Project Eyeball, 28 September 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Thursday, September 28, 2000 80 CENTS
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      158 1 Hot LINKS 8 n Dopey drag cops blowing Games Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan (above) won a gold medal, only to see it stripped because she took over-the-counter cold medicine. Her case and several others in Sydney have the anti-drug fiends turning the Olympics from an athletic event to a bad
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      287 1 Only 12, and he’s a dotcom boss m ms sm Dominic Ong Lee may not be ready to make Forbes' list of highest-paid Internet gurus, but he is only 12. Gus Dur shocker Jakarta police were given a shocking directive from President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday to let student protesters throw
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  • News & Views
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      77 2 Reuters LONDON A British pensioner who sent a cheque for 75 pence (551.09) to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in disgust at the meagre 75-pence weekly rise in the state pension this year was stunned to find it had been cashed. Nora Knight, 78, told the Independent daily she
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      Lock icon A homepage to be proud of
      147 2 THIS man’s got a real Peranakan passion. Norman Cho’s delightfully nostalgic homepage (http:// www.geocities.com/T okyo/ Courtyard/7592/) lets the pictures tell the tale. He regales you with black-and-white portraits of his Straits Chinese great-grandpar-ents (including a wedding portrait in full finery), grandparents and immediate family;
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      Lock icon ‘Let protesters stone Suharto’s house’
      422 2 Gus Dur tells police not to stop student demonstrators Wires AP JAKARTA Let the protesters stone Suharto’s house. That was the shocking direction given to the police yesterday by none other than Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid. “The most the protesters can do is throw stones
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      Lock icon MediaCorp to buy 1-Net
      304 2  -  A $15M TAKEOVER By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg ONE analyst said it was a mini-AOL-Time Warner merger. He was referring to govern-ment-owned MediaCorp’s announcement yesterday that it would be buying 1-Net the provider of Singapore’s core broadband network infrastructure. Like US entertainment giant Time Warner, Media Corp
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      Lock icon Eyeing that crown
      77 3 These are some of the girls from the 64 countries and regions taking part in this years Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo. The finals will be held on Oct 4. From left are Joanna Maria Mijares Penaloza (Philippines), Lorraine Mann Loo Koo (Singapore), Alda Stannis Kasun
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      Lock icon Online banking is just not on
      722 3 Not enough services here, say users “ONLINE banking? No thanks.” That seems to be the message users are sending en masse to the big banks here. A recent Straits Times sampling of 50 people showed that many Singaporeans shy away from online banking. We
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      Lock icon Just move the walls for a new apartment
      286 4  -  Flat plates make designing flexible By Desmond Wong eyenews@sph.com.sg HOW would you like to decide on the layout of your apartment by switching the walls around? This is possible if your private apartment or condo developer opts for a specific prefab construction
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      Lock icon That’s (free) entertainment
      33 4 A man watching the Olympic (fames on a giant screen outside the Singapore Post Office in Paya Lehar. People often stop to watch popular shows before going home. Hedy Khoo
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      Lock icon History among warehouses
      339 4  -  HERITAGE CONSERVATION CENTRE By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg AMID the dusty factories and run-down warehouses at Jurong Port Road is a four-storey treasure trove. Housing precious artefacts from the four museums under the National Heritage Board, the Heritage Conservation Centre was officially opened on Sept 15. The
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      Lock icon Glenn’s the boss, and he’s only 12
      834 6  -  His dotcom designs webpages and he gets a $100 salary By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg AT AN age when most kids are practising signatures, Glenn Lee, 12, confidently signs business memos as senior adviser of his own company. Okay, his is not exactly
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      Lock icon Now showing at a PC near you...
      569 7  -  Web-based TV station offers 7 niche channels By Eri Akbar eri@sph.com.sg HERE’S one that just might persuade the broadband cynics. From October, you 11 get to watch the latest seasons of 3rd Rock From The Sun and That 70s Show on the Web
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      Lock icon Foreign dotcoms no threat
      189 7 Eri Akba LOCAL dotcoms apparently don’t feel threatened by the presence of foreign start-ups here. Harish Pillay, chief technology officer for IQmind.com, felt that the pool of ready investors and venture capitalists is “big enough” for start-ups from around here or abroad. In fact, local dotcoms
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      Lock icon A one-two punch at sea
      362 8  -  Close cooperation needed to thwart illegals, pirates By G Sivakkumaran gsiva@sph.com.sg NEITHER the pirates nor the illegal immigrants stood a chance. Within seconds, two fast patrol vessels from the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) and the Police Coast Guard (PCG) intercepted them as they headed
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    • Local LOG
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        148 8 AVOID travelling to Saudi Arabia and Yemen for now because of an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever there, says the Health Ministry. If plans cannot be delayed, travellers should reduce the risk of mosquito bites by using insect repellent, covering up and sleeping under mosquito
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        Lock icon Singapore best place for meetings
        68 8 IT’S official: Singapore is the best place for MICE or Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions. The award was conferred at the annual Incentive Travel Conventions Meetings Asia 2000 in Kuala Lumpur, which ends tomorrow. It’s the second successive year Singapore has won. It was chosen
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        Lock icon Discounts for mammograms
        81 8 NOT enough women here go for breast-screening, which could save their lives. One reason is the fear of finding out they have cancer. Another is the cost. Mammograms, or breast X-rays, can cost between $lOO and $l5O. So, for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which kicks off on
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        Lock icon Two world record attempts
        73 8 TEN thousand students will try to break not one, but two world records this Saturday at Siloso Beach in Sentosa. First, students from the four local polytechnics will try to break the Guinness World Record for the longest human domino chain at 5.30 pm. Then, at
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        Lock icon Case welcomes DBS’ latest scheme
        82 8 THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has welcomed DBS Bank’s new fixed-deposit scheme for lower-income customers. The scheme “results in no loss to the consumer”, said Case, as the money for the special deposit account will be transferred from the account-holder’s CPF Special Account and
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      Lock icon Casualty of war
      43 11 Children looking at debris of their house which caught fire in a gun battle between Indian security forces and separatist guerrillas in Kashmir yesterday, killing at least five people. The dead included two policemen, two civilians and one rebel. Afp
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      Lock icon Cheeses! What’ll they do next?
      460 11 US may ban those made from raw milk Reuters WASHINGTON Au revoir, Roquefort! So long, Emmenthal Swiss! And Parmigiano Reggiano it’s been grate, but stay off the spaghetti. These and other classic cheeses made from raw milk could become only aromatic memories if US government
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      Lock icon Women ‘deceived’ into mastectomies
      365 11 BRITISH BREAST-SCREENING PROGRAMME SLAMMED LONDON The British government’s breast-screening programme has been “deceiving” hundreds and hundreds of women into having unnecessary mastectomies, s ays an eminent British surgeon. Hundreds of women are having a breast removed after being diagn osed with an early form of cancer
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    • Europe’s day of disasters
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        Lock icon Ferry sinks, 63 passengers drown
        434 12 GREECE Wires ATHENS Rescuers pulled body after body from the Aegean Sea yesterday after a Greek ferry carrying 510 passengers and crew sank after hitting a rocky islet. At least 63 passengers including children were killed and seven were unaccounted for. A Greek Coast Guard
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        Lock icon Copters collide, killing 8 tourists
        310 12 SWITZERLAND AP BEUSON, Switzerland Eight people were killed and four seriously injured on Tuesday as two helicop ters taking Indian tourists to view Alpine glaciers collided, the Swiss police said. As 60 other Indian tourists watched from a soccer field below, the rotorblades of the
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        171 12 Ap MADRID Real Madrid midfielder Ivan Helguera was so terrified when the plane he was on board dived 5,000 metres that he had a “nervous attack” and ran to the cockpit, where he spent the rest of the flight. But he was not alone. The entire
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Continental sued for Concorde crash
        166 13 Reuters PARIS Air France afnd its insurers are suing Continental Airlines over its alleged role in the July Concorde disaster that killed 113 people, a spokeswoman for the French airline said yesterday. French investigators believe a strip of metal, which had fallen off a Continental
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        Lock icon More control over Net usage in China
        175 13 Afp SHANGHAI Chinese police are to shut down more than half of Shanghai’s Internet cafes to raise the moral tone of the city’s youth and to prevent adults playing corrupting computer games, state media said yesterday. The move heralds a national inspection of
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        156 13 Ap KUALA LUMPUR-A two-year-old emergency economic decree that banned Malaysian teachers from taking overseas^ vacations in order to conserve foreign exchange has been lifted. “We truly welcome this move,” N Siva Subramaniam, secretary-general of the national teachers’ union, was quoted as saying by the national
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        219 13 Ap YANGON Military authorities kept opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under virtual house arrest and barred supporters from opening the headquarters of her party yesterday. The National League for Democracy usually commemorates Sept 27 with a large party meeting, but the NLD had cancelled this
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      Lock icon Villagers kill three fleeing rebels
      269 13 Manila’s military operation continues Ap JOLO The mutilated bodies of three Muslim rebels killed by frightened villagers were dumped yesterday in front of a police station on the southern Philippine island where thousands of troops are battling to rescue 17 hostages held by guerrillas, officials
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      Lock icon Rebels want $17,501’
      124 13 Ap JOLO An American held hostage by Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines has told US officials that the guerrillas are demanding US$lO million ($17.5 million) for his release, a Philippine official said yesterday. In a telephone call to the US embassy, Jeffrey Schilling said the Abu
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      Lock icon Stamp of disapproval
      56 15 Qreenpeace activists marking a freighter with a huge stamp on Sept 26 in the Qerman port of Hamburg. The environmentalist group said it found TBT, a toxic ingredient, on the ship’s paint. It added that TBT leaks out of the paint into the sea and causes serious
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      Lock icon Dotcom stock doesn’t look so hot
      437 15  -  Homegrown Wizoffice.com shares will take time to see profits, say analysts By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg YET another dotcom stock will open for trading tomorrow, but we would suggest looking the other way. Though priced at a low 20 cents, shares of homegrown busi-ness-to-business (B2B)
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: www.stocklion. com
      136 15  - BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: www stocklion com Francis Kan THESE days, rumours make a better sound bite than news itself. Particularly so if it’s about the stock market. Any wonder, then, that websites featuring stock rumours are proving to be popular. Stocklion.com is one such portal that allows punters
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      Lock icon MobileOne may list before year-end
      213 15  -  Francis Kan A LISTING may finally be in sight for cellphone operator Mobile One (Ml). Ng Eng Hoe, managing director of Keppel Telecommunications Transportation (Keppel T&T), said yesterday that a listing for Ml could be on the cards as early as the fourth quarter of
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      84 15 Straits Times Index (STI) j Top3Aetive VOLUME CENTS j Golden Agri 26,367,000 31.5 NOfcS&,_ 6,479,000 159.0 j 5,884,000 Top 3 Gainers 8.0 CENTS PaeCent 1750 80 4.8 Jlp 400US$ 600 35 6.2 SPH. 2560 20 of gamers: 102 Top 3 Losers 0.8 f CENTS DBS 1900 -70 -3.6 SIA
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      Lock icon Ugly, but tough
      445 16  -  Ericsson’s R310 is built for rough stuff By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg IN MOST people’s eyes, the Ericsson R3lO is not an attractive phone. It’s not as cute as the Nokia 8210, not as small as the Motorola v 3688, and not as slim as its sibling, the
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon NTT goes the fibre-optic way
        125 17 NTT Corp (Nippon Telegraph Telephone) has disclosed plans for a broadband service using fibre-optic lines connected to Japanese homes, The Asian Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. Fibre-optic lines are high-speed, high-capacity cables which form the backbone of computer networks worldwide and can transmit data at
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        Lock icon HP’s new e-service
        98 17 HEWLETT-Packard (HP) has announced plans for HP Wire (Web Information RElay), the world’s first e-service to allow remote Internet access, relay and printing of information through mobile phones and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). HP Wire is developed by HP Singapore’s Business Printing Division. It provides secure remote
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        157 17 A US start-up, ConneXus, wants you to buy CDs in a new way. Whatever you’ve just heard on the radio can be replayed over mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs and then purchased on a CD, reports CNet. The service, *CD (pronounced Star
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        56 17 This one-man, three-wheeled fire-fighting vehicle has a top speed of 50 kmh, and can climb over kerbs and go into narrow lanes. It will be on display at the international security fair in Essen, Qermany, which opens in two weeks. Singapore's Civil Defence Force has been using a
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      596 17 Scientists create a computer program to help prevent deaths from rushing crowds AFP PARIS The saying that nothing is as unpredictable as human behaviour may have met its match with a computer model that simulates crowd panic -a phenomenon that has led to countless deaths from
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      494 20 ‘Older flats grab buyers’ fancy’ (Sept 27) OLDER flats cost more than new ones, yet the buying of resale flats rose 22 per cent between April and June. Eyeball readers react to this: SO HIGH FOR USED GOODS I’M FED up with the continually escalating prices
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      Lock icon Real men don’t need to be pretty boys
      423 20 ‘Mojo no enough’ (Sept 25) MALE CATTLE SHOW OF COURSE we are having these male beauty pageants just to see these men flaunt their bodies. Can anyone ascribe any greater meaning to these shallow male pageants? It is no wonder that nobody
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      Lock icon Dopey drug cops ruin Games
      945 21  -  SALON.COM By King Kaufman IT’S happening again. It happens every Olympics now. The positive tests, the announcements, the stripping of the medals. Three Bulgarian weightlifters lose their medals after testing positive for steroids. A Belarussian hammer thrower and a Latvian rower are bounced from the
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      Lock icon VILLAINS OR VICTIMS?
      97 21 *The Intrepid drug cops of the 100 imm turned tie @lpapl©s from an athletic event to a bad dotectlve nmeh Instead of enjoffng tie magleal drama of tie world’s best atMetes competing on tbe world stage* we sit and wonder if the performance we’re watching is going
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      Lock icon Golf bandit eyes heist in S’pore
      387 26  -  Burmese Han targets the Open By John Crean pettime@sph.com.sg THE “Burmese Bandit” is planning a big heist in Singapore. Kyi Hla Han, Asia’s No 1 golfer for last year, reckons he can plunder the loot at the Singapore Open in December. Han reaped rich
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      Lock icon PSV dumps United
      501 26  -  LEEDS FARES BETTER By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg ISN’T it a nice change to see Manchester United getting on the wrong end of a result? Yeah, especially after getting dumped 1-3 by PSV Eindhoven in yesterday’s Champions League Group G game. The fact that United put on a
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      26 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder in the afternoon mainly over northern, western and central Singapore. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 11.35AM/2.8M 11.35PM/3.2M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      29 11 Do you know enough about breast cancer? Check these sites for updates. http://www.ht inet.com/bcen/ The latest information. http:/ /www.nccs. com.sg/caninfo/ can tpo3.htm Local info from the National Cancer Centre
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      23 12 Log on to asial.com .Hg for a round-up by Bhagyashree Garekar of recent travel accidents. http://www.air disaster.com/ for reports on various air crashes.
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      33 20 Want to have your say on issues raised in today’s Project Eyeball? Send us an e-mail at feedback (?eyebalLconusg or join our forums at httpy/eyefomm-asial. conusg. Selected views will be published here daily.
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  • EyeSport
    • Sydney 2000
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        Lock icon Silence is golden
        498 23  -  China could be trying to win friends by beeping mum on US doping By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg AS IT turned out, it was a case of the pot calling the kettle black. It was China’s golden opportunity to spit fire against the US, but it chose to
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        Lock icon Favourites fail to make the grade
        329 23 Wires SYDNEY It was a bad day overall for the favourites as Gail Devers, Nourredine Morceli and Wilson Kipketer came to grief yesterday. But US sprinter Marion Jones shrugged off the controversy surrounding her drug-tainted husband, to cruise into the 200 m semifinals. Devers,
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      • Off TRACK
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          Lock icon Venus, she’s got it
          138 23 Reuters AMERICAN Venus Williams put a golden finish on a dream season yesterday by sweeping past lOth-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia to win the Olympic gold medal in women’s tennis. Second-seeded Williams defeated the 18-year-old Russian 6-2,6-4 to extend her winning streak to 32 successive match
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          Lock icon Ullrich takes gold
          152 23 Afp JAN Ullrich of Germany won the men’s Olympic road race cycling gold medal yesterday, attacking in the final kilometres to pull away from silver medallist Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan and fellow German Andreas Kloeden, who took bronze. Ullrich, the runner-up in this year’s Tour de France,
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          Lock icon Soccer love-in
          95 24 Afp TODAY’S Olympic women’s football final between the US and Norway will be a love-in, not a grudge match as far as the American women are concerned. They have made it clear the Norwegians are their keenest foes. At yesterday’s pre-final press call, respect was the mantra for
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          Lock icon Andreea must wait
          71 24 Ap ROMANIAN all-around gymnastics champion Andreea Raducan must wait another day to learn whether she will regain the gold medal the International Olympic Committee stripped from her because she took cold medicine containing a banned substance. After a 4Vz -hour hearing yesterday in front of the Court
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          Lock icon Biggest Cuban falls
          62 24 Reuters CUBAN super-heavyweight boxer Alexis Rubaicaba, who knocked his last opponent out cold, was beaten 25-12 by Kazakhstan’s Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov yesterday. This meant that for the second successive Olympics, the biggest Cuban boxer of all failed to win a medal. The Kazakh made sure of at least
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          Lock icon Angel’s folly
          111 25 Ap A SENSATIONAL comeback by the Cubans was undone when their best player committed the simplest of mistakes. Angel Dennis, the most talented hitter on a team loaded with fine athletes, sent his jump serve straight into the net, giving Russia a 21-25,25-23,25-19,19-25,15-13 victory yesterday and a spot
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          Lock icon No golds here
          111 25 Reuters TAEKWONDO made its Olympic debut yesterday but Taiwan’s hopes of breaking into the gold medal winners’ club were dashed when two of their champions failed to get past the quarterfinal round. Taekwondo, an ancient martial art which resembles karate but focuses on kicks with bare feet,
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          Lock icon Aussie triumph
          66 25 Reuters A BARRAGE of three-pointers by Australian forward Jenny Whittle took her team through to a 28-point win in their Olympic women’s basketball quarter-final with Poland yesterday. Whittle, who scored nine points from beyond the three-point arc in the first five minutes, finished the sudden-death encounter with 4-of-6
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        Lock icon Favourite crashes out
        56 24 American sprint champion QaiJ Devers hitting a hurdle in the semi-f inals of the womens loom hurdles yesterday, which made her drop out of the race. The US had to be content with a bronze from Melissa Morrison, as Olga Shishigina of Kazakhstan took the gold, and
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      • REWIND
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          Lock icon Forgotten heroes
          536 24  -  Notoriety is more memorable than excellence By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg SYDNEY 2000 has been tainted with some nasty drug scandals and several athletes have already attained notoriety. But, really, these doping stories pale in comparison to what happened in 1988. Unfortunately, the Seoul Olympics will be remembered mainly
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        77 24  -  By John Crean in Sydney sports@eyeball.com.sg THE sports world has fallen in love with Sydney. The organisation, the stadia, the backdrop, and even a transport system which was said to be old and creaky, have won fulsome praise during the Olympics. Oh, and there is
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        266 24 Hardened Olympic sports reporters, who endured the tackiness, transport foul-ups and technological failures of Atlanta in 1996, would love the Olympics to be in Sydney every four years. “Make Sydney the permanent home of the Olympics,” wrote one American journalist. “This is as good as it gets.”
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        498 25 When CJ Hunter tearfully defended himself against the four (yes, four) l positive steroid tests attributed to j him this year, he said: “I am quite I positive that I will be totally exonerated. ’However, let’s pretend that he said: “How am I gonna get out of this
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        1025 27 Young, trendy and enthralled with action after dark, a new generation of party promoters are infusing Singapore with new dance music. HO (karl@sph.com.sg) finds out who these smooth operators are, and why they... EHIND every party deemed a success, there is always an unsung hero. These are
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        308 29 Karl Ho FRONT Page, burnt down to a crisp in 1993, made a glorious comeback yesterday, with a procession of vintage automobiles and Harley-Davidson toughs gracing its official launch party. Front Page reeks of Goth and sado-masochism. Within its English-lounge style
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        646 29 D J John Digweed is a genius in the guise of the lad-next-door. KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) discovers the man behind the DJ console at Qrand Copthornc s Piano Bar on Sunday night. POR a DJ demigod whose popularity is skyrocketing, John Digweed is remarkably down-to-Earth. Dressed in
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        207 29 Karl Ho JOHN Digweed started scratching records when he was 15, performing in hotel and college parties. His self-organised “Bedrock” dance parties increased in popularity and he was finally talent-spotted by Renaissance in Mansfield in the early *****. It
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          121 31 Hu’u Bar 71, Bras Basah Road SINGAPORE’S foremost acid jazz bar is going to play dispensary for one night, healing all you weary corporate slaves out there with prescriptions of booze and sultry jazz. On Friday night (Sept 29), Hu’u Bar celebrates its second anniversary. Staff
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          182 31 Karl Ho Hard Rock Cafe 50 Cuscaden Road, #O2-01HPL House GUYS who pump iron and secretly yearn to strut their rockhard bon-bons in front of a crowd of screaming women, head down to Hard Rock Cafe on Friday (Sept 29). The first five male exotic-dancer wannabes who get
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        569 31 The European Union Film Festival hits town again for the ioth time on Oct 14, and a major highlight will be a lecture by French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier SANDITAN (sandi@sph .com.sg) gets the details. 0INGAPORE film producers(and movie-mad opportunists), pull out your
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        Lock icon THE EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL 2000
        217 31 Sat, Oct 14 5 pm Best Female Newcomer (France, PG) By invitation only. Son, Oct 15 4.30 pm Brothers and Sisters (Italy, PG) 7 pm The Polish Bride (Netherlands, R(A)) 9.30 pm Miss Julie (UK, R(A)) Mon, Oct 16 7 pm Megacities (Austria, PG)
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        1070 32 SHAFT Samuel L Jackson, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale THIS 21st century reinvention of shabby 1971 cult movie Shaft, famed for making a 1970 s icon out of Richard Roundtree and known for its raunchy Isaac Hayes score, comes with the late 90s tensions of New York’s streets. The
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        556 33  -  Reviews: Sandi Tan THE CELL Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn IT OPENS spectacularly. Sand dunes that go on forever. Jennifer Lopez dressed like a dove white feathers, cooing voice. Why, it’s got to be either a Dali painting or a Perrier ad. TV commercial and music video superstar director
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        150 33 Sandi Tan DOCUMENT ART ON Mi GORE http://www.dems2ooo.com/eMersion/ll_gorebiovideo.html DIRECTOR Spike Jonze, the wacky talent behind Being John Malkovich, goes Behind A1 Gore for this 13-minute documentary made for the Democratic National Convention Committee. Watch US presidential hopeful Gore talk about the old photos in his childhood home, dine
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          183 33 THE Substation is running a hands-on digital-video course from Oct 29 to Nov 2. The crash course will be run by professionals from the eveo.com short-film website and the Hollywood Shorts Film Festival, and is open only to 10 participants. Hopefuls need to send five-page treatments for
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          90 33 IN A further effort to revamp their image, Volkswagen of America has pledged a joint venture with Internet short-film giant Atom Films, reports indiewire.com. The car’s site vw.com will soon feature 10 different short films selected from Atom’s website (atomfilms.com) each month for the next six
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          44 33 Sandi Tan “The clock is ticking. Before you know r it, you’ll be 40 and you’ll have to pay for these kind of girls.” -EL (Seann William Scott) telling Josh (Breckin Meyer) the meaning of college in Road Trip.
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          110 34 ACTOR Mark Wahlberg and Third Eye Blind singer Stephan Jenkins traded knuckle jabs while filming the upcoming heavy metal flick So You Wanna Be A Rock Star. But don’t look for any John Woo-style action. Though the pair had The Matrix’s fight-scene experts coaching them, Jenkins
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          77 34 GUESS who has swung into the popular Got Milk? ad campaign? Gongfu guru Jackie Chan. With muscles bulging over those calcium-enhanced bones, he looks prepped for another screen showdown. The Got Milk? print ads, with celebs from Kermit the Frog to KISS wearing frothy milk moustaches, has tickled
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          85 34  -  Jeanmarie Tan HE PLAYED identical twins in The Man In The Iron Mask, and now Leonardo DiCaprio’s set to play twin brothers again in Johnny Eck. This time there’s a twist a half-twist. DiCaprio is to star as real-life siblings Robert and Johnny Eckhardt, according to
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        668 34 Nyt The troika that started the brave new Dream Works has now scaled back its once-grand vision. Geraldine Fabrikant and Rick Lyman report. N THE world of Hollywood dons, few names are bigger than Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. In October 1994, their vision was
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      35 29 DJ demigod John Digweed enthralled a capacity crowd of writhing hedonists at Zouk last Saturday night. Log on to to see the co-partner of the Sasha and Digweed clubbing powerhouse as he does the nasty.
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      263 35 THE latest lingo hatched in the Information Age: LIME ROT: The process by which links on a web page become obsolete as the sites they’re connected to change location or die. WORLDWIDE WATT: The real meaning of WWW. CGI JOE: A hard-core CGI script programmer with all
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      588 35 Movies Little Men 2 pm TCS 5 A dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott’s sequel to Little Women, with a grown Jo played by Mariel Hemmingway. The film finds both Jo and her professor husband running a boarding school, taking in and reforming troubled street urchins. Chris Sarandon and Ben Cook
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      Lock icon PosKs health deemed serious
      87 36 LONDON A bout of suspected meningitis that affected Spice Girl Victoria Beckham (above) earlier this month could be more serious than first thought, said The Star. It made Posh Spice incapable of singing, dancing and entertaining anything more demanding than a packet of Maltesers, the tabloid
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      181 36 HERE’S an “eye-opener” of sorts about Tom Cruise (right) The last time the actor toiled on a difficult film shrouded in mystery, it turned out to be the late Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Now it’s been revealed that the actor’s next
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      219 36 MELANIE Griffith and Antonio Banderas are a shining example to Hollywood. After four years of marriage, they are still as passionately in love as the day they met. One only had to see them last week at a ball honouring Bruce Willis in Los Angeles to believe
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        60 36 ALhaftHhilk McQueen, the enfant terrible of the fashion scene, brought in butterflies, two-way mirrors, breathing apparatus, a fat naked woman and birds to show off his collection at the London Fashion Week. One model (left) had fake birds entangled in her hair, another had a castle with
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        62 36 BRUCE Willis is dishing career advice to his young Sixth Sense co-star Haley Joel Osment...David Duchovny, who worked to reduce his commitment to The X-Files, is to do a film about aliens... Novelist Jeffrey Archer was charged with perjury in an ongoing legal row hours before his
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