Project Eyeball, 26 October 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Thursday, October 26, 2000 80 CENTS
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      179 1 Hot LINKS Couples say no to marriage courses According to numbers from the Registry of Marriages (ROM), only one in four couples who are registered to be married are brave enough to admit that they want or need the help of a marriage counselling programme. See Page 6 Should marriage
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      137 2 HERE’S a far-out trip you could book to leave all your burdens behind. For just £lOO,OOO ($256,000), you’ll get six days of training and 45 minutes on a rocket, which will take off sometime between 2002 and 2005. Engines will be shut down when the craft is 62 miles
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      Lock icon US embassy in Jakarta closed for now
      397 2 Wires JAKARTA The United States embassy in Indonesia has been closed to the public for the rest of the week after a “credible threat” that the facility in Jakarta could face a terrorist attack, a US official in Washington disclosed. Less than 24
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      Lock icon Controversial play Talaq won’t get licence
      451 2 Objections raised by Arts Council and Muis, says Pelu TALAQ, the controversial play which explores the plight of abused Indian Muslim women, cannot be staged. S Thenmoli, president of Agni Kootthu, the theatre group staging the play, received word about this from the Public
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        Lock icon Artists want a lighter hand
        874 3  -  Integrity is also important, they say By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg ARE artistic integrity and social responsibility opposing ideas? Or simply two sides of the same coin? To David Lim, Minister of State for Information and the Arts, they can be the latter. “If we
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      Lock icon $7b budget to cultivate research
      579 4  -  Manpower development gets big slice By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg FOR the other graduates, it was just another engineering project. For Ang Chip Hong, though, it was a project that triggered his interest in research and development (R&D). “I realised that you can use the computer
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      Lock icon Research councils to guide R&D plans
      199 4 THE National Science and Technology Board has set up two research councils to co-ordinate research and development activities, as well as manpower development. While the month-old Biomedical Research Council will be in charge of human life sciences, the Science and Engineering Research Council (Sere)
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      Lock icon Marriage courses 'a waste of time’
      806 6  -  Many also don’t know they exist By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg SO THE stigma may have gone out of divorce, but heaven forbid anyone knows you’re attending a course preparing you for marriage. Only one in four couples who are registered to be married are
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      Lock icon Hitting the bottled water isn’t that bad
      583 7  -  There are other sources of fluoride, say dentists By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg LIFE used to be simpler when water by any other name was just water. Not anymore. A deluge of bottled water in the market has brought unforeseen health concerns, the latest
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      217 7 RIDING the bus just got easier with a new system being tried out, which automatically deducts fares from a smart card. When the Contactless Smart Cards (CSC) system is installed in all buses some time in 2002, commuters will no longer have to fumble
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      Lock icon 'Malays not heavy investors’
      559 8  -  Survey also finds they don’t save much By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg IF FIGURES were signposts, this one would read “Malays are not financially savvy”. A survey conducted by the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) of 3,240 Malay Singaporeans showed that only 27 per cent of
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    • Local LOG
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        52 8 Second-lieutenant Bernard Chew Bing-He from Singapore and Corporal Jupferi Qubil from Brunei using the Sector Engagement Zone to track the direction of enemy aircraft. They are participating in a joint air-defence exercise by the Singapore Air Force and the Royal Brunei Air Force until Oct 28. Wang
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        126 8 SEEMS like mini tremors will be part of our annual event log. Some people in high-rise buildings felt tremors yesterday after a strong earthquake shook Indonesia’s West Java province, but no injuries or damage were reported. A representative from the Meteorological Service, Mah Keong, said
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        78 8 NASDAQdisted Creative Technology yesterday reported lower-than-expected first-quarter net profits of US$l7.6 million ($3l million), though up from US$lO.B million the previous year. The 13 per cent increase in sales to U *****.4 million dollars was the fourth consecutive quarter of record revenues, the multimedia firm
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        50 8 SINGTEL said it would invest $5O million over the next five years for a new-generation Internet protocol (IP) service platform. Sing Tel said it expected the IP service platform to contribute more than $3O million to its data services’ revenue by 2005.
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        54 8 THE Johor-Singapore 2nd Link Bridge Run, at the Tuas link, is set to take place from 6.30 am to 10.30 am this Sunday. The event is being organised to strengthen bilateral relations between Singapore and Malaysia. As the link will not be closed completely, traffic
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        119 8 ONE week before the trade launch of new TV broadcaster Singapore Press Holding (SPH) Media Work’s English entertainment arm, the company has hired a chief operating officer (COO), Jamal Hassim. Jamal, who will be responsible for the overall running of the English Media and Entertainment Unit
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        91 8 TOP stars Sharon Au, Tay Ping Hui and Xie Shaoguang will not defect to Singapore Press Holding’s Media Works. What proved a sweetener for Au, who has renewed her contract with Mediacorp Studio for another five years, was a scholarship. She is applying to New York
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      319 9 3 Malaysian hostages on Jolo freed by troops after firefight with rebels Wires MANILA Three ravenous Malaysian hostages were rescued yesterday after a hour-long gun battle in a Jolo mangrove swamp between Philippine troops and their Abu Sayyaf captors, about a IV2 months after they were kidnapped.
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        Lock icon Gus Dur not part of Buloggate
        130 9 Wires JAKARTA Ajip Agung Suwondo, the key suspect in “Buloggate”, has denied allegations that Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid was involved in the affair. Suwondo, identified by the Indonesia media as the President’s former masseur, said yesterday that he had never met Abdurrahman. Buloggate centres
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        190 9 Wires MANILA A key witness in the ongoing impeachment hearings against Philippine President Joesph Estrada failed to turn up at a Senate enquiry yesterday. Yolanda Ricaforte who had allegedly kept records of illegal gambling pay-offs to President Estrada was discovered to have been hospitalised. The
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        Lock icon Different HFMD virus in Malaysia
        171 9 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian health officials have said that the hand, foot and mouth disease, which killed four children and left hundreds hospitalised there, was caused by a virus different from the one in Singapore. In Malaysia, the disease was caused by the Echovirus 7,
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        100 9 Wires PHOENIX (Arizona) A teenager, reportedly upset with his home life, took about 30 students and their teacher hostage at gunpoint on Tuesday. After an hour-long standoff, the police coaxed him into surrendering without harming anyone. Sean Botkin, 14, strode into a classroom at the Pioneer
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        178 9 Wires SEVEROMORSK Divers were expected late yesterday to start removing bodies from the Kursk nuclear submarine after the go-ahead from Russia’s naval chief. Earlier, they cut a hole through the thick innner hull of the vessel, which sank in August with the loss of
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      532 11 But both sides must stick to first pact, says Clinton Wires JERUSALEM More peace talks could be on the cards. US President Bill Clinton said yesterday that he was willing to meet separately with Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the White House if they
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      174 11 AMIDST GROWING TENSION AFP JERUSALEM The Israeli military has taken possession of a Dolphinclass submarine that was built in Germany earlier than planned because of the worsening security situation in the region. The commander of Israel’s submarine fleet, identified only as Colonel Youval,
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      427 11 GUN SALES UP NYT JERUSALEM Kady Harari, 36, stood with her feet planted wide, raised a semi-automatic weapon, set her sights on the target’s heart and trembled. Then, feeling sick, she later said, she squeezed the trigger of a pistol for the first time
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      Lock icon Mad-cow victims blame govt
      683 13 Compensation deal possible when British report comes out today Reuters LONDON Frances Hall would much rather have lived in hell than gone through what she did. “It was a living nightmare, you never recover from it,” she said, reliving the months she watched her 15-year-old son
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      301 13 PARIS FEARS DISEASE OUTBREAK AFP PARIS Mad-cow fears in France snowballed yesterday as two more supermarket chains pulled beef possibly infected with the mad-cow disease from their shelves, and one hypermarket announced that it was enforcing stringent new checks. Nationwide chains Auchan and
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      132 13 Wires LONDON The long-awaited Phillips report into the fiasco surrounding Britain’s mad-cow disease outbreak is out today. It is is expected to be scathingly critical of 30 former Conservative ministers and senior civil servants and will accuse the agriculture ministry of a “culture of secrecy”. The report is
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      57 15 Four of the world’s largest cranes just managing to squeeze under San Francisco’s Qolden Qate Bridge on Tuesday. The 66m-high cranes, made by a Shanghai company, managed to slip under the Bay Bridge with just 55 cm to spare the tightest squeeze in bridge history. The cranes are
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      485 15 Best five virtual fund managers in website’s contest will be hired LAT-WP LOS ANGELES How do you get to be a fund manager? Well, you can go the traditional route: College, MBA, junior analyst, senior analyst, junior fund manager, senior manager, before becoming a
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      84 15 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Nat Elec 26,475,000 420 Brierley 24,85L000 24.5 Nat Steel 23,609,000 221 Top 3 Gainers CENTS DBS 2000 50 2.6 SI A 1680 40 2.4 SIA200 1680 40 2.4 Total number of gainers: 109 Top 3 Losers CENTS Creative 50 2900
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAT: www.legahtudio. com
      159 15  -  Nicholas Yong NO MATTER what the state of the economy, dentists and advocates so goes the joke always end up making more money. But here’s a website that provides fast, practical yet affordable legal advice. Divided into three sections, legalstudio offers a comprehensive
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      Lock icon Costa Rica: Web casino haven
      414 16 Online bookies are lured by the lax rules and cheap labour AP SAN JOSE (Costa Rica) Internet gambling knows no borders, and dozens of online companies have flocked to Costa Rica to make this tropical Central American country a leading bookie haven. At least 80
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      Lock icon Net ‘doesn’t create social isolation’
      466 16 US SURVEY ON SURFING HABITS AP LOS ANGELES Concerns that the Internet revolution has dehumanised America may be unfounded. About two-thirds of all Americans have ventured online, and the majority of them deny that the Internet creates social isolation, according to a study released yesterday
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      Lock icon Driving a fuel-cell concept home
      56 18 Daimler Chrysler s Jeep Commander 2 a f uel-cell-concept vehicle which runs on methane and fuel-cell technology was test-driven hy environmental journalists in Michigan during their annual conference. Some of the concepts were shown off by the company on Tuesday. However, there are no plans
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      299 18 Robotic device helps surgeons with precise movements Reuters CHICAGO Minimally invasive “keyhole surgery”, common for gall bladder removal and arthroscopic repair of shoulder and knee joints, shows promise for a certain type of heart surgery, doctors said on Tuesday. Surgeons at East Carolina University’s school
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      Lock icon Familiar functions, new look
      601 18  -  NOKIA 3310 By Winston Goh w inston@sph.com.sg DON’T fix what isn’t broken. That old adage immediately springs to mind when trying out the new Nokia 3310. That’s because the same intuitive menus from Nokia are in the 3310, with a few minor tweaks to make it
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    • State of the NET
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        Lock icon A site for all reasons
        558 20  -  By Mike Lee mikelee@sph.com.sg ONE fine day, I suddenly took an interest in the server logs of my Webserver, on which my friend and I serve up ramblings, poems, pictures and other assorted digerati fare. I thought I had written a pretty fabulous script parodying
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        356 20 ‘Where have the nurses gone?’ (Oct 24) FOR the first time, Nanyang Polytechnic is offering training courses for registered nurses to foreign students. This is to tackle a worsening shortage of nurses in Singapore. Some readers offer their views: MANDATORY TRAINING IF WE really must bring
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      Lock icon TOMORROW: RENAISSANCE CITY DESPITE CENSORSHIP OF THE ARTS?
      99 20 Do interactive newspapers which carry more views mean a “dumbing down” of the media in Singapore? Minister Lim Boon Heng thinks so. Read the debate this has stirred. ‘The increase in views only benefits the intellectually clear-headed. What about those who are
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      Lock icon Speakers’ Corner needs a shot in the arm
      351 21 ‘Speakers’ Corner finds regulars’ (Oct 23) THE excitement of Speakers’ Corner, two months old, has faded, topics and issues for discussion would bring you down to Hong Lim Park? DONS MUST SPEAK I FIND that it is very enlightening that we have
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      475 21 ‘English a killer in SAT I paper 9 (Oct 24) STUDENTS now in Secondary 4 will have to take the American Scholastic Achievement Test I (SAT I) to enter local universities, in three years’ time. Readers react: NO REASON FOR TESTS I’M CURIOUS to know why we’re
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      39 2 Happy Deepavali! The Prime Minister sends all Hindus greetings for Deepavali Partly cloudy. Showers with thunder in the late afternoon and early evening over many areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 10.30AM/2.8M 10.50PM/3.0M Met Service: http:/ www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      61 3 Do you think that Government intervention in the arts is necessary? Or should the Government stay out of it? Join in our forum at httpV/eyeball^slalxonusg. Also, read what some artists have to say about the Government’s role in the arts in tomorrow’s Project Eyeball. Sharing their views are Dr Kirpal
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      26 4 For the latest R&D survey results, check out the full release at http^/eyebalL aslaLconusg For more about Trade Minister George Yeo’s speech, go to http:/ /nstb.gov.sg
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      42 6 Should marriage courses be made compulsory, or do the individual couples have the right to decide for themselves what they want? Tell us your views at http^/eyebalLasial.conusg Also log on to http:// http://www.gov.sg/mc ds/HTML /couples /couple fr.htmlfor more on wedding preparation courses.
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      71 7 FLUORIDE PACTS Other sources of fluoride include fluoride toothpaste, drinks made from tap water and other foods. Prescription fluoride supplements or gels can be applied directly on the teeth, but they must be recommended by dentists. Excessive fluoride may lead to a condition called fluorosis, which is characterised by mottling
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon ‘I was very scared’
      326 23 Barca fans’ antics too wild MAYHEM IN BARCELONA Reuters MADRID Real Madrid’s Roberto Carlos has admitted to being frightened by the behaviour of the Barcelona fans at Saturday’s derby match which marked the return of Luis Figo to the Nou Camp stadium. “Throughout the 90 minutes
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      Lock icon LEWIS: It was a circus
      354 23 TYSON-GOLOTA FIGHT Reuters WASHINGTON Heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis felt ripped °ff by the Tyson-Golota fight and said that he has no fear of facing Mike Tyson, and that, in fact, he can’t wait to fight the former champion. Tyson’s punches left Andrew Golota with multiple
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      Lock icon THE JUICE
      128 24  -  Mik Zarzuela Manchester United vs Anderlecht XT WAS OVER WHEN... Jan Koller went within a split second of giving his side the lead. AH DERI»ECHT J S T«A WENT “It is frustrating because we have won prestigious games against Kiev and United and have still not gone through,”
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      Lock icon Fergie blasts ‘nightmare’ defence
      496 24 It was a shambles, says Man United’s manager Wires NINETY unremitting minutes of nightmare. That was Manchester United’s 2-1 loss to Anderlecht in the Champions’ League yesterday in a nutshell. “Our defending was a shambles, it was a nightmare. We were lucky to go in at
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        78 24 Reuters MADRID Barcelona has been fined by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for crowd trouble during Saturday’s 2-0 home victory over Real Madrid. A constant shower of objects like plastic bottles, cigarette lighters and two mobile phones, rained down during a match marking the Nou Camp return
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        Lock icon Nostalgic McBrat
        170 24 Reuters SINGAPORE-Tennis legends John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg face off today for possibly the last time after the “Match of the Century” 20 ago -a marathon Wimbledon final where Borg beat McEnroe in five sets. Borg, 44, plans to retire later this year and it’s likely he will
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        75 24 DID you know that Dutch footballer Edgar Davids is full of nicknames? At Juve, his teammates refer to him as the “piranha”. At his former club Ajax Amsterdam, former coach Louis van Gaal called him “my little pitbull” the nickname that’s stuck. And do you know that
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        95 25 AP NEW YORK Two baseball officials speaking on condition of anonymity said New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens was fined US$5O,OOO (S$88,000) on Tuesday for throwing the jagged barrel of a shattered bat towards New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza in Game 2 of the World Series on
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        Lock icon China’s host again
        78 25 AFP SYDNEY China has won the vote ahead of Australia to host the 2003 Women’s Football World Cup. Australian football federation president Basil Scarsella said he had been informed by football’s governing body, Fifa, that the Committee for Women’s Football had recommended to the Fifa executive that
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        Lock icon LOOKING BACK
        51 25 IN 1991, Australia beat the mighty All Blacks 16-6 in the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup. The legendary David Campese was the man of the match, scoring a try and creating the other for Tim Horan. The Wallabies went on to become the world champions, beating England
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      Lock icon Big boys in trouble
      620 25  -  Man U, Barca and Juve on verge of missing ont on second phase CHAMPIONS LEAGUE By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph. com.sg THE European giants are treading on dangerous ground. That’s the general feeling one has after the second-last round of matches were played in the group stage
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      410 25  -  COASTING INTO ASIAN CUP SEMIS Zaki Amrullah JAPAN has stamped its class. That is the general feeling of everyone who has been following the progress of the current Asian Cup in Lebanon. The Japanese, joint-host of the 2002 World Cup with South Korea, qualified for the
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    • Sports BUZZ
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        102 26 THE new BMWWilliams partnership has cracked even before the start of the new season. Apparently, latest addition Juan-Pablo Montoya is furious with Ralf Schumacher and has accused the German of trying to play psychological tricks. “European people are very weak mentally. They always start this kind of mind
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        92 26 FOOTBALL is not just a game, at least not in the small town of Villar Chinchilla, Spain. A Real Madrid fan, believing that arch-rival Barcelona had lost its Champions League match against Leeds United 1-0, went into the streets to let off fireworks in celebration. He then sparked off
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        78 26  -  AdamHashidy THE English Football Association has a misconstrued idea of the purpose of a stadium. The proposed new Wembley Stadium seats 90,000 and will also feature a restaurant, a museum, a hotel and offices. One assumes that the offices are for the FA’s use. But a hotel? The
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      Lock icon Perfect match
      420 26  -  Notah Begay was an inspired choice as Woods’ partner in the Presidents Cup By John Crean in Sydney sports@eyeball.com.sg IF IT’S agony to be drawn against Tiger Woods in team matchplay, it must be numbing to be partnered with him. If the partnership triumphs, Woods gets the credit.
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      327 26 TOUR OPENER VS JAPAN’S PRESIDENT XV AFP SYDNEY Stirling Mortlock’s re-cord-breaking debut in the international rugby union season took a fresh twist yesterday when he was anointed heir apparent to Wallaby greats Tim Horan and Jason Little. Mortlock was shifted in from the wing
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      37 24 ,r AT THE ATRIUM EVERY SATURDAY at 4PM, the atrium at PARAGON comes alive with the sound of MUSIC Talented ACAPELLA groups, JAZZ bands, STRING quartets and more will enthrall you with their music. See you there!
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        813 27 Boo! Now that KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) has your attention, he reveals the deep-pocketed spells that is All Hallows Eve. For the untold secrets of Halloween, read on about this... Qor clubbing operators, Halloween signals the once-in-an-eclipsed moon opportunity where parties of supernatural proportions are thrown. Take Venom, for
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        743 28 FOR clubbing ghouls and other denizens of the night, Halloween is a time for howling at the moon and getting frighteningly drunk. Eyeball showcases 10 devilishly fun Halloween parties that go past the witching hour for all clubbing jack-o-lanterns out there. That is, unless
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        342 29 IF YOU prefer not to schmooze at Halloween shindigs, never fear. You can get your fair share of shivers and chills from the video rental stores. Eyeball’s top five horror flicks prove that Hollywood sure doesn’t make them like it used to: THE EXORCIST 1973 THE young daughter
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        787 29 NYT LATIN LESSONS THE LOOS DRESS like a Brazilian model. Think short skirts, long legs and masses of hair. Men should copy Ricky Martin’s sexy leather trousers and open shirts. THE FOOD TRY anything with a Spanish or Latin American influence, like tapas. Taco Bell doesn’t count. THE
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        1315 31 Why do many consider the Pusan International Film Festival the foremost film event in Asia? SAUDI TAN (sandi@sph.com.sg) attends this years festival to find out. OW in the world did this sleepy port town of Pusan in south-eastern Korea, with streets that smell of fish, become home
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        423 32 A NOTABLE absence at the Piff was Joint Security Area, the commercial blockbuster about friendships forged between North and South Korean guards working in the De-Militarised Zone (DMZ). The film's already beaten Mission: Impossible 2 at the domestic box office. The other new trend in Korean
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          108 32 DIGITAL short filmmakers and online film buyers from the US will be holding talks and screenings at the Substation's Guinness Theatre on Wednesday, Nov 1 and Thursday, Nov 2. They include Kimberley Browning, the executive director of the Hollywood Shorts Film Festival and Linda O, head of worldwide
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          119 32 A NEW website devoted to the new M Night Shayamalan movie Unbreakable goes to great lengths to pretend that it isn't a movie site. Go to www.areyouunbreakable.com and you'll see pages devoted to “unbreakable” humans, or invincible humans who have survived amazing physical peril, from Frozen Castaways to
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          29 32 ‘Were all freaky, Doreen. It's the straight ones we gotta worry about.’ Carter (Sly Stallone) to his troubled niece (Rachael Lee Cook), in Get Carter
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        997 33  -  Reviews: Sandi Tan 28 DAYS (PG) Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Elizabeth Perkins THE career of Sandra Bullock, ex-Speed queen, slows down again as she chooses yet another dud project this time a brainless, dumbed-down sister of Girl, Interrupted. Bullock had long set her eyes on Prozac
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        721 34 BEDAZZLED (PG) Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor ONCE a very funny 1967 Dudley Moore and Peter Cook comedy, Bedazzled hasn’t lost very much on its 33-year journey across the Atlantic. This remake by director Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day) is a lively creation starring Brendan Fraser as Elliot,
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        157 34  -  Jeanmarie Tan THIS nine-minute parody is a fun and inventive take on the oh-so-popular Blair Witch Project. Campily titled The Oz Witch Project, this short follows the beloved characters from The Wizard of Oz and their quest to document the legend of the
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      110 35 THE tech-support problem dates back to long before the industrial revolution, back to when Neanderthal tribesmen beat on drums in order to communicate: “Hullo. This Fire Help Desk. Me Groog.” “Me Lorto. Help. Fire not work.” “You have flint and stone?” “Ugh.” “You hit them together?” “Ugh.”
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      495 35 t a: ii Tyler (left) and Phoenix learn how love almost always conquers all in the bittersweet Inventing The Abbotts. Movies Sitcoms Inventing The Abbotts 10.30 am TCS 5 Two working-class brothers idolise the three rich and pretty Abbott sisters. This teen love story charts their class conflicts and romantic
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      200 36 Aussie pop starlets wow Singapore LOCK up your men, the pop babes have landed. Oops, we mean pop stars. Formerly nobodies, now known as Bardot, Sophie Monk, Tiffany Wood, Katie Underwood, Sally Folihronas, and Belinda Chappie will probably become as recognisable as the cuddly koala after their six-day stint
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        36 36 CHRISTINA Aguilera is set to weave some magic at a party thrown by the Disney Channel to celebrate its partnership with Time Warner in New York City’s Times Square this weekend.
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        38 36 DAVID Bowie (above) will let fans download a live version of Ziggy Stardust that was omitted in a production error. Starting Tuesday, those who bought Bowie at the Beeb can get the song at http://www.musicmatch. com/download.
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        52 36 Wires BRITNEY Spears stood up MTV when she failed to keep her promise to deliver her new video Stronger to the music TV channel on time.. Melissa Joan Hart, 24, said she is determined to get her degree as soon as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch has finished
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