Project Eyeball, 10 November 2000

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  • Title Section
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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyebaU.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Friday, November 10, 2000 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon US polls turn nasty
    332 1 US pol ls turn nasty AS IF a cliffhanger vote and recount in Florida weren't enough, the US presidential took another, nasty, turn yesterday when the Al Gore campaign said it was considering whether to mount a legal challenge over the final outcome. The move came about following allegations of
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      227 1 SPORT AUDI’S EXEC EXPRESS The A8 Long-Wheelbase could pass off as a luxury office, and it comes with stuff like GPS and even a fax machine. See Page 13 TIGER ‘UNDERPAID’ He makes US$lOO million from Nike alone, but, like Michael Jordan before him, Tiger Woods will never get what
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  • News & Views
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      78 2 NEWSPAPERS which prematurely pronounced George W Bush the winner of the US presidential election are burning up Internet auction sites now. On eßay, an early edition of the New York Post proclaiming “Bush Wins!” in big, red letters was selling for US$3O5 (*****). The Miami Herald with a similar
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    • US Elections 2000
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        Lock icon Gore camp vows post-election fight
        596 2 It plans to challenge voting irregularities Wires NASHVILLE The polls are over, but the fight is not. Even if Florida picks George W Bush, senior Al Gore aides said yesterday the vice-president will not concede the White House to him immediately. Instead, they said, the
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        Lock icon Florida may not be the finish line
        414 2 DEC 18 DECIDER Washington Post WASHINGTON When all the votes are counted in Florida and the fate of its 25 electoral votes is decided, the 2000 presidential election will finally be over. Or maybe, just maybe, the politics will only be beginning. The
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        Lock icon Online recounting would have taken just minutes
        398 3 INTERNET VOTING Wires LOS ANGELES The ultra-close presidential election has made the case for Internet voting as no other political event could have done, said online experts yesterday. Instead of the long wait for a recount of the votes in Florida, online experts
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        Lock icon Fury over Palm Beach ballot sheet
        640 3 Florida voters say they were misled Wires WEST PALM BEACH Theresa LePore was up all night, sifting the numbers precinct by precinct well after sunrise on Wednesday. But nothing could have prepared LePore, Palm Beach County’s supervisor of elections, for the firestorm that hit
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        Lock icon Un-election Day
        667 4  -  So much drama, and still no curtains on this saga By Maureen Dowd NYT WASHINGTON Oh, heck, let’s just keep Clinton. You know he wants it. You know the poor bloke is not going to have any fun as a Senate spouse. Hillary was so icy to him
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        Lock icon The day Gore ate his words
        353 4 Snippy? Who’s snippy? Bong Fortin Al Qore had conceded defeat in the presidential election when the results were first announced, and made a call to Qeorge W Bush about it. Shortly after, when the race was declared too close to call, the following took
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    • SIA FLIGHT 006
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        Lock icon Law firm tones down crash site
        587 5  -  S’poreans express outrage By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg A US law firm which had created a special sqoo6.com website to exhort victims of the crash to “flatly refuse” SlA’s compensation offer has toned down the site. The move was taken in the wake of expressions
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        Lock icon Pilots were heroes, not cowards, say firefighters
        435 5 ‘THEY RISKED THEIR LIVES’ TAIWANESE firefighters have called the pilots of SQ006 “heroes”, saying that they risked their own lives to pull out victims from the burning wreckage of the 747. Their bravery was witnessed by the chief of Chiang Kai Shek airport’s
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      Lock icon Who gains from ERA’s waiver?
      1086 6  -  Consumers don’t really benefit, say rival realty agents By Sonny Phua sonnyp@sph.com.sg REALTY bites. When ERA Realty Network announced late last month its plan to waive its 1 per cent commission fee for buyers of resale Housing Development Board (HDB) flats, it had no idea
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      Lock icon Porn in your kid’s e-mail? It’s possible
      746 7  -  One mum finds that predators target children on the Internet By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg OPENING an e-mail account for your child sounds harmless, doesn’t it? Well, that’s exactly what mother Yeo Miu Ean had thought. After all, she was quite the techie, having
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      Lock icon Helping parents with the Web
      221 7 KUDOS to parents such as Yeo Miu Ean, who certainly practises what she preaches. Six months ago, she was just one of many parents who attended PAGi workshops. Now, her two precocious daughters aren’t the only ones benefitting from what she’s learnt. In July, Yeo
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      Lock icon Fancy an orchid that glows?
      512 8  -  Hybrid to be auctioned off on the Web By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg SOME orchid-growers are watching their business bloom. The creators of the world’s first glow-in-the-dark orchid are auctioning it off on the Web for what they hope will be a windfall. Bidding starts
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      Lock icon MENDAKI ‘will meet goal for weak students’
      502 8  -  PM GOH’S TARGET FOR MALAY EDUCATION By Leong Pik Yin local@eyeball.com.sg THE target: Borderline students. The mission: To ensure that at least 90 per cent of all Malay-Mus-lim students have post-secondary education within the next decade. Mendaki will focus its efforts on helping
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      Lock icon Make selection process more open, says Chiang
      504 9  -  FEW WOMEN IN POLITICS By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg SOME 30 to 40 names of women have been submitted as potential political candidates. Why weren’t they selected? This is what Nominated Member of Parliament Claire Chiang wants to know. “Perhaps a question for
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      Lock icon Careers before politics
      852 9  -  Younger men feel they don’t have time yet for such service By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg PLUNGING into politics in your 30s might put a break in your career. One member of parliament (MP) has said so. But ask MPs whether their career was retarded because of their
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      Lock icon Plenty of room on this sofa
      72 10 The largest inflatable sofa in the country was rooted to the top of the IMM Building yesterday, and can be seen from the Jurong East MKT station until Nov 24. It is around 9 m tall, 10 m long and 8 m wide, and
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      Lock icon Pact to train patent agents
      212 10 Candidates will be subsidised by NSTB A NEW agreement signed yesterday is set to train and develop a pool of patent agents that will help innovators protect their bright ideas. Right now, there are just a handful of qualified patent agents in Singapore. All that
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon Ho Kwon Ping honoured
        179 10 HOTELIER, entrepreneur, public service holder. Ho Kwon Ping, president of the Wah Chang/Thai Wah Group and chairman of Singapore Power and the Singapore Management University, was recognised for all these roles by Britain’s Association of Business Executives yesterday. Specifically, an award for his contribution to entrepreneurship
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        Lock icon New ads to cheer up seniors
        208 10 THIS year’s Senior Citizens Week (Nov 19 to 26) will make the reminder that “Life begins at 60” through a series of television and radio commercials which seek to rejuvenate the way senior citizens look at themselves. “(It is a) very exciting age, where
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        Lock icon JTC pulls out of Thai project
        123 10 JURONG Town Corporation (JTC) has decided to withdraw from a $7OO million joint venture with Eastern Sugar Group to construct an industrial estate in Thailand. The government-owned land developer cited a recent change made to the zoning policy by the Thai Board of Investment
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      Lock icon To Wall Street, gridlock is good
      716 11 Even balance of power in Congress cheers investors AP NEW YORK The nation might not know who its next president will be, but for Wall Street, at least some of the uncertainty surrounding the polls is over and investors are in an upbeat mood.
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      Lock icon Bulls&Bears
      92 11 Straits Times Index (STI Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS 1 PCI 82,925,000 140 GES *****,000 155 Omlnd 24,928,000 360 1 1 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Bukit Sem 1190 30 2.6 Central P 1420 20 1.4 P SIA 1670 20 1.2 Total number of gamers: 87 1 1' Top 3
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY:
      213 11  -  Nicholas Yong www.carfellas.com IF YOU fancy fast cars and women, here’s a site that will take care of at least one of the two- the fast cars. It offers scintillating interactive graphics that will give you a feel of every nook and cranny of the
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      Lock icon Estrada confirms bribe offer
      297 12 But he says he rejected it, and the money is ‘intact’ AP MANILA Philippine President Joseph Estrada yesterday confirmed he was offered a US$4 million (Ss7 million) bribe by none other than the provincial governor who has accused him of receiving illegal gambling payoffs, but insisted
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Malaysians beat video arcade ban
        195 12 Wires KUALA LUMPUR Operators have started trucking video-game machines to customers to beat a Malaysian government ban imposed last month on arcades, police said yesterday. Nik Ismail Nik Yusof, police chief of the central state of Selangor, said arcade operators were using lorries, each carrying
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        Lock icon Another note left by dead Kursk sailor
        190 12 AP MOSCOW Another note from a dead man reminded Russians yesterday of the ordeal their sailors suffered in the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk. The note told of a struggle against deadly carbon monoxide poisoning from a fire. The note from the unnamed submariner
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        Lock icon Senior PAS leaders in jail
        218 12 AP KUALA LUMPUR Three senior leaders of Malaysia’s biggest opposition party, PAS, were imprisoned yesterday after a court found them guilty of joining an illegal anti-government protest three years ago. The sentences come at a time when the government is launching the prosecution of more
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        Lock icon Pinpoint attack kills Fatah official
        205 12 Wires BEIT SAHUR (West Bank) In an pinpoint assassination attack, an Israeli helicopter strafed a Palestinian civilian car in broad daylight yesterday in the West Bank, killing an official from the military wing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s group, Fatah. Hussein Suyef Abeyad, 37, head
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        Lock icon Swiss bank account info leaked
        120 12 Reuters ZURICH A technical glitch put show business stars’ secret Swiss bank account numbers, private addresses and money transfers on the Internet for a week, Credit Suisse Group admitted. Alert Internet surfers got a rare glimpse into account details of stars such as British actor
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    • Article
      Lock icon Getting that ol’ surgical feeling back
      385 13 MEDICAL HAPTICE NYT MASSACHUSETTS Doctors have always relied on their sense of touch for everything from palpating a lump to tightening a suture. But in recent years, minimally invasive (or “keyhole”) surgery, in which cameras and surgical instruments are threaded through tiny openings, has
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      Lock icon Truly a palace on wheels
      374 13  -  Audi A8 LWB is the last word in luxury By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg IT IS as luxurious as can be, and is almost a palace on wheels. We are talking about the Audi A8 LongWheelbase (LWB), which sits snug in the deluxe saloon category, along
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    • Eyeball SAYS
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        Lock icon Recognise AMP’s good intentions
        395 15 THE Prime Minister is critical of the AMP proposal for collective leadership. He feels that a leadership elected by Malays only will result in politics based on race and religion. Eyeball readers say: CONGRATULATE AMP THE AMP has good intentions. They want to better the lot
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        Lock icon AMP should get with the programme
        478 15 ANYONE who has witnessed first-hand the nation-building efforts of the last few years would have been surprised to put it mildly at some of the questions that were asked of the Prime Minister during his recent dialogue with members of the Association of Muslim
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      28 2 Qood morning! Partly cloudy. Showers with thunder are expected in the afternoon affecting most areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 9.58AM/2.8M 10.28PM/2.8M Met Service: http:/ /www.go v.sg/metsin
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      46 3 http://news.cnet.com/ news/0-1005-200-*****64.html?tag=st. nw.1005-220-*****64 How online absentee voting has heated up the Florida recount. http://www.zdnet.com/ zdnn/ stories/news/ 0.4586.*****08.00.html The debate on online voting and whether cyber-democracy works. http://votehere.net California and Arizona guinea pigs put cyber-voting to the test. http://ipolitics.com All you need to know about online voting.
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      40 4 x The verdict’s not out, but the judgements are pouring in: If Gore loses, he can blame Green Party’s Ralph Nader, who snapped up 96,701 of Florida votes 54 times the number that Gore needed. Read about it at http://www.eyeball.asial.com.sg
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      30 6 Should property agencies come up with their own marketing strategies to help their own agents and the consumer? Should there be healthy competition in the industry? Tell us at http://eyebalLasial.com.sg
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      66 7 Check out this local children’s portal: http://www.thekidspark. com Some good websites Yeo encourages her kids to go to: Any Disney site. http://www.nationalgeographic.com National Geographic. http://www.i-tutor.net Education portal. http://www.pagi.org.sg If you’re interested in becoming a PAGi parent. r hi TALK TO US! COS/CBS Office Skills Secretarial Accounting am/pm classes SDF Grant
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      52 14 TO GET TO THE NEWS FAST Fresh Home News Hot Money and Sports News The Many Flavours of Asian News K wm sis i :v': V S .y T: -;V A Rich Blend of Prime and World News Ah! The Aroma of Life! MyMoming My Straits Times Call 749 7233
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Kuerten wins
        47 16 AP LYONS Top-seeded Gustavo Kuerten inched closer to his bid to end the year as the world’s No 1 yesterday, shaking off French wild card Michael Llodra 7-5,7-6. The Brazilian will next meet Australian rival Patrick Rafter in the quarterfinals of the Lyons Grand Prix.
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        Lock icon Hingis on a roll
        52 16 AP PENNSYLVANIA World No 1 Martina Hingis won her 13th straight match since losing in the US Open. She defeated Russian qualifier Elena Bovina 6-4,6-1 yesterday in the second round of the women’s Advanta Championships. Martina Hingis beat Elena Bovina 6-4, 6-1 at the Advanta Championships
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        Lock icon Payback in Paris
        58 16 Reuters LONDON Just over a year ago, France beat New Zealand 43-31 in a classic World Cup semi-final. The All Blacks get a chance for revenge in Paris tomorrow when they play the first of two tests against the French. It’s part of a weekend feast of
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        Lock icon Juventus out, United still in
        233 17 IN GROUP E of the Champions League, nine-man Juventus was knocked out by Greek side Panathinaikos 1-3 away. Panathinaikos took an early lead through former Juve star Paulo Sousa, who struck home a freekick. Filippo Inzaghi replied for Juventus 17 minutes later, but the Italians
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        Lock icon Be more discreet
        144 18 AP SYDNEY Australian coach John Buchanan says international and national cricket administrators should be more discreet about investigating match-fixing allegations so that star players aren’t distracted from the game. “There needs to be some evidence shown, otherwise for me, the players and the (Australian Cricket Board), life
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        Lock icon Gretzky to lead
        87 18 Reuters OTTAWA Canada’s retired hockey star Wayne Gretzky will head Team Canada to the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. “He has done an outstanding job in everything that he has done in this game and is the ideal Canadian for this position,” said Team Canada
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        Lock icon SA wins tour opener
        56 18 BUENOS AIRES Former world champion South Africa opened its tour of Argentina with a hard-fought, 32-21 win over Argentina A at Tucuman. With eight players making their debut for the Springboks, it was far from being the full test side. The Springboks will take on Argentina
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        Lock icon Spurs dig into Lakers
        225 19 AP NEW YORK-The San Antonio Spurs powered to a 91-81 victory over defending champions Los Angeles Lakers. Tim Duncan, whose knee injury was one factor in the Spurs’ failure in repeating as NBA champions, collected 22 points and grabbed 17 rebounds. In New York, Bimbo Coles
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      Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
      39 16 “THE baby is being breast-fed at the moment. I’m leaving that to her mum because I don’t think my chest is big enough!” Robbie Fowler on becoming a father for the second time last week.
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      Lock icon It’s all about money
      951 16 It ’s all about money Like Jordan before him, Tiger won’t ever make what he’s actually worth BASKETBALL star Michael Jordan made more than US$6O million (Sslo4 million) from the Chicago Bulls in the last two years of his NBA career. Considering that his name was a bigger draw than
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      Lock icon O’Leary’s boys play like men
      594 17  -  Gutsy Leeds praised by Milan coach Zaccheroni By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg THE Premiership boys grew up in Europe. In a nutshell, that described the performance of Leeds United in their Champions League Group H 1-1 draw with AC Milan at the San Siro yesterday. I
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      Lock icon Sad Lions could be on plane home very soon
      332 17  -  THE TIGER CUP Zaki Amrullah IT WAS there for all to see last night: The gulf in standards between Singapore and Laos. Yet, the Lions could only muster three goals past the amateurish Laotian defence, the third one deep into injury
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      Lock icon ON THIS DAY
      21 18 IN 1996, Chelsea signed diminutive wizard Gianfranco Zola for £4.5 million (Ssll.l million) from Serie A side Parma.
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    • Cheers & JEERS
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        Lock icon Ewing’s a really big man
        440 18 He offers a kidney to his pal Mourning AP CHEERS ‘IF IT MATCHES, IT’S HIS’ TAKE your hat off to Patrick Ewing. He has offered to donate one of his kidneys to Alonzo Mourning if the ailing Miami Heat centre ever needs a transplant. “You
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      Lock icon ON THE BPX THIS WEEKEND
      292 18 Eyesport takes a pick of the top four clashes that will keep you glued to your seat. Keep an eye on the show times. TIGER CUP 2000: Singapore vs Vietnam KICKOFF: Saturday, 8 pm (live), Sportscity In 1998 in Vietnam, Singapore embarrassed the hosts when
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      Lock icon POWER RANKINGS
      827 19 National Basketball Association It’s only been a week since the opening of the NBA season but the highs and lows are already a good indication of the teams that will be in contention for the championship. EYES PORT presents the first edition of the weekly NBA POWER PANKINQS.
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  • Unwind
    • Music
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        Lock icon BROWN sugar and SPICE
        1113 20 Small, loud and with a mane that has made her instantly recognisable, Melanie Brown is determined to demonstrate the Spice Qirls are still alive and influential. RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) tracked down “Scary” Spice to talk about the group's new release, Forever. ONDAY morning. L T J
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        Lock icon Forever and never again?
        409 21  -  Clara Chow FOREVER (VIRGIN) The Spice Girls THE trick to listening to any Spice Girls album is to put it on infinite repeat. After the fourth or fifth listen, the tracks will separate themselves from the general haze of bland R&B to sound half-way catchy. It’s
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        Lock icon Not blur like sotong
        765 22 POP ROCK THE BEST OF Blur (Virgin) RIGHTLY or not, Blur has been regarded as one of Brit pop’s intelligensia, if only because of the band members’ ability to turn interviews into mumbling sessions, confusing journos with non-answers that seemed to make sense during the interview.
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      • Music GOSSIP
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          Lock icon Pop icons fair game for Sporty Spice
          171 23 DEPRESSED Spice Girl Mel C has launched a blistering three-pronged attack on rivals Westlife, Robbie Williams and her former band mate Geri Halliwell. At the launch of their new album Forever on Monday, Sporty Spice ripped the three pop icons breathlessly. “Robbie’s just
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          Lock icon Macy Gray’s obsession
          74 23 SINGER Macy Gray, named most fashionable female artist by VHI/Vogue, has an obsession with designer clothes. She can’t go through a day without wearing something expensive. “I may wear sweats, but I always have on one or two pieces like some hot shoes or a Louis Vuitton
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          Lock icon Oops..they’re sliding again
          107 23  -  June Wan TEEN sensation Britney Spears has been having a spot of chest trouble. The sexy teenager, who has been persistently dogged by reports she’s had a boob job, had an embarrassing moment while filming her 00p5...1 Did It Again video. The wardrobe people decided something extra
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        Lock icon Goodbye to despair
        583 23 POPIROCK THE MARK, TOM AND TRAVIS SHOW (THE ENEMA STRIKES BACK) Blink 182 (Universal) “YOU know what the best part of falling in love is? It’s the oral sex.” So goes the introduction to Track 5, Going Away To College. If this perturbs, Blink 182 is obviously
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    • Food
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        Lock icon A few good hens
        565 24 Chicken Rice War? That's in the movies. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) finds that the action brewing between chicken rice sellers is in pots of chicken stock. O, IT’S not a war. But the battle for the best chicken rice is tough, in a country where there’s no
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        Lock icon Pick of the chicks
        510 24  -  Angelica Tan Chatterbox Mandarin Hotel Opens: Twenty-four hours, but chicken rice is only served from 11.30 am to 3.45 am. Price: $l7 THERE’S much talk about this chicken rice, which bagged The Best Chicken Rice Award from The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board. At $l7, it is
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        Lock icon Chicken rice odes
        255 25 Stars of the Chicken Rice War and local celebrities tell us where they head for their favourite chicken rice. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw.sph.com) reports. Pierre Png as Fenson Wong (far left) At TCS, we have this stall that sells one of the best chicken rice in town. Not
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        Lock icon Saucy, pricey and very classy
        591 26 La Fete boasts an old world charm and very fine food, as ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) finds out OOD alone does not Pmake a great meal. Ambience, service and good company all add to the experience. With the exception of dining companions, La Fete delivers the
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      • Pick of the EATS
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          Lock icon Oscar’s goes Egyptian
          112 26 OSCAR’S at Conrad International is having a Cairo food promotion. Executive sous chef Michael Aziz Manghrous has flown in from the Egyptian capital to whip up a buffet of Middle-Eastern delights. Starters include vine leaves with yoghurt sauce, hummus salad, and shrimp salad Port Said style, while
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          Lock icon Something fishy
          98 26 NOVEMBER brings a harvest from the seas of Hokkaido. And Keyaki at Pan Pacific has hauled in some of the fresh catch. Among the dishes are ishikari nafae(Hokkaido seafood and vegetables in miso broth served in a claypot), ika okizuke (cuttlefish marinated in special soy sauce), hotategai motoyaki
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          Lock icon Flavours of Malaysia
          80 26 NO NEED to rush across the Causeway now. ANA Hotel’s Cafe-in-the-Park is having a Flavours of Malaysi promotion from Nov 11 to 19. To singe your tastebuds are push-cart hawker delights such as assam laksa, Penang curry mee, mee rebus and ayam panggang. Also try the beef
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          Lock icon Hawker’s Pick:
          91 26  -  Angelica Tan 132 Mee Pok Kway Teow Mee 15 Upper East Coast (offjalan TuaKong) Soy Eu Tua Coffeeshop Opens: 7.30 am to 5.30 pm (Closed on Mondays ana Public Holidays) HERE’S a real mee pok man who can deftly whip up a steamy bowl of mee pok in
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      33 25 If you’ve ever wondered what makes Chatterbox chicken rice from the Mandarin Hotel taste the way it does, log on to httpV/eyebalL asial.com.sg, for the coveted recipe and information on chicken rice preparation.
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  • Tube Talk
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      437 27 SIGNS of maleness: Because I’m a man, when I lock my keys in the car, I will fiddle with a wire clothes hanger and ignore your suggestions that we call a locksmith until long after the cellphone batteries have gone dead. Because I’m a man, when I
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      389 27 Complete television listings can be found aSial.COm.Sg m s Neesori takes to a sword in the Scottish epic, Rob Roy. Movies Easy Money 1 pm Star Movies 58 A slob with an abundance of revolting personal habits desperately tries to mend his ways in one year in order to meet
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      112 28 LOOKS like David Beckham isn’t the only one with a fetish for the wife’s drawers. Thuggish actor Billy Bob Thornton (above) has confessed that he has a penchant for wearing his wife Angelina Jolie’s skimpy underthings to the gym, reports IMDb.com. He admitted he was a little
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      62 28 A TOTAL of 150 bricks removed from the small Liverpool childhood home where John Lennon was raised by his Aunt Mimi in the 1950 s will be up for auction on the Internet next week at a time when Beatlemania appears as frenzied as ever. The auction
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      115 28 APPARENTLY, British actress Liz Hnrley still gets Bedazzled in the company of other thespians and acts the fool as a result. The brunette beauty, who might lose an Estee Lauder contract to starlet Gwyneth Paltrow, admitted to IMDb.com that she is often star-struck when she meets big
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      201 28 ALREADY a huge presence on the Internet, boobsy bombshell Pamela Anderson (left) has launched her own website, www.PamTV.Corn. “I think the only way to control your image on the Internet is to create your own,” the former star of TV’s bouncy Baywatch told Entertainment
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      109 28 BRITISH actress Kate Winslet (above), star of the blockbuster film Titanic, was immersed in a real water drama yesterday when floods threatened her riverside home. Winslet, who gave birth to daughter Mia last month, and husband Jim Threapleton are hoping sandbags will protect their historic home on an
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        34 28 BIDS for Elvis Presley’s US army uniform failed to reach the reserve price of £25,000 (5561,875) at a London auction on Wednesday. The highest bid was a paltry £7,000.
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        59 28 POP princess Britney Spears may do it again with a new work of fiction. The pop star and her mother, Lynne Spears, are expected to co-write a Mother’s Day parable for release in 2001... After a knee-injury put her out of commission for several weeks, Nicole Kidman
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