Project Eyeball, 14 December 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Thursday, December 14, 2000 80 CENTS
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      436 1 r BUY SOME, ON THE NETT A signed Blade Runner poster, Freddy Krueger’s sweater and hat; these, and many more crazy movie props, are for sale online. See Page 23 DON’T TRUST THEM Online polls don’t take much work and are lots of fun. But they’re also highly inaccurate, and
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      184 2 THIS man sure needed a cigarette. Romanian Emanoil Mihail, 63, paralysed from the waist down, couldn’t reach his cigarette lighter which had dropped to the floor. So desperate was he for a smoke that he called for the fire brigade to get it for him. But that wasn’t it.
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      Lock icon Crime expert in S’pore
      204 2 Police to learn how to reconstruct crime scenes via blood-stain patterns THE standard of forensic science in Singapore is “very high, even at an international level”. High praise, especially since the compliment comes from one of the top forensic experts in the United States, Dr Henry
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Dairy farm put up for sale
        105 2 VISHNU Dairy Farm, a high-profile local dairy farm, has gone into receivership. The Lim Chu Kang farm, which began operations in 1989, markets its own brand of milk. An advertisement in the Straits Times yesterday invited tenders for the sale of the farm’s buildings,
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        Lock icon Pubs to promote anti-drug campaign
        111 2 THE next time you have a beer at your favourite pub, the drink coaster may inform you of the dangers of drug abuse. It’s part of a drive to curb drug-taking in local nightspots, organised by the National Council Against Drug Abuse. The campaign, called
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      • Article
        Lock icon Psychiatrists sent to help SIA pilots
        88 2 TWO psychiatrists have been despatched to Taiwan by Singapore Airlines (SIA) to assist the three pilots detained there. The pilots, expected to be released later this week, have been in Taipei for more than a month. The psychiatrists were sent this week as part
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        Lock icon Canada turns away damaged tanker
        97 2 A DAMAGED Singapore-registered tanker has been forced to turn away from a port it is nearest to in Canada after receiving a storm warning for the area. The Easter Power was damaged by rough seas just outside Canadian waters last week. The vessel was denied
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        Lock icon Illegal bookies go high-tech
        121 2 ILLEGAL 4-D bookies have jumped on the new economy bandwagon. During a raid on an illegal betting house in Jurong West yesterday, police seized a device that enabled the bookies to store records and transmit them electronically to the main operator in Johor. Police say the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Yeoh takes time out for children
        102 2 SHE may arguably be the hottest butt-kicker in movieland right now. But Michelle Yeoh’s maternal instincts took over yesterday when she played games and twisted balloons for over 200 children. The event was a Christmas Party for children from several non-profit organisations. Organised by
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Who do we trust to conserve our heritage?
        978 4  -  Heritage Conservation Trust idea gathers momentum By Leong Pik Yin and Foo Lyn Lee pikyin@sph.com.sg lynlee@sph.com.sg IT MAY be too late to save the National Library, but impassioned letters and pleas are pouring into the newspapers to keep the building intact. This,
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    • The World
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        321 3 BEIRUT The stage is set for a prisoner exchange that Germany is mediating between Israel and Lebanon’s Hizbollah guerrilla group, according to a Beirut daily. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s 800,000 civil servants will receive bonuses amounting to half a month’s basic salary or a minimum of RMSOO (*****) this
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        Lock icon ‘I handed kickbacks to Estrada’
        332 3 Governor testifies before Senate Reuters MANILA The Philippine provincial governor who triggered President Joseph Estrada’s impeachment trial testified to the Senate yesterday that he handed monthly kickbacks to the president from illegal gambling syndicates. Heavily guarded when he arrived in court, Luis Singson told the
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        Lock icon 2 boats with illegal immigrants missing
        185 3 AFP CANBERRA Up to 163 illegal immigrants were feared drowned off Australia’s north coast yesterday when two boats disappeared in treacherous waters en route from Indonesia. Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said credible reports from Indonesia said the two boats, carrying people from various Middle
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        Lock icon Johor wooing back Malaysians in S’pore
        320 7 Those with specialist overseas training being targeted KUALA LUMPUR Johor is rustling up a brew to tempt back skilled Malaysian workers currently employed in Singapore. Tax exemptions and permanent resident status to their non-Malay-sian spouses and children are among the incentives being considered, reported
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        Lock icon Muslim groups attack Indonesian nightspots
        698 7 RAMADAN VIOLENCE AP JAKARTA The posters plastered around Jakarta by the Islamic Defenders Front are clear enough: “Burn the nightspots that refuse to close for Ramadan,” reads one. It’s a message that comes from Siroj Alwi, a part-time preacher who heads the anti-vice squad of
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        Lock icon Bush out of the woods
        628 8 Supreme Court rules Florida recount unconstitutional, effectively squashing Gore’s hopes Salon.com WASHINGTON In a foreboding 5-4 split, the US Supreme Court ruled that the manual recount ordered last week by the Florida Supreme Court was unconstitutional, effectively squashing the hopes of Vice-President Al Gore and
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        Lock icon Florida may not need to select electors
        291 8 SUPREME COURT SOLVES DILEMMA Wires TALLAHASSEE Florida may not need to make history with its controversial move to deliver the state’s 25 electoral votes to Republican presidential candidate George W Bush. Hours after the US Supreme Court blocked a recount of the state’s
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      • US Elections ( jii| Ik % V WWTm 2000
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          Lock icon Al Gore prepares to concede
          477 9 Aide says: ‘Race is over; we’re done’ Wires WASHINGTON Vice President Al Gore, his legal fight lost, has decided to drop out of the fiercely contested presidential race with Republican George W Bush, The Associated Press has learned. The two-term Texas governor is set to
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          Lock icon Now, the healing can begin
          590 9 N.Y.T. EDITORIAL THE US Supreme Court has brought the presidential election to a conclusion in favour of Governor George W Bush, but its decision to bar a recount in Florida comes at considerable cost to the public trust and the tradition of fair elections. America’s
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        Lock icon Drug this fella?
        604 10 Winnie and friends ‘seriously troubled individuals’ Reuters TORONTO Winnie The Pooh and friends are “seriously troubled individuals” living in the “disenchanted” Hundred Acre Wood and are in dire need of psychoactive drugs, say Canadian researchers. The characters in A A Milne’s famous children’s stories suffer psychological problems,
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        Lock icon Doh! It’s Simpsons Monopoly
        219 10 FOX-USAOPOLY DEAL Reuters LOS ANGELES Instead of a top hat or thimble, players will now move around the Monopoly board with pewter images of Homer and Bart; instead of passing Atlantic City landmarks, a roll of the dice will land folks at Burns Manor or the
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon New lease of life for Haw Par Villa
        517 5  -  But Gardens to be scaled down closer to original size By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg ALL right, your wish has come true. Haw Par Villa will be saved aftfer all. The old charms of the original Tiger Balm Gardens is to get a
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      • Article
        Lock icon Smarter way to change traffic signals
        289 5  -  LTA’S HIGH-TECH SYSTEM By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg THIS is as high-tech as crossing roads can get. As you prepare to get to the other side, sensory floor pads keep track of your presence so that the traffic signals can change when needed. That scenario
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        Lock icon THE WAY TO GO
        133 6 NEED more proof that Web tutoring is the way to go? Well, even some schools are offering it. Kids can now be tutored by their own teachers, anytime, anywhere, as long as they have a computer. “Students can just set a time and ask their teachers
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        Lock icon Online tuition draws in kids
        719 6  -  Early players cash in on the $320-m industry By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg CHEONG Yu Jin, unlike many of his friends, enjoys his tuition. The nine-year-old decides when he wants tuition, how long he wants it and he even gets to watch exciting videos during
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        Lock icon A slice of Brazil
        46 6 Members of the Kuarup Group from the Amazon jungle in Brazil promoting Brazilian food at the Copthorne Harbour View Hotel yesterday. They are in Singapore for a series of dance performances at Sentosa till the end of the month. Wong Sher Maine
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    • Business
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        Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: www.vb.com.sg
        189 11  -  Nicholas Yong IF YOU have an open mind about investing online, but would rather deal with someone with a sound pedigree, perhaps you couldn’t get any better. This site, from the Vickers Balias Group, among Singapore’s largest and highest-capitalised brokerages, allows you to trade
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        Lock icon Microsoft to pay $168m to long-term temporary workers
        285 11 CLASS ACTION LAWASUIT Lat WASHINGTON In the biggest settlement of its kind, Microsoft Corp agreed on Tuesday to pay US$97 million (*****.8 million) to settle a class-action lawsuit by long-term temporary workers who claimed they were improperly denied benefits because the company
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        Lock icon Dotcoms need more than great ideas
        495 11  -  ‘Good management vital’ to attract capital amid weak industry outlook By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg IF YOU have a killer application for a dotcom start-up, that’s great news, but don’t expect venturecap firms to queue up at your doorstep. Just two years ago, a great
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        97 11 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS PCI 22,402,000 123.0 OUBDBeCW*****3 22,103,000 6.0 Media Ring 20,602,000 31.5 Top 3 Gainers CENTS SPH100 2660 70 2.7 i 1, Nat Broad 348 48 16.0 ij JMH 400 US$ 665 45 7.3 1 Total number of gainers: 187 Top 3
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Zip disk gets hip
        503 12  -  MP3 player doubles as portable drive Winston Goh lOMEGA has finally come up with a killer app for the storage media formerly known as Clik disks. The new lomega Hip Zip uses Pocket Zip disks that let people carry around their MP3s and (gasp) office documents.
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        Lock icon Good old romp in World War II setting
        449 12  -  SUDDEN STRIKE Andrew Chin MOST real-time strategy (RTS) games take place either in a spaceage setting ala Star Craft, or in the medieval era, such as Age of Empires. Sudden Strike, from New Era Entertainment, backgrounds itself in that tumultuous era of
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        Lock icon Stolen credit card data on Net
        238 13 HACKER STRIKES NYT NEW YORK A computer intruder scooped 55,000 credit card numbers this week from Creditcards.com, a company that serves dozens of small and medium-sized merchants, and published the information on the Internet after unsuccessfully demanding payment to keep the data secret. A
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        Lock icon Crash raises questions
        56 13 The US Marine Corps is facing new questions over its tilt-rotor MV-22 ‘Osprey’ aircraft after a plane crashed on Monday and killed all four marines on board. It was the second fatal training crash this year of the MV-22, which uses rotating wing-tip engines to take off
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        Lock icon US content coming for Net broadcasts
        386 13  -  IDA ties up with two firms to provide better programmes Andrew Chin THE Americans are here to stake a claim to your PC three months after the Chinese, Koreans and Japanese. They will bring English movies and edutainment through fat pipes to your home,
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    • Mailbox
      • Eyeballing THE NET
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          Lock icon Mirror, mirror on the Net...
          576 14  -  By Ton Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg WHEN I first heard of http://www.AmlHotorNot.com, the thought that flashed through my head was: Who in their right minds would send in their pictures to be ogled at, made fun of- or worse be graded like a piece of meat?
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        • Article
          Lock icon RISQUE STORE?
          66 14 WILL table dancing with “tasteful stripping” ever make it to Singapore? 28% Yes, it’ll be the next big thing after Zouk Out. 24% -I hope not, it’s crude, exploitative and sexist. 21% Perhaps in a restricted form, like they do in R(A) films and plays. 27% We’re too
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        • Article
          Lock icon ‘Heartless’ for different reasons
          282 14 ‘Heartless in Singapore’ (Dec 12) PLANET Project, a massive glob3l Internet poll conducted by 3Com, showed that only 8 per cent of Singaporeans were willing to donate an organ, even to save a loved one. This stacks up against an average of 28 per cent for
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        • Article
          Lock icon Constructive comments
          187 14 ‘Listen really listen to Generation Net’ (Dec 13) IN OUR views pages yesterday, Singaporean2l said he was “astonished” the Young PAP website did not provide detailed information on PAP’s new youth wing initiative, YP2I. The Young PAP’s reply: WE REFER to the comments by Singaporean2l, “Rhetoric vs Reality”
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          Lock icon VOTE! NOW!
          667 15  -  By Michael Dwyer mdwyer@sph.com.sg IN ***** stopped wearing blue jeans and sneakers, and started wearing black jeans and cherry-coloured Doc Martens. I remember the first day of my new look and the students’ political event I was attending. I was a little nervous and trying (though not too
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      32 2 (food morning! 4 Showers with thunder in the late afternoon and early evening over many areas over most areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 1.45AM/2.9M 12.28PM/3.2M Met Service: http:/ www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      43 8 Did Gore throw in the towel? For the answer and a look at the American election timeline, log on to httpy/eyehall-asial -conusg http://www.nytimes.com/2QOO/12/13/ opinion/13krug.html The conservative think-tanks could hurt Bush. http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/*****0.html Even with the election turmoil, it was business as usual in Washington.
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      64 13 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET HELEW, YOUVB GOT TO GST SOWS SLEEP! f £AWX PHIL... §8 yes, you cam awl 7 youp BETTER BEFORE you MESS UP OW THE JOB! a ’c Jj WHIOH COULV HAVE PBS COtiSSGUSUCSS FOR ALL OF US! GASP! yOURE RIGHT! Mm as mzi r?-f4 til
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Race director fired
        145 16 AP SYDNEY The race director of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race was fired yesterday after drawing heavy criticism following an inquiry into the deaths of six sailors during the ill-fated 1998 event. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, organisers of the annual blue-water classic, ordered Phil
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        95 16 AP CASTLE ROCK (Colorado) Denver Broncos linebacker Bill Romanowski pleaded innocent at his arraignment on Tuesday in a prescription drug fraud case. A judge has set his trial for May 1. The 34-year-old Romanowski is accused of illegally possessing a diet drug prescribed for his wife and a
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        Lock icon The other McEnroe
        116 17 Lat-Wp NEW YORK Mac the elder will be succeeded by Mac the younger. Patrick McEnroe is to be named Davis Cup captain by the US Tennis Association, following in the footsteps of brother John. John’s 14-month tenure as captain was marked by McEnroe-typical turmoil. Patrick, 34, is
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        Lock icon Woods bags award
        77 17 AP NEW YORK Tiger Woods is Sports Illustrated magazine’s Sportsman of the Year, becoming the first two-time recipient in the 46-year history of the award. Woods received the honour in 1996 after moving from amateur golf to the PGA Tour. Woods, who turns 25 on Dec 30,
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        Lock icon IOC warns labs
        64 17 LAUSANNE The International Olympics Committee threatened to downgrade, on Tuesday, the status of 11 accredited doping control labs if they did not comply with standards. The lOC said the errant labs, accredited by the lOC to test samples collected by drug control programmes around the world, were
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        Lock icon Snow’s surgery
        60 18 Reuters HOUSTON Philadelphia 76ers point guard Eric Snow underwent successful surgery to repair his broken right ankle on Tuesday, and is expected to return to the lineup in two months. Surgeons repaired the ankle with one large screw and a bone graft. Snow is expected to have his
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        Lock icon It’s up to Lara
        136 18 AFP ADELAIDE Brian Lara will hold centre stage again as the West Indies attempts to reverse its wretched cycle of adversity in the third test against Australia, which begins here tomorrow. Trailing 0-2 after three-day thrashings in Brisbane and Perth, the West Indies has plenty of
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      Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
      33 16 “WINNING cures everything.” George McCloud of the Denver Nuggets, trying to put a positive spin on the team’s refusal to attend a scheduled practice by head coach Dan Issel.
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      Lock icon Baseball star gets defensive
      488 16 US$250m man ‘didn’t want perks’ Reuters DALLAS Quarter-of-a-billionaire Alex Rodriguez wore a wide smile but expressed surprisingly mixed reactions to signing the biggest contract in sports history on the day he was introduced to his new team, Major League Baseball’s underachievers, the Texas Rangers. The former
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      Lock icon Rice turns down reduced contract
      328 16  -  PLANS TO MOVE ON By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg JERRY Rice will play his final game in San Francisco on Sunday. But the 38-year-old wide receiver is thinking of playing some more. The 49ers star receiver is said to have refused a reduced contract. The smaller
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      Lock icon Most valuable of them all
      687 17  -  Four who are likely to take home the NFL MVP award By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg THE race for play-off spots on the road to the Super Bowl is wide open, but that isn’t the only thing up for grabs in the National Football League. The
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      Lock icon DID YOU ENOW?
      43 18 MANCHESTER United has conceded just 13 league goals this season. None of those have been scored by English players. The last English player to score against the champions was Chris Armstrong, in Tottenham’s 3-1 defeat at Old Trafford in May.
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      Lock icon Jordan’s Capital buy
      445 18 Michael becomes a partner in a company that owns Washington’s hockey team AP PALM BEACH (Florida) Michael Jordan, acknowledging he has much to learn about hockey, was unanimously approved on Tuesday as a partner in the group that owns the Washington Capitals. The move means the NHL
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    • Tee TIME
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        Lock icon The Cat and the Duck take on the Tiger
        346 18  -  ARGENTINA’S PRIDE By John Crean sports@eyeball.com.sg THE crowds flocked to see the Tiger but were quickly won over by the Cat and the Duck. While Tiger Woods was originally the centre of attention at last week’s World Cup in Buenos Aires,
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Singapore’s
      1428 19 Call it the blueprint for an uptown Mohamed Sultan. With pop-art hotel Q@allery Evason anchoring the upper Robertson Quay area as a food-and-beverage lynchpin, the area could be the next big nightlife enclave reports KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg). ICHEL van der Hoeven, L T J general manager of G@llery 1
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    • Clubbing
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        Lock icon Cold comfort
        308 21  -  Interviews by Karl Ho Pictures by Clarence Chan WITH omnipresent video footage of twirling Chivas Regal bottles and whisky swimming in glasses, Velvet Underground played host to a party thrown by one of the uncles of hard liquor. But a free flow of booze was not the only
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      • Pick of the CLUBS
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          Lock icon Nox
          60 22 11A Mohamed Sultan DJ ANGEL Molina, one of Spain’s most respected deejays who has entertained discerning techno fans from Brussells to Paris will be playing a one-off gig at NOX tomorrow night. Molina will be doing a four-hour set. Supporting acts are DJs Stingray and Unknown. Admission is $2O
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          Lock icon China Jump
          72 22 30 Victoria Street mi-07/08, Fountain Court, Chijmes WAITING for that right partner? Well, maybe you can find one here. Head on down to China Jump this Saturday for a blind date. The Final Blind Date competition is here and for you lonely and dateless folks out there, this
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          Lock icon Club Eden
          57 22 25 Mohamed Sultan THE third instalment of Enlightment brings you another quality set of House music. Expect to hear a smooth blend of deep, tech, tribal and percussive beats throughout the night. Guest DJs Sonny and Fatfish join resident DJs Daniel and Eugene. Shake your groove thing this
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          Lock icon Zouk
          49 22 17 Jiak Kim Street KNOWN as the king of the hard and fast, Guy Ornadel, along with resident Ashley Casselle, are going to make you sweat at their Gatecrasher party. Check them out on Saturday. Admission is $lB before 9 pm and $25/$3O after, inclusive of two drinks.
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          Lock icon Europa Beach Bar
          59 22  -  Siti Hadijah 902 East Coast Parkway DRIVE down to relax at this beach bar with a music policy that veers from salsa to samba. Tonight is members’ night; all members receive one complimentary drink. Also, on bottles’ night, you get a bottle of Courvoisier VSOP or Ballantine’s
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        Lock icon Clash of DJ titans
        577 22 DJs Norman Jay and Bruno talk to KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) about sex, girls, the abominable Venga Boys and more girls. HAT do you get Wwhen you coop two extraordinary DJs into a hotel room for an interview? A clash of the titans. When you have a
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    • I Movies
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        Lock icon Memories for sale
        776 23 You’ve seen the movie and now you want a piece of it. The Internet is the best place to buy movie memorabilia. CLARA CHOW (clara c@sph .com.sg) tells you how. ONG after L cameras stop rolling, and projectors stop whirling, some movies continue raking in the big
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      • Cyber SNITCH
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          Lock icon Dude, guess what?
          65 24 YET another teenage-based movie is set for the big screen soon. Dude, Where’s My Car? promises to be even siller, campier and more unbelievable than the rest. And if the trailer at http://www.hollywood.com is anything to go by, get set for a guy’s hedonist heaven, complete with
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          Lock icon Taste the Chocolat
          65 24 CHOCOLAT is the only movie of his own that Johnny Depp has actually sat through, so it’s probably worth that cinema ticket. Go forth to http://movies. go.com and see exclusive pictures of the premiere. There are also pictures of Juliette Binoche. Dame Judi Dench, Carrie Ann Moss
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          Lock icon What’s his name?
          78 24  -  June Wan YOU know the feeling. You’ve seen the actor before but for the life of you, you just cannot remember the name. Well, scratch thy head no more. There are now websites which give you detailed information on the most übiquitous faces you see on TV
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          Lock icon QUOTE OF THE WEEK
          22 24 ‘They say this one has a surprise ending. Elijah's mother (Charlayne Woodard) about a comic book, in Unbreakable
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        Lock icon Unforgettable
        774 24 UNBREAKABLE (PG) Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Robin Wright Penn M NIGHT Shyamalan has an uncanny ability to bring myth into our reality. Following The Sixth Sense, his new film Unbreakable opens with a birth of a baby in a Philadelphia department store an event that is both a
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        Lock icon Bloody good Shakespeare
        1012 25  -  Reviews: Sandi Tan THE GRINCH (PG) Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Christine Baranski, Jeffrey Tambor THE Grinch, a seasonal favourite with American children of all ages since 1957, is a fuzzy green thing, like an oversized bread mould. His flaw, we are told, is that “his heart is
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        Lock icon NOW STREAMING
        202 25  -  June Wan MENAGE www.dreamspan.com A SWEET heartbreak comedy by Chris Burns about a glorious menage-a-trois, which is ripped asunder by circus clowns. Rob, a Chaplinesque bloke with a Woody Allen accent and deadpan narration, is a rained-out slacker who meets Alice when she is “lounging in the bushes”.
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      • Hollywood GOSSIP
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          Lock icon De Niro moves
          111 26 HOLLYWOOD star Robert De Niro is the latest big name to grab a piece of real estate in London. The 57-year-old actor is said to have bought a £3.25 million (558.22 million) penthouse suite previously owned by world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis. Britain’s Independent newspaper said
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          Lock icon Whoopi’s trip to Jail
          112 26 WHOOPI Goldberg in jail? It’s not what you think. The Hollywood Squares host made an unscheduled visit to an Arkansas county jail after the driver of her tour bus was pulled over by police for speeding. While her driver filled out paperwork and posted a US$45O
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          Lock icon Cosy future
          104 26  -  Siti Hadijah A LAKESIDE, New Zealand, resort popular with honeymooners is said to be gearing up for a visit from lovebirds Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan. Crowe, who was born in New Zealand, has reserved a suite for April at Blanket Bay. The mountain hideaway charges up to
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      235 27 Childrens letters to Qod: Dear God, Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that, or was it an accident? Norma Dear God, Who draws the lines around the countries? Nan Dear God, I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that
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      485 27 ,r -Wmm Serials P p Richard’s been one of the more devious Survivors, but is he sharp enough to win a million? Movies Rambling Rose 10 pm Cinemax 59 Set in the *****, this coming-of-age drama tells of Rose (Laura Dern), an over-sexed, rambunctious young girl who comes to work
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      192 28 BRITNEY Spears (right) has been hailed a saint —for staying a virgin. The Church of England has praised the pop star as a great ambassador for virginity, and has included sexy pictures of her in its latest glossy magazine, according to press reports. A spokesman for
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      67 28 Wires THE Grinch has another reason to hate Christmas. Jim Carrey who plays the green grump in Dr. Suess’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas has split up with actress Renee Zellweger (below), their publicists confirmed on Tuesday. “I just want to say that it is
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      122 28 Wires THE hard-rocking quartet (above) is defending its name against an unlikely confusion for the second time. The band filed a lawsuit on Friday against a fragrance manufacturer selling Metallica perfume. The suit, filed at the US District Court for the Central District of California,
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        155 28 MICE Jagger is a disappointed dad these days. Elizabeth (right), Jagger’s 17-year-old daughter, has flouted the wishes of her dad, and quit school to take up professional modelling. The 17-year-old stunner has reportedly made a fortune with her first assignment, raking in US$lO,OOO
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        83 28 Wires WILLIAM Shatner (right) and Priceline.com have parted ways. Shatner is said to be miffed that he’s lost millions on stocks that the name-your-price-to-fly company used as currency to pay him for his commercials. Analysts say Star Trek’s Captain Kirk co-starring with Sandra Bullock
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