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Advertisement444 2000-12-01 1 ARE YOU GONNA GO HIS WAT? Lenny Kravitz talks about his body of work, his new Greatest Hits album, and playing (music) with himself. See Page 26 FUNGIFEVER Never mind your usual garden variety portabellos or shiitake. Mushrooms are big here, in every sense, from giant dried ones to crunchy444 words
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Article143 2000-12-01 2 AN UNIDENTIFIED producer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation didn’t realise he was on air when he made admiring comments about the breasts of a leading politician’s daughter-in-law on election night. He was talking about former beauty queen Juliana Thiessen Day, daughter-in-law of Canadian politician Stockwell Day. His lewd comments143 words
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Article, Illustration521 2000-12-01 2 Petition is a possible first step towards impeachment Wires JAKARTA A group of 151 members of Indonesia’s 500-member Lower House of Parliament have submitted a petition urging parliament to censure President Abdurrahman Wahid and declare he violated the country’s constitution. This is a possible– Wires - 521 words
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Article, Illustration353 2000-12-01 2 Wires JAYAPURA In a show of military might, hundreds of Indonesian troops and police drove in a noisy convoy through the streets of this usually sleepy capital of Irian Jaya yesterday and threatened to use their guns if pro-inde-pendence protests turned violent. Scores– Wires; AFP - 353 words
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Article, Illustration1030 2000-12-01 3 Andrew Chin - Schemes could prove Irresistible By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg IF YOU’RE like many Singaporeans, you’re waiting for high-speed access to become cheaper before you jump onto the broadband wagon and achieve lightning surfing speeds. At this moment, the choices are limited, but what a difference aLuz Ramos - 1,030 words
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Article, Illustration519 2000-12-01 4 Toh Bee Ping - New system will be tested soon By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg IF ENGLISH isn’t exactly your cup of tea, and that’s what is keeping you off the cyberhighway, there’s hope. Come next year, companies in Singapore will have you guessed it ChinesePaul Eric Roca - 519 words
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Article, Illustration684 2000-12-01 5 Joanna Lim - New recruitment method a success By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg YASMIN Mohan wanted to read to young children, but didn’t know exactly where and how to go about doing it. That was until she logged on at the National Volunteer Centre (NVC)’s eMatch, an interactive online volunteerDesmond Wee - 684 words
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Local LOG
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281 2000-12-01 6 THE Asian economic crisis may be a thing of the past, but the aftershocks are being felt even now. The crisis raised doubts about the credibility of Asean and its relevance as a regional organisation, Deputy Prime Minister BG Lee Hsien Loong said. The281 words
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176 2000-12-01 6 THE Prime Minister’s Office has announced the year-end payments for the Civil Service. In addition to their traditional 13-month payment, civil servants will receive a month’s pay in December as their Annual Variable Component, which brings this year’s AVC to 1.75 months. This includes176 words
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86 2000-12-01 6 THE Real Estate and Construction Centre will launch a skill-development programme today to improve the skills and service standards of construction industry workers as well as boost productivity. The Real Estate and Construction Centre is made up of members from the real estate management and86 words
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86 2000-12-01 6 THE research unit of the National Heart Centre (NHC) is seeking volunteers to help in its research into the causes of heart disease. The centre, working in tandem with the Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne, hopes the research programmme will throw new light on86 words
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139 2000-12-01 6 A FLOATING oddity is set to dock in Singapore this month. The world’s largest floating book fair, housed on the world’s oldest active ocean liner, will arrive here on Dec 7 on a mission to spread international understanding and goodwill. Named the Doulos, the139 words
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Article, Illustration62 2000-12-01 6 First Lady S R Nathan being briefed by a member of the Boys’ Brigade on a website for gift donations. Earlier, President Nathan officiated at the opening of the Brigade’s Sharity Gift Box 2000 at Suntec City. In its 13th year, the Gift Box is aYen Meng Jiin - 62 words
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Article, Illustration347 2000-12-01 6 Exhibit to raise money to fight disease COMPASSION goes digital. The campaign for Aids awareness in Singapore has gone online. In a collage of digital artworks, five local and international artists give their take on how technology has altered the understanding of theWang Huifen - 347 words
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Article, Illustration293 2000-12-01 7 Protesters burn effigies in nationwide demonstrations Wires MANILA Tens of thousands of Filipinos burned colourful effigies of President Joseph Estrada in nationwide rallies yesterday, and threatened civil disobedience if Estrada refused to resign over corruption allegations and waited instead for the outcome of his impeachment trial.– Wires; Reuters - 293 words
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World WIDE
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122 2000-12-01 7 Reuters COLOMBO Tamil Tiger rebels blew up a military bus and a navy truck killing at least 12 government security personnel yesterday in northern Sri Lanka. Eight soldiers were killed when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Relam (LTTE) rebels blew up a niilitary– Reuters - 122 words
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Article188 2000-12-01 7 Wires JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was yesterday hit by fresh evidence of sagging Popularity ahead of elections next year. A poll published by the daily 't’edioth Ahronoth showed Barak lose by a large margin to his right-wing predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, if general elections– Wires - 188 words
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Article, Illustration127 2000-12-01 7 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Jailed Malaysian ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim has ended his hospital protest after prison authorities allowed his family to visit him. Anwar, who was admitted on Saturday for a slipped disc, had refused treatment and solid food since Monday to protest against a ban– AFP - 127 words
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Article84 2000-12-01 7 AFP SEOUL Amid a huge outpouring of emotion, 200 Koreans from either side of the divided peninsula’s Cold War frontier, were yesterday reunited with relatives they had not seen for 50 years. A special flight took 100 mainly elderly South Koreans to the North Korean– AFP - 84 words
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Article145 2000-12-01 7 AP LONDON Comparing a woman’s body to a portable cassette player has netted author Sean Thomas one of the least coveted literary prizes The Bad Sex Award. The Literary Review award, which recognises poor or laughable descriptions of sex in British novels, was presented– AP - 145 words
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Article61 2000-12-01 7 AP KUALA LUMPUR A drop in tourist arrivals and in agricultural production due to the haze caused by forest fires three years ago cost Malaysia nearly RMBOO million (***** million). Deputy Environment Minister Zainal Dahlan told Parliament yesterday that the damage from the haze had been– AP - 61 words
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Article, Illustration451 2000-12-01 8 Many allege police excesses AP KUALA LUMPUR Rahmat Mohamed was dragged out of his car and punched repeatedly by policemen until blood poured out of his face and mouth. Mohamad Salim Laldin, who was also in same car said he was beaten until he fell– AP; Reuters - 451 words
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Article571 2000-12-01 8 KEDAH VOTE SENDS A MESSAGE Wires KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian opposition’s surprise victory in a hard-fought by-election is being read as a verdict against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The Parti Keadilan Nasional (National Justice Party) won Wednesday’s vote for the Lunas seat in– Wires - 571 words
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US Elections 2000
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Article, Illustration634 2000-12-01 9 Joan Walsh - Bush is president, but No 2 is doing all the work By Joan Walsh Salon.com WASHINGTON The long national nightmare is over. Indecision 2000 is behind America, and they finally appear to have a new president-elect: Dick Cheney. Consider the evidence: On Monday, Cheney went– Salon.com; Reuters - 634 words
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Article, Illustration518 2000-12-01 9 HOTTEST TICKET IN TOWN The Washington Post WASHINGTON Do the math. The US Supreme Court chamber, a grand but relatively tiny 25- by 28-m room with tall ionic columns and crimson drapes, can hold no more than 400 people. That adds up to– The Washington Post - 518 words
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Article, Illustration619 2000-12-01 10 Investors scared off by plan to tax foreign community’s global earnings, among other factors Reuters JAKARTA Few countries are more desperate than Indonesia for new foreign investors, and probably just as few are so adept at scaring them off, said expatriate businessmen interviewed in Jakarta. Take for– Reuters; AFP - 619 words
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Article, Illustration567 2000-12-01 10 INTERACTIVE TOYS Lat-wp CONSIDER the inaptly named My Dream Baby one of a score of dolls that cry if you don’t feed them or change their clothes or figure out what the heck is bothering them. Then there is the Talking Chef Magic Kitchen, in which– Lat-wp - 567 words
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Article, Illustration82 2000-12-01 11 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS PacCent 37,831,000 88 PCI 19,993,000 105 Omlnd 17,351,000 270 Top 3 Gainers CENTS SPH 2730 60 2.2 UOB 1260 40 3.3 SPH 100 2710 30 1.1 Total number of gainers: 70 Top 3 Losers CENTS Creative 50 2190 230 9.582 words
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Article, Illustration519 2000-12-01 11 Francis Kan; and Nicholas Yong - IMF sticks to its prediction By Francis Kan and Nicholas Yong francisk@sph.com.sg nicyong@sph.com.sg IF YOU are looking high and low for a hard landing of the US economy, look elsewhere it may not happen. While “land” it certainly will, it may not be the519 words
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144 2000-12-01 11 – Nicholas Yong - Nicholas Yong WHAT could be new about a United Overseas Bank’s website that’s undergone a makeover? Try easier credit-card or loan applications. It even boasts a CPF Web-linkup service that allows you to submit your Central Provident Fund statements along with your credit card144 words
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Article253 2000-12-01 11 ASIA'S FAMILY-RUN BUSINESSES NYT HONG KONG The truth is out, and it’s nothing savoury: Asia’s prominent family-run businesses are prone to lining their own pockets, and that too at the expense of small shareholders. That’s the conclusion of an extensive statistical study carried out by two– NYT - 253 words
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Article, Illustration696 2000-12-01 12 Teo Yen Fen - Despite its nondescript looks, the 1640SU packs a hefty punch By Teo Yen Fen y enfen@sph.com.sg THE new Epson Perfection ***** U Photo scanner is targeted at the professionals in small design houses and offices. At first look, it does not impress with its nondescript cream-col-ouredMike Lee - 696 words
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Article225 2000-12-01 12 AFP PARIS A Japanese-made computer will soon be able to detect when airline pilots and traffic controllers are too tired to work safely, thanks to software that analyses patterns in their voice, New Scientist reports. The so-called Fatigue and Drowsiness Predictor looks for a subtle– AFP - 225 words
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Article, Illustration215 2000-12-01 12 BASED ON MPEG4 AFP TOKYO The world’s first vid-eo-streaming services for mobile phones are to be launched in Japan by NTT DoCoMo. The nation’s biggest cellphone carrier said it planned to start the services, based on Mpeg4 technology, for Personal Handyphone System users– AFP - 215 words
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Article442 2000-12-01 13 Eugene Wee - IDA to auction off five new licences for fixed wireless broadband services in February By Eugene Wee eugene@sph.com.sg THE Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has put five more licences under the gavel, and this time they will be for the rights to operate fixed wireless broadband (FWB) services442 words
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Article, Illustration554 2000-12-01 13 CINEMATIC PLAY AP LINES too long at the local multiplex? Game developers say they are hoping video gamers, old and new, will turn to a breed of new computer games that look like movies but play like interactive adventures. Don’t know– AP - 554 words
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Eyeball SAYS
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Article, Illustration802 2000-12-01 14 INDONESIAN President Gus Dur’s invective against Singapore at the close of the Asean summit last week was unbecoming of a statesman, and has already been criticised for being so. At the risk of raising the ire of Singaporeans already incensed by his callous remarks, we sayAP - 802 words
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405 2000-12-01 14 ARE e-books going the way of the neighbourhood dotcom? When Stephen King announced that he had suspended his serial publication of The Plant, speculation was rife. On his website he told both paying and non-paying subscribers that the book would be “going into hibernation405 words
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Miscellaneous28 2000-12-01 2 Qood morning! Partly cloudy. Showers with thunder over most areas in the late afternoon and early evening^ g^. 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 2.50AM/2.6M 1.28PM/2.9M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin28 words
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Advertisement29 2000-12-01 5 Want to be a volunteer? Log on to www.nvc.org.sg to learn how. For a list of what other countries will be doing for IYV 2001, log on to www.iyv.org29 words
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Advertisement34 2000-12-01 8 BN candidate mulls legal action: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/ storv.asp?file=/2000/11/30/nation/ 3003btwc&sec=nation The win may have been Keadilan’s, but it was PAS that stole the show: http://www.nstpi.com.my/z/Current News/MM/Thursday/Frontpage/ **********5408 Lunas will not be anybody’s Waterloo: http://www.nstpi.com.my/z/Current News/BT/Thursday/ Sport/**********424534 words
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Advertisement42 2000-12-01 9 Want to know more about the US Supreme Court? http://www. supremecourtus.gov/about/ photos.html Exterior and interior shots of the US Supreme Court, plus info on the court’s traditions and procedures. http://supct.law, cornell.edu/supct/ The Legal Information Institute has the archives of Supreme Court’s opinions.42 words
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Advertisement31 2000-12-01 10 Still want to buy a My Dream Baby? Order it online before Christmas: http://www. mgae.com What do people think of the Talking Chef Magic Kitchen? http://www. epinions.com/kifm-Toys-All-Talking Chef Magic Kitchen?temp=all rev&rt=mr31 words
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Miscellaneous51 2000-12-01 13 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET 11-17 HSLEW, I THWK POUSS NEW LOOK JS AM ATTEMPT TO WOO YOU! THfNK ABOUT IT! HE'S EMBRAJIWG TEOHMOLOSy AMP HE WAWTS TO BE A FEAR-MOMOER, JUST LIKE you- ...AWARE OF THE }ROWy HERE, ARE you? UH, I MEAKi, UKE you ARE... MOT WHAT? m51 words
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EyeSport
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Sport IN SHORT
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Article, Illustration67 2000-12-01 15 PARIS French winger Christophe Dominici said on Wednesday that he hoped to overcome his illness in time for the start of the Six Nations Rugby championship in February. Dominici, out since late October and treated for depression, told Le Parisien newspaper that he felt he was making goodAFP - 67 words
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Article85 2000-12-01 15 BRISBANE, Australia Chris Riley, a four-time all-American amateur who played in the Walker Cup with Tiger Woods, shot six birdies yesterday en route to a 6-under-par 66 and the First-round lead in the Australian PGA championship. Aaron Baddeley, who won last week’s Australian Open, Australian amateur Adam Scott,– AP - 85 words
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Article35 2000-12-01 15 INTER’S coach Marco Tardelli was voted Man of the Match in Italy’s 1982 World Cup final 3-2 triumph over West Germany? He has also scored six times in 81 appearances for Italy.35 words
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Article73 2000-12-01 16 AP BRISBANE Steve Waugh warned his side against complacency and talked of a possible West Indies comeback on the eve of a second cricket test which starts today. Australia is on the verge of securing a world-record 12 straight wins and becoming the most successful team in test– AP - 73 words
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Article, Illustration76 2000-12-01 16 AFP PERTH-The management of the touring West Indies team is at odds with its Cricket Board over the issue of star batsman Brian Lara having his girlfriend with him on tour. Cricket Board disciplinary committee chairman Lennox John said he feared 19-year-old Lynnsey Ward was distracting Lara from– AFP; AFP - 76 words
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Article35 2000-12-01 16 WELLINGTON India and England won their opening games in the women’s World Cup tournament in Christchurch yesterday. India beat South Africa by eight wickets while. England beat the Netherlands by 140 runs. Reuters– Reuters - 35 words
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Article28 2000-12-01 16 INDIAN legend Kapil Dev, also known as the Haryana Express, has scored 434 wickets and over 5,000 runs in test cricket throughout his playing career.28 words
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Article, Illustration203 2000-12-01 17 Snicks 81 Beat 84 BRIAN Grant had 24 points and nine rebounds, and Anthony Mason added 19 points and 18 boards as the Miami Heat beat the New York Knicks 84-81. Latrell Sprewell scored 12 of his 22 points in the final quarter. Spurs 82 Sings 79 TIMAFP - 203 words
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Article, Illustration78 2000-12-01 18 Ap NEW YORK-Sun Wen, the top women’s scorer and most valuable player in the 1999 Women’s World Cup, was among five Chinese players who signed with the Women’s United Soccer Association (Wusa). Midfielder Liu Ailing, goalkeeper Gao Hong, and defenders Wen Lirong and Fan Yunjie also– Ap; Reuters - 78 words
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Article55 2000-12-01 18 Reuters BARCELONA Barcelona went down 2-1 to a Spanish league selection at the Nou Camp in the annual Game Against Drugs. Dani put the home side ahead with a neat finish from Jari Litmanen’s pull-back after nine minutes of a charity game that included Queen Sofia among– Reuters - 55 words
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Article36 2000-12-01 18 BERLIN SC Freiburg ended Bayer Leverkusen’s unbeaten run with a 3-2 German Cup third round win. Leverkusen had gone 13 competitive matches without defeat, the last four under new coach Berti Vogts. Reuters– Reuters - 36 words
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Article37 2000-12-01 18 “I HAVE no sympathy for my team. This result is hurting me so much and I hope it hurts them.” Newcastle manager Bobby Robson, on his feelings after their 1-2 loss to Birmingham.37 words
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Article, Illustration500 2000-12-01 15 Zaki Amrullah - REDS PUT EIGHT PAST STOKE CITY By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg WHEN Liverpool put eight goals past Stoke City yesterday, the most relieved man on the pitch wasn’t Robbie Fowler. It must have been Gerard Houllier. The French manager must have heaved a sigh ofAP - 500 words
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Article455 2000-12-01 15 Chelsea pleads ignorance to get off FA hook Wires LONDON Even a corny conman would have had trouble thinking this one up. But Chelsea is smart. It has got away with telling the English Football Association that no one had told it that players were not allowed– Wires - 455 words
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Article, Illustration458 2000-12-01 16 MASTERS CUP AP LISBON Two matches, two contrasting versions of Pete Sampras. Next comes the real test. Sampras put himself back in contention for the Masters Cup title by beating Alex Corretja 7-6 (2), 7-5 on Wednesday, one day after losing to Lleyton Hewitt– AP; AFP; Reuters; AP - 458 words
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Article, Illustration424 2000-12-01 16 Both sides happy with ‘positive tone’ Lat-Wp THOUSAND OAKS (California) Tiger Woods is so upset with the PGA Tour, he says he is going to start his own tour. “The Antarctica Tour,” he said. Woods was in a joking mood on Wednesday at Sherwood– Lat-Wp; AP - 424 words
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Article, Illustration834 2000-12-01 17 National Basketball Association For us here at Eye Sport it’s been a great week of basketball We're disappointed with the way the Toronto Raptors have been performing, but we're burning for the Charlotte Hornets. They're this week's best performers, and we believe they will continue to pull offBong Fortin - 834 words
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Article, Illustration721 2000-12-01 18 Montoya told to expect frustration when he races in F1 Wires LONDON As Alex Zanardi braces himself for a rumoured comeback to Cart racing in 2001, he has a warning for the current Champ Car champion Juan Pablo Montoya. The Italian has warned Montoya that his his switch– Wires; AFP - 721 words
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Article, Illustration224 2000-12-01 18 Event: Rugby Union England vs South Africa (Live) Time: Saturday, 10.30 pm, ESPN Star (SCV Ch 24) Why bother: This match renews one of world rugby’s great rivalries. It will be another acid test of the North-South debate. Players to watch out for: Rejuvenated BokAFP - 224 words
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Unwind
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Article, Illustration1016 2000-12-01 19 Mushroom addiction has taken root in Singapore. Not only are fungi species, such as portabellos and chanterelles, getting popular, products such as mushroom essence, sauces and crunchies are in big demand. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) reports. T IS a mushrooming business. With exotic varieties such as portabellos, chanterelles andPictures: Alphonso Chan - 1,016 words
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Food
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Article, Illustration624 2000-12-01 21 ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) checks out Spizzico and comes away suitably impressed by its glorious home cooking. OU can never have Ytoo many. Another Italian restaurant has come to town, and it is conveniently nestled at UE Square Shopping Centre, a stone’s throw from the clubbing hub at Mohamed624 words
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Pick of the EATS
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Article125 2000-12-01 21 THE Red Book at Orchard Hotel opens a new chapter with new five-course menus. Priced at $lB.BO and $28.80 for lunch and dinner, the menus comprise a soup, a salad, a meat dish, a seafood dish and dessert. Highlights include the deep-fried cod, smoked salmon roll, chicken skewers125 words
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Article95 2000-12-01 21 CHEF Gerhar Wieser from Trentino, a mountainous region in Northern Italy, arrives at Prego to tantalise tastebuds with his award-winning recipes. His northern Italian appetisers include smoked bacon, dried sausage and deer ham served with marinated boletus mushrooms. For the main course, choose from spinach speatzli with fresh95 words
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Article, Illustration99 2000-12-01 21 IF YOU’RE hungry for spicy Indonesian food, head down to Palm Terrace at the Royal Plaza on Scotts Road. Highlights of the dishes served include sosis solo (minced beef sausage, solo style), soup huntut gladag (oxtail soup), ayamgoreng periangan (Bandung fried chicken) and daging empal (marinated beef, Jogjakarta99 words
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Article127 2000-12-01 21 – Angelica Tan - Angelica Tan Jia Su #O2-34, Dunman Road Food Centre Opens: 6 am to 11 pm, closed on Mondays IF YOU like your chee cheongfun soft and stuffed with char siew or shrimp, like the ones at dim sum restaurants, try the chee cheong fun at Jia Su. The127 words
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Article, Illustration700 2000-12-01 22 It is highly poisonous and not that tasty. But, as ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) discovers, gourmets still find themselves drawn to the fugu fish. OTS been called the Japanese roulette the next bite might just be your last. Yet, it is with anticipation that manyMike Lee - 700 words
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Article, Illustration370 2000-12-01 22 SWEET AND SAVOURY BREAD-PUDDING AP BREAD-pudding is probably the most traditional of American dishes. It can be found in 18th century cookbooks. But it is also very minimalist no more than dry bread mixed together with milk and eggs and whatever flavour strikes the cook, and– AP - 370 words
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Music
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Article, Illustration935 2000-12-01 23 PIVE-PIECE boyband Westlife made pop history last month when they broke the Guinness Book Of Records for having their first seven singles all hitting the top of the UK charts. Their new album Coast To Coast has also become the fastest selling album in the935 words
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Article, Illustration363 2000-12-01 23 MOST WEEKS ON US BILLBOARD ALBUM CHART: Pink Floyd’s moody opus Dark Side Of The Moon entered the chart in March 1973 and spent the next 741 weeks (that’s over 14 years) there there’s a CD plant in Germany that’s been devoted to pressing just that album.363 words
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POP | ROCK
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Article, Illustration1267 2000-12-01 24 BREATHE Faith Hill (Warner Bros) DISCLAIMER: Do not operate heavy machinery while listening. Any way you disguise her, Faith Hill is country. But ain’t no torch and twang here. Failing any attempt (if indeed any had been made) to imitate the feisty Shania1,267 words
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Article, Illustration133 2000-12-01 24 – Dawn Tan - Dawn Tan ORARIO Tina (Rock Records) JAPANESE R&B powerhouse, Tina is back with a new album that’s adventurous and edgy. While the power lungs still ooze a soulful and sultry sound, the songs here seem to have burst out from the safe confines of the last effort. In fact,133 words
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Article96 2000-12-01 24 Tanya Chua 25, Singer IF TANYA Chua were marooned on an island and her sole indulgence was a choice of three CDs, what would they be? In her words: Plumb by Jonathan Brooke: It’s great for sustained listening. I can’t ever get tired of it. Blue by96 words
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Article156 2000-12-01 25 – June Wan - June Wan ONE of the most influential groups in pre-Britpop UK but named after a French soccer team, St Etienne brought back the Sixties pop aesthetic in the early Nineties, combining it with danceable club beats. Pre Massive Attack, Morcheeba or Everything But The Girl,156 words
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Article159 2000-12-01 25 – Ronald Rajan - Ronald Rajan SIGNING OFF UB40 (Graduate) THE numerous members of ÜB4O were united by two things when they first started out. First, they were desperately poor (the name ÜB4O itself comes from the UK government’s Unemployment Benefit form). Second, they remained true to their Birmingham159 words
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Article, Illustration797 2000-12-01 26 He’s been in the business for n years, and he’s finally released a Qreatest Hits album. Lenny Kravitz talks to DANNEER (pedas@eyeballcom.sg) about playing with himself. DOES having a Greatest Hits collection cause you to take time for reflection? I’m always sort of reflecting on797 words
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Music GOSSIP
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Article102 2000-12-01 26 MADONNA went into a public sulk over a T-shirt she planned to wear on British TV show Top Of The Pops. The Material Girl was furious when a stylist forgot the mystery garment, the third in a series of tributes to other popstrels. (She has already worn T-shirts102 words
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Article79 2000-12-01 26 HE DID it again. When a recent gig at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom drew to a close, Marilyn Manson ripped a page out of the rock concert handbook and trashed his stage set. However, he also trashed his drummer in the process. Manson drummer Ginger Fish (born Kenny79 words
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Article90 2000-12-01 26 – Siti Hadijah - Siti Hadijah TLC star Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes is inviting Madonna and other stars to join her on a solo album. Last year, she challenged bandmates Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas and Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins to a battle of the solo albums, with a US$l.5 million (552.64 million) record company90 words
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Advertisement30 2000-12-01 21 Spizzico #01-13, UE Square Shopping Mall, 81A Clemenceau Ave Tel: 333 6174 Opens: 11.30 am to 2.30 pm and 6.30 pm to 10.30 pm. Till midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.30 words
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Article303 2000-12-01 27 DARK moments in music history: July 18,1966: “Let’s let Ringo sing one. No harm in that, is there?” Sept 22,1968: Baffled by audiences’ lack of enthusiasm about a deaf, dumb and blind shuffleboard champ, Pete Townshend dejectedly heads to a pub to play some pinball over a303 words
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Page 27 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous527 2000-12-01 27 Movies At First Sight 11 pm Star Movies 58 Just how did Mira Sorvino (below) nab an Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite, one will never know. Anyway, she tries desperately to act in this Irwin Winkler movie; she’s a career r--1111 ■H woman who falls for a blind masseur (Val Kilmer).527 words
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The BacK Page
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Article, Illustration169 2000-12-01 28 AFTER 23 years of being battered in wrestling rings around the world, Bret “The Hitman” Hart is ready to reveal some of the squared-circle’s darkest secrets. The profession, he told pagesix.com, has become a twisted circus of money, injury, drug abuse and death. Pressure169 words
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Article133 2000-12-01 28 EARLY previews of the film which brought Rnssell Crowe and Meg Ryan together suggest it isn’t going to be the perfect Christmas for the celebrity couple. Yesterday, according to IMDb.com, invited guests at a packed Los Angeles theatre chortled at scenes in Proof Of Life, which showed133 words
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Article, Illustration77 2000-12-01 28 ACCORDING to the UK Mirror, the new Mrs Michael Douglas may play the first female 00 gent, alongside Pierce Brosnan in the new lames Bond flick, Beyond The Ice. Catherine Zeta-Jones (left) apparently k found time somewhere between having baby Dylan and planning her opulent77 words
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Article, Illustration133 2000-12-01 28 Wires THE company that made giant puppets for ’ll Sync has sued the boy band (left) for selling concert souvenirs that included photos of the figures. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles claims that Sid and Marty Krofft Pictures made the 7.6-metre look-alikes– Wires - 133 words
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Article, Illustration92 2000-12-01 28 WHILE on a break from recording, Lenny Kravitz (above) found himself handcuffed and questioned by Miami police. Kravitz was walking to the gym with his trainer when the two were surrounded by police. The rocker matched the description of a man who had robbed a92 words
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Article89 2000-12-01 28 Wires THE boyfriend of Baby Spice has decided it’s time to marry. Speaking about his two-year relationship with Emma Bnnton, Damage singer Jade Jones said: “We both hope to marry. Emma’s my girl, and I’m so happy with the way things are between the two of us”.. .Doors fans– Wires - 89 words
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