Project Eyeball, 15 December 2000

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  • Title Section
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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Friday, December 15, 2000 80 CENTS
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      371 1 c Silk Air Flight MIIBS k did it don’t know 3 says America s National Transportation Safety Board The board took part in the investigation of the Dec 19,1997 accident involving Silk Air Flight MIIBS, which plunged into Indonesia’s Musi River. It believed that the sudden descent of the plane
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      196 2 NOW there’s a new cure for the runs Siberian ice-cream. Scientists in the chilly Russian province have come up with a cool idea their own ice-cream which can help cure diarrhoea. Part of the concoction contains special micro-organisms from the local snow which have been found to fight stomach
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      Lock icon Plea for pledges that will give life
      72 2 With the hope that the festive spirit of giving has kicked in, some 300 ambassadors from the National Kidney Foundation hit the streets yesterday to encourage Singaporeans to pledge their organs. This organ donation booth (right), complete with newspaper cuttings showing the plight
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    • Article
      Lock icon Jobs now outnumber job-seekers
      330 2 Mostly in highly skilled posts FOR the first time in 2Vz years, there are more job openings than there are job-seekers in the market. According to the third quarter labour report from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), there were close to 32,400 vacancies in September, or
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    • Eyeball NEWS
      • Article
        Lock icon No demos at Speakers’ Corner
        164 2 DEMOS are out at Speakers’ Corner. Go ahead and speak to your heart’s content, as that’s what the Speakers’ Corner’s for. But be mindful of the laws of Singapore. The police have sounded this reminder in response to media queries and a reader’s letter in
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        Lock icon ENV funeral parlours privatised
        97 2 OPENING a tender for bids from private companies is standard business practice. But when it’s funeral parlours that are privatised, it’s a little more unusual. Formerly managed by the Ministry of Environment (ENV), two funeral parlours at Mount Vernon Complex, including the adjoining embalming rooms, have
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        Lock icon Medishield rebates snapped up
        84 2 SINCE Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong dangled Medishield rebates for the elderly in August, about 15,600 Singaporeans have snapped them up. First announced at the National Day Rally, Singaporeans who turn 61 to 69 years old on Dec 31,2000, will receive two years of basic MediShield
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        Lock icon STI to be fine-tuned
        91 2 IT’S calibration and fine-tuning time for the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI). Singapore Press Holdings, which publishes the index, has now embarked on a review of its component stocks. The index, which comprises 55 stocks, covers the nine chief sectors of the Singaporean economy, including banking,
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      319 3 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police shot dead a fugitive suspected gangster, a day after he made a daring escape from hospital by seizing a police guard’s revolve and opening fire. A 17-year-old student told a public inquiry that she was beaten by police and detained for five days when
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      Lock icon SQ006 path retraced
      342 3 Prosecutors asked for simulation TAIPEI Responding to a request by Taiwanese prosecutors, Singapore Airlines last night held a simulation of the flight that crashed on Oct 31 while taking off on the wrong runway during a severe storm. Local media reported that the three pilots involved in
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      Lock icon Foreigners can buy more land in Malacca
      147 3 MALACCA Singaporeans will now be allowed to purchase bungalow lots of more than 8,000 sq ft in Malacca, reported The Star yesterday. The state is willing to relax guidelines which have restricted foreigners from buying such residential property, said Chief Minister Datuk Wira
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Can we have some privacy here, please?
        573 4  -  Lack of trust stifles e-commerce By Teo Yen Fen yenfen@sph.com.sg Name: Albert Einstein E-mail address: e=mc squared Address: Planet Earth DO YOU post this sort of information if you are pressed for your personal particulars while signing up for some free service offered
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        Lock icon IF YOU USE YOUR REAL NAME
        146 4 You will be able to shop and pay for your goods online. Your purchases can be delivered to your doorstep. Companies are able to tailor their goods and services to suit you as they understand your needs better. Companies are able to suggest additional
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Doing PR with Panache
        477 5  -  Es-NJC student runs own firm in Silicon Valley By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg IT DOES not take a techie to succeed in Silicon Valley. Just look at Sharon Sim-Krause. Once “intimidated by gigabytes and megahertz”, Sim-Krause is now trying to bridge the East-West divide between high-tech companies
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      • Article
        Lock icon Not certain if MI185 pilot did it
        637 6  -  Not enough proof: Indonesian report By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg DID the pilot do it? Did Captain Tsu Way Ming put Silk Air Flight MIIBS into the steep dive that plunged the plane into the murky depths of Sumatra’s Musi River three years ago?
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        Lock icon THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
        492 6 There was a lack of data but NTSC from Indonesia and NTSB from the US have come up with different conclusions. NTSC says there is no conclusive evidence pointing to Captain Tsu but NTSB says... It was the pilot’s fault because: 1) Evidence suggest the Cockpit
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        Lock icon No closure for relatives
        578 7  -  By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg THREE years have passed. Still, there are no answers. This is little comfort for the relatives of the Silk Air victims who have been hoping for some closure to the tragedy. Some 30 families were briefed by leading investigator Professor Oetarjo
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        Lock icon What is known for sure
        630 7 DESPITE the release of the final report by crash investigators, the mystery of what caused the Silk Air MI 185 crash remains murky. According to chief investigator Oetarjo Diran, the report was inconclusive because of the lack of useful data gathered from the crash site.
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    • The World
      • US Elections 2000
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          1118 9 Prime-time speeches strike a sober note AUSTIN The Texas governor (he has not resigned yet) yesterday stood before 400 Democratic and Republican lawmakers, friends, staff and family in the well of the Wood-panelled State House chamber and accepted the presidencyelect of the United States. Wearing his
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          Lock icon PROTAGONISTS TO MEET NEXT WEEK
          93 11 Reuters AUSTIN George W Bush planned to begin his first day as US president-elect with a prayer. Bush, only the second son in US history to follow his father George Bush to the Oval Office, was yesterday set to attend an inter-denominational church service with
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          Lock icon SearRch for Bush men starts
          433 11 Team likely to comprise foreign-policy experts Reuters WASHINGTON George W Bush is no hit on the international circuit. He has rarely travelled abroad, he mispronounces names of countries. And it rankles that he was unable to answer a journalist’s questions about foreign leaders. It will
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          309 11 TEXAN FLAVOUR RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Ten gallon hats, barbeque smoke and the clatter of cowboy boots will become the sights and sounds in Washington as the Capitol prepares for another Texan invasion. The horseshoe tossing pit that Bush Sr built will
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        Lock icon ‘I’M NOT GEORGE’S ADVISER; I’M HIS WIFE’
        243 10 AFP WASHINGTON Laura Bush, a woman thrust into the centre of American life through the ambitions of her husband, the new US President-elect George W Bush, will probably not run for the Senate at the end of her husband’s term. A Texas native,
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        Lock icon More a CEO than president
        579 10 Bush likely to be a laidback leader Wires AUSTIN (Texas) Like bubbles in beer, George W Bush’s rise to the top in American politics was quick and almost painless, a process that took even his close friends by surprise. But from the beginning, it certainly
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        Lock icon An Essex boy at heart
        203 10 Reuters LONDON Texans are not the only ones toasting a native’s success. Residents of a small English village have also hailed George W Bush’s US presidential election victory as a triumph for a “local boy”. They say that Messing, a hamlet of 250 people in
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Housing loans that are almost as quick as a snap of your fingers
        398 12  -  KEPPEL TATLEEE'S ONLINE SERVICE By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg IF YOU reach for a paracetamol at the very mention of applying for a housing loan, you are not alone. Who, after all, fancies filling an endless number of
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        Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY www.juzclickcar. com.sg
        133 12  -  Nicholas Yong THIS cyber-car auction house, a brainchild of the Singapore Technologies group, works this way: The seller sends his car for inspection and evaluation, free of charge, to ST Automotive at Sin Ming. That process takes about a week. The seller makes
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        Lock icon Bulls&Bears
        84 12 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS PCI 41,944,000 128 JSH 500US$ 34,807,000 292 Asia Dekor US$ 23,706,000 8 Tqp 3 Gainers CENTS V- SLA 1750 30 i.7 SIA200 1750 10 0.6 SembLog 870 10 1.2 Total number of gainers: 89 Top 3 Losers CENTS Creative 50
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        Lock icon Slower growth feared
        546 12  -  Decline in electronics demand could put brakes on economy, says MAS survey By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg GO OUT, make merry and spend your bonus. But don’t part with all of it. Keep some of it for a rainy day because there’s no telling what’s in store next
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    • Technology
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        37 13 The world s first screen-speaker Musicinema, which combines panel speakers with a 2.3-m movie screen, on display at NEC Corp in Tokyo, is available in the domestic market for 800,000 yen (55i2,500). AFP
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        Lock icon GPRS mobile phones to debut next year
        560 13  -  Firms testing service touted to speed up WAP system By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg THE first GPRS mobile phones will appear early next year, but don’t get too excited. With a decent but unspectacular speed boost of around 70 per cent or less in
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        Lock icon Furby hacker wins contest
        238 13 SHORT CIRCUITS NYT NEW YORK Visions of Furby -a talking, winking, learning, cuddly toy danced in children’s heads two Christmases ago. Last month, an engineer got under Furby’s skin and won a “Hack Furby” contest by building a set of replacement circuits to allow a programmer
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        Lock icon Canines smarter than you think
        221 14 AFP PARIS Dogs appear to understand what we can see, a discovery that suggests they are smarter than generally thought. A team at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, placed snacks on the floor in front of six dogs in turn,
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        Lock icon Geeky gifts for the (techie) heart
        343 14 Nothing says love like a sleek Fujitsu desktop or a new PC sound card. At least, that’s how we think anyway. Here are four new ways of saying you care to the techno-freak in your life. Nokia 8250 This stylish phone exudes just the
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        Lock icon Scientists map genetic code of a plant
        433 14 DOORS TO SUPEROPS OPEN AFP PARIS An international group of scientists announced on Wednesday that they had cracked the first genetic code of a plant, an achievement that could throw open the gates to a new “green revolution” of supercrops. The object of
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      • Eyeball SAYS
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          Lock icon Court selects leader in lawsuit land
          691 15 IT’S back to square one at long last. Only, the Americans being Americans took a full month and more to see the writing on the wall or the marking on the ballot papers. Come to think of it, what was all the fuss about?
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        • Article
          Lock icon Set right mindset for telecommuting
          332 15 “Telecommuting lacks cyber-travellers” (Dec 11) FAST, efficient Internet technology has made it possible to work from home in Singapore. Would you ever work from home? Eyeball readers say: OUT WITH THE OLD WE NEED a change of the old mindset and outdated evaluation systems. Are
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      27 2 (food morning! 4 Showers with thunder in the late afternoon and early evening over many areas High: 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 2.37AM/2.8M 1.16PM/3.2M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      154 4 Some sites that give you detailed information on their Web privacy practices: http://www.ibm.com/privacv It informs users if it wishes to use their personal information for, say, research purposes, and they can refuse. It is registered with Truste -a non-profit organisation that runs privacy programmes for websites. http://www.catcha.com.sg One of Truste’s
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      27 5 “I’m really not a young punk!” Listen to how Sharon Sim-Krause’s youthful looks did not stop her from proving her detractors wrong. Just log on to http;//eyeball-a*ial-com-sg
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      46 8 Our Life! pages are full of it. Sometimes irreverent, often funny, never boring. Edited by Richard Lim, who says he's still got plenty of living to do. In one of our five handy sections. m m WM w ■v, S-i MyStraitsTimes Call 388 3838 for subscription
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      36 9 To watch, listen and read the speeches, just log on to: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/200Q/ If transcripts/*****0/bush.htm Transcript of George W Bush’s speech. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/ 2000/transcripts/*****0/t*****3.html Al Gore’s full concession speech. http://www.cnn.com For video and audio of both their speeches.
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      22 13 Want to know more about the “Hack Furby” contest and the kit for converting the toy? Go to: http://www.afu.com/ fur.html http://www.canadashops.com/stores /furbvupgrade/
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Aussie hope
        111 16 AFP SYDNEY Australia will have the best squad in the world next year if Mark Philippoussis makes himself available for the Davis Cup, new team leaders John Fitzgerald and Wally Masur said on Thursday. It’s a big if but the pair believe the enigmatic Philippoussis will agree to
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      • Article
        Lock icon Modahl to appeal
        54 16 Reuters LONDON Diane Modahl, the former Commonwealth 800 m champion, lost her case yesterday against the British Athletic Federation in London’s High Court. She will appeal against the ruling, arguing unfair treatment after a pbsitive drugs test in 1994. Modahl was claiming £500,000 (*****,000) in damages and
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        Lock icon NBA WRAP
        202 17 SoperSonics 94 Grizzlies 93 IN VANCOUVER, Gary Payton scored 17 points as Seattle weathered a late charge by the Grizzlies and reached the .500 mark for the first time since the first week of the season. Beat 94 Clippers 88 IN LOS ANGELES, Tim Hardaway scored six of
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        Lock icon OFC gets new chief
        66 18 Reuters SYDNEY Soccer Australia chairman Basil Scarsella won a vote 12-11 yesterday to succeed New Zealander Charlie Dempsey as president of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), the agency said. Dempsey resigned in July after abstaining in a Fifa vote to decide the host nation for the
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        Lock icon Baseball signings
        126 18 AP NEW YORK-Baseball teams returned home from the winter meetings and kept signing free agents. Manny Ramirez’s US$l6O-million (SS2BO- eight-year contract with Boston was finalised, as was Todd Hundley’s U 5523.5 million, four-year deal with the Chicago Cubs. Shortstop Alex Arias agreed to a US$l.3-million, two-year contract with
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      Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
      33 16 “I’ve bought only one copy of Playboy in the past five years, and that was for a Bob Costas interview, I swear.” -John Nelson Fox Sports News contributing editor
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      Lock icon Reds fail to impress once again
      506 16  -  Houllier needs to get his act together By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.corrusg LIKE most things Liverpool does these days, the Reds quarter-final 3-0 win over Fulham was left to the very last minute. For 90 minutes, the Premiership’s under-achievers were unable to motivate themselves to
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      Lock icon Stoudamire stars in Blazers’ win over Lakers
      343 16 PORTLAND NOW SECOND ON TABLE AP PORTLAND Damon Stoudamire finally proved he can hang with Kobe Bryant, giving the Portland Trailßlazers a sorely needed confidence boost against their nemesis, the Los Angeles Lakers. Stoudamire scored all 21 of his points in the second
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      Lock icon POWER RANKINGS
      993 17 NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION s s 5Jt Jpj pjp §j g|fjf,» ggjpgj Jjj jgfmjgjj Our pick of the week is the Miami Heat They have had to find away to win without big man Alonzo Mourning. They found it hard at the start but gritted their teeth and forged
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      Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
      43 18 ON THIS day in the world of English football, Southampton defeated Watford City 11-0 in the then Southern League. Saints striker Jack Fraser bagged four on the day. Bet you Glenn Hoddle is wishing for some of old Jack’s luck.
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    • World of SPORT
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        Lock icon It has to be Woods and Williams
        472 18  -  Tiger made fans love golf, Venus brought them back to tennis ATHLETES OF THE YEAR By Christine Brennan USA Today I HAD a simple question for a sports-crazed friend the other night. “Male athlete of the year,” I said to him, “who is
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      Lock icon US wants to host Olympics again
      269 18 BIDS FOR 2012 GAMES AP BALTIMORE The first competition of the 2012 Summer Olympics has begun, with more American cities than ever before lined up for the ultimate gold medal the right to stage the Games. The deadline for bids to be received by
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Wonder Women
      949 19  -  One is Asia’s reigning Rb’B diva; the other is bigger than Britney Spears Down Under Eyeball gets an audience with Coco Lee and Vanessa Amorosi. By Ronald Rajan ronrajan@sph.com.sg SVERY once in a while, there comes an artist who defies conventional stereotypes. Vanessa Amorosi is one. The Australian
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    • Music
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        Lock icon DIFFERENT DRUMMER
        150 20 CHRISTMAS TIME AGAIN Lynyrd Skynyrd (CMC International) WE MIGHT alternatively title this Another Redneck Christmas. Coming off a humdinger like Edge Of Forever, Skynyrd’s yuletide effort seems reasonably tame, though it bears a few gifts for those who prefer their rock Southern-fried. Instrumentals Greensleeves and Classical Christmas enchant
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        Lock icon Christmas CD crackers
        378 20 You’ve been dreaming of a white Christmas but record labels hope to be in the black by releasing festive CDs. RONALD RAJ AN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) samples this year’s aural offerings. many times to get excited enough to blow more dough (or snow) on them. By and large, this
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        Lock icon Traditional trimmings
        418 20 MICHAEL BALL Christmas (Hip-O/Universal) REMINDS you of last year’s Michael Crawford release? Well, the two are both former Phantom Of The Opera stars but that’s where the similarity ends. Well, actually, the album jackets look similar too. Anyway, the good thing about Ball is he doesn’t hold back
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        700 21  -  By Clara Chow clarac@sph.com.sg COCO Lee is the self-styled spokeswoman or songwoman of Asia to the West. Talking animatedly about her breakthrough in the US, the full-throated R&B diva cooed: “It makes me feel good when Chinese people look at me and go: ‘When she does great, we
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        Lock icon Jingle rock all the way
        834 22 POP ROCK IT’S A COOL COOL CHRISTMAS Various Artists (Jeepster) NO WAIT, don’t scream this isn’t just another Christmas album full of no-brainer rehashes and the tired, usual seasonal musings. Instead, this is a host of rock renegades doing their own take on the holiday
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        Lock icon Wham, glam, thank you ma’am!
        538 23 BLUE NIGHT Michael Learns To Rock (EMI) OH DEAR, they’re back. Quite frankly, how this semi-talented bunch ever managed to sell something like eight million records is a mystery. But it does bear testimony to the fact that tastelessness and inanity are alive and thriving;
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        Lock icon CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
        203 23  -  Francis Kan GREASE OST Various Artists (Polydor) IT’S BEEN more than 20 years since those crazy kids at Rydell High linked arms to sing: “We go together like rama lama lama kading-a-dong”, but the soundtrack from Grease continues to be the quintessential rock ’n’ roll
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        Lock icon DOWNLOAD OF THE WEEK
        144 23  -  June Wan YOU’RE NOT ALONE Embrace Time: 4 mins 52 secs http://www.launch.com HELICOPTER sounds in songs The Beatles first used that gimmick, and were shamelessly copied by Oasis. Now that same trick has been co-opted by Embrace (the band has brothers too), the newest addition to
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      • Music NOTES
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          Lock icon Pushy Puffy
          154 23 SEAN PUFFY COMBS was so helpful to his girlfriend Jennifer Lopez in producing her new album, it put a terrible strain on their relationship. Despite the united front they showed to the public, the loving couple broke up for as long as four weeks in October and early
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          Lock icon Wedded bliss for Liz
          100 23 ATOMIC KITTEN Liz McLarnon is set to marry her childhood sweetheart. The 19-year-old brunette has secretly been engaged to boyfriend Bill Hibb for weeks and plans to tie the knot in Perthshire, Scotland, next year, beating fellow band member Kerry Katona, who is engaged to Westlife’s
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          Lock icon Suede from the vault
          87 23 BRITISH band Suede have announced that they are to release a mini-album of rare songs, live tracks and acoustic versions of some of their biggest hits. The collection, simply entitled Sessions, will be made available through the group’s fan club, the Suede Information Service. Included on
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    • Food
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        Lock icon No cold turkey
        524 24 Touve got to have that big bird on your table this Christmas. Short of doing it yourself, getting someone to roast your turkey is the best option. KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) and HADUAH (siti@sph.com.sg) go fowl hunting. OT’S turkey season. The gobbling fowl is so synonymous with Christmas
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        Lock icon GET THAT BIRD
        497 24 JASONS Tel: *****55 Turkey: Roast turkey with chestnut stuffing ($69 for 4-kg bird, $B9 for 6-kg bird). Other offerings: Honey-baked ham, US roast sirloin, vegetable selection tray. Hampers priced from $l2O to $BOO. Delivery charges: No cost for turkeys; $lO for hamper orders below $l5O and free
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        Lock icon Da man can cook
        519 25 NYT Isaac Hayes, legendary blues singer and the voice of Chef on South Park, shows he is a maestro in the kitchen. He’s just released a cookbook, Cooking With Heart b Soul MARCIA LANGHENRY reports. OT A DJ convention in Atlanta in 1967, the year he
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        Lock icon Zesti-Luv Lemon Meringue Pie
        294 25 Makes a 20-cm pie; 10 servings Preparation time: 45 minutes Cooking time: About 30 minutes Ingredients: 1 (14-oz) can condensed milk 6 lemons 1 orange 1 egg yolk 1 (8-oz) can crushed pineapple, drained 1 (7-oz) packet moist sweetened coconut flakes, divided 1 cup chopped walnuts
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      • Pick of the EATS
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          Lock icon Penang laksa lure
          90 25 YOU don’t have to fly all the way to Penang to indulge in the island’s famed culinary delights. You can drop by York Hotel’s White Rose Cafe for the Penang Hawkers’ Fare Promotion on from today to Jan 1. Savour the specialities of 20 traditional Penang hawkers
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          Lock icon Seasonal sweets
          92 25 FROM now to Christmas, Aromaz Bakery Deli at The Pan Pacific will be out to tempt you with their irresistible Christmas goodies. On sale are their yuletide log cake, traditionally baked pudding and classic panettone and pandroro delights. A unique collection of cookies which comes in four different
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          82 25 CURIOUS about what tickles Kiwi palates? If you are, try Marche’s “Christmas in New Zealand” gastronomic promotion which runs until Dec 31. The must-trys include the range of NZ beef tender cuts, sirloin, tenderloin and striploin. There are also Marche’s favourites smoked salmon salad, lamb stew ratatouille,
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          77 25  -  Hera Chua THE Euro-Asian buffet at Plaza Parkroyal’s Cafe Plaza is one place where East definitely meets West this Christmas. Binge on popular dishes from Europe, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. Gastronomic delights include braised shark’s fin soup with crabmeat, drunken chicken, unagi rolls
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        590 26 Creative flavours are the order of the day at Saint Pierre. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) has a sampling. AINT Pierre is a S restaurant that truly takes pride in its name. How else would you explain the inclusion of John Dory a fish commonly known as St
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        297 26  -  Tan Dawn Wei TOO busy to get lunch but don’t fancy a carbo-loading pizza delivery? Try calling a soup! That’s because Campbell’s has gone from condensed canned soups to microwaveable tubs of soups to go, which are delivered anywhere within the Shenton Way area. “We want to
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      33 20 For more Christmas CDs on sale now, such as Bob Rivers’ satirical Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire and the Latin-flavoured Mambo Santa Mambo: Christmas From the Latin Lounge, log on to http://eyeball.asial.com.sg
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      35 21 Coco lee In Concert 2000 makes its Singapore stop at 8 pm at Suntec Level 6. Limited tickets are available for tonight’s show at the venue. For more information, go to h ttp://www. cocoleeconcerts. com.
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      25 26 Saint Pierre. 7 Magazine Road, Ol-03 Central Mall (Tel: 438 0887). Open for lunch and dinner (Mon to Fri). Dinner only on Sat and Sun.
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      38 26 To order, call 1800-778-8838, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Minimum order of $10 and be prepared to wait about an hour for delivery. From now until Dec 31, buy four tubs and get one free.
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      218 27 Warning, virus alert IF YOU receive an e-mail message with a subject line of “Badtimes”, delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most dangerous virus yet. It will erase your hard drive. Not only that, but it will erase any floppy disks in your a:
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      452 27 Movies Jack 7.30 pm TCS 5 Robin Williams plays a kid who discovers that his body is growing at four times the normal rate. At 10, with the physical characteristics of a 40-year-old man, he is sent to school to be with other children his age. The Bad And The
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      116 28 CHRISTINA AGUILERA (left) and Ricky Martin (right) are to release a single together. Nobody Wants To Be Lonely will be the second single from Martin’s album, Sound Loaded. The pair are said to be in the process of shooting a video for the single at the
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      136 28 MIAMI Boris Becker’s wife claims the German tennis star abandoned her and their two children last month, and she is suing for alimony and child support, but not a divorce. In court papers filed on Dec 8, Barbara Becker (left) said the
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      257 28 THIS year’s 25 Most Intriguing People Of The Year as decided by People magazine share a common thread: Openness. Britain’s Prince William widened his world by taking time to commune with nature and the underclasses in Chile, while boy wizard Harry Potter opened computer-literate kids’
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        52 28 POSH SPICE is launching a career as a tabloid columnist. Victoria Beckham will share tidbits about life with husband David with readers of London’s Daily Star. There is even a possibility of a “Posh ‘n’ Becks” column, although Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson may have some thoughts
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        85 28 Wires PAUL SIMON, Queen, Steely Dan, Aerosmith, Michael Jackson, Ritchie Valens, The Flamingos and Solomon Burke were named as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2001 inductees. Other nominees were AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Brenda Lee, Lynyrd Skynyrd, New York Dolls. Lon Reed, Bob Seger and Patti Smith... The
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