Project Eyeball, 4 December 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Monday, December 4, 2000 80 CENTS
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      566 1 TRADESECRETS Ernest Hemingway wrote standing up, Anne Rice talks to her characters, while Marcel Proust preferred working in a cork-lined room, before sampling the nightly pleasures of Paris. See Page 21 T2B HAS HIGHEST RADIATION LEVELS So, if you use this popular Ericsson mobile phone, you’re absorbing six times more
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  • EYEBALL NEWS
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      209 2 IF YOU want a wife who will not nag and let you be, here’s a great way to do it marry an idiot box. That’s not as weird as you think. Mitch Hallen of Australia has just taken a television set as his wife. Hallen, who is twice divorced,
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      Lock icon Give a little
      224 2 PM Goh asks better-off to donate half a per cent of their salary WHAT’S half a per cent of your salary? If you think that isn’t much, why not make it count -by donating it? That’s what Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong wants the better-off to do,
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      Lock icon South African wins marathon
      150 2 SOUTH AFRICA’S Nikon Nkodima ran his way past 1,200 runners to win the biennial 10th Singapore International Marathon 2000, which was flagged off at 6 am yesterday. Nkodima clocked two hours, 27 minutes and seven seconds. South African Zacharia Mosala came in second with a time
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      Lock icon All news reports biased, says poll
      198 2 ALL news reports are biased more than half of 5,049 people who responded to a Channel News Asia’s online poll on media bias think so. The results come at a time when local media giants Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and the Media Corporation of
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      Lock icon New initiatives to boost training
      131 2 TWO new initiatives to boost training in the key manufacturing industries of wafer fabs, chemicals and life sciences were announced yesterday. The announcement was made by Dr Tan Chin Nam, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Manpower, at the launch of the First Choice Careers
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      Lock icon StarHub users get ‘loyalty’ reward
      135 2 MOBILE service provider Star Hub is extending its Free Incoming Calls (FIC) promotion for another three years for all its existing customers on post-paid mobile plans as away of saying “thank you” for their loyalty. Customers save up to 50 per cent on their monthly
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      Lock icon Call for volunteers retracted
      47 2 THE National Heart Centre’s call last week for volunteers for research into cardiovascular disease was retracted on Friday. A spokesperson for the organisation said it felt this was “the wrong channel” to go about getting volunteers, and they preferred to contact patients directly.
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      232 3 CAFE CANAVERAL I Space shuttle Endeavour’s astronauts are working on the international space station to install the largest and most powerful solar wings ever deployed in space. MEXICO CITY On his first full day as Mexico’s president, Vicente Fox scored a major victory, bringing to the negotiating table
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      Lock icon Thousands march for unity in Australia
      120 3 AP MELBOURNE Hundreds of thousands of people marched through two state capitals yesterday in rallies to support reconciliation between black and white Australians. Several senior government although not prime minister John Howard took part in a rally which blocked traffic for hours in downtown
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      Lock icon Police crack down on Irian Jaya rebels
      218 3 Wires JAYAPURA Police in Indonesia’s Irian Jaya province yesterday stepped up their crackdown on separatism raiding a Pro-independence headquarters, rounding up 47 people but keeping only two under arrest. More than 200 armed riot police took over the Irian Jaya Arts and Cultural
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      Lock icon Israel to cooperate with inquiry
      170 3 Wires JERUSALEM In a change of heart, Israel yesterday said it would cooperate with an international inquiry into nine weeks of Israeli-Arab violence in which at least 293 people mostly Palestinians have been killed. Dropping its initial reluctance, Gilead Sher, a senior aide to prime
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      34 2 Qood morning! 4 4 Showers with thunders are expected in the late afternoon and early evening affecting most areas, partly cloudy'thereafter e1,4 High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 5.03AM/2.3M 3.45PM/2.4M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/metsin
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      40 3 For more on Australia’ indigenous people and their unique culture, log on to these sites: http://quest.classroom. com/australia2ooo Join this interactive expedition for insights into the ancient culture of the Aborigines http:/ www.immi. gov.au/ Learn about the Australian ideal of multiculturalism
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  • EYEBALLING THE NEWS
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      Lock icon Tragic loss
      347 4 o 8.30 pm Wong Wee Chieh, his girlfriend Tay Sim Sin, Lim Chew Woon and another girl were spotted dancing on a raft approximately 35m from the shore just beyond the Main Stage area. 9 I At around 8.45 pm, the four jump into the water in an
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      Lock icon Sentosa death: party’s over
      713 4  -  Organisers say security measures at Zouk Out adequate but questions remain By Karl Ho karl@sph.com.sg ULTIMATELY, it was not drugs or alcohol-soaked belligerence that cast a pall on Zouk Out, but the death of party-goer Wong Wee Chieh, 21. That was the regrettable circumstance of the
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  • Singapore
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      Lock icon PAP seeks to woo globally savvy young S’poreans
      572 5  -  But will keep itself firmly moored to nation’s values By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg A NEW world order has dawned on the local political scene. And with a General Election looming, the People’s Action Party has begun psyching up to face the ruling
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      46 5 Abdullah Tarmugi Goh ChokTong Prof S Jayakumar BG Lee Hsien Loong Lee Kuan Yew Lim Boon Heng Lim Hng Kiang Lim Swee Say Dr Tony Tan RAdm Teo Chee Hean Wong Kan Seng BG (NS) George Yeo Dr Aline Wong (co-opted) Yeo CheowTong (co-opted)
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      Lock icon PAP looks for minister material
      586 5  -  CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT Sue-Ann Chia WANTED: People who are able to anticipate trends, form accurate judgements, make sound decisions and handle a great deal of responsibility. The People’s Action Party is hunting for “a few more ministers” of the highest calibre to complete the
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    • Preparing to ride the next wave
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        Lock icon Breathing life into the life sciences in Singapore
        1091 6  -  STARTING OUT By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg LIFE sciences. That’s the latest buzzword in town. Just last year, there were a mere 76 articles with the words “life sciences” appearing in the local English press. This year, excluding December, there have been
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        224 6 Paul Eric Roca Post-graduate NUS’s new eight-year MBBS-Phd course for graduates aims to train independent researchers. Spending by NUS and Economic Development Board (EDB): $ll million (for first five years). national University of Singapore (NUS) Building new life sciences centre in 2004 and will introduce a new degree.
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        Lock icon Cloning okay, says Anglican church
        333 7 AFTER-EFFECTS ABROAD LONDON The Church of England has entered the controversy over embryo research, suggesting that cloning human embryos is no more unnatural than say, a heart transplant, reported the Electronic Telegraph yesterday. A briefing paper prepared for the Church’s Board for Social Responsibility dismisses
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        363 7 LONDON They may be the hottest shares around, but buying a stake in a life sciences company these days can be a harrowing experience. Britain’s Special Branch police have just warned shareholders of Huntingdon Life Sciences that their families, homes and cars were at risk. Many shareholders
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        Lock icon CANCER-FIGHTING EGGS
        233 7 LONDON The scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep have created “designer chickens”, whose eggs may help produce drugs to fight cancer, reported the Mail on Sunday. They have altered the hens’ genetic make-up so the whites of their eggs are rich in tailored proteins which will form the
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      Lock icon Region’s tallest Xmas tree
      156 8 SEVEN STOREYS HIGH THE region’s tallest “live” Christmas tree was lit last night while it “snowed” in the park next to the Orchard MRT station. The tree was officially lit by Minister for Trade and Industry BG George Yeo, while a snow machine projected snow over
      Yen Meng Jiin  -  156 words
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      Lock icon Hospitals join battle vs the bulge
      580 8  -  Tan Tock Seng and Alexandra’s goal is to make patients lose weight slowly but surely By Dawn Lee dawnlee@sph.com.sg IT’S a familiar story. For 10 years, Rebecca Jacobs tried everything to lose weight. She went on milk and biscuit diets, three months on cabbage
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      26 5 How can the Government better understand the young? How can the feedback processes be tweaked to show the Government values their opinions? Tell us at aslaLcoDLsg
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      26 6 Singapore is rushing into the field of life sciences. Should we not spend some time exploring the ethical issues involved as well? Tell us at asial.com.sg
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      38 8 Read about Alexandra Hospital’s Weight Management Programme. Click on Services, and then on Special Programmes. http://www.alexhosp.com.sg Tan Tock Seng hasn’t set up a site for its programme yet, but it does offer info on nutrition and diet. http://www.myttsh.com.sg
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  • The World
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      552 9 Boeing just metres from F15 in mid-air LONDON They were heading for a year-end holiday in Paphos, but came within 30 m of a fiery mid-air collision and death. A British 757 holiday jet packed with 234 passengers came within 30 m of crashing
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      Lock icon Want to sit on Godzilla’s lap?
      53 9 Where most malls have Santa Claus, Tokyo’s Aqua City Odaiba shopping mall has a gigantic Godzilla. The 5.5 m Christmas display, made with the same material used for Christmas trees and bedecked with 2,000 light bulbs, welcomes visitors to the shopping mall during the
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      Lock icon Anti-cancer pill works against rare leukaemia
      456 9 NOVARTIS’ GLIVEC LONDON A new experimental anti-cancer pill with fewer side effects but which has produced dramatic effects is offering hope to thousands of leukaemia victims. Tests have shown that the pill, which is to be launched next year, saved the lives of up
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      Lock icon After Banana Bandit, it’s Twiglet Terror
      403 10 NEW BREED OF HOLD-UP ARTISTS LONDON Twiglet Terror is the new top banana among the British fruit and vegetable villains. Last week, Anthony Newton, a 57-year-old unemployed man, held up a wine merchant armed with only a Twiglet -a savoury wholewheat snack that looks
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      Lock icon Oxford Street merchants want to fine slow walkers
      331 10 LONDON The next time you take a leisurely stroll, window shopping down Oxford Street, don’t be surprised if you get fined. A group of London businessmen are so fed up with the sloth-like progress of walkers down Britain’s busiest shopping street that
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      Lock icon UK plan to snoop on everyone
      378 10 Cops want all calls, e-mails stored LONDON Britain’s intelligence services are seeking powers to seize all records of telephone calls, e-mails and Internet connections made by every person in Britain, reported the Observer yesterday. MIS, MI6 and the police are demanding the Home Office
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      276 11 TERRORISTS MAKE £20,000 A WEEK LONDON The next time Britons pick up a counterfeit computer game, perhaps they should spare a thought for where the money they fork out will eventually end up. Outwardly, the garish design on the cover of the hit computer
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      Lock icon Mobile phones radiating danger?
      598 11 Higher emission levels in new models LONDON Are you carrying an Ericsson T2B mobile phone? Well, if you are, you have the mobile phone that emits the highest level of radiation among 28 of the world’s most popular handsets, says the largest survey conducted on the
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      44 9 Read and learn more about cancer. http://www.cancer careinc.org/campaigns/ workplacel.htm Tips on how to deal with cancer in the workplace. http:// www.cancer.org/ year profile.html Caroline Strother, 6, survived cancer twice. Read about her struggles and hopes. http:// www.cis.nci. nih.gov Information from America’s National Cancer Institute.
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      30 11 For more on mobile phones, log on to: http://www.quickwiz. com/prodinfo/ antiraddata.html All you want to know about mobile phone radiation. http://www.tassie.net. au/emfacts/mobiles/ hvland.htm Symptoms of exposure to mobile phone radiation.
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  • Technology
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      Lock icon Built-to-order cars, anyone?
      312 12 Car-makers see it as a cure for the ailing industry Reuters STRASBOURG Want to buy a BMW off the shelf? Better do it now. That’s because the German luxury car-maker has said that by the end of this year, its European business will all be built-to-order. And
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      451 12  -  DELL INSPIRON 4000 By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg IF LAPTOPS were ice-creams, the Dell Inspiron 4000 would be vanilla, with a sprinkling of chocolate chips. Good, wholesome and dependable but nothing to “ooh” and “aah” about. It just doesn’t have anything remarkable enough to give it
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      Lock icon Regional gaming contest to launch game pad
      304 12 IF YOU are a gaming enthusiast, this one’s for you. Play it right and you could be jetting off to a four-day, three-night all-expenses paid trip to Thailand. That’s where the Logitech Interactive Gaming Contest Asia’s regional tournament will be held. Sun, sand,
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  • Business
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      Lock icon British journalists may have to declare stakes
      392 13 REPORTING ETHICS LONDON Journalists could face jail or heavy fines if they fail to disclose any financial interests they might have in companies which they write about, reported London’s Sunday Times yesterday. The penalties are part of proposed changes by the British Treasury.
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      Lock icon Money for nothing
      58 13 Protesters pressing for the relief of Third World debt in London on Saturday. Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced his intention to forgive more than £i billion (£52.5 billion) in debt from 41 of the world’s poorest countries, provided they can ensure the money goes
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: http://www. cqvalue.com.sg
      126 13  - BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: http:/ /www. cqvalue.com.sg Kelvin Wong IN TODAY’S fast-paced wireless world, we all want information on the move, anytime and anywhere. CKS Property Consultants’ Internet portal is a 24-hour property valuation service for financial institutions, companies and individuals. Rather than wait weeks for an offline valuation
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      Lock icon Good time to tap tech stocks, say analysts
      543 13 But low trading expected as market slides into pre-holiday doldrums Reuters SINGAPORE Stock-market investors, looking to position themselves for the next quarter, might want to start picking up good-val-ue technology stocks this week, said fund managers and analysts. They might also start
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      277 14 V To all, who were wondering where we had disappeared to for the past 6 months, meet our "excuse baby fluettd. Patsy Alvin, together with Huetta's Grandma, Mah 2 Kong 2 To all my aunties and uncles -a smile from me to brighten your day! Love from JdTTett. (Daddy mommy:
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      296 15 Hi! Friends and relatives, the arrival of our precious little princess, Nur Haziqah Bte Mohdßezal, on 8/9/2000, has brought us joy and laughter. NoorZanariah Mohd Rezal To all who know us announcing the arrival of Pierre Russell Ho to his fortunate andproudparents, Ivor and Regina whose lives have been changed
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  • Mailbox
    • Wry TECH
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        Lock icon Lights, camera, technology!
        466 16  -  By John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg DON’T you often come out of a movie and think: Boy, if that girl had used a lithium battery instead of NiCads on her cellphone, it would have lasted a few more hours and she would’ve been able to call for help and
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      • Article
        Lock icon Multi-lingual URLs just another money-making move
        412 16 ‘Net addresses for S’pore firms next year’ (Dec 1, 2000) COME next year, companies in Singapore will be keeping Chinese Internet addresses with Chinese characters in addition to the current ones they have in English. Is this multi-lingual system a positive move, or should
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Parma wins
        63 17 AFP MILAN- Goals from Sabri Lamouchi and Sergio Conceicao ensured that Parma defeated Atalanta 2-0 to end the side’s record as the last unbeaten outfit in the Serie A. Lamouchi’s early strike and Conceicao’s late solo effort settled the encounter. Italian champions Lazio tuned up for Wednesday’s vital
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        Lock icon N’Diefi bags three
        112 17 Reuters PARIS Striker Pius N’Diefi scored a hat-trick to help Sedan sink troubled Paris St Germain 5-1, as Nantes tamed En Avant Guingamp 2-1 to take over at the top of the Le Championnat. Overnight leaders Girondins Bordeaux slumped 1-0 at Troyes, striker Sladjan Djukic netting the
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        54 18 AP BERLIN Hertha Berlin went to the top of the German league after a 2-2 draw against SC Freiburg and hung on to the top spot even after Bayern Munich later beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-0. Berlin and Leverkusen both have 28 points, but Berlin lead because of
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        Lock icon Making the peace
        93 18 Reuters BERLIN Bayern Munich commercial manager Uli Hoeness and his Bayer Leverkusen counterpart Reiner Calmund have ended a bitter dispute between Germany’s top two clubs. “We sat together for an hour, talked about everything and cleared all the problems,” Hoeness said. Calmund had criticised Hoeness for his
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        51 18 Reuters MADRID Spanish champions Deportivo Coruna knocked Valencia off the top of the Spanish first division with a 2-0 victory at Espanyol. Second-half goals from Fernando and Roy Makaay ended Espanyol’s six-match unbeaten run and sent the Galician side to the top of the league with 27
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        Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
        45 18 DID you know that Dutchman Johan Cruyff insisted that he get the No 14 jersey while in his very first year at Ajax Amsterdam? He insisted on it because he said that he won his first-ever cup at the age of 14!
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        Lock icon Kuerten, Agassi win
        99 19 AP LISBON Gustavo Kuerten rallied to oust defending champion Pete Sampras, and will finish the year as No 1 if he can beat Andre Agassi in the final of the Masters Cup. In a thrilling match, Kuerten fought back to win 6-7,6-3,6-4. In the first semi-final, Agassi
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        Lock icon Maier dominant
        45 19 AP BEAVER CREEK (Colorado) Hermann Maier continued his dominance at Beaver Creek, winning a World Cup downhill for his seventh victory in nine races on the Birds of Prey course. Skiing aggressively, the Austrian covered the 2.7-km course in one minute 40.66 seconds.
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        60 19 AFP LAKE LOUISE (Canada) Women’s World Cup downhill ski champion Renate Gotschl of Austria won the World Cup Super-G event in one minute and 11.28 seconds, in a perfect response to accusations of cheating. The row erupted when Italian skier Isolde Kostner claimed she saw Gotschl remove insoles
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        Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
        32 19 DID you know that Alberto Bomba, the Italian skiing champion, won five Olympic medals? He retired in 1998 to pursue acting, but not before winning 50 World Cup events.
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      39 17 "I LOOKED at their teamsheet and they are not a bad side. They have people like Karembeu on the bench and he’s supposed to be a world-class player.” West Ham manager Harry Redknapp on Middlesbrough.
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      Lock icon Dogged Derby crawls up table
      417 17  -  It ends Ipswich’s four-game winning streak By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg IT’S great news indeed that Manchester United stretched their lead at the top of the Premiership to eight points with their 2-0 win over Tottenham Hotspurs. But let’s spare some thought, too, for bottom-of-the-table clubs
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    • Premier POINT
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        Lock icon Terry’s no puts Robson in a bind
        370 17  -  By Chris Lakey eyesports@eyeball.com.sg TERRY Venables just cannot keep himself out of the news, can he? When his media demands proved too much for Middlesbrough, he was forced to turn down the request to help his old buddy Bryan Robson. But he was
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      Lock icon Duel on the green
      539 18 Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods neck and neck in Williams World Challenge AP THOUSAND Oaks (California) Sergio Garcia hit into the water and took a double-bogey on No 18, but still finished with a 3-under 69 to lead Tiger Woods by one shot in the Williams
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      Lock icon Players get their Christmas wish
      545 18 WESTPHAL’S SACKING Lat-wp CHICAGO The fall of Westphal: Game over. Cuckoos win again. Paul Westphal, a nice, easygoing guy and one especially loved by his coaching peers, was axed by the Seattle Super Sonics last week, and the only question was: What kept them? Westphal’s
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      Lock icon England on top of rugby world
      809 19 After beating Australia and South Africa, rivals would love to clobber it Reuters LONDON English rugby may have been hit by an unprecedented strike in the last two weeks, but the national team’s stock is rising fast in world rugby after they dispatched two
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon The Last Supper
      677 20 Move over Dickens, here comes Singaporean Christmas carols. Starting today, Eyeball presents the first in a series ofyuletide stories by local authors. In this instalment, WONG ZTJTA (zijia@hotmail.com) tells of a Christmas present that spells doom. tixr VT HAT nonsense! We’ve never even celebrated Christmas before, and
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    • Books
      • Book MARKS
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          Lock icon E-book standards
          73 21 WHAT with all the hype about e-books recently, the inevitable has happened. The Association of American Publishers and Andersen Consulting has come up with e-book standards. Experts have recommended that the descriptive metadata (the code that makes it easier for search engines to look for Internet documents) of
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          Lock icon Tangerine dream
          66 21 THE winner for Singapore’s answer to the Orange fiction prize has been finally announced. Organised by myepb.com, the Tangerine Award has been awarded to Daren Shiau (above), for his short story. Wingless. Shiau, best known for his debut novel, Heartland, which won the National Book Development Council’s Singapore
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          Lock icon The full bounty
          85 21  -  Clara Chow REALITY TV is all the rage, so why not reality publishing? St Martin’s Press has snapped up Janet Evanovich’s book that details the lives of contemporary bounty hunters. Told through real-life anecdotes, portraits and interviews, the non-fiction book about “the whole crazy business” changed hands
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        Lock icon The write stuff
        572 21 CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph .com.sg) examines the creative process that is writing, and finds that destroying mental blocks on the way to a bestseller can involve some pretty bizarre behaviour. There is so much fuss about working from home and telecommuting that people seem to forget that authors
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        Lock icon LOCAL QUIRKS
        144 21 “I can’t do without a smooth ball-point pen when I’m writing my stories. I buy 50 at a time. They’re Pilot uni-ball. Black ink.” Catherine Lim, 58, novelist “I write best when I’m lonely or depressed. Usually the blues will hit me exactly at 11 pm. Then I’ll
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        Lock icon Sharply sinister
        1175 22 BARCELONA PLATES Alexei Sayle (Sceptre) $19.52 at Borders THINK: Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction mixed with Irvine Welsh’s novels, but with older people. These short stories bite sharply. Banal situations are given wickedly comic, sinister twists, which swell into a sense that there is something fundamentally wrong with the world.
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        Lock icon Changing Asia
        569 23 THE NEW ASIAN HOUSE Robert Powell (Select) $55 ASIAN ARCHITECTS 1 2 Tan Kok Meng (Select) $65 each. All from Select Books 0ICKof those oh-so-pretentious design books full of photos and little else that are all the vogue these days? Take heart in these three slick volumes hot
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        Lock icon MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN
        174 23  -  Clara Chow Salman Rushdie It’s about: Saleem Sinai, born at midnight on India’s Independence Day. His magical life history, encompassing a cacophony of eccentric family members, mirrors that of his nation. Won: The Booker Prize in 1981. Was chosen as the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best of
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    • TV
      • TV TATTLE
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          Lock icon Rebel in the house
          104 24 NOW that wayward teen Mary (Jessica Biel) has been shipped off to her grandparents, what are the writers of 7th Heaven to do? In a twist only Aaron Spelling could finesse, patriarch Eric Camden (Stephen Collins) has invited Mary’s rebellious boyfriend Robbie to shack up with
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          Lock icon Just Shoot Me star gets shot
          80 24 DAVID Spade was assaulted in his home by his personal assistant during an apparent robbery attempt on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. David Molley attacked the 36-year-old Just Shoot Me star with a stun gun, but fled the scene by the time police arrived.
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          103 24  -  Siti Hadijah WHEN he’s not busy with life on the beach and his beautiful co-stars, Baywatch Hawaii hearthrob Michael Bergin watches Barney videos with his 13-month-old son, Jesse. While celebrating Thanksgiving at his parents’ home, Bergin did nothing but stare at the annoying purple dino. “There
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        211 24 IF YOU’VE faithfully followed the series, retrospective Ally viewing can prove to be painfully fraught with foreshadowing and dramatic irony. As most couchies know by now, the Ally Mcßeal (Calista Flockhart) saga began with her childhood sweetheart Billy (Gil Bellows), whom she continues to be obsessed
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          586 24 Idiosyncratic attorney Ally Mcßeal returns to TV, but in a pointlessly condensed sitcom format. JEAMMARITi TAN (jeanm @sph. com. sg) revisits snippets from the rehashed first season, and finds herself doing more gagging than giggling. Prepare to be assaulted by McBealisms again. Just when you thought Ally McBeal’s
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        611 25 Cox News It’s been a while since Emmy Award-winning Tyne Daly chased down crooks in Cagney b' Lacey. KEVIN THOMPSON (pedas@eyeball .com.sg) pays tribute to TV's most honoured actress at 5 4 and star of CBS's hit series Judging Amy. OUR years ago, PTyne Daly turned 50.
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        427 25  -  By Michael Stroh Lat “THE clicker”, “the zapper”, “the doofer” -by whatever name, the television remote control is the grandfather of all gadgets; blamed for ballooning waistlines and strained relationships. This year, the gizmo is 50 years old. We can hardly remember life without it.
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        665 26 Despite politically sensitive scenes, audience of the Asian Boys Vol i get to see the play in its entirety. TAN DAWN WEl (dawntan@sph.com.sg) reports. ON’T, for even one minute, be lured by the pictures of Peter Sau in drag, Benjamin Heng in undies clutching a pink furry bunny,
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        411 26  -  By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg DESPITE his much acclaimed craft, the Best Director trophy at any award ceremony just keeps eluding Taiwanese director Ang Lee. His hit swordfighting saga, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon swept a total of six awards on Saturday night in Taipei, including
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      225 27 WHAT if Dr Seuss wrote technical manuals? If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an
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      583 27 iiiiiiii 3 H L t m mm, zfia Mam I 1 Adventurers find themselves in a dangerous bit of monkey business in Michael Crichton’s Congo. Movies Dead Husbands 10 pm Cinemax 59 Nicolette Sheridan stars in the hilarious black comedy as Audrey, the beautiful wife of Dr Carter Elston (John
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      Lock icon Clooney fears Sinatra’s ghost
      141 28 GEORGE Clooney (left) fears being haunted by Frank Sinatra (far left) after leading a new Rat Pack in a remake of the 1963 hit, Ocean’s Eleven. The actor will star with Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and Alan Arkin in the new version. In the
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      288 28 SOME supermodels treat their ex-boyfriends like a pair of worn-out Manolo Blahniks, but not Elle Macpherson. The budding actress (left) follows the Down Under tradition of “mateship”, which may explain why she’s been seen with former live-in lover Tim Jeffries over the past few days.
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        118 28 ROCKER Courtney Love claims Prince Andrew recently popped in to her Los Angeles home for a cup of tea. The Bole singer told fans: “My film manager, Jason, arrived at my house when I was in my pyjamas. ‘My friend wants some good
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        105 28 JON Bon Jovi j (right) says he is astounded when people ask about his comeback. Bon Jovi and his band have been j absent from the music scene for five years. But the singer-turned-actor said he never went away. “I never thought that five years away
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        45 28 Wires BJORK was named Best Actress at the European Film Awards for her role in Dancer in the Dark. The movie won Best Picture... Actress Patsy Bensit said any sadness she felt about her divorce from Oasis singer Liam Gallagher is “dead and gone”.
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