Project Eyeball, 18 September 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Monday, September 18, 2000 80 CENTS
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      173 1 Hot LINKS Humorous spin on serious issues Want to take the mickey out of serious Singapore issues? We give you the lowdown on sites whose punchlines include: “The way to increase customer satisfaction and higher usage of public transport is to charge more, make them go to work before 7.30
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      237 1 Pool party m V> m V Reuters Reuters Three world records sank at the Sydney Olympics. First, little-known Dutchman Pieter van den Hoodenband (right) snatched a world record from the grasp of celebrated Australian lan Thorpe in the 200-metre freestyle semi-finals. Inge de Bruijn (above) then made it a great
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  • News & Views
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      196 2 BIRMINGHAM Bride Pat Mountey panicked when she discovered that the petrol shortage in Britain meant her wedding limo wouldn’t be able to take her to the ceremony at the Birmingham Register Office. Until her milkman brother Barry Britton came to the rescue by offering to drive her the whole
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      Lock icon Hostages unharmed
      449 2 Six Abu Sayyaf gunmen killed, 20 captured, claims Manila AFP ZAMBOANGA With each passing day, the Philippine hostage drama is getting curiouser and curiouser. Philippine soldiers said yesterday they had killed six Abu Sayyaf gunmen and captured 20 others during an operation to rescue 22 remaining hostages still
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    • Article
      Lock icon Offspring rocks Sony
      370 2 FILE DOWNLOAD OF NEW ALBUM IT’S an unlikely hand that’s rocking the cradle. Punk-rock group Offspring plans to post its new album, Conspiracy Of One, for free downloading on its website nearly a month before it hits record stores. That’s made Sony’s Columbia Records, the official label,
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon Local music falling on deaf ears
        692 3  -  Sales miserable, public interest limited and bands not optimistic By Ronald Rajan basilisk@pacific.net.sg WE CATCH hints of it from time to time but the fact remains that the local music scene is in the doldrums. A couple of gigs here, and the odd slot
        Law Kian Yan  -  692 words
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      880 4  -  Websites take a satirical look at all things S’porean By G Sivakkumaran AND LIM Puay Leng gsiva@sph.com.sg puayleng@sph.com.sg WANT to talk cock? No, we’re not being rude. Crude, maybe but then, the local creators of talkingcock.com, who invite people to do just that on their website, are not
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      Lock icon Finger-lickin’ good
      297 4 Dry humour political satire or plain irreverence make these sites a must-click among Singaporeans Who are behind them? www.talkingßock.com KICK off your shoes, relax, and become the closet Ah Beng you have always wanted to be. That seems to be the aim of this website that doesn’t seem
      Bong Fortin  -  297 words
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      Lock icon 300 karting hopefuls chase fame
      348 5  -  Racing for a chance to take on Schumi By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg SO when was the last time you got to drive a vehicle that goes from 0 100 km/h in about three seconds? Alexandra Wee got to do it yesterday, and she doesn’t even
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      Lock icon EVOLVING HOMES
      83 5 Some features that are being offered on the market: Wired for broadband access in Tessarina and the Equatorial. Condo portals in the Caribbean Local area network points in Sunhaven. These points are in the living room and bedrooms, allowing all computers to share printers, scanners and files. Surveillance
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      Lock icon The intelligent house – a necessity of the future
      557 5  - The intelligent house a necessity of the future MORE CONDOS COME WITH I.T. FEATURES By Ng Hwee Koon hweekoon@sph.com.sg MORE condos are now installing intelligent features which will allow occupants to do things like bookings online, control temperature, lights and household appliances by remote, and screen visitors via an audio-video
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      Lock icon Acting, dreaming and making movies
      742 6 Tan Chee Wee looks for the perfect short film to tell the perfect story Amateur film-maker Tan Chee Wee considers himself a modern-day storyteller He says pictures and sound, when cleverly used tell a great story, and this is what challenges him to produce and
      Law Kian Yan  -  742 words
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      Lock icon Three films in seven years
      191 6 1993: A New Life FINALIST of the Best Singapore Short Film in the 6th Singapore International Film Festival (Collaborative effort) This is the first short video that Tan Chee Wee and his friends produced. Tan was then in the army and had to borrow money
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon Haze – masking the issue
        95 7 Haze masking the issue YOU may need to put on your face masks soon, folks. Looks like the haze is back. Light smoke haze from brush fires in Indonesia blew into Singapore yesterday. In the next week or so, expect slight to moderate haze conditions. However, the Pollutant Standards Index
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        Lock icon Marina South hornets’ nest destroyed
        66 7 ANOTHER hornets’ nest was destroyed by the Land Office in the Marina South forested area on Friday night. The nest was found on the ground on Friday, said the Land Office in a statement to Channel News Asia. It is the third nest in the
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        Lock icon Hand, foot and mouth disease: ‘Don’t panic’
        136 7 PARENTS, don’t be overly concerned about the current outbreak of the hand, foot and mouth disease. That’s because the situation is normal, despite greater public awareness of the disease from recent media reports, said Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang yesterday. But he added
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        Lock icon Man stabbed to death at Orange Grove Road
        162 7 A POLICE officer’s son died after being stabbed near Orchard Road on Saturday morning. Jaswant Singh, 21, was found near Vibes, a club along Orange Grove Road. He died at 7 am, five hours after police received a call about the fight.
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        Lock icon Eunos Crescent Market reopens
        72 7 STALLHOLDERS of the old market at Eunos Crescent have more reason to smile. The gleaming $2 million Eunos Crescent New Market at Blk 4A Eunos Crescent is now officially open, less than a year after a fire burnt down the old market. The 113 stall-owners can
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        Lock icon More ways to help the elderly sick
        75 7 HELP the aged sick this Sunday. Parkway Healthcare Foundation is organising its first fund-raising event, Reach Out and Run, for healthcare for the poor elderly sick. The event involves a 100 km wheelathon led by neuroscientist and wheelchair marathoner Dr William Tan, and
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      Lock icon Say hello to Mr Furniture
      627 8  -  Boring job titles are out, funky ones are in By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg EVER held a real conversation with Furniture? At Bar None, you can because Furniture (the one with a capital F) is not about Furnishing. It’s the job title of David Chin, one
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      Lock icon Web crusade against sky-high parking rates
      409 8  -  DRIVEN UP THE WALL Joanna Lim FAMOUS celebrities don’t turn Ling Chen Woon on. But expensive parking rates do. And Ling was so driven to exasperation that he’s dedicated his website to them. His frustration was ignited 10 years ago. Armed with his driving
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      Lock icon Paula Yates in mysterious death
      288 10 London police investigating cause Reuters LONDON Television personality Paula Yates has died, her former husband, singer Sir Bob Geldof, said in a statement released yesterday. “We are all so sad. The loss for all the children is insupportable,” Geldof said in the brief statement read
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Cohen says Timor militias must go
        154 10 Reuters SINGAPORE United States Defence Secretary William Cohen said yesterday he will tell Indonesian leaders in Jakarta that pro-Indonesian militias in strife-torn West Timor must be eliminated. “The message that we will carry is that we support President Wahid’s determination to manage the transition
        – Reuters  -  154 words
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        Lock icon Suharto’s guards to be disarmed
        162 10 AP AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said yesterday he has ordered the military, police and intelligence chiefs to disarm all private armed guards employed by former president Suharto. “I have asked the head of the intelligence agency, and later (will ask) the Indonesian armed
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        Lock icon Outsider to steer Thai Democrats
        136 10 BANGKOK With a general election looming, Thailand’s ruling Democrat Party selected an outsider yesterday as secretary-general to replace a political veteran barred from office for hiding his wealth. Anant Anantakul, a former permanent secretary of the interior who only joined the Democrats this week, was
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        Lock icon China accuses sect leader of rape
        166 10 AFP HONG KONG China has accused the guru of the mystical Zhonggong sect of raping several followers, and asked the United States not to grant him political asylum, a Hong Kong human rights organisation reported yesterday. The Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
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      Lock icon Petrol is still king of the road
      738 11 Alternative engines are years away AFP PARIS Western Europe flashes its green credentials next Friday with a “car-free day” in which hundreds of towns in 14 countries have vowed to tame the automobile for a few hours. By banning cars or promoting buses,
      – AFP; Bong Fortin  -  738 words
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      Lock icon Tories ride on the backs of fuel protesters
      266 11 LABOUR BEHIND IN OPINION POLLS LONDON Britain’s opposition Tory leader William Hague yesterday praised protesters who blocked oil depots and nearly brought the country to an abrupt halt last week in a crisis that ended the Labour government’s lead in the polls.
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      Lock icon Superbugs at childcare centres
      533 13 High antibiotic use leads to evolution of bacteria: Study LONDON Fallowing last week’s scare over hand, foot and mouth disease in Singapore childcare centres, a study from Israel has given parents more to worry about. Here’s the scary scenario: Day-care centres, the study said, incubate and
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      Lock icon Asteroid danger to Earth ‘Very real’
      500 13 WATCH THAT SPACE LONDON Coming soon: asteroids that threaten Earth. Don’t be fooled into thinking that’s the ad line for another Hollywood blockbuster. It’s real. And it’s here. A task force of astronomers will tell the UK government that the chances of near-Earth objects
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      Lock icon Keppel condos selling well... ...so why are shares doing badly?
      487 14  -  Company lacks a core business, say analysts By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg KEPPEL Corp may be doing brisk business with its latest condominium offering, but that doesn’t seem to have rubbed off positively on the stock. In fact, the scrip has
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      Lock icon More tech stocks ‘will go down’
      378 14 ARISKY BUSINESS, SAYS BILL GATES Wires SYDNEY Many technology stocks could still fall further as investors become more selective, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said yesterday. ‘‘There are certainly many, many stocks that will go down in the future,” he told Channel Nine’s Business Sunday
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      Lock icon Music giants bid to save deal
      362 15 Time Warner-EMI merger ‘opposed by EC’ Cox News IT’S a US$2O billion (5534.8 billion) plan, and it could come unstuck. Officials from Time Warner Inc and EMI Group will meet European anti-trust regulators today in what is being described as a last-ditch attempt to
      – Cox News; AFP  -  362 words
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      Lock icon Neo-Nazi presence on Net growing
      632 16 German police are often helpless AP MUNICH Leopold Klima, a 55-year-old policeman, squints at the search engine he has just opened on his computer, and types in the word “Kameraden”. The German word for comrades, which neo-Na-zis use to address each other, returns 20,559 hits.
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      Lock icon Pirates alive in Argentina, too
      62 16 It seems that the appeal of pirated software is not limited to this part of the world. A girl displaying compact discs during a demonstration on Thursday against the manufacture and sale of illegal software in Buenos Aires. The organisers of the protest say that
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon 160 UK websites vandalised
        116 16 MORE than 160 British websites have been defaced by a protester who is fed up with high fuel taxes, reports The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk). The cyber-vandal, who goes by the moniker Herbless, put up a message on those websites, which included the likes of http:// www.jobs.co.uk and
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        Lock icon eBay stops sale of gory pictures
        115 16 THREE boys were killed and photographs of their slain bodies and autopsies were taken. And, to prevent the gory pictures from being auctioned at their site, CNet (http:// news.cnet.com) says that eßay has changed its policy on allowing graphic photographs as auction items. The
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        Lock icon MSN admits billing goof
        114 16 MSN has admitted that subscribers were overcharged last week, no thanks to a glitch in their new computerised billing system, reports MSNBC (http://www. msnbc.com). Instead of deducting the US$2l (5536.50) fee from client’s bank accounts, the bug took up to four times more. Some subscribers have
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        Lock icon 3D TV without special lenses
        70 16 AFP ARMIN Grasnick of the German firm, 4D-Vision, has invented 3Dtelevision which allows users to view three-dimensional movies without the need for additional devices. The public screening of the world’s first threedimensional (3D) Video-Real-movie will take place during the coming Photokina fair in Cologne on
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      Lock icon Nomad Jukebox comes packed with music
      596 17 Creative’s player carries 2,000 songs NEW YORK When it hits US stores today, the Nomad Jukebox MP3 player will come with 20 hours of music and audio-books, including Beethoven, Mozart, and the complete Robinson Crusoe on its hard drive. There’s even some Singaporean rap.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Hold that green light, bus coming through
      466 17 TECHNOLOGY CUTS LOS ANGELES TRANSPORT TIMES EmpText LOS Angeles County transportation officials have managed to shave as much as 25 per cent off the travel time of a local bus trip by adopting technology that can keep green lights on just a little
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Balancing work and home
      982 20 ‘There’s no such thing as a superwoman’ (Sept 15) I WISH to clarify two points: By non-existent superwomanhood, I mean that superwoman is a myth. Women struggle daily to achieve some kind of balance between work and home responsibilities and other demands society puts on them.
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      Lock icon Unisex loos not quite open and shut case
      950 21 ‘Unisex toilets to go or not to go?’ (Sept 15) I’VE lived in Europe for quite a while and on the campus I’ve stayed in, not only the toilets are Unisex, but also the bathrooms and shower-rooms. It does save space. It
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      25 2 Qood morning! Mainly afternoon showers with thunder expected over the next two days. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 1.28AM/2.9M 1.37PM/2.8M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      28 3 The local music ’industry’. A noisy, pretentious waste of time, or a valuable asset to the cultural life of Singapore worth nurturing? Give us your views at aslal.com.sg
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      37 5 Log on to these sites for more info on the new smart homes: http://www.caribbean.eom.sg The Caribbean at Keppel Bay. http://www.sunhaven.com.sg Sunhaven’s site. http://www.queens.com.sg The Queens condo. http://www.theequatorial.com.sg The Equatorial. http://www.pidemco.com/resident/the loft/index theloft.html The Loft at Nassim Hill.
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      77 6 Tan Chee Wee was featured in last week’s Singaporeans’ Gallery on Weekend Online. Log on at to read about him and others who have appeared in that section. Are you also passionate about your hobby? If so, we want to hear from you. Singaporeans’ Gallery was created to showcase local
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      93 7 fie iV UiUC S Choice of Premium Pih-eye Steak with “Stack Pepper Sauce or Panfried Presh Safoum Tibet with lemon Putter Soup of the Day A Scoop office Cream $S for a glass of ‘douse Wine with order of set meed Tronwtion valid till 22 October 2000 V^-gs mi mn
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      153 9 i i pht: His Think Pad i Series stays up to chart his patients’ progress. :|fl| 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 *.k I! 4 .w ThinkPad 1 i Series ifel mm
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      48 11 Cruise down to these sites for info on hybrid cars that are greener and more fuel efficient: www.honda2ooo.com/ models/insight All you ever wanted to know about Honda’s beautifully named Insight. www.salon.com/ business/feature/ 2000/09/11/hvbrid/ About one man’s frustration over government laws which don’t support green-mobiles like the Toyota Prius.
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      255 12 V V V: kV ~v ust missed the government's new baby bonus? Well, here's another reward you can claim: a chance to one of four winners to win prizes worth a total of $2,000. Simply send us a non-returnable photograph of your newborn and a birth announcement message of not
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      166 15 NEC Monitors >’* I WiH mm mm 99 Imagination. Sol uti ons. 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 are
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      385 18 1 Baby Olenzoeu has arrived after months of anxious waiting. A million thanks to all our friends, relatives &family for their care and concern. Wendy Jeff m Welcome to this world, our little princess and bundle of joy Charmian). With thanks and gratitude to Dr Thong staff of Mount Elizabeth
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      268 19 v Thank God "Allah”for this little cute gift, Muhammad Mirza. He's truly a bundle of joy! June Bari m 15 Thanks to family if friends for their support and concern. We like to take this opportunity to pronounce us. proud Daddy if Mummy of cute little Fori Fotl. 17 Thank
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      30 21 Are “superwomen” for real? Should our loos go unisex? To have your say on any issue in today’s paper, log on to http^/eyeforanu ndfllwinmg Selected views are published here daily.
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  • EyeSport
    • Sydney 2000
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        Lock icon Romanian lifters test positive
        166 23 SYDNEY Romania’s “clean” weightlifters may possibly continue competing at the Sydney Olympics but it’ll cost their country US$5O,OOO ($85,000). Romania’s entire weightlifting team was thrown out of the Olympics yesterday after two lifters tested positive for doping. However, the team intends to take advantage of a
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        Lock icon Historic first for Dragneva
        246 23 SYDNEY Officials said hello with flowers and Bulgaria’s Izabela Dragneva showed just how women’s weightlifting had flowered by lifting the first-ever Olympic gold yesterday. Dragneva, a top competitor for more than a decade with 17 world championship medals to her credit, has lined her trophy cupboard
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        Lock icon Thorpe’s record sinks
        334 23 Pocket Hercules stumbles Wires SYDNEY The Flying Dutchman blew away the Thorpedo’s world record and the Pocket Hercules finally crumbled under the weight of expectations. While records continued to fall at Sydney’s Aquatic Centre, the world’s smallest and most celebrated strongman, Turkish weightlifter Naim Suleymanoglu, fell from
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        Lock icon A gold for dad
        182 23 Wires SYDNEY Australia’s Michael Diamond broke down in tears with thoughts of his father after winning his second consecutive trap shooting gold medal yesterday. “This was for Dad,” Diamond said. His father, Con, was also a shooter and died earlier in the year while Michael was
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      • Inside the RINGS
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          Lock icon Samaranch’s sacrifices
          444 24  -  Despite his faults, IOC chief has worked wonders for sports By John Crean In Sydney sports@eyeball.com.sg JUAN Antonio Samaranch is perceived as the big bad wolf of the sports world. The big bad boss of the International Olympic Committee has been savaged by journalists for years and the
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          Lock icon No love lost in triathlon
          303 24  -  John Crean SYDNEY Triathletes embody the loneliness of the long distance runner multiplied by three. The swimming, cycling and running event made its Olympic debut at the weekend but, unlike the majority of sports in the Games, there was very little team spirit on show.
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      • Olympic BRIEFS
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          Lock icon US, China draw
          81 24 AFP MELBOURNE Skipper Sun Wen scored a spectacular free kick and goalkeeper Gao Hong saved a late penalty yesterday, as China came from behind to claim a 1-1 draw with the United States in the Olympic women’s football tournament. The draw leaves both sides, tipped to meet
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          Lock icon Judo hope too heavy
          81 24 Reuters SYDNEY A leading contender for the women’s 52 kg Olympic judo gold medal has been attacked by her team management after being thrown out for failing to make the weight. Britain’s Debbie Allan twice returned to the scales in an attempt to make the limit
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          Lock icon Hungary hits home
          90 24 AP SYDNEY Timea Nagy of Hungary, a member of five world champion fencing teams, scored a quick point A quick, late point won Hungary’s Nagy the gold in women’s epee a fencing category. late in thp third nprind tn late m tne imra period to beat Switzerland’s
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        Lock icon The grace...
        35 25 Russian gymnast Svetlana Khorkina manages to look graceful even when she is suspended in mid-air. Khorkina was performing her uneven bars routine in the qualifying rounds of the womens gymnastics on Sunday. AFP
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        Lock icon The agony...
        49 25 Reuters AFP Hungarian gymnast Adrienn Nyeste (above) getting first-aid after falling from the uneven bars during womens gymnastics qualifying on Sunday. Namibia’s Frankie Fredericks (below) wiping away a tear after withdrawing from the ioo m and the 200 m due to an Achilles tendon Aasbuiii injury,, r >
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        Lock icon ...and the ecstasy
        59 25 AP Turkish weightlifter Halil Mutlu (above) celebrating his world record lift of 138 kg in the 56-kg snatch on Saturday. Canada’s Shnon Whitfield (below) is no less happy at winning the gold medal in the men’s triathlon on Sunday. Qerman Stephan Vickovic won the silver and Jan
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      Lock icon Saints record first win
      564 26  -  Pahars slips in two past Newcastle By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg WHILE everyone is still oozing about Manchester United’s commanding 3-1 away win over Everton, let’s spare a thought for Glenn Hoddle and his struggling Saints. The Dell was more than a canvas of merriment when Southampton
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    • Premier POINT
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        Lock icon United’s the cause of everyone’s woes
        479 26  -  OTHER MANAGERS PAY PRICE FOR FERGUSON'S DOMINANCE By Chris Lakey peppoint@sph.com.sg LONDON When Claudio Ranieri steps into his office at Stamford Bridge this morning, he will begin to prepare a team for his first match in charge on Saturday at Old Trafford. The Chelsea
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      27 23 For a summary of all the medal events of the Olympics, go to http^/eyebalL Eyeball/Sports. Log on to http:// www.olympics.com to get live coverage of the Olympics.
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  • Unwind
    • Television
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        Lock icon Star Cruz
        734 27 0NDREA De Cruz: Television celebrity, sex bomb, businesswoman and psychology major. But the woman isn’t all about ambition. Apart from steaming up the big screen as libidinous femmes in Tiger’s Whip and Stories About Love and sleazing into The Blue Room she is rather the girl-next-door. The pixie-faced
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        Lock icon Snappy, raunchy, witty dialogue gives Making Love an edge
        468 28  -  By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg KNOW I know it’s almost sacrilegiously unpatriotic of me to say this, but Phua Chu Kang overkill is driving me up the wall. The competition of yelping voices in this increasingly unfunny family sitcom is beginning to
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      • TV TATTLE
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          Lock icon Feeling good, dressing bad?
          108 28 JENNIFER Love Hewitt proved herself a good sport at the recent sixth annual Fresh Faces in Fashion 2000 event in New York. The busty 21-year-old actress, who recently landed on People magazine’s Worst Dressed of 2000 list, took the ’“recognition” in stride. “Fortunately,” she told People,
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          Lock icon Model boost for Felicity
          49 28 TYRA Banks (above) is joining Felicity as a “potential love interest” for Noel (Scott Foley), TV Guide reported. Executive producer JJ Abrams admits that adding a supermodel to his ratingschallenged series, which had a Monday night slot here in Singapore, is partly to boost viewership.
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          73 28  -  Jeanmarie Tan KIM Cattrall, the sexpot on HBO’s Sex and the City, which is not shown here, refutes claims that the pals have gone over the top. Cattrall said: “The situations have really gotten fun and outrageous. For me, real comic goddesses like
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      662 29 You thought-a youd seen-a the last of it. But your moh dreams need not be shattered in the wake of Qoodfellas and The Qodfather trilogy. As JEANMARIB TAW (jeanm@sph.com.sg) finds out, there is hope in The Sopranos for gangsterism yet. For his answers, he does not go
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          103 30 THERE had to be a spin-off. Elizabeth D. Schafer has come up with the first comprehensive guidebook to the popular series, entitled Exploring Harry Potter. “Scratch the surface of J.K. Rowling’s tales and you’ll find classical and mythical allusions, historical references and wordplay that many
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          94 30 “RICHARD Hatch was destined to be the first castaway voted off, and being gay had nothing to do with it,” executive producer Mark Burnett writes in the opening line to Survivor: The Ultimate Game. Burnett’s first impression was wrong. Hatch became the US$l million
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          104 30  -  Sam I-Shan TWO privacy groups that have criticised Amazon.com’s practices in the past have decided to end a partnership with the online bookseller to protest against changed privacy standards. The bookseller told customers that it considered customer information to be a company asset that
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        854 30 Reviews: Sam I-Shan NORWEGIAN WOOD Haruki Murakami (Harvill Press) VER heard of Norwegian Wood? If you haven’t, you are not alone. What if we said that’s the latest book by Japanese author Murakami? Yes, he of the End Of The World fame. Also of A Wild Sheep
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        990 31 THE BOOK OF REVELATION Rupert Thomson (Bloomsbury) RUPERT Thomson’s The Five Gates of Hell (1991) and Soft! (1998) established for him a cult status as a writer of noir thriller. Here he achieves, at best, a very mixed success with a tale of captivity, obsession, and psychological suspense.
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        191 31 Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Douglas Adams (Ballantine Books) IT’S about: Arthur Dent, who is rescued from Earth moments before it is destroyed to make way for a cosmic freeway. He sojourns through the universe in search of meaning, but finds a translator fish instead. Enduring
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        783 33 Spiritual self-help hooks are fast becoming the silent counsellors for many who have found traditional religions lacking. SAM I-SHAN (ishan@sph .com.sg) checks out the new inspiration. ROM IQ_to EQ_to PCQ. Now, there’s SQ. SQ: Spiritual Intelligence by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall is the latest addition to
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        426 34 The seventh Radio Corporation of Singapore (RCS) Hit Awards was a parade of pretty faces. And, as LIM PUAY LENG (puayleng@sph.com.sg) finds out, looks beat musicality in the popularity polls. HERE are rewards Tfor looking good. Especially if you’re a woman at the RCS Hit Awards. Although
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          94 34 LOOKING at Hong Kong actor Bowie Lam (below), you would not have expected him to be suffering from some eating disorder. But the seasoned thespian has been shedding kilograms recently, and he even admits to being turned off by the sight of food. “Sometimes, I’d feel guilty after
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          116 34 KAREN Mok strikes again with yet another sexy, potentially controversial pose. For her upcoming concerts in Taiwan, the Hong Kong singer (below) has designed a new poster that has her topless and wearing just a pair of low-cut jeans. Her long mane and hands are strategically placed to
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          69 34 HE IS a singer, a songwriter, a photographer and an actor, and Japan’s Fukuyama Masaharu (above) is about to add yet another feather to his cap. He’s gone to the Olympics, though not as an athlete. He’ll be commentating for Asahi Television from Down Under and putting to
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          65 34 SOME sand and sea, and some loving company were what Leslie Cheung opted for recently when he celebrated his 44th birthday. The ever-youthful celebrity headed for one of Thailand’s famous shores with alleged amour, Mr Tong, and went home happy and tanned. When reporters hounded him at
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          85 34  -  Tan Dawn Wei FORMER Media Corp actress Deborah Sim is set to make her foray into the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment industries. The 21-year-old former Star Search finalist has just inked a five-year contract with Andy Lau’s company New Melody, making her Singapore’s first artiste to be
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      744 35 FOR the world traveller, actual translations seen in various locales: In a Tokyo hotel: Is forbidden to steal hotel towels, please. If you are not a person to do such thing is, please not to read notis. In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift is being fixed
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      436 35 Movies MaskOfZorro 3pm# HBO 60 An ageing Zorro (Anthony Hopkins) escapes from prison when he discovers that his mortal enemy, Montero, is trying to establish an independent California. He picks a small-time bandit (Antonio Banderas) and grooms him to become the next rapier-wielding masked vigilante. Lots of feisty fun. Catherine
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      157 36 JACK Nicholson and Lara Flynn Boyle have split up, according to IMDb.com. The couple, who started dating earlier this year, were pictured as late as last month enjoying a romantic holiday in the lavish French resort of St Tropez. But Oscar-winner Nicholson infuriated his close
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      263 36 Britney the BBC’s newest agony aunt Wires BRITNEY Spears, all of 18, is the latest addition to the British agony auntie pack. And it will be for the venerable BBC, no less. The BBC hired Britney following the teen advice she had dispensed in her book Heart To Heart. Now,
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      333 36 MICHAEL Owen has revealed his football Dream Team and it doesn’t include a single Liverpool player. If that makes you see Red, it’s not meant to be as a commentary on the state of the team, reports The News of the World. “I don’t
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