would have you believe, each one of the
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      Lock icon Spacious units for the big family
      228 14 THE facilities, large and landscaped grounds, and apartment layout of this 999-year leasehold development make it suitable for the extended family. It boasts exercise, jet, bubble and reflection pools in addition to two swimming and wading pools. Grannies can walk on foot-reflexol-ogy paths in
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      Lock icon Wired up for the techies
      195 14 ALL 95 units of this freehold development are wired to hook residents up with service and entertainment providers, such as neighbourhood schools or movies-on-demand. Even the kitchen and the bathroom have data ports that allow access to home automation and online applications including interactive web-screens,
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      Lock icon Rooms with a seaview
      211 14 LOCATED in front of Bayshore condo, all the living and master bedrooms of this 99-year development are angled towards views of the sea. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide lovely views. The condo also has two man-made beaches next to the two pools. You can also make a foray
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      Lock icon Snooty, but scenic
      213 14 FORTREDALE’S architecture and location recommend it to the yuppie snob who is single or has a small family. It has a full-glass facade, and looks out over serene Katong Park, with views of East Coast Park and the city skyline. South-facing living rooms also mean that apartments
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      Lock icon Design makes flats look spacious
      241 15 THIS 999-year leasehold condominium has a distinctly different design from the squarish, narrow-corridor, cookie-cutter style of more conventional developments. For instance, the Type-E, three-bedroom apartment seems larger than its 1,528 sq ft, because of the uninterrupted line of vision it offers into its three bedrooms
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      Lock icon Affordable – but it’s Geylang
      234 15 Affordable but it’s Geylang THIS is one fairly affordable property. The prices of Sims Residences apartments range from $922,500 for 2,121 sq ft ($435 psf) to $681,300 for 1,216 sq ft ($560 psf). This makes it more than comparable to more out-of-the-way developments like Riverdale Crest in Punggol, whose 1,539
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      Lock icon Bourse likely to head south again
      339 16 Soaring oil prices soften sentiment Reuters SINGAPORE’S stock market is likely to drift lower this week to test support, as international oil prices remain near 10-year highs and funds worry about the possible impact on Asia’s economic recovery. The US tech-heavy Nasdaq’s 2.93 per
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: http://www.propi-nets.com
      162 16  -  Francis Kan BUYING and selling a house can be such a hassle these days. Here’s Prop I-Nets, a one-stop portal catering to all those in the property market. It doesn’t matter which side of the market you’re on this site has something for everyone.
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      Lock icon Here’s a hot tip on Creative
      535 17  -  Exploit the counter’s dual listing By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg PSSST. Here’s a hot stock tip. Want to know a “risk-free way” to make some quick money trading the shares of homegrown Creative Technology over the Internet? Well, then you should’ve attended the talk by
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      Lock icon DBS STAYING AWAY FROM E-BANK FOR NOW
      206 17 DBS Bank isn’t one to succumb to peer pressure. Not when it comes to Internet banking anyway. Speaking to Asiaweek, DBS Group chief executive John Olds explained why he has ruled out setting up a standalone Internet bank. At least for the next
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      Lock icon DBS Bank head admits mistakes in overseas forays
      471 17 ‘BAD INVESTMENTS’ IN PHILIPPINES, THAILAND, INDONESIA FRANKLY, it’s not often that the head of a large, publicly listed Singapore company admits to his own organisation’s shortcomings. But that’s exactly what DBS Group chief executive John Olds did in an interview published in
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      Lock icon E-books yet to make headway in S’pore
      542 18  -  But Asian market for paperless reading is poised for rapid growth By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg WHEN your grandchildren go to school, their textbooks may be modified to read: E-books are a man’s best friend. But give it time. While e-books may have taken
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon Rugged mobiles on the way
        191 18 BE IT mountain biking, hiking or rock climbing, outdoor enthusiasts can rough it out with Ericsson’s forthcoming R3lO, a rugged mobile phone impervious to water, dust and shock. The most striking feature at first glance is the flexible Shark’s Fin antenna. Even if you drop
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        Lock icon 295m people have home Net access
        173 18 NIELSEN/NETrATINGS, a global Internet audience measurement service, found that more than 295 million people across 20 countries in Europe, the Asia Pacific and North America have home Net access. The US accounts for nearly 50 per cent of the figure at 136.9 million, while
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        Lock icon SingTel and CNC form alliance
        129 18  -  Andrew Chin SINGTEL has formed an alliance with China Netcom Corporation (CNC), a Chinese state-owned telecommunication enterprise, to offer frame relay communication service between cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in China and several others like Singapore and Hong Kong. The new service, Value
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      Lock icon Getting good debate going
      862 20 INIX ‘Urgent need for good men to run Singapore, says SOT (Sept 8) SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew says Parliament “is not a bad institution in which you have a clash of ideas. Unfortunately, we have not had an Opposition that can give us that sharpness
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      Lock icon Rankings don’t reflect all strengths
      316 20 ‘More students going online to choose colleges’ (Sept 5) PRINCETON, Harvard and Yale are America’s best schools, according to US News’ top-50 list. We asked readers if such rankings are important. They threw up more questions instead: Do Singaporeans prefer not to go to local
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      Lock icon The true Olympic spirit
      807 21  -  DAVE BARRY Miami Herald EVERY four years, athletes from all over the world gather to compete in an event that truly epitomises the purity and non-commercialism of amateur sports: The Coca-Cola IBM John Hancock Visa UPS McDonald’s Kodak Panasonic Samsung Sports Illustrated/Time Xerox Olympic Games, brought
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      35 2 Qood morning! Slightly hazy and partly cloudy. Showers are expected in the late morning and early afternoon mainly over.nor them, southern and eastern Singapore. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 10.46AM/2.3M 10.Q3PM/2.6M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      61 11 To find out more about the oil price issue and the role of Opec, click on to http://www.opec.org/193.81.181.14 /default.htm the official Opec website. It includes an article called “Why You Pay So Much For Gasoline And Other Oil Products”. Or go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world /newsid_677ooo/*****0.5tm for a question and answer on
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      36 20 Does the lack of opposition make Parliament a bore? Are local universities looked down on by Singaporeans? Give your views on these and other issues in today’s paper at http^/eyefonun. agial-Mwi-gg Selected views are published daily.
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Man United tops table again
      344 22 THE PREMIERSHIP Wires LONDON All pretenders step aside. Newcastle’s Bobby Robson may be manager of the month for August, but Sir Alex Ferguson is the man on top. His Manchester United beat Sunderland 3-0 to return to the top of the Premiership. Even for United’s
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      Lock icon Tragedy overshadows Schumacher win
      510 22 Safety official killed in a multi-car crash at start of Italian GP MONZA Michael Schumacher’s 41st Grand Prix victory yesterday was overshadowed by the death of a fire safety official at the Italian Grand Prix. Paolo Ginslimberti, 30, died in hospital after being injured in a
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      Lock icon A will to win
      913 23  -  Williams is back to her confident best By A Adande LAT-WP NEW YORK Venus Williams may be a bit too much. She has decided that she will do the talking whether it’s on the court or off it. Now, it looks like that dictum also applies
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      Lock icon Tiger recovers touch
      283 23 SET TO JOIN TREVINO IN GOLFING HISTORY AFP OAKVILLE (Ontario) Tiger Woods says he’s playing as well as he did at the NEC tournament. If he continues to play that way, then he should win the US$3.l-million ($5.4 million) Canadian Open. Hardly sticking one’s neck out. Woods
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    • Premier POINT
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        Lock icon Storm brewing
        600 24  -  English soccer’s transfer system may change By Chris Lakey peppoint@sph.com.sg WHILE Sir Alex Ferguson was watching Manchester United rip Bradford to shreds on Tuesday, 320 km away in the East Midlands, Barry Fry was left to contemplate a very different future. United is a class apart: 67,000 people
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        Lock icon Get your fill of the Games
        371 24  -  By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg ADMIT it. You know the name and even the sport in which he won the silver medal for Singapore in the 1960 Olympics. Aside from that, there is pretty much little else about Tan Howe Liang that you can rattle
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    • Inside the RINGS
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        Lock icon A gold in recycling
        66 25 Reuters SYDNEY Even before the Sydney Games begin, Canada’s Olympic athletes have picked up a first prize for recycling. The Canadian contingent in the Olympic Village has been the most conscientious so far in separating leftover food and other materials for recycling after meals, the Olympic
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        Lock icon Critic criticised
        59 25 Reuters SYDNEY International Olympic Committee official Alexandre de Merode criticised the US yesterday for not doing enough to fight doping. “The United States is critical of other countries, but the first thing it has to do is look at what’s happening in its own country,” he said of
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        Lock icon Hopes hit
        34 25 Reuters GOLD COAST (Australia) Britain’s hopes of a medal in the 4x400 relay have been hard-hit by the withdrawal of Mark Richardson, who pre-empted his doping hearing by pulling out on Saturday.
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      Lock icon Hoping to leave competitors behind
      39 25 Cuban synchronised swimmers Kenia Perez Querra (left) and Tamisleidys Romay Areas practising their routine during training at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre on Friday, a week before the start of the Summer Qames. AFP
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      Lock icon The bus that never came
      469 25 Samaranch gets a close-up look at Sydney’s transport problems SYDNEY The ghost of Atlanta came to haunt Juan Antonio Samaranch, and the International Olympic Committee president let out a scream that was heard all over Sydney. No one expected the Olympic transport system to work
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      Lock icon Row over not letting in two officials
      378 25 Wires SYDNEY When two charters clash, it’s bound to cause problems. That’s what happened when two officials were denied entry to Australia despite arriving under the Olympic flag. The lOC charter allows free access to the Olympic city for all persons arriving for
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      347 32 Specially for my daddy Gordon and mommy Adeline, "Thank you for bringing r me into this world. Now...feed me!" With love, your baby girl Gwendolyn Alison Thank you God, Daddy Mummy for bringing me into this world. May my smile always bring joy to r everyone around me. Ryan Loy
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      23 33 Your best survival guide to Survivor, with a photo gallery, trivia quiz, discussion rooms, and an archive of news: http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter /tv/survivor/ lip index.htm
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      195 35 Women’s Bumper Stickers So Many Men, So Few Who Can Afford Me. God Made Us Sisters; Prozac Made Us Friends. My Mother Is a Travel Agent for Guilt Trips. Princess, Having Had Sufficient Experience with Princes, Seeks Frog. Coffee, Chocolate, Men...Some Things Are Just Better Rich. Don’t
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      604 35 i Show me the movie! Tom Cruise plays an agent for change in Jerry Maguire. Movies Jerry Maguire 7.30 pm TCS 5 The story of a sports agent who sees the error of his ways and transforms into a more moral sports agent. After getting fired from his company, he
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      395 36 POP superstar Madonna seems to have met her match, not in another superstar, but in feisty Italian landlady Marina Ripa di Meana, who recently rented out her villa to the singer. Ripa di Meana —a marchioness, self-confessed exhibitionist and wife of a leading Greens Party member
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        154 36 NAOMI Campbell will have occasion to practise the rage therapy she underwent last year. In the best (or the worst) of the star chauffeur traditions, former driver Freddie is going to bare all that he heard for eight years in a book. The Sun reports that
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        73 36 SUFIAH Tnsof, the teen math genius who ran away from Oxford University this summer, has decided she won’t go back until she is 18. She may instead turn to arts to broaden her education and enroll at a Bournemouth college. The 15-year-old student,
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        128 36 STAND aside, Robbie Williams The latest pop act to come poised to hit the pop charts is a 73-year-old grandfather who prefers a flat cap and tweed suit to designer togs. Meet Reg Cooper from Nottingham, who has signed his first record deal for €300,000 ($5750,000) with
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        116 36 APART from all those bronzed athletes, the spotlight will fall on beautiful and famous Aussies at the Sydney Games. Singer Sylfe Minogoe, golfer Greg Norman and supermodel Elle MacPherson are among a star-studded line-up planned for the closing ceremony. Minogue is rumoured to be performing Abba's Dancing
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      31 36 Mad about Madonna? Dig into more of her mystique at: http://web.singnet.com/sg/-a123 45/madbio.htm A local site which hosts a biography of the pop queen. http://www.mtv.com/sendme. tin?page=/news/gallery/m/ madonna.html MTV’s news gallery on Madonna.
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