Project Eyeball, 10 October 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Tuesday, October 10, 2000 80 CENTS
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      180 1 Hot LINKS Abortion pill arrives in US It was once known as RU-486, it’s been mifepristone, as well as Mifeprix, but it’s known as the abortion pill. It’s now approved by US officials, and it means that abortion has moved out of the doctor’s clinic and into the home. See
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      332 1 fa ME, tafliPr 1 tev s* i*»F r >rThe Kano sisters, Kyoko (left) and Mika are the hottest thing in Japan, appearing everywhere. BIG IN JAPAN They don’t sing. They don’t dance. They don’t act. What they do (really well, it seems), is appear in public a lot with deep
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  • News & Views
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      202 2 YOU have no choice but to take their word or their silence -for it. A couple in Taiwan who have been married for 571-o-n-g years say they haven’t spoken a word to each other! Not that they have had an unhappy marriage. Lee Shih-Fa and Lee Yuan-Yang are doing
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      Lock icon Tension as Israeli deadline approaches
      491 2 World leaders redouble efforts Wires JERUSALEM Gunshots continued to ring out across the Middle East as the countdown to an Israeli deadline for Palestinians to halt their wave of protests or face “forceful” retaliation ticked away. Meanwhile, world leaders stepped up diplomatic efforts to quell
      – Wires; Pictures: AFP  -  491 words
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      Lock icon Jittery investors drive STI down
      322 2  -  BELOW 1,900 By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg THE Singapore bourse ended sharply lower yesterday as fund selling of blue chips aggravated the rout in the technology sector, pushing the Straits Times Index (STI) to its biggest losses in eight months. Jittery investors turned sec-tor-blind and sold
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      Lock icon The PILL arrives
      826 3  -  Big abortion rights changes expected Salon.com NEW YORK After more than a decade in limbo, the abortion pill, or mifepristone now known as Mifeprex and formerly as RU-486 has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Advocates, such as Dr Wendy Chavkin, professor of
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      Lock icon Priest attacks clinic with axe
      250 3 VIOLENT PROTEST AP ILLINOIS The abortion pill has already triggered some violent reactions. Over the weekend, a Catholic priest smashed his car into an abortion clinic, and then proceeded to chop at the building with an axe until the building owner fired two shotgun blasts
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      Lock icon MPs want 10 years of compulsory schooling
      929 4  -  But Govt goes for 6, citing practicalities of introducing and enforcing system By Wong Sher Maine and Lim Puay Leng sher@sph.com.sg puayleng@sph.com.sg GO THE whole hog and make it 10, because six years of compulsory schooling isn’t enough to prepare a person for
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      Lock icon MPs’ speeches: Rules changed
      358 5  -  They can speak at party constituency events Sue Ann Chia CHIAM See Tong can now speak at constituency events organised by his political party the only catch: He can’t invite his party cadre. Bummer? But hey, it’s better than before. The Government yesterday announced that elected
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      Lock icon Govt won’t lower petrol duty
      427 5  -  Francis Kan THE Government will not lower petrol duty or take any additional steps to mitigate rising electricity bills and fuel pump prices. This is because customs duty is being imposed on only petrol, and not diesel fuel or fuel for generating electricity, so its
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      Lock icon Emergency aid for Vietnam’s flood victims
      44 6 Workers unloading Australian emergency aid for Vietnam’s flood victims in driving monsoon rain in Ho Chi Mink City yesterday. The supplies were flown in on a C-130 aircraft as meteorologists warned of fresh downpours on the way. Reuters
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      Lock icon Web ‘govt’ election: S’poreans not interested
      675 6  -  Dotcommers not enthusiastic about Icann poll By Eri Akbar eri@sph.com.sg CALL it ground-breaking: An Inter-net-wide election for the ruling members of the body that’s the closest thing at the moment to a government of the World Wide Web. At 8 am tomorrow, voting will
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon Rock-climber falls to death
        108 8 TECHNICIAN Stevie Chee Tee Hung, 23, fell to his death on Sunday after he slipped off a rock he was trying to scale at Dairy Farm Quarry near the Bukit Timah nature reserve. Other rock-climbers rushed to help him after they heard him screaming. Chee, who
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        88 8 A WOMAN will head the executive council of The Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME) for the first time. Dr Diana Young was elected as the ASME president on Sept3o for a two-year term. The 43-year-old chief executive of Milcom Aerospace was also the
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        Lock icon Giving Tamil another boost
        152 8 STUDENTS who are interested and meet the criteria for continuing Tamil language studies at the university level will be eligible for bonus points when they apply for admission to NUS from 2002. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said this yesterday when he was addressing the
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        91 8 ALWAYS wanted to learn how to dance Lindy Hop? Now you can do so at only $1! The Lindy Hop Ensemble is conducting a full-day workshop on Dec 1 to teach the basics of Lindy Hop, at the YMCA at Orchard Road. The course
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        Lock icon Summonses issued over air-con units
        112 8 SLIGHTLY more than 1 per cent of the 104,000 households with air-conditioning units in wooden brackets have not completed the required retrofitting. This is even after the one-year grace period. After the new law took effect on Oct 1, the Building and Construction Authority (BCA)
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        100 8 NOW your boss can decide when to make CPF contributions. With CPF e-Payment, bosses can submit staff details and authorise banks to make payments on the day they will have adequate funds. This will be different from using Giro, which deducts the contributions on a
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        Lock icon Tips on bus courtesy
        159 8 PICK up courtesy tips and learn how to observe safety on buses, bus-stops and interchanges at the month-long Safety cum Courtesy Mobile Exhibition. Organised by the Singapore Bus Services (SBS) and the National Transport Workers’ Union (NTWU), the exhibition kicked off at the Bishan Bus Interchange,
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        60 8 HEALTH Minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday that the maximum coverage age for Medishield may be raised to keep pace with longer life expectancies. Medishield’s maximum age is pegged at 75 years, but Lim said there were other insurance schemes that offered coverage up to 80 years.
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        89 8 THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) will be one step closer to listing on its own exchange by the end of this year. The SGX announced yesterday that it will convene an extraordinary general meeting of its shareholders on Nov 1 to approve amendments to the exchange’s Articles
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      Lock icon Man leaps off airport ledge
      163 8 Australian in critical condition A 32-YEAR-OLD Australian man who leapt off the ledge of the transit lounge at Changi Airport Terminal 1 yesterday is in critical condition at the Changi General Hospital. The man had apparently climbed over a 2.5-metre tall glass partition at an
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      Lock icon Qantas denies in-flight meals were stale
      397 9 Workers refuse to load 1,000 outdated ‘contingency meals’ AFP SYDNEY Haute cuisine at high altitudes? Most certainly, if you don’t mind wolfing down stale food. At least that’s what you might get if you fly Qantas. The Australian airline is now in a bit
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      Lock icon Radiohead hides attack on Blair in CD cases
      226 9 POP GROUP SLAMS BRITISH PM RADIOHEAD’S new chart-topping album, Kid A, includes a secret booklet that contains what appears to be a personal attack on British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The 12-page booklet is hidden under the CD tray and can be
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      877 11 Study says immune system suffers US News AMERICANS loathe to say good night. Job and family beckon. Latenight TV entices. The Internet seduces. Supermarkets and megamalls lure shoppers into the wee hours. Americans have succumbed to the temptations of the night. By the end
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      Lock icon Gus Dur dumps top brass
      447 13 Military for defence, never to rule Wires JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday dumped his army and navy chiefs in a widely expected move to bring his unruly military to heel and warned that Indonesia needed a strong military to defend it, but never again to
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    • World WIDE
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        156 13 KUALA LUMPUR A Chinese clan in Malaysia is planning its own “baby bonus” fund to encourage its members to have more children, reported The Star online edition yesterday. The Federation of Kwong Siew Associations of Malaysia, which represents the Cantonese dialect group, is planning to raise
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        53 13 Reuters JAKARTA The youngest son of former President Suharto, staring at 18 months in jail for graft, has been barred from leaving the country, said the Attorney-General’s office yesterday. The one-year ban comes after he allegedly tried unsuccessfully to apply for an Italian visa a
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        105 13 LONDON The uniform for Britain’s frontline female soldiers is likely to include a new item by 2002 armoured underwear. At the defence ministry clothing and textile agency, tailors are working on “Crusader 21” a codename for two secret designs of bullet and bomb-proof bras and
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        Lock icon Dome’s day approaches
        125 13 LONDON The British government’s financial advisers, Lazard, have said the Millennium Dome should be razed to the ground to get the best possible price when the site is sold, reported the BBC. The site of the tourist attraction that failed would be more valuable as a mixed-use
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        111 13 AFP COLOGNE The families of 45 Germans who died in the Air France Concorde jet crash near Paris in July have given the airline until Friday to propose compensation. If the families cannot come to an agreement with the airline, they will file lawsuits against it
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      91 15 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active rj VOLUME CENTS Seatown 121,676,000 12 Nat Elec 7,871,000 356 EastTech 5,941,000 123 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Bukit Semb 1370 20 1.5 APB Breweries 388 8 2.1 OCBC Fin 210 7 3.4 Total number of gainers: 45 I n Top 3 Losers
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAT: WWW. RHBdia mond.com
      181 15  -  Nicholas Yong WHAT could be new about yet another site that lets you trade online? Try history and a bit of trust. RHB-Cathay Securities, which has been a reputed securities broker here for nearly three decades, has now embraced the “click and
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      Lock icon Royal Clicks won’t score
      560 15  -  Sports retailer’s offer price too high, say analysts By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg FIRST, World of Sports turned into eWorldofSports.com (eWOS). Now, fellow sporting goods retailer Royal Sporting House, due for a mainboard listing on Thursday, has become Royal Clicks. But if the eWOS’ fiasco is anything
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      Lock icon Got a useful tip? Sell it
      368 15 LOTS OF MONEY IN ‘IDEA COMMERCE’ PEOPLE seem to be having a lot of ideas about ideas lately. The latest light bulb, reported ZDNet, is from Idea Exchange, a business website that allows anyone with a bright idea to sell it. For example, an
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      Lock icon Cruise info highway in a car
      563 17 Bat the speed bumps are rather huge AP TOKYO It’s a glamorous idea: Cyber cars hooked to the Internet provide drivers with guides to thousands of restaurants and schedules of festivals right on the dashboard. In practice, the technology is still a little clunky.
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      Lock icon The clone way to saving endangered species
      543 17 COW MAY DELIVER RARE ANIMAL AP BOSTON Meet Bessie, who could soon be the first cow to give birth to a cloned ox. If she delivers the rare Asian gaur growing inside her, she will herald a stunning new way to save endangered,
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      Lock icon GOING ONLINE AT CHANGI
      175 18 SINCE May this year, passengers at Changi Airport’s departure and transit lounges who have portable devices such as laptops or personal digital assistants (PDAs) equipped with infra-red ports have been able to go online. The US airports, however, have adopted radio-based wireless, which frees users to
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      Lock icon Killing time on the Web
      527 18 US airlines hope Net access will soothe delayed passsengers WASHINGTON Hoping to soothe delayed passengers, several airlines want to install wireless Internet access in airport terminals that will allow travellers in the US to work, surf the Web or even watch digital movies to pass
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon Books online now more expensive
        114 18 NYT RECENT price increases at online bookstores mean that many books are now more expensive online than in a traditional store. Amazon.com and other online booksellers charge about US$4.5O (557.83) for shipping the first book, and about US$l (551.74) to ship each additional book. The
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        Lock icon Novelists go on Net for ‘e-Booker’ prize
        108 18 NYT ZADIE Smith may have been snubbed in last week’s Booker Prize shortlist, but she can take comfort from her appearance on the debut shortlist of the lucrative “e-Booker” literary prize. She joins bestselling authors Colleen McCullough, Ed Mcßain and Stephen Ambrose in
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        Lock icon Enigma wrapped in a ransom riddle
        150 18 NYT THE intrigue never ends. First, the movie U-571 was based on the capture of the Enigma machine by the British, but Hollywood made the heroes Americans. Now, the German machine that helped the British crack the Nazi Enigma code in one of the
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      Lock icon We should be allowed to read bosses’ e-mail
      565 20 ’Tour boss can spy on yon’ (Oct 9) YOUR boss has the right to snoop on your e-mail and calls from your office phone. The property law says so. Eyeball readers give their views on this. MANAGERS LIABLE, TOO ARE bosses prepared
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      270 20 ‘Lawyers and professionals may soon have to attend upgrading courses’ (Oct 6) LAWYERS and insurance agents may have to go back to the classroom to keep their licenses intact. Should upgrading be compulsory for professionals? NO SPANKING NEEDED UPGRADING is indeed important, especially for professions in
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      Lock icon Golf’s image tarnished
      669 21 ‘Golf still a rich man’s game here’ (Oct 9) WITH so many people wanting to play golf but unable to afford a membership, is it time for a public golf course here like the one Hong Kong has? GENTLEMAN’S GAME TO A golfer without a club membership,
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      Lock icon It’s hard to get through, say the deaf
      263 21 ‘IT careers come to help of hearing-impaired’ (Oct 4) Although there are avenues open to the hearing-impaired, it seems that many employers are still reluctant to hire them. I FINISHED my accountancy course in ITE-Bishan in 1996, and graduated from accountancy in
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      22 2 Qood morning! t* Slightly hazy. Showers with thunder in the morning. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 10.01AM/2.4M 9.41PM/2.6M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      26 3 Should the abortion pill be made available here? Log onto httpV/eyebalLasial.com.sg and tell us. http://www.usnews.com/ usnews/issue/*****8/ nycu/ru4B6.htm Abortion pill offers more privacy but no less controversy.
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      69 9 Fed up with airline food? You’re not alone. http:/ www.familytravel forum.com/ airlinefood.html Check out the high and low points of airborne cuisine. http://www.cnn.com/ ASIANOWPtime/ travel/2000/0724/ Good news for the business or wealthy flier, bad news for the rest. http:/ www.efit.com/ servlet/article/ *****.html A survey that checks the deal behind the
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      33 18 To find out more about the airports’ wireless Net access, check out these sites: On the Net: Aerzone: http://www.Aer zone. Com United Airlines: http:// www.Unitedairlines.com Delta Air Lines: http://www.Delta.Com American Airlines: http:// www.Aa.Corn
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon No new imports right now
      703 23  -  ‘Not many running years left in Jayasinghe’ By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg SRI Lanka’s Susanthika Jayasinghe is willing to run for Singapore, but the Republic is yet to make up its mind on whether or not to bring her down here. For now, Singapore will focus
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      Lock icon HAPPY HOPPERS
      68 23  -  Zaki Amrullah Zola Bndd: A 17-year-old prodigy from South Africa, she switched to Britain and got to run in the 1,500 m at the Los Angeles Olympics. Wilson Kipketen Born in Kenya, he left for Denmark in 1990 to study engineering. He represented the Danes at the Sydney
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Top swimmer quits
        93 24 AFP BRISBANE Kieren Perkins, denied a third successive 1,500 m swimming gold medal at the Sydney Olympics by fellow Australian Grant Hackett, called it quits yesterday. “I haven’t officially announced my retirement, but this is it,” the 28-year-old said at a ticker-tape parade for Australian Olympic stars
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        Lock icon Sausage not enough
        93 24 AFP SYDNEY Australia’s disabled athletes, taken aback when they learnt they would get only a sausage barbecue after the Paralympics, were told yesterday they would get the same treatment as Olympic competitors, who have been invited to a black-tie dinner. “I am proud to announce that the
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        Lock icon Yankees top A’s
        68 24 Reuters OAKLAND The New York Yankees scored six runs in the first inning and held on for a 7-5 victory over the Oakland Athletics in the decisive fifth game of their American League playoff series to keep alive their drive for a third consecutive World Series title.
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        Lock icon Kronfeld retires
        94 25 AFP AUCKLAND New Zealand great Josh Kronfeld said yesterday he had played his last rugby union Test for the All Blacks. However, the 29-year-old said he would sign for a British club within the next fortnight. His international retirement came as All Black selectors were considering the team
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        Lock icon Gosper’s out of it
        103 25 Reuters SYDNEY International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Kevan Gosper said yesterday he had withdrawn from the race to replace retiring president Juan Antonio Samaranch. “I go in a race if I think I can win. And I’ve certainly thought up until recently I could,” Gosper told
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        Lock icon Argentina wins
        57 25 Xinhua BUENOS AIRES Argentina, with two goals in the first half, beat Uruguay 2-1 in a World Cup qualifier on Sunday. First-half goals by Marcelo Gallardo and Gabriel Batistuta put Argentina in the driving seat. Federico Magallanes set up a nail-biting second half by pulling a goal back
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      Lock icon Team Ferrari
      897 24 Michael Schumacher (right) may be the new world champion after his victory at the Japanese Formula One Qrand Prix, but his success was a true team effort. Without doubt, the main reason Ferrari finally has a world champion after a 21-year wait is the exceptional driving skills of
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      Lock icon Germany’s manager wants out too
      678 25  -  Rudi Voller’s not interested in the top job after next year By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg WHEN England took on Germany on the weekend in the World Cup qualifier at Wembley, it was a tale of two managers. England lost, and manager Kevin Keegan quit. However,
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    • Extra TIME
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        Lock icon Rivaldo threatens to go home
        715 26 Brazilian irked by treatment in Spanish media Wires BARCELONA forward Rivaldo has threatened to quit the Spanish giants and return to his native Brazil. “If the fans and directors are not happy with me I will go back to Brazil because it is certain my
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    • Matter of FACT
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        Lock icon The Memory Lane to Wembley
        362 26  -  END OF AN ERA By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg AFTER 77 years, the historic Wembley Stadium is finally going down. The World Cup qualifier between England and Germany last weekend marked the end of a long era for the famous stadium with the Twin Towers. Over
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  • Unwind
    • Fashion
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        798 27 Their names come from famous parents but their eye for fashion is wholly theirs. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) checks out celebrity heirs who are designing their own careers. ICK’s lippy pout is still sending L J fans into convulsions of ecstasy, i I Jack’s dating women half his age,
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      • Personal STYLE
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          Lock icon ‘I’m not a hunk’
          747 31 ‘I’ m not a hunk’ Despite his penchant for baring his body and playing a dumb studmuffin, Tay Ping Hui tells JEANMARIETAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) he s just a regular guy. TCS 8’s A-listerTay Ping Hui has nailed the “yuppie hunk” role down pat, complete with bronzed skin-flashing and sex-symbol brooding. Not
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      • Wear & TEAR
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          87 31 FRENCH auto-maker Renault has hired Jean Paul Gaultier to star in its latest commercial for futuristic car model L’Avantime. The ad opens with Gaultier in his signature sailor shirt. He is shown sketching and then moving on to a fitting with a nude model, as well as
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          74 31 ACCORDING to a fashion website, Giorgio Armani, “free lovin’ frock maker”, must answer to sexual harrassment charges filed by his former advertising director. Ex-employee Bonnie Solomon asserted that he had called her cazzo (penis) and a “difficult whore”. She also alleged that Armani “used offensive, profane language”. Solomon
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          58 31 FASHION’S making it to the big screen again. Mike Myers is developing a script based on Issac Mizrahi’s comic book The Adventures Of Sandee The Supermodel. Myers will star as Yvessac, a flamboyant designer based on the book’s author. No word yet on whether Ben Stiller has
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          61 31 June Wan AS IF recently single designer Tommy Hilfiger didn’t have enough problems, this all-American aesthete is set to be cast as an object of ridicule in Spike Lee’s next film, Bamboozled. Parodied as Tommy Hilnigger, The New York Post reports he is portrayed as pandering ineptly to
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        935 33 Clothes maketh only the shallow and silly man. A practical man dispenses sage advice on the art of fashion. Cox News PALM BEACH Whoa! The newspapers are getting out of control. The Practical Man just reviewed the sections for the past couple of
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          66 33 ORCHARD Road sleuths will by now have discovered Metro’s Charms Of India fair, at the atrium of Paragon. Shoes, bags, bangles, scarves and more weave traditional art into modern fashion. Look out for raw silk or organza shawls ($49 onwards), embroidered slip-ons and multicoloured bags adorned with
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          66 33 SEEGER has four new handbag designs. Temptations’ handbags craft cashmere leather into convex shapes of red, gold and beige, while the folding shopper, Mystere, can be tucked under the arm or used as an open shopper with convex grips. The roomy briefcase Le Precieux is feminine enough
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          65 33 lAN Thorpe wasn’t the first torpedo to make waves. Dunhill’s signature pen, the Torpedo, started the ripcurl long ago. This year’s model comes in 18K gold and is the world’s only ballpoint pen and dipping nib in one. It’s crafted in 925 sterling silver, with a limited
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          46 33 June Wan ZENITH claims to have had the world’s first automatic chronograph movement, the Zenith El Primero. Now, all four lines, the ChronoMaster, Port Royal, Rainbow and Class, are available at Cortina Watch Centre and Sincere Fine Watches. Prices are from $3OOO up.
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        894 34 Fashion correctness s zuaj thrown to the winds as contestants let their creative juices run riot in this years Smirnoff International Awards. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) gets a look from behind the ropes. T SAYS something about our city’s economic gumption and artistic nodes when local fashion goes
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        689 28 NYT They are glamorous, voluptuous and lead lives which are more than a little scandalous. KZMZEITAKURA profiles Kyoko and Mika Kano, Japans most famous sisters. OKYO They are Tthe stuff of fantasies for both men and women, showing off their voluptuous bodies, hobnobbing with the rich and
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        355 28  -  By Ron Wiggins Cox Wire Service WEST PALM BEACH, Florida My e-mail gifted me the other day with a list headed “Twenty Things You Will Never Hear a Man Say”. The sad thing is that I can’t very well publish the list here without
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          72 29 THE government wants more babies? Then maybe it should encourage people to drive less. French scientists have found that a long road trip may inhibit fertility. According to fitness magazine Men’s Health, the scientists monitored scrotal temperatures over the course of a long drive. When men stayed
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          83 29 NOW here’s something stuffy, British aristocrats should take heed: Drink less tea if you still want your sex drive. Tea, like soy, chickpeas and certain spices, contains small amounts of dietary phytoestrogens that are believed to help protect the body against cancer and heart disease. But
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          80 29 JAMES Bond wannabes take note: Now there’s a camp for men who wish they were spies that are licensed to kill. According to Men’s Health, guys can pay US$7,OOO (S$ll,900) for a six-day training stint at the Covert Ops fantasy spy camp at a desert in Arizona. A
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          72 29 THE Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new form of birth control last Thursday, according to CNN. Lunelle, made by Pharmacia Corp of New Jersey, is an injection that can be 99 per cent effective when prescribed once every month. Like many other birth control
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          659 29 Beauty the bust Men are not the only ones who define a woman s femininity by the size of her chest. Women do it too, and they do it even more viciously, says DENYSE YEO (denyse@sph.com.sg). IT’S NOT just for Tthe boys. Admit it, girls. The first thing we notice
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      28 34 GET into Sven’s head and find out why he used animal parts in his winning creation for the Smirnoff International Fashion Awards. The details are at httpV/www.eyeball. asial.com.sg
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      308 35 THERE is a new tool for the busy strategic risk manager or pressured CFO. Announcing the new Built-in Orderly Organised Knowledge device, aka the Book! It’s a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It’s so
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      541 35 Bright Lights, Big City 7 pm Star Movies 58 Michael J Fox (right) shows that he is capable of more than comedy in this gritty film about life in the Big Apple. He plays a magazine editor in Manhattan; his world begins to fall apart as he embarks on a
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      270 36 IF YOU have been lusting after teen pop queen Christina Aguilera, you can get a piece of her. Her card, that is, silly. The singer' with a quirky dress sense is launching her own credit card, Salon.com reported yesterday. While one may wonder whether Aguilera
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      269 36 HE HAD no script, few hints about his character, hair cream that wouldn’t come off, and a shoot which lasted more than a year. But his role in WongKar Wai’s In The Mood For Love won Tony Leung Chin Wai a Best Actor Award at
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        87 36 CATHERINE Zeta Jones, it seems, has settled for less what than she wanted in her pre-wedding money war with Michael Douglas. Lawyers for the pair (above) have agreed how to share Douglas’ $385 million in case they split. The plan gives Zeta Jones $2.6
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        44 36 Wires AUSTRALIAN swimmer lan Thorpe, who won three Olympic gold medals in Sydney, is headed to New York with ambitions to star in Friends. Elle Macpherson, who appeared on the sitcom, has offered to help him, his manager said.
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