Project Eyeball, 17 October 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Tuesday, October 17, 2000 80 CENTS
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      147 1 Hot LINKS Drive green and save money Fuel consumption may not be on the minds of many Singaporeans when they’re looking for a new car —but Eyeball’s findings show that choosing a car with high fuel efficiency can save the owner more than $5,000. See Page 16 What’s more important
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      272 1 Big guns clash ernan Crespo (left) and Thierry Henry (right) will be the most watched players when their teams, Lazio and Arsenal, respectively, clash in the Champions’ League early tomorrow morning. We give you the lowdown on how these top two goalscorers rank. Plus, check out our Premier League Power
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      190 2 GERMAN motorists have been warned to stop making rude gestures at traffic cameras or be charged with offending the police. A Bavarian court has ruled that a driver who held up his middle finger while passing a traffic camera was addressing police officers rather than the equipment. The motorist
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      Lock icon 'Cops played Russian roulette with robber’
      438 2 KL opposition leader calls for investigation into police ‘abuse of power’ AFP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian police officer, who shot a suspect in custody earlier this month, was playing “Russian roulette” with a loaded revolver, claimed the victim in an interview published yesterday. The
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      Lock icon Pac Net enters the broadband fray
      504 2  -  COMPETION ON CONNECTIONS AND TECH SUPPORT, NOT PRICE By Andrew Chin andrevoc@sph.com.sg FINALLY, a third player is offering home users broadband access, breaking up the duopoly that Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) and SingTel have enjoyed for the last two years. Before you break out
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        Lock icon E-payment takes wind out of Giro and cheques
        548 3  -  Its services more accessible and convenient By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg BILL payment is moving online. Does that sound the death-knell for Giro -a mechanism that allows payment for utility, telephone bills and the like to be deducted directly from your bank account
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      Lock icon Ouch! Gout hits young
      957 4  -  The good life makes 'rich man’s disease’ more prevalent in Singapore By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg AFFLUENCE is hitting Singapore, in the g(o)ut. And it’s not just the old, doddery types who are contracting it, but working adults in the prime of their lives. The average age
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      Lock icon A GOOD TEACHER IS WORTH A THOUSAND VIDEOS
      143 5  -  Desmond Wong WANTED: Brave individuals to teach sex education. Must be willing to face a class of 40 teenagers and tell it like it is. And no bluffing, please. It’s this sort of teacher that students are most likely to be receptive
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      Lock icon EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL HAS NO IMPACT ON TEEN
      134 5  -  Wong Sher Maine GO ON and show me your sexuality video, but I don’t care what it says. Desmond Cher, 14, a Secondary 2 student at St Gabriel’s Secondary School, has a 13-year-old girlfriend. He holds her hand and kisses her in public.
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      Lock icon Sex-ed video gets the giggles
      556 5  -  But despite some awkward scenes, teens said it is better than textbooks By Wong Sher Maine and Desmond Wong sher@sph.com.sg local@eyeball.com.sg SINGAPORE’S first official sex education video for teens doesn’t have any titillating bits or sexy sequences. Still, 13 wide-eyed, giggling teenagers who saw the
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      Lock icon Things you’ll learn from the CD-ROM
      163 5  -  Wong Sher Maine Hair is your friend. Being more hairy than others doesn’t make you less feminine. It just means you are better protected. Would you buy a magazine that is dog-eared or one that is new and still in its plastic wrapper? Being
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      Lock icon Some parents still playing it safe
      733 6  -  A few pre-schoolers kept at home despite assurances By Sonny Phua local@eyeball.com.sg CHILD-CARE centres and kindergartens opened after a two-week break, but it was not to a full-house. When Eyeball checked with 15 child-care centres, the attendance ranged from 70 to 95 per cent.
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      Lock icon Walking on fire
      113 8 Hindu devotees walking across a six-metre-long fire-pit at the annual firewalking festival (above), held yesterday at the Sri Mariamman Temple on South Bridge Road. President S R Nathan was the guest of honour at the ioo-year-old festival, with some 3,000 devotees taking part after fasting and praying.
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    • Local
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        Lock icon Lim Kim San honoured
        277 8 HE’S the man who envisioned a roof for everyone and a port with a turnaround time of just six hours. Now it’s time to pay him back. How? With a professorship in business policy named after him Lim Kim San. And the money to set up
        Yen Meng Jiin  -  277 words
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        Lock icon Park attack victim dies
        97 8 A MAN who was attacked at the East Coast Park on Oct 10 has died. Hamzir Hanim, 41, died from his injuries at Tan Tock Seng Hospital on Sunday night. Police said that four men were camping at the Park that night when they were set
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        Lock icon Golfer jailed for assaulting footballer
        114 8 A FREELANCE golf instructor who had previous convictions for bookmaking was sentenced to 16 months jail and fined $l,OOO for attacking an S-League footballer. Wilson Raj, 35, had attacked Ivica Raguz from the Woodlands Wellington Football Club on July 21 with a hockey stick. The
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        Lock icon SIA bags top awards
        71 8 SIA seems to be a great way to fly yet again! It swept the Business Traveller Asia-Pacific 2000 Annual Travel Awards in the airline category. It also grabbed the top spot in the airline category in Fortune magazine’s recent listings of the world’s Most Admired Companies.
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    • World
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        102 8 Reuters WASHINGTON Defence Secretary William Cohen yesterday said that elite Iraqi troops have been detected on the move west of Baghdad and warned Saddam Hussein against trying to take advantage of the upheaval in the region to attack his neighbours. Appearing on the CBS Face The Nation
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        Lock icon Malaysia to buy submarine
        82 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR The government is committed to buying a submarine to boost Malaysia’s naval power, Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak has said. “We have land, air and sea defence and buying of the submarine is to complete the underwater defence,” Najib was quoted by Bernama
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        Lock icon US teens very unruly, says study
        152 8 AP LOS ANGELES Many high school students in the US lie a lot, cheat a lot and many sometimes show up for class drunk, according to preliminary results of a nationwide teen character study released yesterday. “This data reveals a hole in the moral
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      Lock icon 43 dead in Uganda from ebola virus
      255 9 Cases expected to rise in east Africa Wires NAIROBI The deadly ebola virus has struck again after its last major outbreak caused 245 deaths in Congo in 1995. This time, it has surfaced in Uganda, where 43 of the 63 infected have succumbed
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      Lock icon Estrada hints Ramos’ party may cause chaos
      157 9 AP MANILA Philippine President Joseph Estrada, fighting charges that he took bribes from gambling bosses, said yesterday that his political enemies were planning a campaign of bombings and arson to force him to resign. Estrada hinted that figures linked to his predecessor Fidel
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      Lock icon Let the law take its course, says Gus Dur
      119 9 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday challenged lawmakers investigating two financial scandals to prove that he had done anything wrong. Lie said the arrest of his masseur, who has reportedly embezzled the equivalent of US$3.9 million (Ss6.B million) from national
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      Lock icon Media wars become major part of Middle East conflict
      538 11 THIN LINE DIVIDES PROPAGANDA AND NEWS LAT-WP JERUSALEM If a picture is worth a thousand words, a thousand pictures might just win the war. That’s what Israeli and Palestinian officials are counting on as they battle each day via the Internet,
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      Lock icon Arafat, Barak keep their distance at peace summit
      396 11 A weary Clinton fails to get the two leaders speaking to each other Wires S HaRM EL-SHEIK (Egypt) Stop i Naming each other for the recent bloodshed and focus instead on the future “on what we are going to tomorrow and the
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      Lock icon Sailor’s farewell
      43 13 A cap resting on a wall outside the home of Craig Wibberley, ig, in Maryland on Sunday, as part of a memorial for the sailor killed when the warship USS Cole was the target of a terrorist attack last week. AP
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      Lock icon Play Station, the teacher's pet
      662 13 If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, say American teachers Cox News LAKE WORTH (Florida) The next time your kid comes back home complaining that his maths exam was too difficult, there’s something you can do apart from complaining. Buy him a Play Station. Yes,
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      Lock icon Boo.com’s new avatar aims to be style editor
      480 13 SPECTACULAR FAILURE BOUNCES BACK NYT LONDON Like a phoenix, boo.com, which collapsed in one of the most dramatic failures of the Internet age some five months ago, is making a dramatic comeback. The new boo.com hopes to make its mark not so
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      Lock icon Silence isn’t golden
      680 15  -  Investors want replies from SGX on post-dose buy order for Sing Tel shares By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg WHAT happened on Friday? Who’s behind the massive postclose buy order for index heavyweight Sing Tel at a significant premium? Was it a mistake? Or was it a scam? And
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      348 15  -  SEPTEMBER RESULTS OUT TODAY By Nicholas Yong biz@eyeball.com.sg THE latest non-oil domestic export figures for September are due to be released around noon today. But here’s a tip for stock punters don’t hold your breath for them: They won’t move the market. Well,
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      80 15 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS PacCent 21,407,000 158 Nat Elec 10,191,000 320 STEngg 8,421,000 268 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Creative 50 2960 230 8.4 SIA 1650 100 6.5 SPH 2420 90 3.9 Totai number of gainers: 223 Top 3 Losers CENTS SingTel 277 73 20.9
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAT: www.hongleong. com.sg
      174 15  -  Francis Kan MAKE no mistake, this is not any old boring corporate portal, packed with pages of public relations fluff and pretty pictures. You can actually do a range of things on this site from snapping up property to booking hotel rooms in
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      333 16 NET INSURANCE AP NEW YORK Yahroo! launched new initiatives yesterday that protect purchases by online customers made on its auction and shopping sites. The program is backed by insurance obtained from Lloyd’s of London one of the industry’s leading insurance carriers. Yahool’s initiatives are designed
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      Lock icon Bringing the Web straight to your lap
      97 16 AN EMPLOYEE (right) from Sony Corp shows off the Japanese electronic-maker’s new personal Web-broadcasting laptop, the Vaio GT (PCG-GTI). It was unveiled in Tokyo yesterday. The laptop comes with a video camcorder attached to the side. Both the video lens and display rotate
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      576 16  -  Money saved from fuel-efficient cars can go a long way By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg NOW, you too can do your bit for the environment. And it comes with a $5,000 reward. Here’s what you have to do: Drive a more fuel-efficient car. Eyeball’s findings indicate that
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      Lock icon Room for one more
      81 18 Three-year-old Samantha Soh test riding the Honda Foresight at the Motor Bike Show 2000. The 2socc Foresight is the newest edition to Honda's range of canopy motorcycles. Unlike its single-rider predecessor the Cahina go, its elongated body allows room for a pillion rider. The Foresight will
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        Lock icon Case against eBay to proceed
        81 18 A CALIFORNIA judge has allowed six people to proceed with a lawsuit that strikes at the core of how eßay runs its business. The lawsuit, filed by people who say they bought autographed sports memorabilia later found to be fake, contends that eßay has a
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        Lock icon India wants to clone cheetah
        135 18 INSPIRED by Dolly the sheep, India has decided to pump more than $1 million into cloning a cheetah that vanished from the sub-continent around 50 years ago. The government will use the money to set up a high-tech laboratory in the southern infotech showcase city
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        163 18 ITALIAN scientists have made a discovery that could help more women survive breast cancer by making it easier to identify who is most likely to suffer a relapse. Flare-ups occur in more than half of women treated for advanced breast cancer, but doctors often
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      Lock icon No better than other scanners
      500 18  -  The Astra Net iA101 does not stand out despite Net link By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg THE Astra Net iAIOI is the latest scanner to come from the stables of Umax in Taiwan. By itself, the Astra Net is a decent scanner. But its main claim
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      Lock icon Lighten up, viewers
      379 20 ‘ls local TV racist?’ (Oct 16) ACCORDING to feedback from Singapore Broadcasting Authority surveys, viewers are concerned about racial stereotyping in local programmes. Readers’ responses: TOLERATE, NOT AVOID WHENEVER I’m asked by foreign friends about the climate of Singapore’s multicultural society, I often swell with a bit
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        Lock icon Chasing dreams with the Net
        516 20  -  Ven Subramanian venkat@sph.com.sg IN CASE you care to know, all my life I have been chasing something or the other. When I was seven, I used to run after butterflies -1 mean the biological species. I would catch a couple during lunch hour and preserve
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        Lock icon Better to get the right picture with sex
        419 21  -  By Zhou Tai An kain@pacific.net.sg Many parents cant or wont talk to their kids about sex education, says a survey by the PAP Womens Wing. But Eyeball forum posters say it’s definitely time to talk about sex with young people. Our (feneration
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        Lock icon Make sex-ed more casual
        352 21  -  By Terence Tay, 17 teens@eyeball.com.sg DURING my lower secondary school years, there were lively discussions about sex among my peers. I stepped into Secondary 1 without knowing much about sex but once friendships were made, classmates could talk on the topic for the whole day without
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        Lock icon It’s time to redefine morality
        266 21  -  By Luo Qining, 17 teens@eyeball.com.sg THE ideals which possessed past generations were designed to protect male machismo at all costs. Herein lies the high value placed on virginity more specifically, a woman’s virginity. But in this age where women climb mountains, scale the heights of
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      50 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 eyenews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5806 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5461 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5461 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5833 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5817 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscripdon hodine 740-2333 Fax 734-3017 Snail Mall Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore *****7
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      31 2 (food morning! t Slightly hazy. Showers with thunder are expected in the late morning and early afternoon affecting most areas. High: 32C1 Low: 25C Tides: 1.24AM/2.9M 1.03PM/3.0M Met Service: http:/ /www.gov.sg/metsin
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      37 5 k Click on asial.com.sg t o check out some of the pictures from the VCD and CD-ROM. If you are a student or a parent, give us your views on this approach to sex education in schools.
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      32 6 Are you sending your kid to a child-care centre or a kindergarten? If not, why? When do you plan to send your kid back to school? Let us know at httpq//eyebalL asial.com.sg
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      82 9 The lowdown on the virus called ebola: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/ mnpages/dispages/ebola.html Facts from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Baby Bonus Contest 5 Babe of the Week f Dave Aw Zhe Hao 7 (B/C No.: T *****721) Prize: $2OO shopping voucher birthday catering package* ‘Package must be picked from The Straits
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      33 11 Reporting a conflict bias or truth? world.std.com/-camera The Committee For Accuracy In Middle East Reporting in America, promoting accurate and balanced coverage. www.malaysiakini. com/archives news/ 2000/oct/octl3/ news7.htm A critique of Western media coverage.
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      29 13 Which dotcoms failed? http://www.thestandard .com/article/display/ 0.1151.*****.00.html Tracks dotcom deaths. http://www .dotcomfailures.com Was to track dotcom deaths but crashed in four months. http://www, startupfailures.com A support community for failed dotcommers.
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      51 16 http://www.vcacar fueldata.org.uk Information on the fuel efficeiency of other cars and how the EU conducts the tests. http:// www.fueleconomv. gov The EPA’s data. Take part in our online poll: What is more important to you when you buy a car: Fuel economy or how the car looks? Vote at http^/eyebalLasial.
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      43 21 THEY are Generation Next, the most active group on the Internet. Eyeball brings their collective voices online on a website written by the youth, for the youth. Click on to http^/eyebalL flgiftl -ftnm T .r/ n n if, if 'i i > r n•>
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      262 23 THIERRY HENRY IF ANYONE is going to turn a game around, its going to have to be this smooth Frenchman. On the ground: This is Henry’s biggest strength. He’s got excellent ball control, and his mind works in tandem with his feet. He’s also young and fast
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      Lock icon Arsenal plays to demolish
      431 23  -  Lazio may find the going rough against Wenger’s team By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg IT HAS won all its games in Europe and has nine points from three matches, making it a perfect start. But if you think that Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal would be satisfied with a
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Henman ends jinx
        62 24 Reuters VIENNA Britain’s Tim Henman ended a run of seven losing finals, dating back two years, by beating Olympic silver medallist Tommy Haas of Germany 6-4,6-4,6-4 to win the CA Trophy on Sunday. Henman, the sixth seed, needed only one break of serve in each set for
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        Lock icon Swimmers honoured
        124 24 Reuters ORLANDO Misty Hyman, whose gold medal in the women’s 200m butterfly marked one of the greatest upsets of the 2000 Olympic Games, was honoured with USA Swimming’s Performance of the Year award. Hyman, a 21-year-old senior at Stanford University, upset Australia’s Susie O’Neill, the world record-holder and
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        Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
        38 24 WHO was the last boxer to floor Muhammad Ali? The Bayonne Bleeder, Charles Wepner, holds that honour. The New Jersey liquor salesman and part-time boxer dumped Ali at The Coliseum in Ohio in March 1974.
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        Lock icon Iverson backed
        79 25 LOS ANGELES Controversial Philadelphia 76ers player-cum-rapper Allen Iverson has found support in Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant. O’Neal insisted that Iverson’s choice of message and lyrics are his to make. Both LA Lakers stars, who have hip-hop albums of their own, invoked Iverson’s right to free speech. Iverson
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        Lock icon Perfect records
        61 25 JUVENTUS and AS Roma kept their records perfect. Juventus notched a 2-0 win over Bari as Darko Kovacevic and Zinedine Zidane scored 87 minutes apart for the Turin powerhouse. Argentine Gabriel Batistuta scored his 153rd and 154th career Serie A goals, his first two in an AS Roma
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        Lock icon LOOKING BACK
        96 25 IN 1991, England flirted with disaster as it struggled to overcome a resilient Turkey, 1-0, in a European Championship soccer qualifier. Nothing much has changed since. England struggled to score against a side that was ripe for the picking especially since Turkey’s prior two visits to Wembley resulted
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      Lock icon Holyfield to fight in China
      424 24 Hopes of boost for Beijing's Olympic bid Wires BEIJING Heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield will defend his World Boxing Association title in Beijing next May against an as-yet unchosen opponent, the Chinese promoters said yesterday. The bout will be the draw card for an evening of
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      Lock icon Wallabies warm up for tough tour
      377 24 RUGBY TEST SERIES IN EUROPE Wires MELBOURNE Staying on top is far more demanding than reaching the peak. Australia’s rugby union coach Rod Macqueen knows that better than anyone else as his World Cup-winning team prepares for Tests against France, England and Scotland next
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      Lock icon POWER RANKINGS
      404 25 English Premier League Beginning this week, we introduce a weekly ranking of teams in major sports. The rankings are based as much on potential fulfilled or otherwise as performance. We begin with the English Premier League. Agree with the rankings? Disagree? E-mail us at http://eyebaJULa£ial.com.sg with your comments.
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    • Extra Time
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        Lock icon Barcelona wants Vialli
        284 25  -  Capello can’t take on beleaguered club just yet By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg THE football world turns its attention to Gianluca Vialli again. Will he, or will he not, become the next Barcelona coach? Pressure is mounting on its cur- rent trainer Lorenc Serra Ferrer, and reports in
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    • Sports BUZZ
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        Lock icon Worried Wallabies
        164 26 THE gossip in the Australian dailies is that retired Wallabies Tim Horan and Jason Little are on the verge of being hauled back from retirement. Apparently, Wallaby coach Rod Mac Queen’s backline has been devastated with injuries, and the two World Cup winners are needed against France, Scotland
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        Lock icon Heskey’s ‘too nice’
        74 26 IT TAKES a lot to please Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier these days. Even a hat-trick isn’t enough. “Emile (Heskey) is too nice a guy. He’s got tremendous assets about his game, but he needs to be more aggressive and selfish,” said Houllier after Heskey’s three goals in
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        Lock icon Spurs short of six
        109 26 TOTTENHAM Hotspurs’ pride was further dented with the 2-1 loss to Coventry. Though George Graham has spent £l6 million (Ss4o million) on imports like Sergei Rebrov and Ben Thatcher, he claims the weakness is now in the squad’s lack of depth. He needs six more players.
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      469 26 Heat star may need kidney transplant Wires FAST FACTS FOCAL glomerulosclerosis is a kidney disease that can cause exhaustion, weakness, retention of fluid, weight loss and nausea. More than half of cases progress to chronic kidney failure and require dialysis and eventual transplantation. Its cause
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      460 26 kNICKS GET LAKERS' SHOOTER Wires YOU win an NBA Championship ring and the least you expect is not to be re-signed. That’s the story of Glen Rice, one of the league’s best shooters, but not good enough for the Los Angeles Lakers anymore. Even
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        339 28 Serial killing seems the ultimate act of machismo for Patrick Bateman in the movie American Psycho. RONAU>RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) asks if mass-murdering is just a guy thing. WHAT do you call a couch potato with homicidal tendencies? A serial killer. Jokes aside, Christian Bale’s portrayal of Bret Easton Ellis’
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        445 28 JEFFREY DAHMER Who: Milwaukee chocolate factory worker who specialised in torture and cannibalism. Body count: 17 Modus operandi: Dahmer lured gay men to his apartment with promises of sex and drugs. There, he would kill and eat them. He also engaged in necrophilia with the corpses. American Psycho
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        182 28 THE most illustrious mass murderer of all time was a woman. Describing the Countess Erzsebet Bathory as merely a “serial killer” doesn’t even come close to capturing the full extent and horror of her terrifying career. She is estimated to have done away with almost 600 people.
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          585 29 He’s gruff. He’s tough. He’s a man...and he knows his sambal belacan. DARREN OH examines his identity as a postmodern Peranakan. OLLYCODDLED? L T J When I heard that k i term used to f J describe Peranakanmen recently, I didn’t quite know what
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          83 29 IF YOUR cellphone rings right in the middle of some carnal escapade, chances are you’re German. The Berlin magazine Focus recently polled more than 600 people and found that more Germans turn off their cellphones called “Flandys” at the cinema than during sex.
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          84 29 TURKEY has decided to get to the root of its prostitution problem. For years, the country has played unwitting host to prostitutes from Russia and other former Soviet republics. But government leaders have decided on a novel way of stemming the invasion of working girls:
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          81 29  -  Karl Ho WANT a sign to show you’re healthy? Then try measuring your semen in a spoon. According to Men’s Health magazine, a healthy man is able to ejaculate a tablespoon of semen, or up to five millilitres, when he is 20 years old. If the man’s
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        433 31 NYT TOKYO The marriage rate in Japan is plunging while couples are waiting longer to tie the knot -two trends that could create serious problems for the ageing Japanese society. Last year, 762,011 couples wed, down 22,584 from the previous year, according to the Health
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        573 31 NYT Japanese women flock to international parties hoping to snag a Western mate, reports GREGORY TURK. N A recent Saturday night in Tokyo, two Western men, the only males in sight, make chit-chat with about a dozen available women at a pub. Such odds are part of
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        733 27 The new annex at The Heeren is home to a breed of exciting young designers. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) has the report. PASHION has become slightly more exciting. There’s a breed of young designers, for whom traditional labels and styles have as much worth as maggot droppings. Thankfully,
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          635 34 Freebies, clothes that reveal all, and $5OO black mules. Kym Ng discusses these and more with JEAMMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg). OS ONE of her kookier City Beat alter egos would quip, MediaWorks celebrity Kym Ng is a multi-hyphenated chameleon. The kinetic versatility and charm of this actress-compere-singer
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          103 34 HE LOOKS about as intimidating as an Olsen twin, but Azzedine Alaia evidently likes a rival-bashing catfight. The diminutive designer spewed that Karl Lagerfeld has no talent and “will be remembered in history for having cut his bangs, not for his designs”. He also let rip on
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          84 34 TONI Braxton missed the recent Mobo Awards because one of her breast implants exploded. At the time, 33-year-old Toni claimed “a mystery illness” prevented her from attending last week’s ceremony. However, one British tabloid claims that in reality, the singer was recovering from an implant mishap. A
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          64 34 FASHION is the work of the devil, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said in against men who have not worked hard enough to create a unified Arab world. Jordan on the weekend. “Satan is the one who suggested to Adam and Eve to cover up with leaves,” he said,
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          98 34  -  Jean marie Tan THE annual Neiman Marcus holiday catalogue has long been a source of ultra-decadent gift ideas for the shamelessly rich. But one of this year’s offerings tops them all -a 118-foot luxury submarine that takes 11 people. Aspiring purchasers will be looking
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      502 35 The Dude (left), and his pals Walter and Donnie, discover odd situations, even at the bowling alley, in The Big Lebowski. Movies The Big Lebowski 3 pm Star Movies 58 Two thugs break into an apartment believing that they are accosting Jeff Lebowski, a millionaire not the laid-back, unemployed Jeff
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      211 36 SOCCER star Ryan Giggs (above) and his lover, Emma Gardner, are being terrorised by a stalker. The Manchester United ace was away playing for Wales in Poland recently when poor Gardner (left) froze at the sight of a man lurking in the grounds of their home.
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      328 36 LUSCIOUS Liz Hurley, who plays the devil in the movie Bedazzled, said she got her first lessons in snogging from her sister Katie. “We used to kiss each other. Her friend had said one person needed to blow and the other needed
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        108 36 WILL Smith has been pumping iron so he can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee when he steps into the shoes of Mohammad All in the upcoming Michael Mann biopic, Ali. Smith alternates between the weight room and the boxing ring six hours a
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        67 36 TOKO Ono has been disparagingly called a dragon lady by John Lennon fans who blamed her for the break-up of The Beatles. But over the years, Ono has learned to take the insult in stride. “I’m kind of honoured to be a dragon lady,” she said. “The
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        72 36 Wires ICE-T (above) may rap about being a gangster in his album Cop Killer, but the rapper/actor said it’s better to have book smarts than street smarts. He told a group of disadvantaged youths in Kansas: “Street smarts will teach you how to make money, but
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