Project Eyeball, 23 October 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Monday, October 23, 2000 80 CENTS
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      151 1 Hot LINKS -12 Mobile myths debunked Secret codes to make free telephone calls? Magnetic energy strong enough to pick up paper clips? What are the facts and what are the myths about mobile phones? See Page 5 Fall-lug stars land on TV It’s a glittery fall for US television as
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  • News & Views
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      166 2 THE Auckland police were intrigued when they recieved an envelope featuring a gun-toting woman addressed to the Auckland mayor. The police sent the packet, which had two mysterious lumps inside, to the airport for an X-ray. When they finally thought it safe to open, they found an invitation to
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      Lock icon Embattled Estrada rallies for military support
      539 2 President keeps snap-poll option open MANILA Philippines’ embattled President Joseph Estrada yesterday struck back at his detractors by trying to rouse his troops to rally behind him while raising the spectre of a snap presidential poll. Estrada, who faces impeachment charges and a chorus
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      Lock icon Chretien calls snap Canada polls for November
      162 2 Reuters OTTAWA Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien yesterday called a snap federal election for Nov 27 in a bid to capitalise on his lead in the polls. It also aimed at preventing the further rise of his main conserva- tive opponents, the Canadian
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon Beware, Little Brother may be watching you
        873 3  -  A tiny, wireless video camera hints at things Orwellian By Winston Goh w inston@sph.com.sg IT’S smaller than a pager, but could be your employer’s third eye. A new wave of cheap, tiny, wireless video cameras are sweeping the Singapore market. At Sim Lim
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      Lock icon Garbage, lies and videotape
      253 3 ACCORDING to security companies, the following are some of the uses that security cameras have been put to: Looking for people who vandalise cars, dump garbage on neighbours or spray graffiti. A person suddenly started discovering rubbish and leftover food at his doorstep regularly- after he
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      Lock icon Med school gets brush-up
      806 4  -  NUS curriculum overhaul could see artists studying medicine By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg WHAT if Picasso had been a doctor? That’s a possibility that some educators at the National University of Singapore are viewing as they try to breathe new life into the institution’s medical curriculum. “We
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      Lock icon What free calls?
      596 5  -  No such thing as dialling special codes for calls at no charge, says MI By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg HAVE you heard? Each time you dial a special code into your mobile phone, you can talk for free for up to four hours without your mobile service provider
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      Lock icon A FEW OF WEE’S FAVOURITE STORIES
      324 5 SINCE he began servicing mobile phones in 1997, Wee has had more than his fair share of wacky customers with even wackier phone troubles. Here are some of his favourites: Hot my fault “THERE were a few customers who came in complaining that their
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      Lock icon UK to issue warnings on mobile phones
      300 5 MAIN TARGET: KIDS LONDON Too bad if you are under 16 and living in Britain. Soon, you’ll be advised to use your mobile phone only for essential calls, courtesy of the government. The Sunday Times reported that this warning will be in leaflets
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      Lock icon Speakers’ Comer finds regulars
      683 7  -  Initial excitement has faded but people are still turning up to talk and listen By Dawn Lee dawnlee@sph.com.sg THE honeymoon is over. It’s nearly two months since Speakers’ Corner opened, and the excitement has faded. Still, it continues to attract regular speakers like Lee Boh Ang,
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      Lock icon S’pore goes holistic
      204 8 S’ pore goes holistic New Age fest draws a curious crowd CYNICS may call this hogwash, but all things holistic and New Age have certainly taken Singapore by storm. Just look at the recent Holistic Festival 2000, held at Suntec City over the weekend. Swarms of people headed down to
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon S’pore, Japan in free-trade deal
        296 8 Wires SINGAPORE and Japan have agreed to seal a free-trade agreement by December next year. In a 30-minute meeting yesterday in Tokyo, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and his Japanese counterpart Yoshiro Mori pledged to start trade talks around January. The agreement, if it is
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        Lock icon Health study on ageing men
        104 8 TELL dad or gramps about this one. Starting next month, a nationwide survey on the ageing male will be carried out. It will involve 10,000 homes and target men 45 to 60 years of age. Why, you ask? Well, because as men get older, they
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        106 8 POWER Supply overcharged 300 new customers on their water bills over a three-month period between December 1998 and February 1999. The utilities provider has said that it was an “isolated incident”, and that the overcharge was about $3,000. Power Supply discovered the error after one
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        Lock icon Asean art on the move
        86 8 ART enthusiasts, look out for this travelling art show. Eighty of the Association of South-east Asian Nations’ (Asean) top artists will launch the show next year to promote Asean contemporary art. They will visit several of the regional grouping’s member-states, including Singapore. The artists will
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        Lock icon Biggest Wits competition
        76 8 WORK smart, use your Wits. Yes, the Wits, or Work Improvement Teams Convention is back, this time focusing on innovation and creativity. Five special awards will be given out next month. Almost 610 teams and 7,200 public sector officers will take part in this year’s public sector
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        Lock icon Aussie’s Deepavali souvenir
        46 8 Lance Rogers, 60, from Melbourne, Australia, getting a henna tattoo of a dragon at the Deepavali fair held at the Singapore History Museum yesterday. Highlights of the fair, besides henna body painting, included South Indian food stalls and an hour-long concert. Wang Huifen
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      Lock icon China’s nuclear blast may draw flak
      593 9 Steps to build power plant will breach test-ban treaty CHINESE leaders plan to have a blast. Literally. They are drawing up plans to use nuclear explosions, in breach of the international test-ban treaty, to blast a tunnel through the Himalayas for the world’s biggest
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Civilian guard to be disbanded
        99 9 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia’s new police chief has decided to disband a nationwide force of tens of thousands of civilian auxiliaries, recruited two years ago in a controversial move to beef up urban security. “Their contract will expire on Dec 31 and we have no intention
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        Lock icon Barak wants a break from talks
        150 9 Wires JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told his Cabinet yesterday that Israel needed a “time-out” to reassess the tattered peace process, a move that would put on hold years of negotiations with the Palestinians. After more than three weeks of violence that has
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        115 9 AFP SEOUL The diplomatic drama surrounding North Korea’s opening up to the world intensified yesterday as China’s defence minister arrived in Pyongyang 24 hours ahead of the start of a landmark trip by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Albright, due to arrive this morning,
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        Lock icon Kidnapped baby back with parents
        133 9 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A baby boy who was kidnapped from his home four days ago by his Indonesian maid was found safe and well yesterday and was reunited with his parents. Malaysian police said some members of the public spotted the maid, Enny Susilawati, with
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        Lock icon Anwar’s wife denies being ‘snubbed’
        100 9 Reuters ADELAIDE-The wife of Malaysia’s jailed former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday she did not believe she had been “snubbed”by the Australian government after it cancelled a meeting with her. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail’s meeting on Saturday with Foreign Minister Alexander Downer was called
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        Lock icon Watching bad things go up in smoke
        33 9 A life-size paper boat being engulfed inflames as worshippers in Taiwan look on. The 400-year-old ceremony, held yesterday, was supposed to drive away evil spirits. AP
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      Lock icon US govt caught keeping tabs on surfers
      616 11 Thirteen agencies using cookies without telling web users, Congress reports AP WASHINGTON The White House may have said it’s a no-no, but 13 government agencies are still secretly using technology that tracks the Internet habits of people visiting their websites, reported a congressional
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      Lock icon Changing climate will hit business profits, say experts
      451 11 GLOBAL WARMING HIGHT AND LOWS AFP PARIS Global warming and its consequences are moving out of the laboratory and into the mainstream world of business, where some firms are starting to ponder the effects on their bottom line. Storms, floods and droughts,
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      Lock icon Brit supermarkets to pamper heavy spenders
      415 13 They’ll get discounts and no waiting at checkouts LONDON You shop by the trolley load and make the supermarket pots of money, yet it’s the person with a few dollars on his bill who sails out first through the express checkout. Unfair, you might
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      Lock icon Mad-cow victims’ families to get pay-out
      459 13 CLOSURE TO BRITAIN’S CRISIS Wires LONDON Here’s a report with some meat: The British government is set to announce a multi-million-pound compensation deal to the relatives of those who fell victim to the human form of the mad-cow disease, British media reported yesterday. The
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      Lock icon Boeing and Airbus fight for Asian skies
      527 14 Region’s market set for rapid growth Wires IT’S the battle of the skies. At stake is an estimated US$5OO-bil-lion (SsBso-billion) market. And it’s all happening right here, at the Asia-Pacific. For aircraft manufacturing companies Boeing and Airbus Industrie, it’s a unique opportunity. “The
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      Lock icon Fists fly up, but pilots won’t
      53 14 Korean Air pilots, with headbands reading ‘Victory in collective bargaining, chanting anti-company slogans yesterday. The pilots went on strike yesterday after the company rejected a demand for a 44 per cent wage rise, but called it off after a pay agreement was reached late
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      Lock icon Blue-chip stocks may fare better, say analysts
      298 14 MARKET OUTLOOK THIS WEEK Wires INTEREST in Singapore’s neglected blue-chip stocks may revive this week as investors take a more bullish view at select counters. The key Straits Times Index closed last week at 1,923.67, up more than 3 per cent, after having
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAT www.finixis.com
      148 14 THIS is a comprehensive, one-stop site that can help you to “start, run and grow your business”. The Bank of Singapore’s “financial security online” does it by aggregating financial services, business tools and regional information. What made the bank develop the site which was
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      Lock icon Portal for online payments
      538 15  -  JanusX claims to offer total security for e-transactions By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg THINK of it as Nets over the Internet. Pay the merchants for their services or goods, be it mobile phone bills, country club fees or supermarket bills, directly over the Net and your bank
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon Sing Tel launches optical network
        107 15 SINGTEL launched an optical network on Friday called Sing Tel GigaWave, which provides a transmission speed of up to 2.5 gigabits per second, about 5,000 times faster than SingTel’s Magix broadband connection. It uses light waves to transmit huge chunks of information over fibre wires
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        Lock icon China promises to develop CDMA
        116 15 AFP SHANGHAI China Unicom pledged last week to build a mobile-phone network using narrow-band CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology, but industry experts say the move is too little and too late to change the face of the country’s mobile telecom landscape. China’s rapidly expanding
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        Lock icon The car as a PC on wheels
        141 15 AFP DETROIT Silicon Valley was hard at work selling the idea of the automobile as a computer on wheels at Convergence 2000, an automotive electronics conference that brought Silicon Valley and the automotive industry together last week. However, leading figures from the traditional
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        Lock icon Discovery gets ready to come home
        140 15 Reuters CAPE CANAVERAL Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery spent Saturday stowing equipment, testing flight systems and getting ready for Sunday’s scheduled landing at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The crew of seven spent a week upgrading the International Space Station in advance
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      Lock icon Nasa tests hi-tech airscooter today
      397 17 SOLOTREK COULD BE PERSONAL AIRCRAFT OF THE FUTURE LONDON It is an idea right out of sci-fi dreams, but Nasa would be finding out today whether a prototype airscooter, a jetpack-like device propelled by fans, would really take off. A successful test at Nasa’s Ames
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      Lock icon New fans of Quake II are architects
      437 17 Clients, sans weapons, can see and ‘run around’ virtual 3D buildings LONDON Need some excuse to sate your virtual bloodlust with Quake II? How about the fact that you are learning more about architecture and how people relate to 3D space? Researchers at
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    • Wry TECH
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        Lock icon Fast forward to the next infomercial
        582 20  -  By John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg INFOMERCIALS are often the best thing on television (I don’t have cable). I’ve yet to fall for the charms of the rubbery bakeware thingy or the sagging-tummy-alert doodad, but I’ve come scarily close. The stuff I really want to buy
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      500 20 ‘No voter support for Potong Pasir upgrade’ (Oct 18) RESIDENTS of five private estates will enjoy an upgrading programme. But not those who live in Potong Pasir or Hougang, which are opposition-held wards. Andy Gan, of Potong Pasir’s Citizens’ Consultative Committee (CCC) and the PAP
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    • Net BUZZ
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        Lock icon Flushing gender equality down the drain
        505 21  -  SIGH SHOULD women serve National Service? Or should child-bearing be officially treated as women’s equivalent of NS with all its attendant schemes of rewards? Eyeball columnist Soh Wen Lin’s poser got the buzz going on SiliconHorizon.com’s xpresslons forum. Here’s a sampling of the reactions:
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      Lock icon Take the logic as far as it will go
      232 21  -  SOH WEN LIN’S RESPONSE WENLIN ONE forum contributor wrote to Wen Lin, and he posted the reply she sent him: It’s important to me that readers are responding, even if they disagree with my published opinions. It shows you guys care
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      27 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder are expected in the morning affecting most areas, partly cloudy thereafter High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 8.48AM/2.5M B.IIPM/2.5M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      41 7 WHAT would bring you down to Speakers’ Corner? What topics and issues do you want to hear being spoken about there? Log on to Eyeball’s forum page at tell us what would interest you enough to go down there and listen.
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      304 10 “We like to share with all our beautiful baby girl, Alexis, who greets us every morning with her bright eyes and sunny smiles. She completes our lives! Agnes Willie” Detlisc’s arrival is a beautiful treasure more precious than gold. Her innocent smile makes both daddy mummy’s days even brighter than
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      406 12 12 A male by birth but soon to be a man by choice! Thank God for the wonderful gift He has given us! Joseph, ChengTuetChin is the fruit of our marriage. Kenneth ifZoe Together we build our love, to bring happiness to our lives. And we now have a healthy
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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      46 17 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET I KNOW YOUVE TAKEN SOME FLACK SttJCe y our profile ROSe LAST YEAR... A BUT REMEM BBR... YOU'RE POTENTIALLY THE GREATEST INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN YOUT H SINCE JOHN &LENN. or 10-10 WHO WAS THAT? BUSH? MY FRIENt? oeoRoe LUCAS y i
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      53 21 Three readers alerted us to this forum: http://www.siliconhorizon.com/ übb/Forumlo/HTML/*****6.html If you know of any interesting e-buzz on local issues, tell us. We feature the week’s top forum threads here, every Monday. To read Soh Wen Lin’s last two columns, and to check out Eyeball’s own thread on women and NS,
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  • EyeSport
    • Short CIRCUIT
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        87 23 IT WAS a breeze getting up to Sepang International Circuit in the morning. But it turned out to be an absolute nightmare trying to find a way back. For what would normally cost $3O to $4O, taxi drivers were hawking their services for as much as $270
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      • Article
        Lock icon Schumi works out
        107 23 MICHAEL Schumacher is a winner because he has the winning attitude. According to Ferrari spokesman Jackie Ireland, Schumacher spends three to four hours everyday working out. She added that the German believes it is the only way to maintain his edge during a race. And, unlike other
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        Lock icon Chicken run
        56 23 THE food of choice for most people who showed up at the track yesterday was a selection of roast chicken from the American Grill. More than 100 people were in line, waiting to get their hands on some. By the looks of those wolfing it down, it seemed
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        Lock icon Ferrari record
        61 23  -  Luke Pachymuthu BACK on the track, McLaren fans are seething that Ferrari is now undisputedly the car with the most wins in history. Ferrari’s two titles took their total tally since the first championship in 1950 to 20, a record lifting them clear of McLaren on 19. Ferrari’s
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      Lock icon It’s Ferrari again
      722 23  -  Schumacher makes sure of a dean sweep By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg SEPANG Mika Hakkinen tried to spoil Ferrari’s perfect season in vain. Instead, it was Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher who led his team to the double this season with a well-earned victory at the Malaysian Grand Prix yesterday.
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      Lock icon 10 key moments of the F1 2000 season
      294 24 1 Hakkinen’s Merc going bang in Melbourne and Interlagos when he was leading both races. It meant that the Flying Finn was 20 points behind Schumacher before the season had really begun. 2 Schumacher’s spurt in Imola to propel him past Hakkinen
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      Lock icon Golota chokes again
      507 24  -  Quitter takes paying public for granted one more time By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg HE’S done it again. And it was simply disgraceful. A year ago, Andrew Golota turned his back on Michael Grant in the 10th round. He pocketed US$l million (Ssl.7 million). This time, in the'interval
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon A little regret
        90 24 AP SEPANG Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, expressed slight regret yesterday that the Formula One series championship hadn’t been decided in his country. Touring the pits before the Malaysian Grand Prix, Dr Mahathir refused to state whom he’d be cheering. “I have to back
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        Lock icon Message clear
        119 24 Reuters LONDON Terry Venables said yesterday that he believed the English Football Association (FA) would not appoint him as the new England coach. The former Crystal Palace, Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur manager, who led England to the semi-finals of Euro 96 in his previous stint as national team
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        Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
        57 24 THE Great One, Wayne Gretzky scored his first NHL goal against the Vancouver Canucks. In the 1981-82 season, while playing for the Edmonton Oilers, he scored a record 92 goals during the 80-game regular season. But not far behind is... Gretzky again, as he underscored his supremacy
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        Lock icon Boxer does it again
        116 26 AP MEXICO CITY Francisco Javier Castillejo defended his World Boxing Council super welterweight title by stopping fellow Spaniard Javier Martinez in the fourth round. Martinez was stopped 1.43 seconds into the round during the council’s 38th annual convention on Saturday night. The fight in Mexico City,
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        Lock icon Yankees on a roll
        106 26 AFP NEW YORK The New York Yankees won their record 13th straight World Series game here yesterday morning when they beat cross-town rivals, the New York Mets, 4-3 in the 12th inning of a marathon opening World Series contest. Number nine hitter Jose Vizcaino hit a
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      Lock icon THE JUICE
      332 25 Manchester United vs Leeds United IT WAS O VER WHEN.. Beckham came on for the injured Roy Keane in the 30th minute. The midfielder was the creator of United’s goals but it was his presence and industry that dampened David O’Leary’s young Leeds side. UNITED'S LAMENT The injury
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      Lock icon Leeds no match for Man U
      452 25 Wires MANCHESTER Manchester United warmed up for the visit to Anderlecht next week with a convincing 3-0 defeat of Leeds United. This, despite fielding a string of reserve players. Such was their dominance in the match that Sir Alex Ferguson knew victory was in
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      Lock icon Unforgiving Barca fans flay Figo
      538 25 Real loses 2-0 to Barcelona Reuters BARCELONA Luis Figo survived a trial from a vengeful Nou Camp crowd on Saturday, but he could not stop his old club Barcelona claiming a 2-0 victory over his new employers Real Madrid. Goals from former Real player Luis
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      Lock icon Daum fails dope test
      453 26 He won’t be made national coach AP BERLIN Bayer Leverkusen coach Christoph Daum was sensationally dropped as the German national team’s designated coach over the weekend. The move came after a positive drug test that shocked nearly everyone in Germany. The outcome of the test a
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    • Premier POINT
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        Lock icon Racism raises its ugly head
        435 26  -  EUROPEAN FOOTBALL By Chris Lakey peppoint@sph.com.sg LONDON This is the tale of a Swede, a Frenchman and an Englishman. The Swede is one of football’s diplomats, the Frenchman is one of the sport’s most volatile players and the Englishman is one of its best up-and-coming
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  • Unwind
    • Television
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        Lock icon Fall of the Stars
        689 27 Reuters Movie stars are grabbing the limelight in the new fall lineup for US television. STEVE GORMAN tunes in with the story. Television, once viewed as the minor league of pop entertainment, has launched a new crop of prime-time shows brimming with Hollywood star power. Geena
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        Lock icon Meanwhile‚ in Singapore...
        384 28  -  By Jeanmarie Tan said that ‘"strong possibilities" which starved audiences may expect next year include Dark Angel, Boston Public, Bette. The Geena Davis Show and Titans —-all of which received rave reviews in the US. Unfortunately, you’ll never get to binge on “depraved” telly fare such as
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      • TV TATTLE
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          Lock icon Love In Japan
          82 29 LOVE is in the air with Long Vacation, the indisputable mother of all timeless-yet-trendy Japanese dramas, premiering tonight on Fuji on 8. With complicated characters and convoluted love affairs, the 1996 serial stars Levis poster-boy Takuya Kimura as an aspiring pianist and Tomoko Tamaguchi as his paramour.
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          Lock icon More than friends
          97 29 IT COULD take a full two years, but Joey and Phoebe will become more than friends. “It’s just a question of when it will happen,” says Lisa Kudrow, who plays Phoebe on Friends. Kudrow says she and Matt Leßlanc, who plays Joey, “can see the writing on
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          Lock icon Sheens are level
          84 29  -  Jeanmarie Tan ROUND One of the Sheen family face-off is history, and the winner is...unclear. In their first head-to-head duel in the US, Martin Sheen’s The West Wing beat Charlie Sheen’s debut on Spin City in total households. However, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings, Spin City’s premiere
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      • Armchair CRITIC
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          587 29 Forget candy this Halloween. HUJIMARIETAn (jeanm @sph. com. sg) prefers the taste of fear as AXN puts together a monster line-up of horror movies. OME things have to be endured and Kk that's what makes the pleasure so MBhH sweet.” So says one of the characters in Clive
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        230 29  -  Jeanmarie Tan EVER notice that the most cocky character in a scary movie is always the first to get knocked off? And that knowing what’s going to happen is the way to outlive everybody else, including the killer? Here then, is the list for the wannabe-survivor out
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          110 30 A GUIDE to physics has topped the memoirs of Posh Spice to become the biggest book deal of the Millennium Frankfurt Book Fair. US publishers Knopf, clearly convinced they could have a popular science bestseller on their hands, paid US$2 million (553.48 million) for the
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          86 30 TRILOGY needn’t be a word solely confined to Star Wars now that Tolkien’s classic The Lord Of The Rings is about to hit the silver screen. The trilogy is being filmed in New Zealand in consultation with artists who designed the current covers for the book,
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          83 30  -  June Wan AN ANTHOLOGY of poetry, entitled Rhythms A Singaporean Millennial Anthology Of Poetry, will be launched on Friday. This is being hailed as Singapore’s first truly multilingual anthology as it presents 101 Singaporean poems in English, Tamil, Chinese and Malay, together with translations in
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        572 30  -  Alvin Pang THE BRIDEGROOM Ha Jin (Pantheon) $39.66 COLLEGE professor, after being unjustly arrested by police thugs, takes revenge by becoming what he had been wrongfully accused of a saboteur. After an earthquake, survivors are urged by the authorities to “marry again, as a way to promote social
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        197 30 June Wan The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy And Other Stories Tim Burton It’s about: Grotesque little humans. Title character Oyster Boy has an oyster for a head, and meets a most horrific end. Tim Burton is: A twisted individual best known as the director of
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        1169 31 All books available at Borders ALONG THE WALL AND WATCHTOWERS Oliver August (Flamingo) $22.56 GERMAN, who grew up in West Germany and went to Oxford a couple of years after the Germanys reunified, Oliver August decided to stay over in England and became a
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        728 33 NYT To/ Black pulp is coming to a bookshelf near you, as some daring publishers begin to target kids with a new genre of fiction. MARTIN ARNOLD finds out whas 5 happenin. IFE is good for L Jerome Usher, who drinks Dom Perignon and lives in
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        301 33 NYT FRANKFURT Banish any quaint notions of myopic gentlemen in tweeds peddling musty books under a tent. The Book Fair, which opened this year on Oct 18 and is held every year in the cavernous airport-style halls at the edge of Frankfurt’s banking district, is the global
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          86 34 CHRISTY Chung, fresh from her divorce from spa consultant Glenn Ross, is rumoured to be seeing someone new already. And the pair is even said to be living together. Her manager, Bennett, explained that the lucky man in question is actually a Tibetan Indian who worked as
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          102 34 LOOKS like a year making Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood For Love has put its co-stars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Maggie Cheung in the mood. The stars in Wong Kar Wai’s latest film were seen touring Paris and Cannes hand-in-hand at the end of August. Sudden
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          92 34  -  Tan Dawn Wei IT’D be hard to imagine the composed Coco Lee cooing uncontrollably over a man, but that was exactly how she behaved backstage. The man in question? Ricky Martin. Following the devastatingly sexy Martin on his Asian tour as his special guest star, the T aiwanese-American
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        647 34 TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@ spin.com.sg) tries to understand the diva's mystique. HE launch of a Faye TWong album is almost always one of the most highly anticipated affairs in the Asian pop world. You never know what surprise you’re going to get, whether it’s on the cover or
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        314 34 Karl Ho THE pilates-touting mistress of the sea is back. And she has dropped her last name to boot. Wong Li Lin is now Li Lin. With a more economical name to celebrate her comeback from a three-year acting hiatus, the 26-year-old former actress has joined Media
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      178 35 THE politically correct “she”: She does not get PMS; she becomes hormonally homicidal. She does not have a killer body; she is terminally attractive. She is not a bad cook; she is microwave-compatible. She is not a bad driver; she is antomotively challenged. She is not easy;
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      494 35 Movies The Big Bit 6.45 pm Cinemax 59 Four regular Joes moonlight as hitmen. Hilarity ensues when they kidnap a Chinese heiress, who turns out to be the goddaughter of their crime boss. It has big plot holes and a fickle storyline, but the bigger laughs make you not care.
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      219 36 Reuters LONDON British pop music is going down the gutter in terms of quality and sales, and pop superstar George Michael said it’s because of the pop industry’s obsession with “pretty young things”. In an article for The Sunday Times, Michael accused the
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      107 36 KEVIN Costner’s upcoming film Beyond Borders is suddenly stuck in the works since his female lead, Angelina. Jolie (left), has refused to do any love scenes with the 45-year-old star. The 25-year-old Oscar winner claims Costner is far too old for her to do
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        104 36 A REMINDER for Mark Wahlberg; Joaquin Phoenix (below) isn’t impressed with your name calling. Wahlberg apparently couldn’t pronounce Phoenix’s first name (pronounced “Wah-Keen”) I when the two worked together on The Yards. Phoenix said: “He started off calling me Yo-Hooker Phoenix, then it morphed into Hakeem,
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        156 36 Wires JOHNNY Depp is playing the dual roles of a military officer and a transvestite in Before Night Falls, and he has spent hours wearing lipstick and learning how to walk in high heels...lt was Bette Midler’s take on her alleged feud with Barbra Streisand in an
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