Project Eyeball, 24 October 2000

Lock icon This issue may only be viewed from the multimedia stations at NLB Libraries. See FAQ for more information.

Microfilm: NL22954
Total Pages: 36
1 36 Project Eyeball
Page thumbnail Page 1
  • Title Section
    Lock icon Masthead
    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Tuesday, October 24, 2000 80 CENTS
    11 words
  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 1 Advertisements Column 1
      178 1 Hot LINKS SAT 1 for varsity entry Have children 16 and younger? Make them brush up on their English skills, because in three years they will be required to take the American Scholastic Assessment Test 1 (SAT 1) to enter a local university. Maths should be a breeze, but those
      178 words
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 1 Advertisements Column 2
      273 1 Economy class danaer A young 28-year-old bride-to-be recently collapsed and died from a condition known as “economy class syndrome”, a few minutes after disembarking from a flight from Australia to Britain. Find out how to beat it. See Page 9 Learn more about aviation health hazards t http://www.airborne.org/ flying/health.htm http://www.thestar.com/the
      273 words
Page thumbnail Page 2
  • News & Views
    • Article
      Lock icon QUICKIES
      177 2 HOW do you make it to the best-seller list if you are not that hot a writer? Filch some other writer’s pages. It’s that simple. That’s what Ana Rosa Quintana, a glamorous Spanish media star, did in Sabor A Hiel (Taste Of Bitterness) and saw her book sell a
      177 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Barak: 'Time out’ Arafat: ‘Go to hell’
      614 2 Palestinian anger boils over as Israel rethinks peace pact Wires JERUSALEM Israel’s declaration of a “time-out” in the peace process has hit a raw nerve with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian leader yesterday told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak that he could
      – Wires; Pictures: AFP  -  614 words
    • Ground ZERO
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Investors, you’re on your own now
        1094 3  -  Move towards disclosure-based stock market means less protection By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg BUY into a hot initial public offer, make your millions and ride into the sunset, no questions asked. Alternatively, burn your fingers by buying into a questionable, perhaps almost fly-by-night stock. Still,
        1,094 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Where have the nurses gone?
      586 4  -  Students recruited to fill shortage By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg JUST where are the Florence Nightingales? As the shortage of nurses worldwide has turned the medical industry into a recruiting battlefield, it’s not only overseas nurses who are being enlisted, but also students. For the first
      586 words
    • Article
      Lock icon English a killer in SAT 1 paper
      516 4  -  ADMISSION TO LOCAL UNIVERSITIES By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg KIDS sixteen and below: Go brush up on your English-language skills. Three years from now, you’ll have to take the American Scholastic Assessment Test I (SAT I) to enter local university. The Ministry of
      516 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Couples can be clueless, says Yu-Foo
      416 5  -  Many are not equipped with crucial ‘family life skills’ By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg MOST people who walk down the aisle have no idea what they are getting into. Not surprising, because 75 per cent of couples who registered their marriages at the Registry of
      416 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Few refunds made by child-care centres
      556 5  -  By Desmond Wong local@eyeball.com.sg WHILE the PAP Community Foundation (PCF) and NTUC Childcare have both decided to offer refunds to parents for the closure caused by the hand, foot and mouth disease, independent child-care centres are not exactly lining up to do the same.
      Wang Huifen  -  556 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon US top gun gets medal
      74 6 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Dr Tony Tan (left) conferring the Meritorious Service Medal (military) on Michael E Ryan, Chief of Staff of the US Air Torce, in recognition of his outstanding role in fostering closer ties between the USAF and the Republic
      Mike Lee  -  74 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Scholarships for directors on offer
      243 6 Insead opens Asian campus FRANCE-based business school Insead will extend six scholarships for senior directors from leading Singapore companies to teach them how to compete in the global knowledge economy. The Executive Education scholarships each worth about $lO,OOO will run from Nov 8 to 14
      243 words
    • Local LOG
      • Article
        Lock icon Three more scholars break their bonds
        221 6 PUBLIC shaming doesn’t seem to work with our scholars. Despite the uproar over bond-breaking, three more Economic Development Board (EDB) scholars have broken their bonds without serving a single day. Apart from being publicly named, EDB said yesterday that the three have “failed to
        221 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon New nightspot on Mohamed Sultan
        260 6 NIGHTCLUB mogul Peter Wong is returning to the hustle and bustle of Mohamed Sultan with a new nightspot. Called the Newsroom Bar, it is due to open anytime this week when he gets the entertainment licence. The new 10,000-sq-ft bar, which cost $BOO,OOO to set
        Law Kian Yan  -  260 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Club Med looking for space downtown
        124 6 A DECOMPRESSION chamber in downtown Singapore. That’s the concept for Club Med World, a project of Club Med resorts. The proposed leisure complex offers a quickie version of Club Med Villages, and villa hub of travel resources, restaurants and entertainment an avenue for the
        124 words
      • Article
        Lock icon CPI constant in September
        69 6 CLOTHES and shoes were 1.6 per cent more expensive in September, as compared with August, because of dearer ready-made products. Cost of transport and communication also rose 0.5 per cent in September because of more expensive petrol and car prices. But overall, the consumer price index
        69 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Pfannenstiel’s trial begins
        111 6 GERMAN S-League soccer player Lutz Pfannenstiel went on trial yesterday on three charges of match-fixing. He follows his colleague Australian Mirko Jurilj, who has also been charged with match fixing. Prosecutors said the bookmaker, 28-year-old freelance golf instructor Sivakumar Madasamy, had raised $12,000 to place bets for
        111 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Estrada hearings go on fast track
      484 8 Speedy hearings promised Wires MANILA Philippine President Joseph Estrada sank deeper into crisis yesterday as the Philippine Lower House decided to “fast track” the impeachment case against him. House Speaker Manuel Villar, a member of Estrada’s ruling coalition, yesterday promised speedy hearings starting today
      – Wires; AP  -  484 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Spy charges raise US-Jakarta tension
      522 8 AMERICAN TOURIST ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE Wires JAKARTA Tension between Jakarta and Washington is on the boil again as both sides yesterday traded accusations and veiled threats, casting a pall last night over the region’s stability. The US embassy accused Indonesia’s defence minister of whipping up
      – Wires  -  522 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Divers cutting into sunken Russian sub
      370 9 NORWAY LENDS A HAND Wires MOSCOW The seas around them are increasingly rough, but Russian and Norwegian divers are laboriously trying to cut a manhole in the hull of the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk. They are trying to retrieve the bodies of the
      – Wires; Reuters  -  370 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Economy Class can be fatal
      846 9 Woman dies after sitting in cramped seat for too long Wires LONDON Warning: The seats in the economy class of most airlines aren’t just uncomfortable and cramped they can kill you. In fact, a young 28-year-old bride-to-be recently collapsed and died from a condition known
      – Wires; Reuters  -  846 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Albright holds historic talks with Kim Jong I1
      611 11 ISOLATIONIST ERA ENDING Wires PYONGYANG A mere 40 minutes of Internet access from a hotel room costs more than US$l,OOO (551,750). Visitors are under orders not to leave their hotel except in the company of an assigned “minder”. And forget about trying
      – Wires; Reuters; AFP  -  611 words
    • Article
      Lock icon British workers brace for privacy battles
      554 11 New law gives bosses more spying powers from today Reuters LONDON Britain is braced for a legal war over how far employers can snoop on their staff in the digital age, as a new law comes into force across the country today. The new
      Reuters  -  554 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Covering up
      28 13 An artist painting her friend during a body-painting contest in Warsaw, which was apart of the city's second annual Megatattoo Festival held over the weekend Reuters
      Reuters  -  28 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Bottled water ‘ruins teeth’
      267 13 Sports drinks too can cause cavities, say NZ dentists AFP AUCKLAND Go easy on filtered and bottled water as well as sports drinks because they could ruin your pearly-whites, dentists are telling New Zealanders. Dental experts have warned that the health fad for filtered and bottled
      – AFP  -  267 words
    • World WIDE
      • Article
        Lock icon Tamil Tigers attack naval base
        206 13 AP COLOMBO Tamil Tiger rebels in boats laden with explosives attacked a naval base at dawn yesterday and shot down an airforce helicopter coming to the aid of the besieged port. Two seamen, four helicopter crew and eight rebels were killed, said a military spokesman.
        – AP  -  206 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon China identifies US as No I enemy
        196 13 AP BEIJING China has made clear yesterday in word and deed during its biggest military show that it views the United States as its No 1 potential enemy. Besides blowing up targets, test-firing missiles and driving tanks, the military displays at four land
        – AP; AP  -  196 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Jakarta court sets Guterres free
        150 13 Wires JAKARTA An Indonesian court yesterday ordered the release of notorious militia leader Eurico Guterres whose detention had been welcomed by foreign governments after it ruled his arrest was unlawful. Guterres was arrested for having ordered his men to take back weapons they surrendered during
        – Wires  -  150 words
      • Article
        Lock icon KL cuts intake of foreign workers
        77 13 Wires KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has reduced the intake of foreign workers to 150,000 this year, from 320,000 last year, to curb an outflow of the local currency. Finance Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Hashim Ismail told Parliament yesterday that the government could not stop foreign workers
        – Wires  -  77 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Debunk a patent, win a bounty
      393 15 Website open to challenge exclusive rights Nyt BOSTON Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has joined hands with software book publisher Tim O’Reilly to set up a company that has an unusual aim: To debunk his own “one-click” electronic ordering system. O’Reilly is now offering a
      – Nyt  -  393 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Bulls&Bears
      84 15 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Nat Elec 40,037,000 398 Nat Steel 29,492,000 234 Adroit 10,592,000 37 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Venture 1590 60 3.9 Nat Elec 398 40 11.2 Nat Steel 234 26 12.5 Total number of gainers: 108 Top 3 Losers CENTS Omnimold 275
      84 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Bookish businessmen
      38 15 Creative meeting places were the order of the day for book traders at the Frankfurt International Book Fair, which began on Oct 18 and saw 7,000 publishers from ioy countries take part. It ended yesterday. AP
      AP  -  38 words
    • Article
      Lock icon BIZ SITE OP THE DAT: www.IQuestNet.com
      159 15  - BIZ SITE OP THE DAT: www.I QuestNet.com Nicholas Yong IF YOUR business is in dire need of corporate intelligence, this site could be your salvation. lQuestNet is a business tool that provides credit checks on companies listed on eGuide singapore’s online directory. But it comes for a fee. Which, in
      159 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Russia to dump Mir
      533 16 Space station goes down next year AP MOSCOW A senior Cabinet official said yesterday that the Mir space station will be discarded early next year, leaving no hope for the survival of the last symbol of Soviet space glory. “We are planning to bring the Mir
      – AP; AFP  -  533 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Say goodbye to fiddly bits
      438 16  -  MAC OS X REVIEW By John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg USED to be that anytime a Mac went on the fritz, a Mac guru could save the day by booting into Extensions Manager to control wayward extensions. Extensions, bits of software which control the Mac’s fundamental behaviour,
      438 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Super and supreme
      37 18 A few clicks and the drama of pizza-making gets tossed out the window with the Cooksee pizza maker, an automated cooking and distributing machine unveiled on Saturday at an exhibition in Toulouse, France. AFP
      AFP  -  37 words
    • Article
      Lock icon All-in-one mailbox service
      533 18  -  New messaging service offers one-stop access to e-mail, voice-mail and fax By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg DO YOU want people to be able to get to you all the time while you’re on a business trip? If the thought doesn’t make you shudder, you would do well to
      533 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Fingerprint evidence questioned by police expert
      325 18 NOT FOOLPROOF NYT LONDON THE infallibility of fingerprint evidence has been questioned by Britain’s leading police expert, who is calling for an overhaul of the system to prevent people being jailed for crimes they did not commit. The national head of police fingerprint training
      – NYT  -  325 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Dress code must be clear
      884 20 ‘Watch ont! It’s the dress cops!’ (Oct 19) CLOTHING cops at Ngee Ann Polytechnic are booking students for wearing bermudas or slippers, or dyeing their hair in “unnatural colours”. The penalty goes up to $4O for second offences. Eyeball readers say: AMBIGUOUS RULES THERE have
      Alphonso Chan  -  884 words
    • Generation NEXT
  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 2 Advertisements Column 1
      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 Subscription hotline 740-2333 Fax 734-3017 Snail Mall Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore *****7
      50 words
  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Lock icon Page 2 Miscellaneous Column 1
      29 2 (food morning! Partly cloudy. Showers with thunder are expected in the late morning and afternoon affecting many areas. High: 30C I Low: 24C Tides: 9.33AM/2.6M 9.16PM/2.8M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
      29 words
Page thumbnail Page 3
  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 3 Advertisements Column 1
      38 3 Should the SGX impose stricter listing requirements? Log on to http^/eyebalLasiaLconLsg and tell us: No, that would only impede the development of the stock market. Yes, even with proper disclosure, some companies just shouldn’t be allowed to list.
      38 words
Page thumbnail Page 4
Page thumbnail Page 5
Page thumbnail Page 6
Page thumbnail Page 7
  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 7 Advertisements Column 1
      76 7 LOOK OUT FOR OUR LATEST ISSUE! CITTA NOVEMBER 2000 $4,50 8 *****7 1 iat efiSfilQli ms -t—s Xtt mmmi C iSlfflPK i I i Wsk LT BL. ,-■4 fea&llB| i lam BUMPER ISSUE g II ■sto §7 mmV Don't miss our revamped November issue! New columns include IT, Fashion Headlines,
      76 words
Page thumbnail Page 8
  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 8 Advertisements Column 1
      29 8 From actor to president to an uncertain future. http://www.inquirer. net/iueteng/ badbets.html Erap under seige. A blow-by-blow account of the crisis. http://www.erap.com Take a tour of Philippine President Estrada’s website.
      29 words
Page thumbnail Page 9
  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 9 Advertisements Column 1
      41 9 Taking off soon? Check out how to minimise health risks www.thestar.com/thestar /editorial/health /*****130NEW01c ClHAZARD.htmI In-depth look at “economy class syndrome” and how to prevent it. www.airborne.org/flying/health.htm A list of aviation health hazards to look out for, from colds to heart attacks.
      41 words
Page thumbnail Page 10
  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 10 Advertisements Column 1
      106 10 mm it*** 3 '*4 ai* j#s 52$ <a V\> sap «iTw 0 So 1 W'i H; •Tv 0‘ 1 M®. 15 JW y-'T’c 17///// =s II f \JI C? «vr Online advertising ,h. 3805 ■M>3- x( A hi >r >\ Networking for secondary schools ~C .V:.Hard disk drives Wilt! i
      106 words
Page thumbnail Page 11
  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 11 Advertisements Column 1
      49 11 All you wanted to know about snooping can be found on these websites: http://www.fpir.org/rip/ Track the issues surrounding UK’s new privacy-invasive law. http://www.privacvinternational.org/ survev/technologies.html A report on how various new technologies can be used to snoop. http://www.epic.org/privacy/debate essav.html How can companies balance necessary surveillance and employees’ expectations of privacy?.
      49 words
Page thumbnail Page 12
  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 12 Advertisements Column 1
      237 12 w E5V* < V e* ..V... v w&. T-~ AWmm BECOBD OF 100,000 D The Straits Times gl§f§ 12 November 2000 Singapore River The Stra' 1 pu c mm Me2o° B Race I Adopt a duck for charity and win $1,000,000* Get your serialised numbered adoption certificate today. And if
      237 words
Page thumbnail Page 13
Page thumbnail Page 14
Page thumbnail Page 15
  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 15 Advertisements Column 1
      39 15 Weird or plain dumb patents are easily found in this Internet age. http://www. bustpatents.com/ A site with tips for avoiding being a victim of bad software patents. http://www. totallyabsurd.com/ thisweek.html A weekly- updated page that showcases stupid patented inventions.
      39 words
Page thumbnail Page 16
  • Page 16 Advertisements
  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Lock icon Page 16 Miscellaneous Column 1
      48 16 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET W LIKE US TO WORK WITH THIS CLIENT, HELEN. V OH My GOV l WHAT THEV VO IS PIS6USTJM0! SIGH... I KNOW. BUT CAN SEE WHERE WE COULV IfAPROVB THEIR METHODS... FOR INSTANCE/ LIQUEFYING THE TARANTULAS... IG'11 EXACTLY! r) o «-4 V _J1!
      48 words
Page thumbnail Page 17
  • Page 17 Advertisements
Page thumbnail Page 18
  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 18 Advertisements Column 1
      41 18 Here are just some of the UMS providers in Singapore: Earth 9 http://www.earth9.com Pinnz http://www.pinnzvox.com T2mail http://www.T2mail.com 2bsure http://www.2bsure.com For a guide to the features offered by these UMS providers and recommendations on who you should go for, come to http^/eyehall.aslal.conuHg.
      41 words
Page thumbnail Page 19
  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 19 Advertisements Column 1
      111 19 S 1 > i ,r Before investing in renewable rodent energy, log on to asiaonemarkets.com :> .V i markets www.asiaonemarkets.com Asia's new one-stop investment site has all the tools you need to make smarter investment decisions. Brought to you by SPH Asia One and The Business Times, it gives you
      111 words
Page thumbnail Page 20
  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 20 Advertisements Column 1
      79 20 Is fining too harsh a penalty for flouting the dress code? 63% Yes. Poly students are mature enough to decide what to wear. 19% No. They should look professional in school. 18% Maybe. It depends on how serious the offence is. Based on 110 responses to our online poll. Generation
      79 words
Page thumbnail Page 21
  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 21 Advertisements Column 1
      33 21 Babe of the Week (B/CnL: T*****83D] Prize: $2OO shopping voucher birthday catering Q| flQy |I/C No: F*****66T) SiS;. i tej v >•> \v -v: > Winners wifi be notified by posh lilllt CATS. iMiii WSmM •:•>>>;
      33 words
Page thumbnail Page 22
  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 22 Advertisements Column 1
      152 22 a: AASf SI lip iii i mm A PlfiMlSilSlPliiill '£<%■ 'sffixzi 7 iBi a:..,.' smm 'm£ i < 11 >777 7U < Srf-tp lisp V'- A..■ V :';U i mmsm -\7> I iWBI iBiiSISMHBi i 7 ■i i: i:: i'll: pp 1.7 m *ii V- a iS'liP @1; &r iltl'jg
      152 words
Page thumbnail Page 23
  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
      • Article
        Lock icon Norman’s title
        93 23 AFP SHANGHAI Magnus Norman took just 10 minutes yesterday to end the rain-wrecked men’s final of the U *****,000 (*****,250) Shanghai Open, left straggling after the weekend with a 6-4,4-6,6-3 victory. The Swedish top seed subdued Holland’s Sjwng Schalken, seeded seventh, in two brief games as the pair
        – AFP  -  93 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Yet another record
        66 23 AP SYDNEY Ticket sales for the Sydney Paralympics have broken the one million barrier, stamping Sydney 2000 again as the biggest Paralympics on record. The sales figures announced yesterday by organisers hit 1,005,000, which is more than double the estimated 500,000 tickets sold for the Atlanta Paralympics
        – AP  -  66 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Gold medal stripped
        52 23 AFP SWITZERLAND The International Olympic Committee stripped German wrestler Aledander Leipold of the gold medal he won at Sydney for taking banned drugs. The decision follows a recommendation of the lOC medical commission, which found that Leipold had taken the banned performance-enhancing substance nandrolone ahead of the
        – AFP  -  52 words
      • Article
        Lock icon ON THIS DAY
        64 23 IN 1990, a David Platt-inspired Aston Villa pulled off a shocking 2-0 win over Serie A giants Inter Milan in a Uefa Cup clash at Villa Park. The Inter team on parade that day included the German World Cup-winning trio of Lothar Matthaeus, Jurgen Klinsmann and Andreas
        64 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Fired too soon
        143 24 AP BEIRUT Asia’s soccer chief has urged the continent’s nations to stop hiring and firing coaches at short notice. (This) shortsighted vision and... (these) appointments are not healthy and we hope to influence the leaders...into thinking more long-term,” said Peter Velappan, general secretary of the Asian Football
        – AP  -  143 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Blame it on Fifa
        136 24 AFP LAGOS Nigeria’s Dutch coach Jo Bonfrere said it would be wrong to drop top stars Nwankwo Kanu and Sunday Oliseh for staying away from the Sydney Olympics. “Kanu and Oliseh are Nigeria’s best players and it would therefore serve no one if they are dropped
        – AFP  -  136 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Golota warded
        81 25 AFP CHICAGO-Polish boxer Andrew Golota may need surgery after suffering several injuries against Mike Tyson in their controversial non-title 10-round fight. Golota, 32, who refused to answer the third-round bell, was admitted to the Resurrection Medical Center for observation. According to ESPN, his wife said that Golota suffered
        – AFP; AP  -  81 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Doping trial
        79 25 AFP LILLE The trial of 10 people implicated in a massive doping scandal in the Tour de France began yesterday. The defendants include French cycle racing star Richard Virenque. Most of them face jail terms if found guilty. The scandal has become known as the “Festina Affair” after
        – AFP  -  79 words
      • Article
        Lock icon DID YOU KNOW:
        54 25 DID you know that Real Madrid’s loss to Barcelona last weekend marked the 17th time in succession that it has lost at the Nou Camp? And did you know Luis Enrique Martinez has played for Real? He played for Real from 1991 to 1995 before signing up
        54 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Rivaldo set to sizzle
      706 23  -  Injury-hit Leeds stand little chance against rampant Barca By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg WATCH out Leeds. Barcelona and Rivaldo are coming to Elland Road. Tomorrow morning’s Champions’ League clash between the two Group H rivals threatens to be a baptism by fire for David O’Leary’s young side,
      AFP  -  706 words
    • BAD BREAKS
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Subway Series collision averted
        343 24 AP NEW YORK The simmering tension between Roger Clemens and Mike Piazza nearly got real ugly real fast. In their first match-up since Clemens beaned Mike Piazza in July, Clemens came close to hitting Piazza again this time with the jagged barrel of a broken bat.
        – AP; Pictures: AFP  -  343 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Rams’ express derailed
        460 24 Wires KANSAS CITY Kurt Warner’s right pinky finger isn’t the only thing broken for the St Louis Rams. So is the defence. The once-unstoppable Rams couldn’t stop the Kansas City Chiefs. Now they know what it must feel like to play themselves after a 54-34 loss ended
        – Wires; AFP  -  460 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon POWER RANKINGS
      677 25  -  English Premier League By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg Read it and weep! Yes, you Liverpool and Arsenal fans. Manchester United is still top of the Premiership and in Eye Sport's weekly Power Rankings. Maybe next week, ya? E-mail us at with your comments. Player of the Week: Jimmy Floyd
      Bong Fortin  -  677 words
    • Sports BUZZ
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Clubs seek replacements
        258 26  -  AdamHashidy AS OCTOBER draws to a close, English Premier League clubs are more frantic than ever to strengthen their sides as injuries take their toll. Lee Sharpe, the former Manchester United wonder-boy, is rumoured to have evoked interest from First Division side Portsmouth, where player-manager Steve Claridge
        AFP  -  258 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Taylor is England’s part-time boss
      530 26  -  But opinion is divided on whether he’s the best choice By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg “GIVE that man the job!” That about sums up the feelings of many football fans after the English Football Association announced its decision to name Peter Taylor as England’s part-time manager.
      Reuters; AP  -  530 words
    • Extra TIME
      • Article
        Lock icon Hooligans are everywhere
        453 26  -  NOT JUST ENGLAND Zaki Amarullah CROWD violence in football has been synonymous with the English. Or so they say. But while Euro 2000 last illustrated how masterful the English were at causing destruction, let’s cast our eyes elsewhere and judge if the Premiership is the place where
        453 words
Page thumbnail Page 24
Page thumbnail Page 25
Page thumbnail Page 26
Page thumbnail Page 27
  • Unwind
    • Fashion
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Of mountains and molehills
        696 27 Doth your cup runneth over? Patrick Chai can tell you right off. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) keeps abreast with the entrepreneur behind Blush!, Singapore's largest lingerie boutique. PATRICK Chai can tell the size of a woman’s breasts, down to the cup, just by looking at her. He
        Wang Huifen  -  696 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Memorable ladies (and men) of lingerie
        541 28  -  June Wan LINGERIE GLOSSARY IT IS time to break exclusivity and establish democracy. The world of women’s lingerie will no longer be one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. Read on and learn: Front closure (above): Preferred by some men because this allows
        541 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon CELEBRITY COSMETIC SECRETS
        71 29 You too can look like Posh or Kylie, or have the sophisticated insouciance of Miss Bloom (right). Just try using the celebrities' favourite products. Posh Spice (above): Glow Lip Glaze Kylie Minogne: Amenity Bag Elle MacPherson: Candles and lip products Jade Jagger (above): Glisten Lip Glaze Natalie
        Pictures: Reuters  -  71 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Full bloom
        748 29 Qracing the goodie bags of the Oscars and the MTV Music Awards this year, was an Australian success story, a make-up brand launched in 7993 by a 22-year-old creator. JUNE WAN (]unewan@ spin.com.sg) finds out what's next for the company. sophisticated, but also a bit like Hello Kitty,
        Desmond Wee  -  748 words
      • Personal STYLE
        • Article, Illustration
          Lock icon Rock chic
          745 31 Pop nymphette and Britney arch-rival Billie Piper has come a long way from being a Smash Hits mascot. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com. sg) gets inside the style of a teen queen. □ILLIE Piper just comes straight out with it: “I like having small boobs. “I’m lucky because I can
          Dominic Ong  -  745 words
      • Wear & TEAR
        • Article
          Lock icon ‘Fascistic’ Ford
          83 31 FASHION just can’t avoid politics, it seems. First, Tom Ford had to endure negative reviews for his first ever YSL collection. Then, the venue for his show was branded “fascistic” by the French press. The tent, we hear, was redone at least three times, with last-minute changes costing
          83 words
        • Article
          Lock icon Ivana’s supporters
          75 31 WHAT price support? New York Times Magazine revealed that Ivana Trump goes through no fewer than 12,000 bras a year. “I go to (Bloomingdale’s) for two hours and I buy 2,000 of the black, 2,000 of the beige, 2,000 of the white. And I ship them around between
          75 words
        • Article
          Lock icon Did they, or didn’t they?
          55 31  -  June Wan BRITAIN’S tabloids are trading punchea Qver an allegejdiqss between Sophie Dahl and Mick Jagger. The Sun reported that Jagger “probed Sophie’s tonsils” at a Paris party. The Sunday Telegraph retaliated, saying Dahl was being “comforted by her mother” after being “wounded” by the
          55 words
    • Gender
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Dashingly different
        600 32 Cox News Confident and discerning that’s how bow-tie wearers see themselves. GINGER MCFARLAND reports on how the accessory has carved a niche among the fashionable. HAT inspires some Wmen to wear bow ties while most sport standard neckwear? Apparently, it’s merely the desire to be different. In America,
        – Cox News  -  600 words
      • Simply ESSENTIAL
        • Article
          Lock icon Free DKNY CD
          52 32 THE fashion wheel turns once again! DKNY is back with its new range of DKNY Jeans for fall 2000. To complement its chic look, the nice folks there are throwing in a CD collection of 11 tracks. Not for sale, but they are yours with any purchase
          52 words
        • Article
          Lock icon Fresh-faced sauna
          70 32 THE stuff you should blow your cash on! This is a brand-new concept purported to help detoxify the skin. Besides relaxing the senses, it aids in facial slimming too. Containing a high level of essential oils, it is effective for cleansing and moisturising, and offers maximum therapeutic benefit
          70 words
        • Article, Illustration
          Lock icon MAC snake eyes
          67 32 FOR the fashion victim, tips for the look of the moment. MAC’S latest collection is in response to the python-inspired textures of fall. Capturing the snake’s hypnotic power, the items available include four subtly shaded python-esque shadows and eye kohl, the ultimate soft-on eye-liner. There are also
          67 words
        • Article
          Lock icon Three degrees of the lift
          80 32 INTRODUCING the launch of Wonderbra’s hot Third Degrees of W onder Collection. The three degrees of wonder, such as lightly lined bras, slightly padded bras and the fully padded bras will be sure to offer a novel way of shape enhancement. They come in microfibre,
          80 words
        • Article
          Lock icon Blooming cosmetics
          73 32  -  Siti Hadijah BLOOM is expanding its funky cosmetic range with the launch of its most glamorous eyeshadows. Gloriously shimmery, the colours can take the modern girl from a casual weekend look to a night out on the town. The eyeshadows come in 12 wearable shades. The brand has
          73 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Soapie’s choice
        764 33 You re lucky to get soap in your eyes. Today's men must contend with a marketing conspiracy offering everything from scrubs to gels. RAHUL PHONDKE gets on his soap box and demands a solution. nF YOU are a normal male, you would be doing what a normal male
        764 words
      • Gender BENDERS
        • Article
          Lock icon Golfing blues
          124 33 A 56-YEAR-OLD German computer salesman who was booted out of his golf club for appearing in a porn film has been reinstated by a court ruling. Axel Boeckem, a member of Germany’s Hagen Golf Club, was recently spotted in a porn video entitled Sex Test Private Line Number
          124 words
        • Article
          Lock icon Size doesn’t matter
          81 33 WOMEN have again declared, encouragingly, that size doesn’t matter referring, of course, to his overall bulkiness; not his appendage. According to a recent study reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry, when women were asked to pick the male image they favoured most, they preferred the less-ripped
          81 words
        • Article
          Lock icon Penile puppetry
          108 33 NOWADAYS, you don’t have to sing, dance or act to go on stage. Australian performers Simon Morley and David Friend are filling London’s Whitehall Theater with what they call genital origami in a show called Puppetry Of The Penis. They squeeze their instruments into shapes like the Eiffel
          108 words
        • Article
          Lock icon Spermicide risk
          128 33  -  Karl Ho THE slimy goop they put on condoms might end up being more harmful than good. According to Men’s Health magazine, recent studies have shown that spermicide nonoxynol-9 (N-9), which has been shown to kill the HIV virus in test tubes, may actually increase the risk of
          128 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Feet first into love
        701 34 Cox News Forget diamonds. SHARYN WIZDA discovers that shoes are a womans new best friends. At least one man has figured out why and makes a fortune out of it the Qod of shoes, Manolo Blahnik. HY ask why? In a W continuing efforts to explain
        – Cox News  -  701 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Blahnik’s women: Diana to Ivana
        341 34 NOT merely a brand name, Manolo Blahnik is an international shoe wizard who has shod everyone from Princess Diana, Paloma Picasso, Kate Moss and Ivana Trump to a couple of Mick Jagger’s ex-wives. Born in the Canary Islands in 1943, the half-Czech, half-Spanish Blahnik used
        Reuters  -  341 words
Page thumbnail Page 28
  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 28 Advertisements Column 1
      32 28 Click on over to http ill eyeball. asiaLcom.sg for some legal briefs, to see where underwear or the lack thereof has had a profound impact on the legal system in many nations.
      32 words
Page thumbnail Page 29
Page thumbnail Page 30
  • Page 30 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Lock icon Page 30 Advertisements Column 1
      98 30 erworld, corn H V v.' immm mm. I m WBm. sfKS-s?- flP* FROM FLI Singapore’s top-selling wo i IJM 1 WMfi SUWv:NG iiG A.-f A;P PS^VSRT: P gpjj as., ilr V II l 2. MS WHHmmm -%P </ 1 -J Ml i SUBmi *~d I Ml 1 <A.v. >: '>''■
      98 words
Page thumbnail Page 31
Page thumbnail Page 32
Page thumbnail Page 33
Page thumbnail Page 34
Page thumbnail Page 35
  • Tube Talk
    • Article
      Lock icon CHAT AND MOUSE
      493 35 A BACHELORS’ kitchen guide: Ice cream: If you can’t tell the difference between your ice cubes and ice cream, it’s time to throw both out. Frozen foods: Frozen foods that have become an integral part of the defrosting problem in your freezer compartment will probably be spoiled
      493 words
  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Lock icon Page 35 Miscellaneous Column 1
      470 35 I me wwr Even with his new friends, Babe is dogged by trouble while visiting the city. Sitcoms Phn Chu Kang Pte Ltd 8 pm TCS 5 Chu Kang can’t handle a client’s canine bodyguard, so Ah Ma concocts a potion to knock out the dogv And Margaret’s ex-squeeze drops
      470 words
Page thumbnail Page 36
  • The Bach Page
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Teen plotted to kill ‘N Sync
      254 36 IT WAS the mother of all plots. And it was spoilt by none other than his own mother. A Tennessee woman turned in her teenaged son to the police after she discovered his twisted and detailed plot to kill the pop group ‘N Sync.
      254 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Madonna rates a 10
      234 36 MADONNA (right) gave m herself a perfect 10 as singer, dancer, mother, daughter, J&f Jr lover, boss, friend, woman, Jr sister and actress. f But she admits she is “a Ikjwk zero” as a wife, after a stormy four-year marriage to Sean Penn. She was taking
      234 words
    • Making HEADLINES
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Hutton hurt in motorcycle accident
        53 36 LAS VEGAS Actress and model Lanren Button (right) was critically injured on Sunday in a motorcycle crash during a ride with fellow stars Dennis Hopper and Jeremy Irons. Hutton, 55, remains in a hospital trauma unit, where she is being treated for multiple leg fractures,
        53 words
      • Article
        Lock icon By the way...
        112 36 Wires PELE. whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, turned 60 yesterday, and he said with a little bit of training, he could still play with the Brazilian national team.. Paula Jones said she finds the nude pictures depicting her feeling herself up by a swimming
        – Wires  -  112 words