Project Eyeball, 11 December 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Monday, December 11, 2000 80 CENTS
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      548 1 Life Sciences, formerly known as plain old biology, needs more sexing up to attract the whiz kids, says John Lui. See Page 12 'f m*p§| We know who survived, but it’s still a smashing finale. BLAND BOTS Oh no, not Popstars again. Do we want to see The Making Of
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      188 2 JUST call him Mr Claus. A local radio station had offered £2OO (SSSO3) to the first listener who changed his or her name to Santa Claus. A shop worker in West Midlands, England, jumped at the chance. He even had his name officially changed by deed poll. Formerly known
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      443 2 Decision for leadership change lies with PM Goh, says SM Lee IF PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong is in no tearing hurry to call it a day, that’s just fine. Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who handed over the reins to him 10 years
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Politician runs solitary marathon
        219 2 ABOUT 50 people were supposed to run a 42km marathon to commemorate Human Rights Day yesterday. But after the permit to hold the event, organised by the Open Singapore Centre and Think Centre, was denied on Friday, opposition politician Chee Soon Juan decided to pound the
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        Lock icon Rescue teams ‘storm’ CTE tunnel
        285 2 IT COULDN’T get worse. A truck, transporting flammable and corrosive chemicals, collides with a car in the Central Expressway (CTE) tunnel. The tunnel closes and motorists are evacuated. But thankfully, this was just part of an exercise by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and
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      261 3 I NICE The French EU presidency tabled a new working document on the touchy issue of reweighting votes on the governing European Council, which did not give Germany the extra voting power it wanted. rsssssr Romanians began voting in a final presidential election round where former president lon
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      Lock icon Nawaz Sharif in Saudi exile
      277 3 Wires RIYADH More than a year after he was deposed in a coup and imprisoned in a 16th-century fort, former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif yesterday arrived in Saudi Arabia for an indefinite exile and with a pledge to stay away from politics for 21 years.
      – Wires; AFP  -  277 words
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      Lock icon Barak quits to push election
      326 3 Israeli PM’s surprise move aims to pre-empt Netanyahu Wires JERUSALEM In a surprise move, Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday handed his resignation to Israel’s president and set the stage for a snap election within 60 days. Despite the resignation, Barak will remain in office heading
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        818 4  -  Managers afraid they’ll lose control By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg TELECOMMUTING is very much in the air. Mention the word and you have visions of yourself lounging in a deckchair with your laptop, whipping up some great ideas for the next product launch. Nevermind that telecommuting is not
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      Lock icon By the residents, for the residents
      492 5  -  Newspapers forge community identity By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg THE buzzword for these papers is “community”. Forget the big news a nd the world headlines, the community paper focuses on the events and happenings in your neighbourhood. And it is often written by the residents,
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      Lock icon Maid levy to be reviewed next year
      516 5  -  DR LEE’S SUKIT TIMAH DIALOGUE By G Sivakkumaran gsiva@sph.com.sg THE levy for maids and foreign workers will be reviewed sometime next year, said Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang yesterday. But before you say hurray, remember, it could either go down or up. In
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Clearing language barriers
        644 7  -  More brushing up on Mandarin By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg IMAGINE sitting through Mandarin lessons every Sunday. More kids, such as seven-year-old Rini Tan, are doing just that, and enjoying it too. She has been attending Eduplus Language Centre since she was four. And earlier this year,
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    • The World
      • US Elections 2000
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          875 8 Republican candidate likely to win historical case of Bush vs Gore in Supreme Court Wires WASHINGTON At midnight, Singapore time, the US Supreme Court will begin hearing the case of George W Bush vs Albert Gore the first case in the court’s history to have
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        276 8 PLAYING REFEREES AFP WASHINGTON Theoretically the most powerful branch of the US government, the US Supreme Court has nine justices from diverse backgrounds. Appointed by the president and approved by the Senate, justices serve life terms and can be impeached. Their brief sketch: THE CONSERVATIVES
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        678 9 Risque venues now a fad for company parties in UK LONDON Forget hokey ballrooms, cheesy skits and dinky paper hats. This year, the faddish venue for office parties seems to be at tabledancing clubs, at least in London, reports The Telegraph on its website. And it’s
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        271 9 BRIT KIDS TOLD: LONDON Wanted: Model British citizens. The solution? The publication of a textbook to follow compulsory citizenship lessons, reports Britain’s Sunday Times on its website. To be launched this week by education secretary David Blunkett and home secretary Jack Straw,
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    • Technology
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        501 10 Intel to unveil superfast processor based on atom-size transistors AFP SAN FRANCISCO Compared with it, a Pentium 111 would be a bit like a bullock cart trying to compete with a bullet train in speed. Intel Corp’s latest microprocessor can compute at
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        427 10  -  BATTLE ISLE: THE ANDOSIA WAR By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg BATTLE Isle: The Andosia War is a game that defies categorisation. The latest strategy game in the Battle Isle series is part turn-based, part real-time, and feels like a flight sim. And this combination of several
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    • Business
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        537 11 Tech sector slowdown to continue Reuters Singapore if you have bet Vour money on the bluest of Singapore's blue chips, the week ahead may be a bumpy ride for Vou. That’s partly because Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) has recast its weights on
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        35 11 South Korean cyber firm Electronic Micro-commerce System releases e-coins in Seoul to coincide with a ceremony at which South Korean President Kim Dae Jung received the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway yesterday. AFP
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        Lock icon Tills set to ring for IP telephony firms
        283 11 MARKET TO DOUBLE EVERY YEAR Xinhua LOS ANGELES Singapore’s Internet telephone service-provid-ers can rejoice. The Asia-Pacific region will see its Internet Protocol (IP) telephony market expand more than twice each year to equal almost US$7 billion (5512.25 billion) in just five years’
        – Xinhua  -  283 words
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        Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY www.choose ahome.net
        159 11  -  Nicholas Yong IF YOU are a busy executive but wish for a dream condo, this may help. Of course, being a finicky corporate honcho, your list of must-haves must be long: a pool, a gym, shuttle buses, cinemas and so on. Log on
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    • Mailbox
      • Wry TECH
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          Lock icon Life sciences made hip
          656 12  -  By John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg THE problem with the life sciences now is that it’s not cool. It wasn’t cool back when it was known as “biology”. It isn’t any more cool now that it’s “life sciences”. And we do want more kids to be interested in
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          Lock icon A reliable party is what we need
          380 12 ‘YP2I: Young PAP must cast its net wide’ (Online edition, Dec 8) “THERE is no alternative to the PAP in Singapore, nor is it likely that such an alternative will emerge for a very long time. “Either the PAP continues to succeed or
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      50 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 eyenews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5806 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5461 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5461 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5833 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5817 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscription hotline 740-2333 Fax 734-3017 Snail Mall Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore *****7
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      32 2 (food morning! 4 Showers with thunder are expected in the late afternoon and early evening affecting most areas, partly cloudy thereafter. High: 33C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 10.20AM/3.1M 11.58PM/2.8M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      62 4 BROADBAND SOLUTIONS THESE services, which have been launched in the past two months, offer telecommuting solutions that utilise the Internet and data transfer of up to 30 times the speed of current telephone lines. SingTel’s Connect Plus IP-VPN Star Hub’s IP-VPN SCV’s MaxOnline VPN (virtual private network) X Would you
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      130 5 TEE PIPPER CHASE ‘We want to keep residents involved and informed about whats happening in the district so that they can participate in the activities. 5 Yow Kuan Hong general manager of the Bukit Timah CDC CONTENT ARTICLES, most of which are contributed by residents and feature other residents, are
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      50 6 B m mm i 1 Unrest in Maluku? Mystery blast in Siberia? You'll read about them in our World and Asia pages Edited by Felix Soh r for whom no place on Earth is too far. In two of our five handy sections ■■■l i Call 388 3838 for subscription
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      72 7 Does your rusty Mandarin need some brushing up? Keen to learn Japanese so you can watch undubbed versions of your favourite drama serials? Try these schools. A variety of languages, including Arabic, French, Japanese, Spanish and Thai at theLinguaphone School of Languages: http://www.cambridge.com.sg Mandarin: Eduplus Language Centre: http://www.eduplus.com.sg Hua Language
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      49 8 For the latest at the US Supreme Court, log on to http^/eyebalLaslaLcom^g http://www.salon.com/politic s/feature/2000/12/09/deadlin e/index.html Dec 12 is a deadline that puts finality ahead of accuracy, says this Salon column. http://www.sundaytimes.co. uk/news/pages/sti/2000/12/ 10/stifgnusaoloos.html Call this horror movie Fatal Election, starring Al Gore as Glenn Close, says Britain’s Sunday Times.
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      35 9 What was your worst-ever office party? Let off steam at httpV/eyeball. asial.com.sg http://www.seattle insider.com/shared/ iobs/content/ partvtips.html What not to do at an office party. http://www.ewin.com/ articles/party.htm What the bosses call a perfect bash...take a peek.
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      81 10 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET BECAUSE EVBJTIIAUy W£U M£o7 TO CARE FOR OUR SOULS! LUCY. SOMSPAY TH£ REST OF US WILL GROW UP AW UEEV YOU AS A ROie MOI7EL lUOY, THE WORIP N££PS\ GOOP PEOPLE v UK£ you.. WHAT? My START-UP! "pgAtwfioyvgßsio^^orn n I m v/ ivrt YEAH, OUT
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  • WIRED
    • For Christmas
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        113 13  -  Reporting: Teo Yen Fen WIRED. Not just another word for drinking too much coffee. This Christmas, it also describes the most desirable gifts to line your tree. For our very first Christmas, Eyeball is proud to play Santas little helper this year, presenting the best ideas for
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        Lock icon The wired dad
        545 14 House-husbands in this age, just another name for tech-savvy, highly connected, Renaissance family men who prefer to conduct extremely successful businesses from the comfort of home. Chances are, your wired dad has his very own SOHO small office home office- outfitted with the essentials. But his three-year-old
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        Lock icon The wired mum
        443 16 She's hot. She's stylish. She's also got a couple of rugrats tangled in her connection cables. These days, anyone who thinks the wired mum is just one-half of a dual-income family is about to get a rude shock. A force to be reckoned with, she leaps to
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      • Article, Illustration
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        277 19 These days, junior can be a sophisticated brat who is as fussy about his cartoons as the technology he watchesit on. Still, these connoisseurs of e-toys will thrill to our selections, which will serve you well too keep them j occupied, and you 11 have some peace
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        Lock icon The wired sister
        431 20 The wired sister and we don't mean Kumar is absolutely nuts about design and photography. Face framed in blackrimmed glasses, she is a genius with multimedia and dabbles in art when she is officially off-duty yes, she's one of those geek chicks seen in the likes of
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        Lock icon The wired brother
        422 22 Tour brother: That hormonal young fellow whose idea of connecting with someone is hooking his computer up to his friends’, and who drools over Lara Croft, not that cutie next door. Though you’d rather give him what he really needs some nice cologne you know he’d sooner
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        Lock icon The wired grandparents
        477 24 Your grandparents might he old, warm and fuzzy in their ratty jammies and their Bata thongs, hut that doesn’t mean they should be left out of the wired world. Once you get them rolling, it’ll be hard to tear them away from that new iPaq and zo”
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        Lock icon The wired pal
        184 27 Your blessed buddies. The tech-savvy among them would love these smart accessories. PDA covers: Palm (www.palm.com) Prices: Palm V: Slim Wallet Case (Black) $45, Hard Case (Silver, Special Edition Metallic Blue) $69 Palm me: Slim Leather Case (Black) $45, Palm Glove Neoprene Case (also for Palm Illxe,
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        Lock icon The wired me
        440 28 Who, indeed, WHO better to reward after a years worth of lost evenings and weekend assignments? That's right: The wired “me". Not only are you upwardly mobile, you re forever rushing from Point A to B, and getting buffed from lugging wired appendages around while you're at
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      305 13 Canon Christmas Specials Too good to resist! Christmas presents come early this year! Just purchase either fax machine featured here from 1 Nov to 31 Dec 2000 and receive a free Takashimaya gift voucher! All you have to do is present your receipt and return the warranty registration card to
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      178 15 m jliJii u il hJBil JJ (•■vU Digital Network Applications "Wa i iRSOOO/6000 Series 50/60 ppm Internet-ready Remote Access On-demand Printing Confidential Printing Versatile Finishing 2400 dpi resolution Network Scanning Call Now! ail: salese Canon Marketing Services Pte Ltd 1 Jalan Kilang Timor #O9-00 Pacific Tech Centre Singapore *****3 Tel;
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      297 17 -fllr Let us share with you the sweet smile of our dearest Sherman and let him light up your day. Melvin Tan S’PenaNeo Wjk Mm 5 Daniel Ong WengH'ng Gift from our Lord who is fearfully and wonderfully made. Peter Vivian Ong Bringing Rajvin Singh into our world was the
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      135 18 Canon v.? A m v::;^ £SV. k~ SB-«t "cr*j si nsrijs s£?i ~v> iX... <■ Si i •to: f-c. *&*!#s?■ :V* 32C StSJE SET. as® rSI gggg ZZZiZ .*'*s ■mg i* -i v snss&Ki. i 7 'V j aSr; S‘£~ J’JK-w'SS •«*£>%' vr;.: *j£ t v v iJ m a*
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      191 19 NEC Monitors BEATS THE COMPETITIO NEC Multi Sync LCD Ambix XtraView Series Superior display quality Wall/arm-mounting capability Lower power, reduced emissions OSM On-screen controls Ambix Technologies Series: Multi Sync LCD 1525X/1810X/LCD 2010 X Also available: 1525 V, 1525 M, 1510+ 1810 NEC Multi Sync Flat CRT Series Ultra Flat CRT
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      118 21 with a CD player. “...produces sound as dynamic and room-filling as most full-sized stereo systems. The Oregonian The Wave Radio, with its rich and lifelike sound that you have come to expect, now comes with CD player. What remains unchanged is the revolutionary acoustic waveguide speaker technology that goes into
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      215 23 SONY. m ■‘W. d K »'fV W M': Cyber-shot Introducing the Sony DSC-Pl. The Perfectl when it comes to size and features. (actual size) NY Cyber-shot BMB Memory Stick supplied. (64M8 Memory Stick m optional) Who else but Sony would put your dreams in the palm of your hand. The
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      273 25 3 We thank Allah once again for another precious gift. We will nurture baby IJjd into a wonderful lovely daughter, sister companion. Fik, Vik if Nik n Our life is more complete with this little Angel and her smile brings joy from deep within. Stella Paul Chong 9 What a
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      148 26 Two Facets f| m# i Bfey *.Wr> fc wBSsfc 2 I. iiiilj I I L i SUPER rf IS® fc ?%t:c y. is- :®p HHSPw I i a SONY .-V mmm£ ■■HMinifVr Ha ns *0 IN 1.07 MEGA PIXELS CCD R" The new Sony DCR-PCIIOE Digital Handycam is somewhat of
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      529 27 H] FUJI FILM 70% off on the Fine Pix 1300 digital camera for all students and teachers. Just show your student or teacher’s card at any authorised Fujifilm dealer. urn?. "V l Photo Click Games CD-ROM, limited edition case worth $6O with every purchase M tamtmsLt* m. factor Fine Pix
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      94 28 SPECIAL DEAL FOR EYEBALL READERS! Purchase the ultra chic Digital IXUS worth $1,099 from any Canon authorised dealer, and get a notebook/document bag and collector’s limited edition Morocco Travel Book (totalling $130) for free! Just bring your warranty card (customer’s portion), receipt from your Canon dealer and this Eyeball clipping
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon X-treme upsets
      674 29  -  Crowd enjoys the thrills and spills, as favourites fall to underdogs in Phuket By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg HOW do you gauge the success of a tournament or a competition? Here at the Phuket Asian X-Games Qualifiers, it was relatively easy. The fans kept walking in through the gates
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon McEnroe wins
        99 30 AP LONDON Three-time champion John McEnroe outplayed Henri Leconte 6-2,7-5 to reach his fourth successive Honda Challenge seniors final. The left-hander was to have met Pat Cash in the final earlier today. In the semi-final, McEnroe raced into a 4-0 lead in the opening set. “The key was
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        Lock icon Stricken again
        61 30 Reuters LONDON Alan Shearer may need surgery or a long spell on the sidelines following renewed knee trouble, Newcastle United manager Bobby Robson said. The 30-year-old former England captain has missed two matches after a tendinitis problem flared up again. Robson said: “The scan shows that it’s a
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        Lock icon Antlers win
        31 30 Reuters TOKYO-Kashima Antlers won the J League championship for the third time in five years by crushing Yokohama F Marinos 3-0 in the second leg of this season’s play-off.
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      • Article
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        24 30 DID you know that Boro’s Irish defender Curtis Fleming has only scored twice since he joined the club eight years ago?
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        Lock icon Parlour bags three
        104 31 AFP LONDON Ray Parlour scored a hat-trick for Arsenal in the Gunners’ 5-0 demolition of Newcastle United and proclaimed that his side will never give up the fight for the Premiership title to top-of-the-table Manchester United. “We’ll never give up the chase,” said Parlour defiantly. “Their lead
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        100 31 AFP LONDON Manchester United were held to a 3-3 draw by home side Charlton Athletic. The Addicks’ on-loan South African striker Shaun Bartlett scored twice before John Robinson struck late into the game to give his side a deserved draw. Over at The Dell, Southampton beat Leeds
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        46 31 “THE crowd influences the referees here in the nicest way. They got vamped-up and it was handbags all over the place. The game doesn't need that I don’t like it.” Leeds manager David O’Leary on the clash between his and Southampton’s players.
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      Lock icon Maradona fans’ blitz threatens Pele
      466 30 FIFA PLAYER OF THE CENTURY AWARD AFP ROME Argentine football’s bad boy Diego Maradona is on the brink of ending a miserable year which began with a cocaine overdose -by being declared Player Of The Century by the international football federation Fifa. Maradona has emerged
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      Lock icon Tiger’ eagle puts US ahead
      541 30 Duval chips in with five birdies AP BELLA VISTA Tiger Woods birdied five holes and eagled the 14th as the United States took a commanding three-stroke lead in the World Cup of Golf, surging past Argentina and New Zealand in the third round. Opening the
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    • Premier POINT
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        Lock icon Plenty of accolades, but no award
        357 31  -  WHITHER BECKHAM? By Chris Lakey eyesport@eyeball.com.sg COMEDIANS and tabloid newspaper reporters line up to make fun of him, and he is a headline writer’s dream. But, like the man or not, David Beckham could well be the greatest player in the world. The simple
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      Lock icon Trying times for Boro
      382 31  -  Robson’s side can’t get anything right By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg THE Riverside stadium on Teesside, which cost £7O million (Ssl7s million) to build five years ago, is the venue of England’s next friendly international against Spain in February. So, it would be a terrible shame to
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon There can only be ONE survivor
      1470 32 There can only be ON E survivor And even though we know who it is, JEANMARIETAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) applauds this TV treasure that has lived up to its megahype. HE rats will soon leave the island. The tribe will speak for the last time. And those at home who hung on
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    • TV
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          95 34 THE actor who plays the president of the United States on television’s West Wing is asking his real-life counterpart for help. Martin Sheen signed a letter asking President Bill Clinton to close the Waste Technologies Inc (WTI) toxic waste incinerator in Ohio, before he leaves
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          64 34 NEARLY 30 TV writers recently filed a $2OO million (Ss3so million) lawsuit against TV networks, talent agencies and studios. And what instigated them to do so? Alleged age discrimination. Representing the 7,000 members of the Writers Guild of America, the plaintiffs apparently are seeking to redress
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          114 34  -  Siti Hadijah SURE, Tea Leoni is married to he-man David Duchovny, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t looking out for the sexual gratification of others, like say, her Family Man director Brett Ratner. “He had shared his very young ideas about what was attractive in women,” Leoni
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      • Eyeballing TELEVISION
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          Lock icon Making the bland
          768 34 The higgest-selling pop malady of recent years has been the outbreak of boyhands. JEANMARIETAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) takes a voyeuristic peek at the industry expose in American reality series Making The Band. USSIE hit Popstars was a true telly novelty as far as guilty pleasures go. Making The Band
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    • Books
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        Lock icon Silent night, lonely night
        858 35 Local authors capture the essence of Christmas for Eyeball in a four-part series of yuletide stories. This week LENA CHEW (pedas( a sph.com.sg) peers into the isolated world of a lonely skater... Ilk THE approaching winter hjajjed the coding Tf n/oc oe -xhiuot c C tf\
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      • Book MARKS
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          73 36 AFTER tackling the lives of literary luminaries such as William Blake, Peter Ackroyd has turned his biographic eye to the grandest dame of them all: London. Research for the ambitious project had Ackroyd traipsing through London’s streets, observing its people and architecture, and sniffing its air.
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          86 36 MORE and more book publishers are looking at the Internet for fresh content for print. Besides Harper Collin’s print “remix” of Geoff Ryman’s 253, an interactive novel which debuted on the Web, there’s also My First Time: True Stories Of Love And Sex On The Internet
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          83 36  -  Clara Chow REMEMBER Dallas, the soap series which chronicled the scandalous lives of a Texan family? Well, the guy who played the meanest hog on the soap, Larry Hagman, is trying to interest a publisher in his autobiography. Hello Darlin’: Tali (And Absolutely True) Tales About My
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        779 36  -  Jim Hoffa THE IMMORTAL DINNER Penelope Hughes-Hallett (Viking), $50.71 hardcover 0UBTITLED A Famous Evening Of Genius Laughter In Literary London, 1817, the dinner here is one that painter Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted for his literary friends in December of that year. In addition to introducing the
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        895 37 All books available at Borders CRUSTACEANS Andrew Cowan (Sceptre), $33.94 hardcover ALTHOUGH the book’s story begins on Dec 22, don’t count on Crustaceans to help you muster yuletide cheer. What it will do, however, is draw the reader into a priestly kind of cerebral calm that usually
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        348 37  -  Clara Chow THE SHIPPING NEWS E Annie Proulx What: The story of a sad hulk of a man who loses his philandering wife in a car crash. Returning to the harsh unforgiving Newfoundland of his ancestors, Quoyle finds his niche as a shipping news reporter, and as
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        575 38 Last Saturday's Chinese Rock Fest 2000 saw 23 hands take to the stage hut response was tepid, reports TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg). RCHARD Road last Saturday afternoon was a cacophonic mix of sight and sound, but off the main shopping street, at Somerset Road’s Youth Park,
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          123 38 MAGGIE Cheung, newly crowned Best Actress at the Golden Horse Awards, showed that she held no ill feelings towards director Wong Kar Wai for the torturous 15 months of shooting In The Mood For Love. With the cash money of about $5,100 she won together
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          121 38 ANDY Lau obviously would never have thought that a film he did years ago was going to land him in trouble now. Apparently, the film Vietnam Rose has landed him on the Vietnamese government’s black list because the action thriller was thought to have portrayed Vietnam in
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          89 38 WHILE Tony Leung Chiu Wai licks his wounds for losing the Golden Horse Best Actor award, his other namesake, Tony Leung Kar Fai, is licking his for having smashed his car. After partying at Carina Lau’s birthday bash last week, the actor was driving off, a
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          84 38 CROUCHING Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Zhang Ziyi has been conferred the role of protector of the pandas. TV channel Animal Planet is launching two documentaries on the plight of the fast-diminishing animal, and has made Zhang an ambassador of the bear. Zhang is expected to espouse the
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          51 38  -  Tan Dawn Wei SINGER-SONGWRITER Emil Chau has been pretty quiet lately, but he’s by no means idle. In fact, the affable crooner is planning something big -a movie that he will write, direct and act in. He’s courting pals Jonathan Lee and Richie Ren to star alongside
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      348 39 My resignation as an adult To whom it may concern: I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of a six-year-old again. I want to go to McDonalds and think that it’s a four-star restaurant.
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      523 39 Movies Serials Fire Down Below 7.30 pm TCS 5 Steven Seagal is back with his unfertilised ponytail, martial arts moves, tacky leather jackets and an oh-so-twee environmentfriendly message. He arrives in Jackson, Kentucky, to find out why the fish are dying and the children falling sick. Snigger worthy, good if
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      129 40 EX-SPICE Girl Geri Harwell's (left) new love interest is none other than up-and-coming basketball star Steve Nash, reports The Sun. The pair are sure to turn heads as Nash is more than a foot taller than tiny Ginger Spice. The couple have gone out on a
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      147 40 POP superstar Madonna and her film director beau Guy Ritchie are to write their own wedding vows for Britain’s showbiz marriage of the year. Church of Scotland vicar Susan Brown revealed that she has given the couple a free hand on their vows. Brown, who is
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      53 40 Fans flocked on Friday to the Imagine mosaic in New York’s Central Park to remember John Lennon who was murdered 20 years ago. Flowers and candles filled the area known as Strawberry Fields, which is across the street from the apartment building where Lennon was senselessly shot dead
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      152 40 TITANIC actor Leonardo DiCaprio (right) will soon face trial for a brawl he was allegedly involved in over Showgirls actress Elizabeth Berkley. A Manhattan appeals court has given the go-ahead to a US$45-million (Ss7B- lawsuit against the Hollywood star, 26, and several
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        96 40 SO WHICH pop star’s name are you wearing on your T-shirt today? Ask superstar singer Robbie Williams, who wore a singlet splashed with the name of former Wham! guitarist Andrew Ridgeley for a performance two days ago. He’s following in the footsteps of HiAwm who’s donned tees emblazoned
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        107 40 AND you thought Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher (right) was going to be a I dad for the j second time with Nicole Appleton from All Saints. It turns out however, that Gallagher already has a secret love child, conceived soon after the houn-dog look-alike singer married Patsy
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