Project Eyeball, 7 November 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Tuesday, November 7, 2000 80 CENTS
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      321 1 SELLOUT! That’s what e-music fans think of Napster’s move to join ranks with media giant Bertelsmann. See Page 5 WHO’S THE MAN? Americans choose a president today in away that makes others scratch their heads. See Pages 10-11,13 SHAQ ATTACK Shaquille O’Neal (right) leads a Laker comeback vs the... Clippers.
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  • News & Views
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      165 2 HOW’S this for freshness? A London shopper got more than she paid for, when she opened a packet of Tesco rocket salad to find a live frog inside. “I opened it up and there were two big eyes staring back at me. “I just could not believe my eyes,”
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    • SIA FLIGHT 006
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        Lock icon Gutsy mum clings to life
        461 2  -  Lee Suet Yee holds on despite 96 per cent burns By Eugene Wee and Wong Sher Maine eugenew@sph.com.sg sher@sph.com.sg TAIPEI Last week, the doctors said her chances were not good. At the time, many actually felt that was an understatement. But not Lee Suet Yee,
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      • Article
        Lock icon Three burn victims operated on at SGH
        302 2  -  Sue-Ann Chia THREE Singaporean survivors of the SQOO6 crash, who returned on Sunday, underwent extensive surgery yesterday. The 12-hour operation began at 9 am at Singapore General Hospital, with at least eight doctors and two anaesthetists in attendance at any given time. All
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        Lock icon NEWLYWED’S DREAMS OF TRAVEL DASHED
        249 3  -  Sonny Phua THE crash of SQOO6 put paid to 27-year-old Jennifer Lim’s dreams of travelling. She was laid to rest yesterday. According to grieving family members, Jennifer and her husband, Frankie Yeo, 29, had been initiated into Chinese marriage rites in March this year. The
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        Lock icon SIA takeoff re-enacted
        376 3 Investigators looking into how pilot could have used wrong runway Wires TAIPEI Investigators probing the Singapore Airlines crash used a spare Boeing 747 yesterday to reconstruct the sequence of events. It was to understand why SQOO6 tried to take off from a closed runway and smashed into
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        Lock icon Tragic TV, but it’s better than silence
        549 3  -  By Serene Goh sereneg@sph.com.sg WHEN Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, it was a giant leap for television viewing. In tragedy, however, the same senses we use to witness triumph are cruelly, equally accurate. First news of the SQ006 crash and visuals
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        Lock icon Why are pilots taking all the blame?
        699 4 DSUEN THE Eyeball forums are still burning with posters indignant that the pilots are being made to shoulder all the blame for the crash of Flight SQOO6. They turned their attention on the Taiwanese authorities and airport officials. NO NEED TO PUNISH THEM
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        Lock icon Stand by your crew, SIA
        178 4 I FEEL really sorry for the pilots of SQ006.1 hope and pray that everything will be well with them and their families. I hope SIA will stand by them and not be too hasty to accept all responsibility. Most importantly, they shouldn’t bend over backwards
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon Napster ‘has sold-out!’
        1052 5  -  Most say they won’t pay for e-music By Lim Puay Leng puayleng@sph.com.sg SELL-OUT is what e-music fans are calling Napster’s joining of ranks with German media group Bertelsmann, whose stable includes BMG. And when free music site Scour.net sold off its assets to fee-based Listen.com last Thursday,
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      Lock icon PM ‘not too harsh’ with AMP
      1022 6  -  Many agree with rejection of collective leadership proposal, but some want more debate By Joanna Lim and Toh Bee Ping joanna@sph.com.sg beeping@sph.com.sg IF A snap poll by Eyeball is any indication, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong was not overreacting when he gave the “no-go”
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      Lock icon Money woes
      794 7  -  Theatre.com faces uncertain future By Eri Akbar eri@sph.som.sg WANT a role backstage, but not sure how to get on the scene? Try logging on to Singaporetheatre.com (http://www.smgaporetheatre.com), at least for now. Full of free local theatre information, the three-year-old site is run by Khoo Ee Hoon, a freelance
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    • Article
      Lock icon Road repairs only at night?
      252 8 Penang’s idea unpopular with S’poreans AUTHORITIES in Penang have essentially banned daytime roadworks to curb massive traffic jams, carrying them out only at night. But Singaporeans will have none of that, saying night-time roadworks will ruin their rest. In Penang, roadworks are restricted to between
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    • Local LOG
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        181 8 THE Marine Parade Town Council has taken another step to creating an e-community. The first town council to provide online booking of handyman services has launched a new portal. It’s developed and run by canTown.com Pte Ltd, a joint-venture between SP E-Services, a Singapore Power subsidiary
        Law Kian Yan  -  181 words
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        Lock icon 125 HDB blocks to get upgrading
        148 8 A TOTAL of 19 precincts, comprising 125 HDB blocks from various estates around the island, have been picked as the latest areas to benefit from the Interim Upgrading Programme (lUP). This batch of HDB estates, the 7th group to be chosen for lUP, includes
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        131 8 THE National Healthcare Group (NHG) has launched a new health care portal that will allow patients to view their personal health dossier online. Known as Net Care, this service will allow patients to view their own medical histories as well as request medical reports from
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Tommy refuses to come out of hiding
        233 9 Reuters JAKARTA The son of former President Suharto appears to be playing hide-and-seek with Indonesian prosecutors. Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra has been missing since Friday night, when prosecutors arrived in pouring rain at his home in central Jakarta to arrest him on a
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        169 9 AP KUALA LUMPUR A computer virus that can overwrite Microsoft Word documents with lines of text condemning Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has infected the website of Malaysia’s Finance Ministry, a virus expert said yesterday. “I believe this is the first politically motivated
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        173 9 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohammad criticised a Chinese educational group yesterday for its objections to planned multi-racial schools. The government fears that the races are becoming too polarised. It is planning more “vision schools” where students will share common facilities
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      288 9 One-third of Congress will back impeachment; peso and stocks rebound Wires MANILA The impeachment of Philippine President Joseph Estrada on charges of corruption appeared virtually certain yesterday. A Congressional committee has rapidly voted to send an impeachment complaint directly to the full House where more than the
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    • The Day
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        240 10 Wires Candidates’ roast NEW YORK For once, Al Gore and George W Bush took potshots not at each other but at their own quirks, on a television show. The two candidates made fun of their presidential duel in taped comments for Saturday Night Live’s Presidential Bash 2000
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      Lock icon The age of e-mail hustings
      977 10 It’s cheap, and it’s becoming one of the most important tools in campaigning Nyt AS ELECTION hour draws near, so do the sounds of get-out-the-vote efforts: The ringing of phone banks, the roar of the crowds, the hammering of signs in front yards and, increasingly,
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      Lock icon All that razzmatazz
      1072 11 American way of choosing a president baffles rest of the world Nyt LONDON Lawn party guests at Murli Deora’s bungalow feasted on spicy lamb and chicken dishes, curried fish, dal and freshly baked naan. Then Deora, a Bombay businessman and Congress Party leader, offered his guests comments
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      Lock icon Can’t decide? Split the vote
      816 13 Go one way for president, and the other for Congress WILLIAM SAFIRE Nyt WASHINGTON The magic moment of maturity in every voter’s life comes when he or she accepts the fact that no candidate is right on every issue. At that moment, one becomes either
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      Lock icon Waltzing into the arms market
      55 15 Champion ballroom dancers from Russia entertaining a crowd beneath models of Sukhoi zy fighter aircraft at yesterday’s opening of Airshow 2000 in Zhuhai, southern China Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the Russian developer of the best-selling Su-zy, is the star of the show, with China planning to have a
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      474 15  -  But customers will have to wait a year for benefits from new scheme By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg IT’S happening again. Four Singapore banks have come up with a new scheme to reduce the operating costs of their automated teller machines (ATMs), but none of
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAT: www.sesami.net
      205 15  -  Nicholas Yong IT started off as Asia’s first busi-ness-to-business e-procurement portal. Today it is touted as Asia’s leading e-commerce hub. The site links your business with other businesses, be they your suppliers or your customers. You can even get in touch with other businesses
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      84 15 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS QAF 88,243,000 OUB DBeCubl0123 45,673,000 48.5 15 Ipco 29,561,000 54 Top 3 Gainers CENTS V- OUE 765 50 7.0 Bukit Sera 1290 40 3.2 Global 182 11 6.4 Total number of gainers: 71 Top 3 Losers CENTS V- DBS 1960
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    • Article
      Lock icon Software boss rages at German demand
      309 16 Scientologist’s program rejected Reuters NEW YORK The chief executive of a US software firm has blasted German authorities who demanded a part of Microsoft’s Windows 2000 designed by his firm be removed because of his religion. Craig Jensen, owner and CEO of California-based Executive
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      28 16 Robovie hugging a boy during a Japanese exhibition on Sunday. Developed to study human communication, the robot is on sale for $162,000. AFP
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      Lock icon Star Hub hits 200,000 target
      146 16 STARHUB, Singapore’s newest operator for fixed and mobile telecommunications, said yesterday it has reached its initial target of 200,000 mobile phone customers five months ahead of schedule. Star Hub began operations in April and had set itself a target of 200,000 subscribers by March 31
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    • Article
      Lock icon Computer game holds key to maths mystery
      387 16 SOLVING PC PUZZLE AP BOSTON Next time you are caught playing Minesweeper at work, just tell the boss you are actually trying to help the world by cracking one of the yet unsolved puzzles in mathematics. For Minesweeper, a seemingly simple game included
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    • State of the NET
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        Lock icon Pay for Napster’s stuff? Sounds good
        467 18  -  By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg SO NAPSTER has sold its soul to one of the devils collectively known as the record industry. Surely it’s not too high a price to pay for riches, respectability and quality music files? In July, when the Napster injunction
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      Lock icon Sharp’s Mini smallest yet
      56 18 Electronics giant Sharp unveiled the world’s smallest Mini Disc player MD Mlyy in Tokyo yesterday. The player, measuring 71.9 x 16.8 x yB.y mm, can record and play up to 320 minutes onto a 80-minute MD. It will be available on Friday in Japan with a
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    • Clowning GLORY
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        Lock icon Take my advice...then run
        501 20  -  Ven Subramanian venkat@sph.com.sg THESE days, just about anybody and their aunt, it would seem, are trying their hand at playing the Agony Aunt. Why should yours truly be an exception? So, here goes: I am an 18-year-old guy living in Senkang. My problem is that I
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      Lock icon Customer dis-service
      769 20  -  Miami Herald RECENTLY I had a great idea while waiting on hold for Customer Service. That’s pretty much all I do these days: Wait for Customer Service. My call was important to them. They had told me this many times in a sincere recorded message. They could not
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      25 2 Qood morning! •Will Showers in the afternoon and early evening over most areas. High: 33C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 8.30AM/2.3M 8.05PM/2.3M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/metsin
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      33 8 Wearing a tune Casio's newly launched wrist audio player -a watch that does more than telling time. r S-. N* s: iiiiijp Read all about it in The Straits Times Classified today. CAT.S.
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      57 11 X For other comments: http://www. dailytelegraph. co.uk/dt?ac=00 ********** 286&rtmo= weoMstjb& atmo=llllliwx& pg=/00/ll/6/ do02.html A Gore defeat would teach British premier Tony Blair that economic success does not win elections, says this Telegraph editorial. http:// specials.ft.cm/ uselections/ FT3EKF6L4FC. html A Financial Times comment on why Europeans are baffled that Bush has
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      69 13 Why is the US Presidential Race 2000 a neck-and-neck affair? Salon’s columnists take a stab at the answer: http://www.salon. com/politics/feature/ 2000/11/06/bush/index. html Gore’s better, but not so much better that one could not vote Bush, says Andrew Sullivan. http:// www.salon. com/politics/feature/ 2000/11/06/gore/index. html America may thank Gore and the Democrats
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Marathon win
        127 21 Reuters NEW YORK Abdelkhader El Mouaziz of Morocco has run in only two of the world's major marathons London and New York but he kept coming back until he had won them both. El Mouaziz, 31, pushed away from the lead pack at the New York City marathon
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      • Article
        Lock icon Samoa qualifies
        54 21 Ap EDINBURGH Samoa qualified for a rugby league World Cup quarter-final match with Australia after beating Scotland 20-12 over the weekend. Elsewhere, New Zealand showed that they are a strong bet to reach the final by thrashing Wales 50-18 while France secured their last-eight place with a 56-6
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    • Article
      Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
      59 21 DID you know that Indian football star Baichung Bhutia has been playing for English Second Division side Bury FC these past two seasons? The striker may not have the same star status he enjoys back home, but he has done well enough to command a regular starting
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      Lock icon Put up or shut up, Redknapp
      349 21 West Ham man slams foreigners Wires HARRY Redknapp may have no moral right to offer anyone advice. Much less to the manager of Serie A champions Lazio and future England coach Sven Goran Eriksson. Still, he can’t resist the temptation. Never mind that his
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      Lock icon Rangers gloat over Monaco’s loss
      445 21 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Wires MONACO Glasgow Rangers coach Dick Advocaat was at the Monaco stadium over the weekend, watching the home side take a tumble as it was defeated 0-2 by Olympique Lyon. He must have been smiling at the end of the match as Monaco’s
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    • Leading men
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        Lock icon Shaq leads Laker comeback
        368 23 NBA Los ANGELES Shaquille O’Neal had 39 points, 14 rebounds, five blocks and dominated the fourth quarter on Sunday as the Lakers fought off the Clippers and beat their cross-town rivals for the 14th straight time, 108-103. O’Neal scored 22 points in the final period as
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        Lock icon Batistuta leads pack of in-form strikers
        487 23 SERIE A AFP Pome Serie A’s strikers struck rich form over the weekend with Argentine international Gabriel Batistuta scoring his first hat-trick for AS Roma. Also making the headlines were Unfancied side Udinese, who stretched their lead at the top of the Italian first
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        68 23 AP FORMER world pole vault record holder Emma George will miss up to six months of competition after undergoing reconstructive surgery on both feet and her right ankle. The 12-time world record holder will be embarking on a six-month rehabilitation programme. After feeling pain in her feet
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        Lock icon Warne Injured
        78 23 Reuters AUSTRALIAN leg-spinner Shane Warne may miss the five-test series against West Indies, despite emergency surgery on the middle finger of his right hand which was broken last Thursday. Stuart Mac Gill is likely to take over from Warne as Australia’s leg spinner for the series which starts
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      • Article
        Lock icon Coercion claim
        129 24 Reuters NEW DELHI-Indian investigators yesterday denied that a groundsman named in the inquiry into cricket match-fixing had been beaten into saying he had doctored a test match pitch. According to a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) report Last week, Ram Adhar confessed that former Test cricketer Ajay Sharma
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      • Article
        Lock icon Rams go down
        147 24 AFP WASHINGTON-Joe Nedney kicked a 46-yard field goal with 40 seconds left on Sunday as the Carolina Panthers grounded the ailing St Louis Rams 27-24, ending their 12-game winning streak in the NFC West Division. Already without the National Football League’s Most Valuable Player Kurt Warner, the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Gambling bugs
        64 26 ENGLAND’S new Swedish coach, Sven Goran Eriksson intends to stop the gambling bug in the English camp. But former manager Kevin Keegan, who was supposedly the “ring leader”, had proliferated the vice to such an extent that high stakes were often placed. Originally intended to promote camaraderie, the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Leeds aims to win
        59 26 LEEDS United fans will be happy to learn that their team will not be looking for a draw when it visits AC Milan in midweek. Said David O’ Leary: “You don’t go to the San Siro and try to dig a trench... Sitting tight and playing
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        72 26 RYAN Giggs insists that Manchester United must beat Ukraine’s Dynamo Kiev to qualify for the next stage of the Champions League. “I don’t want to sound arrogant and I certainly have no intention of being disrespectful to the opposition, but we shouldn’t be faced with a make-or-break game
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      51 23 IN 1989, Diego Maradona arrived in Buenos Aires with 250 friends and teammates to celebrate his marriage, which newspapers called the wedding of the decade. Invited guests included celebrities, athletes and Argentina’s then-president Carlos Menem. Maradona wed his long-time companion Claudia Villafanne, with whom he had two
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      Lock icon POWER RANKINGS
      798 24 English Premier League Arsenal remains at the top of EyeSporEs weekly Power Rankings (not to he conf used with the league table) as it continues to sniff behind Manchester United in the league. E-mail us at sportS@e7eball.COm.Sg with your comments. Player of the Week: Mark Viduka, who scored
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      79 26 “THE conditions were difficult, truly awful and that contributed to our goal. The ball must have moved all over the place in the wind and you can’t blame their keeper for that. He’s very consistent. “England? If I had my way, England would be playing in
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    • Extra TIME
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        Lock icon Stuck on the bench, indefinitely
        638 26  -  Long-term injury woes for top trio By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg ONE is a defender, another’s a midfielder and the third is a striker. But what do Jaap Stam, Roberto di Matteo and Luc Nilis have in common? The answer is simple but unfortunate: All of
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    • Article
      Lock icon Top US golfers stay away
      349 26 BLOW TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Reuters JEREZ (Spain) David Duval, Phil Mickelson, Tom Lehman, Fred Couples, Davis Love, Paul Azinger, Hal Sutton, Jim Furyk, Stewart Cink, Notah Begay, John Huston and Australian Greg Norman have all decided against playing in the US$5-million (SsB.B million) Valderrama World
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  • Unwind
    • Fashion
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        Lock icon Pretty MEN
        228 27 Sexual ambiguity is in vogue again. Men in frills, fur and florals are no longer a fashion stigma, nor the badge of the dandy, as JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) discovers. Bridging the dress divide: The way men and women dress and shop has changed. See Page 29. From left:
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        Lock icon Bridging the dress divide
        406 29 June Wan HE way men and T women dress and shop has changed. GQjnagazine recently named David Bowie the Most Stylish Man, suggesting that the sartorial man has a higher scoring chance. These days, men have become overtly sexual in a way that was once exclusive
        – June Wan; Desmond Wee  -  406 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Will she steal your clothes?
        117 29 June Wan SHE took your white shirts, your boxers, and your favourite pair of socks. Now that men’s garments are imitating women’s cuts, who’s to know what else she won’t grab? Here’s how to tell if your clothes will be irresistible to her. Your pants
        – June Wan  -  117 words
      • Simply ESSENTIAL
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          Lock icon Snaking into the new year
          105 29 IT’S never too early to anticipate the Lunar Year of the Snake in 2001. That’s why Risis has already rendered four snake statuettes in 24K gold. Prosperity ($468) has the figurine encircling a jade ball in its tail. Fortune ($368) is based on the ancient
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          Lock icon Ultra-thin Zenith watches
          67 29 ELEGANCE comes in many forms, but don’t get lost in the jungle of oversized wrist clutches. Check out the Zenith Class Collection. There are two styles: The El Primero Hand Wind, or the Zenith Elite that is the quintessence of ultra-thin time pieces. Available exclusively at Cortina
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          Lock icon Ginger spices up cosmetics
          76 29 GINGER hot, savoury, and essential in Chinese cooking. Now this delectable spice is making inroads into the beauty industry as well, with the Origins Bath and Body Collection, and the Ginger Essence Sensuous skin scent. Balanced by bergamot, orange, grapefruit, lemon and lime, this yin-yang of
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          Lock icon First the babies, now the kids
          75 29 June Wan BEANIE fans take note. First it was Beanie Babies; now Ty Beanie Kids have swamped the market as well. Thirteen models of fuzzy-haired big-eyed dolls with soft sculpted bodies are available for cuddling and hugging. Youngest of the crop is Chipper, born
          – June Wan  -  75 words
      • Personal STYLE
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          Lock icon Designing Deanna
          646 31 Deanna Yusof, who played first lady in Anna And The King last year, talks to JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) and hands out a few tips on how to merge elegance with sex appeal. OST people know L J Deanna Yusof the i i singer, and, since f f last
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          75 31 BURBERRY’S designer Roberto Menichetti has just been named sexiest designer alive by the latest issue of People magazine. The most droolable issue of the magazine this year also features Snatch star Brad Pitt. The recently married actor has the glory of being the only person to
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          54 31 Madonna loves Dolce Gabbana THE Material Girl lives up to her moniker. When Madonna appeared crazy about the Dolce Gabbana collection in Milan last month, tongues instantly started to wag about a possible music/fashion collaboration. Indeed, the music mama’s mini-concert in Roseland, New York, featured a deluxe Western-style set created
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          77 31 HELMUT Newton may have turned 80, but the fashion photographer has lost none of his bite. In hometown Berlin recently to launch an exhibition of his latest work, the controversial snapper made it known that his sneering attitude towards models hasn’t changed one little
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          62 31 June Wan WANT to look like an aging Brit star? Here’s your chance, because US magazine has reported that singer Elton John is auctioning off five years’ worth of his best designer duds. The pop icon is even offering his underwear! Proceeds from the
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        Lock icon Colouring women
        581 33 Lat-Wp Forget the domineering, stilettoed and whip-cracking woman boss that characterised the igBos and the writings of Joan Collins. PATRICIA KITCHEN (pedas@eyehall.com.sg) finds out that today’s female executives are defined by an array of colourful management styles. O YOU thought you’ve heard everything about the Woman Boss. But
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          68 33 A 46-YEAR-OLD hooker in Washington has been dubbed the world’s most naive prostitute. According to Salon.com, she was arrested last week after climbing into the back seat of a marked police patrol car driven by a uniformed officer and quoting US$4O (Ss7o). She also claimed to
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          75 33 SOME trick-or-treating kids in Anchorage, Alaska, got a rude shock on Halloween when they were greeted by a 49-year-old man who donned his birthday suit as a Halloween costume while giving out candy. When two police officers came to his door, the man was still naked and tried
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          133 33 A MAGAZINE survey suggests almost 50 per cent of young women get drunk at least once a week, which fuels them into making decisions that put them in danger. Company magazine in the UK said half the women surveyed have walked home alone when drunk; one-third
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          122 33  -  Angelica Tan ACCORDING to a recent survey of 3,000 men by the Institute of Psychology in Rome, men are biologically destined to “fall into the biggest love of their lives”. The study found that men “think they first fall in love while in their teens”. When they
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        Lock icon Meg my day
        747 34 She is every mans Everywoman, the queen of his screen, the Eve to his Adam, says RONALD wa-TAM (ronrajan@sph.com.sg), who is eager to forgive the patron saint of lonely hearts for having left home in real life. HERE’S no denying Tthis: Men are complete suckers for beautiful
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        234 34  -  Angelica Tan 1981: Screen debut in Rich And Famous. 1982 to 1984: Performed in daytime soap As The World Turns. 1983: Starred in Amityville in 3-D. 1986: Played wife of doomed flyboy Goose in Top Gun. 1987: Played Dennis Quaid’s love interest in Innerspace. 1988: Starred
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      181 35 WHY Star Wars is better than Star Trek: In the Star Wars universe, weapons are rarely if ever, set on “stun”. The Enterprise needs a huge engine room with an anti-matter unit and a crew of 20 just to go into warp; the Millennium Falcon, meanwhile, does
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      502 35 Movies Sitcoms/serials Casualties Of Love 2 pm TCS 5 A woman who’s obsessed with a married man schemes to kill his wife. Alyssa Milano plays Jack Scalia’s nemesis. The Air Up There 3 pm Star Movies 58 Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To
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      33 35 The sth5 th Wave By Rich Tennant lS' Mm 2k SSJ w n i C S'N'^, w '-V. v ‘He saw your laptop and wants to know if he can check his Hotmail.”
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      305 36 Wires SHE gave birth to her second child less than three months ago, but that didn’t stop Madonna from shaking her booty on stage on Sunday night in her first US concert since 1993. The Material Mom performed at a swanky club in midtown Manhattan before
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      126 36 WHERE was her Genie when her hair was being primped? At Saturday’s Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas, Christina Aguilera (right) sported a shocking pink coif that came straight from a Bottle. Thankfully, others performing live had their senses about them, such as Ricky Martin, Enrique
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      149 36 Rushdie I’m not a playboy Wires AUTHOR Salman Rushdie (right) hit back at critics who claimed he was ungrateful to Britain for spending money to protect him against an Islamic death edict. The 1989 edict ordered his death for allegedly committing blasphemy in his novel The Satanic Verses. Rushdie, who
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        126 36 JAMES Bond star Pierce Brosnan (above) is saying bye to his native Ireland as he’s set to become an American citizen. The actor said he loves Ireland and England, but the US is where he wants to call home. “I would like to be an American.
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        111 36 Wires FATBOY Slim and his pregnant girlfriend Zoe Ball cheated death on Thursday night when their car skidded to a halt mere centimetres from a pile-up in London. “We hit a big patch of water and started aqua-planing. The bloke in front kind of lost it and started pirouetting
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