Project Eyeball, 19 December 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Tuesday, December 19, 2000 80 CENTS
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      455 1 We’re inviting 20 female readers for a night at the races, Dec 30, at the Turf Club. Need the right thing to wear? we 20DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION Sri Lankan Asif Ansar gets into a cab and gets mistaken for a spy, while India’s Madhu Sinha Roy has had friendly drivers
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      93 2 A 75-YEAR-OLD British woman got so fed up with a fetish firm that kept sending her unwanted brochures and free thongs in the post that she decided to retaliate. So she sent the firm a huge pair of bloomers in protest. Apart from the pair of oversized knickers, Jean
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      Lock icon Drop in illegal VCDs
      273 2 Police seize 410,000 pieces this year, down from one million last year IF YOU were hoping to get your hands on a pirated copy of the Grinch to pad out that Christmas stocking, you are out of luck. Chances are your neighbourhood illegal-VCD seller has been
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Net boom to slow as market matures
        146 2 DRIVEN by the arrival of free ISPs, Singapore saw a boom in new Internet subscribers over the past 18 months. However, that growth will slow significantly over the next four years as the market matures. The number of subscribers reached 1.09 million at
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      • Article
        Lock icon Firms can file tax returns online
        138 2 FOR Singapore’s 100,000 companies, the dreaded ritual of filing corporate tax returns can be done with a click of a mouse from next year. A new initiative by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore will let incorporated companies file their Estimated Chargeable Income (ECI)
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        Lock icon Insead’s first batch graduates
        192 2 UNIVERSITIES, like businesses, need to “internationalise” by customising their services such as distance learning programmes and by linking up with other universities and industries. So said Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tony Tan yesterday, at the graduation ceremony of Insead’s first batch of students from its Singapore
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        Lock icon SQ006 heroine leaves hospital
        135 2 FARZANA ABDUL RAZAK, survivor and member of the cabin crew of the ill-fated flight SQOO6, has been discharged from the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). Farzana, 18, who suffered 45 per cent burns to her body, had needed to complete nine skin grafts. Together with the other
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      Lock icon World Watch
      322 3 OTTAWA Russian President Vladimir Putin and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien got down to formal business with talks on disarmament, development of Arctic expanses and improving paltry trade levels. ALGIERS Algerian rebels machine-gunned to death 15 teenage students and a teacher as they lay in their beds at
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      Lock icon ‘S’pore didn’t block Asean entry’
      385 3  -  East Timor leader says such reports were ‘unfounded’ By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE did not object to East Timor’s entry to Asean. And reports that the Republic did, were “unfounded” said 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ra-mos-Horta, who is Cabinet Minister for Foreign Affairs
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      Lock icon Rice gets national security adviser post
      137 3 AFP AUSTIN (Texas) George W Bush named three high-ranking members of his incoming administration on Sunday. In a long-anticipated move, Bush named Condoleezza Rice his national security adviser marking the first time a woman has held that post. Rice, 46, an academic and expert
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Is it okay to sell organs?
        1306 4  -  Opinion divided despite shortage By Leong Pik Yin and Dawn Lee pikyin@sph.com.sg dawnlee@sph.com.sg MAKE it legal to buy and sell kidneys in Singapore. That’s what 19-year-old student Annil Singh suggested in a letter to the press last week, sparking off a heated discussion on
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      Lock icon ‘Green’ rebates not enough
      1105 5  -  Despite discounts, savings from environmentally friendly cars may be offset by other factors By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg Andrew Chin OWNING a “green” or environmentally friendly car will be cheaper starting next month, but the savings appear meaningless to the hard-nosed Singaporean motorist. In a joint statement
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        Lock icon L.V.F. WORKS BUT...
        125 6 ‘Knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t have put two (embiyos back in the womb). I love my children and I wouldn’t change the experience for anything in the world, but I tell my f riends who are going through IVF fry one first.’ Lisa McPherson whose
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        Lock icon Double joy, double toil
        476 6  -  Multiple births can be a burden, but there are now support groups to help By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg FOR Laura Day, 31, something as simple as a trip to the grocery store can resemble a battle plan. It’s not a matter of remembering to buy the
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          Lock icon Pelvic endometriosis reduces fertility
          498 6 DEAR Dr Chen: My 33-year-old wife has asymptomatic endometriosis (a disease characterised by abnormal tissues usually found in the pelvic and lower abdominal cavity). She has a follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) ratio of 20. The first cycle of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) with flare protocol resulted in
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Blasts rock Aceh capital ahead of Gus Dur’s visit
        533 7 MORE TROOPS DEPLOYED Wires BANDA ACEH Thousands of troops staged a show of force and paraded in the capital of strifetorn Aceh province yesterday after two bomb blasts rocked government offices ahead of a presidential visit. The explosions in Banda Aceh
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        Lock icon TIGHTENING THE LAWS
        144 7 SOME restrictions enforced by PAS in Kelantan and Terengganu: Restricted sales of alcohol and no drinking in public places. Muslims cannot work in restaurants that sell alcohol. Gambling and betting shops are illegal. Karaoke lounges and snooker centres may be shut down if found to be associated
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        Lock icon PAS reforms in Terengganu hurt
        585 7 Federal cut in oil revenues adds to unhappiness AP KUALA TERENGGANU The owner of the Scissors Comb hairdressing salon expects to be out of business soon. Women and men may not cut each other’s hair, the local Muslim authorities have decreed. “All my workers are
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        Lock icon Clinton may host weekly TV talk show
        260 9 WASHINGTON Watch out Oprah, Big Bill is eyeing your territory. As he prepares to leave the White House next month, one of US President Bill Clinton’s career options will be to launch a weekly television show, according to drudgereport.com. The Internet site named
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        Lock icon Take pupils’ photos off websites, schools advised
        299 9 BRITISH MEASURE VS PAEDOPHILIA LONDON Schools in Britain are being advised to remove pictures of pupils from their websites to protect the children from being the targets of paedophiles. Guidelines issued by the Edinburgh Council to headteachers in Scotland have asked schools to
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        Lock icon London Uni ahead of Oxford
        448 9 Claims to have better management LONDON US President Bill Clinton, who was being tipped as the next Chancellor of Oxford last week, might want to reconsider and move to London instead. For the buzz now is that London University and its four top colleges, Imperial,
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Get bugged!
        568 10  -  Starship Troopers falls to make the grade By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg THIS game is full of bugs: Most of them come with many legs, but some are programming ones. The game is based on the movie of the same name by Paul Verhoevan. The bugs, troopers and the
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        Lock icon Joysticks that stand out from the rest of ’em
        521 10  -  GAMING PERIPHERALS Winston Goh GAMING peripherals are the ***** children of the gaming industry mostly forgotten and out of sight. But here are two well worth a look because of their solid design: wnfiiimaiimp FORCE FEEDBACK 2 AT THE moment, this
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        Lock icon Fossilised life forms found in meteorite
        318 11 ALIEN BACTERIA AFP MELBOURNE Fossilised microorganisms have been found inside a meteorite that crashed to earth in Australia 30 years ago, a Nasa scientist has claimed. New technology was used to discover the fossilised alien life forms, which were found inside a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite
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        Lock icon Shopping with 'bots’
        513 11 These websites provide the what, where and cost of products in a hurry AP NEW YORK Shopping robots, or “bots”, are websites that let shoppers type in the product they desire and, wham, get an instant list of Web purveyors carrying the item and what each charges.
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        Lock icon Fast-forward to the future
        38 11 No more rewinding of videotapes with Matsushita’s new DVD Digicam VDR-Mio, a camcorder that records images onto an 8-cm DVD-RAM. It will hit Japan’s market in February at a price of ¥228,000 (553,600). AFP
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Saucy Bart gets 41 staffers suspended
        237 12 OFFICE E-MAIL LONDON A lewd e-mail of the cartoon character Bart Simpson has led to the suspension of 41 staffers at British insurance company Royal SunAlliance. Only days after five London city lawyers faced disciplinary proceedings over a woman’s salacious e-mail that was flashed
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        Lock icon United we stand
        38 12 Employees of Korea Telecom, some with ‘Death defenders’ on their vests, protesting yesterday in Seoul against plans to privatise the state-run firm. The union said the strike would continue until the move is halted. Reuters
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        Lock icon The day I closed my dotcom down
        740 12  -  Telling the employees was the hardest thing of all By Jennifer Jeffrey Salon.com NEW YORK On a Monday morning just five short weeks ago, I had to tell my employees that they didn’t have jobs anymore. I felt like a devious conspirator as
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        Lock icon Bulls&Bears
        83 13 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS PCI 26,970,000 144 Poh Lian 25,273,000 57 PacCent 22,518,000 no Top 3 Gainers CENTS DBS 2070 100 +5.1 SIA 200 1720 50 +3.0 SIA 1700 40 +2.4 Total number of gamers: 135 Top 3 Losers CENTS JMH400USS 640 -40 -5.9
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        Lock icon BIZ SITE OF TEE DAY: www.fool.com
        174 13  -  Nicholas Yong THIS is probably the wisest fool you will ever come across. Don’t be fooled by the name, for this site is meant to educate, entertain and enrich you: the individual investor. And we must admit that it does a pretty good job.
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        Lock icon Nov figures fall below expectations
        378 13  -  NON-OIL DOMESTIC EXPORTS By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S non-oil domestic exports (NODX) for November showed signs of exhaustion, coming in several percentage points below analysts’ expectations of double-digit year-end gains. A key barometer of Singapore’s trade-driven economy, NODX grew just 8.1 per cent year-on-year, down
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        Lock icon OCBC buys up brokerage
        632 13  -  Takes over USB Warburg S’pore By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg SHAPE up, tie up or ship out. That’s the message in the dog-eat-dog world of the financial markets these days. And the shake-out saga has just begun. OCBC Bank, one of Singapore’s big four, said yesterday it
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      • Expat EYE
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          Lock icon Do me a favour, don’t ask
          684 14  -  By Madhu Sinha Roy madhu@sph.com.sg CALL it frankness, forthrightness or something else, Singaporeans’ talent for the direct question still catches me off guard. I had just landed on this emerald isle and was still blinking in the glare of the equatorial sun when I
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          Lock icon Cabbies with plenty of drive
          813 14  -  By Asif Ansar asif@sph.com.sg IF YOU thought Robert de Niro’s character in the classic Taxi Driver was one of the most “interesting” cabbies one could come across, maybe you should pay a little more attention to the guys who do it for real in this
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        Lock icon Going places
        321 15 The average expatriate in Singapore, among the 200 polled by Expat magazine recently, earns more than $20,000 a month, leads a lavish life and is always on the go. HOW OU> IS HE?: Between 35 and 44. EARNS: More than $20,000 a month. Go ahead and envy him
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      • Article
        Lock icon No Nobel laureates, but S’pore has high literacy rate
        247 15 THREE of our Expat Eye columnists gave their take on Singaporean life last week. Eyeball readers respond: MOT ENOUGH PEOPLE WE SIMPLY don’t have enough people to allow individuals to stumble through life, with a few brilliant gems making it through
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      27 2 Qood morning! t*4 Showers with thunder in the late afternoon and early evening over most areas High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 6.07AM/2.5M 5.45PM/2.5M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      24 6 This is the second in a two-part series. For the first instalment concerning the medical aspects of multiples through fertility treatments, go to http://eyeball-asial.coin.sg
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      34 9 X To find out more about British schools and their rankings, log on to: http://voyager.siug.org/britain.html A guide to studying in Britain. http:// www.sunday-times.co.uk/gug/ A guide to the best British universities, ranked according to subject.
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      50 11 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET IT'S CAUSING VAST TEMP PIFFERENCES AROUNP THE OFFICE. HELEN, I'M SWEATING 5&-N I'M FREEZING! SORRY PHIL I'M CREATING A COtAPII- A TERIZBP CLIMATE. 7 J 11-27 WILL you TWO STOP COMPLAINING? HOW BAP COULV IT BE? -7: -iti *c?o o 0 u G a XX
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Lazio’s racist fans
        71 16 AFP ROME Fans of Italian champions Lazio once again were involved in a racist controversy before and during the Roman derby match with AS Roma. Racist slogans on banners and in songs were targeted at Roma’s contingent of coloured players the players concerned being Brazilians Cafu, Assuncao,
        – AFP; Reuters  -  71 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Teen shot by police
        41 16 AP BUENOS AIRES A teenager died during a confrontation between fans and police at a match in Isidro Casanova. The youngster died of wounds from rubber bullets fired on fans when police lost control of the crowd.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Sheffield riot
        58 16 AP SHEFFIELD-Police used riot gear, tear gas and batons to disperse a group of about 300 rival soccer fans in the city, and then arrested 33 of them. In what police believed was prearranged violence, fans of Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday fought in the city centre, hours
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        Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
        30 16 ‘I THINK David wanted to show off his nice, slim physique.’ Aston Villa manager John Gregory on David Ginola’s stripping act after scoring against Manchester City.
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        Lock icon Hiddink to lead SK
        86 17 AFP SEOUL Former Dutch national coach Guus Hiddink, 54, yesterday signed a contract to lead South Korea’s national soccer team over the next IVz years in the 2002 World Cup campaign. “I’m glad and proud to be here,” the Dutchman said after signing the contract. Hiddink
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        Lock icon Bayern moves up
        47 17 Wires BERLIN Bayern Munich climbed to second place in the German Bundesliga standings with a rare but convincing 3-1 win over Hertha in Berlin. The Bavarians moved to just one point behind leader Schalke 04, which was held to a 2-2 draw at Cologne.
        – Wires  -  47 words
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        Lock icon Monaco eyes Sacchi
        57 17 AFP MONACO Struggling Le Championnat champion Monaco is in advanced talks to recruit former AC Milan and Italian national coach Arrigo Sacchi. Monaco’s ninth defeat in the league leaves the reigning champions in 13th position in the French league. And Monaco president Jean-Louis Campora is in contact
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        Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
        39 17 BEFORE signing for Arsenal, Patrick Vieira was playing at the San Siro for Italian giants AC Milan. He appeared in red and black stripes twice and was promptly snapped up by Arsene Wenger three years ago.
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        Lock icon MacGill’s apology
        84 18 AFP ADELAIDE Australian leg-spinner Stuart Mac Gill has apologised to West Indies’ 12th man Ramnaresh Sarwan over an incident on the third day of the third cricket test at Adelaide Oval, match referee Alan Smith said. The duo collided in the players’ race, just off the field, as
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        Lock icon Aussies in final
        49 18 Reuters WELLINGTON Defending champions Australia made short work of South Africa yesterday, beating them by nine wickets, in the first semi-final of the Woman’s World Cup in Christchurch. The second semi-final will be between hosts New Zealand and India later today, with the final on Saturday.
        – Reuters  -  49 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Master Corretja
        42 18 Wires MADRID Alex Corretja trashed his fellow Spaniard Carlos Moya 6-3,6-2 in the Spanish Masters yesterday. Corretja broke him in game six of the first set and then twice more in the second to add to his Spanish national crown.
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        Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
        34 18 “I’VE just told him that it’s downhill after this. But seriously, it was a great start for him.” Celtic’s boss Martin O’Neill on new-signing Ramon Vega’s two-goal debut against Aberdeen.
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        Lock icon Farewell match
        47 19 Wires PHOENIX The United States played to a 1-1 draw against visiting Japan as captain Carla Overbeck bid farewell to international soccer. However, Overbeck will continue her career playing for the North Carolina Tempest in the inaugural Women’s United Soccer Association league slated for April.
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        Lock icon Boca are champs
        35 19 Wires BUENOS AIRES Boca Juniors won 1-0 at home over Estudiantes to clinch the Argentine Apertura championship. After the home win, they finished four points ahead of River Plate and Gimnasia-La Plata.
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        Lock icon Change of heart
        71 19 AP AUSTIN-Just days after Lance Armstrong threatened to skip next year’s Tour de France, his team manager said the champion will plan to try to ride for a third straight title. Armstrong vented his frustration last week with an ongoing investigation into the drug Actovegin by suggesting
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        Lock icon LOOKING BACK
        34 19 SIX years ago today, McLaren boss Ron Dennis announced that retired four-times world motor racing champion Alain Prost would join his team the next year. Prost partnered Mika Hakkinen the following season.
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      Lock icon Eriksson to hang on
      603 16 Dismisses suggestions he should quit Lazio early after loss to AS Roma ROME Lazio coach Sven Goran Eriksson rejected suggestions his tenure with the Rome club could be cut short, despite a 1-0 defeat in the Rome derby yesterday that leaves his team 10 points behind
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    • Article
      Lock icon HOW LAZIO LOST
      117 16 Reuters ROME Roma remained six points clear at the top of Serie A after a 70th minute own-goal from Lazio defender Paolo Negro gave them a 1-0 victory. Lazio had the only chance of a tightly fought first half when Diego Simeone’s header from a Pavel Nedved
      – Reuters  -  117 words
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      Lock icon Title race is more open now
      503 17  -  Reds’ win gives all hopefuls a chance By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg WHEN Danny Murphy curled that free-kick past the Manchester United wall and Fabien Barthez, the whole HDB block I was in roared. It wasn’t a spectacular goal and the swirl on the ball
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    • Premier POINT
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        Lock icon Team-building isn’t only buying expensive players
        463 17  -  By Chris Lakey eyesport@eyeball.com.sg IT MAY have been caused by the approach of the festive season, who knows, but some common sense crept into English football last week, and it emanated from that quiet, respectable Midlands city of Leicester. The Foxes paid £3 million
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      Lock icon Lehman, Waldorf win team event
      381 18 AFP NEWPORT COAST Tom Lehman and Duffy Waldorf birdied the second extra hole to edge out defending champions Fred Couples and Mark Calcavecchia at the Hyundai Team Matches golf event yesterday. The reigning champs were Tup through 14 holes of the unofficial alternate-shot team competition.
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    • Article
      Lock icon ‘Nagano paid big bribes’
      552 18  -  Salt Lake alleges Japan did it first Luz Ramos AP SALT LAKE CITY Nearly 10,000 pages of confidential files in the Olympic vote-buying scandal reveal that Salt Lake’s now-indicted bid executives might have taken a page from organisers of the Nagano Games. The files, organised A
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      Lock icon Rice bids 49ers goodbye
      496 19 But doesn’t intend to retire from NFL Wires SAN FRANCISCO Jerry Rice joked about riding off into the sunset on a white horse. In the end, he settled for a seat on the shoulder pads of his teammates, who hoisted him off the field to a
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      Lock icon Raptors give Lakers a good scare
      458 19 HORRY SAVES DAY Wires TORONTO As it turned out, Kobe Bryant would win no matter what. Forget the 40 points he racked up, most of them against Vince Carter. Forget the frantic final quarter, when Carter’s team, the Toronto Raptors, nearly came from Saskatchewan
      – Wires; Reuters  -  458 words
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  • Unwind
    • Fashion
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        Lock icon Win, place‚ & show
        83 20 Win, place‚ show The racecourse is no longer a male bastion, not since the Singapore Turf Club launched its Ladies Night several months ago. Place your bets, have a ball, and come up winning by dressing right. ABOVE: Sleeveless jersey dress with sequin detail, $439, by Bazar from Tyan Boutique,
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        Lock icon Dressing sharp is always a good bet
        137 21 MODEL: Wendy Jacobs. STYLING: Lionnel Lim, pager: 9500-1034. MAKE-UP: Celestine Sng, Bobbi Brown. HAIR: Alvin Koh, Passion Salon. HANDBAGS: Cat In The Bag, 226-0187. LOCATION: Singapore Turf Club. Ladies Night is held every fourth Friday of each racing month with effect from January.
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        Lock icon DEEP-SEA BEAUTY
        242 22 ALL that sun and salt water has to take its toll. Kylie Jaye, of the teen underwater TV programme The Aquanauts, recommends using Kryolan professional make-up from Germany. “They have deck cream in 20 different shades that you can put under your eyes. “When you’re in and out
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      • Personal STYLE
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          Lock icon Beach babe
          546 22 Kylie Jaye, of new diving series The Aquanauts, talks to KARL HO (karl@sph .com.sg) about low-cut bikinis and stylish penguins. EW women would claim they could take on former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and win. But then again, when your job description fits Kylie Jaye’s, chasing after anacondas
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      • Wear & TEAR
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          Lock icon Gucci to fashion 18th century church...
          96 22 TOM FORD re-invented fashion from the *****, 1970 s and 1980 s. Now Gucci is casting its eyes further back to the 18th century. Apparently, Italian luxury design house is behind the restoration of the facade of the Santo Spirito church in Florence. The
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          Lock icon ...and fund the art of crafting leather
          63 22 GUCCI is set to open a leather working school in Italy. The Centro Polifuzionale della Pelletteria Italiana will be located in Scandicci, near Florence, and begins courses next year. The school will attempt to further encourage leather craftsmanship among young talents, and Gucci
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          Lock icon A diamond-encrusted hand grenade, anyone?
          85 22 OH, TO be fashionably armed to the hilt! When Italian artist Antonio Riello unveils his collection of couture weaponry in Paris this week, these will be the perfect Christmas gifts for women with everything but personal security. Described as “high-fashion accessories for sophisticated ladies”, each
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          Lock icon Sports start-up buys Ford Models
          110 22  -  June Wan FORD Models is no longer prancing solo. It has been sold for approximately US$5O million to a start-up sports company called Magnum Sports and Entertainment, a small, New York-based agency that represents NFL wide receiver Antonio Freeman and Nascar race-car driver Chad Chaffin.
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        615 23 Forget the ghostly Noh faces of the old Shiseido ads, the new image of the Japanese cosmetics giant isall about marrying mind, body and heart. Its CEO tells JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) more. OST twentyL T J somethings today i j H grew up with the B image
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          96 23 IF EYES are the windows to the soul, what better way to highlight them than in fashion’s hottest shade? Calvin Klein’s Violet Eye Colour Wash combines the radiance of lilac and silver in a shimmery sensation and the slightest sheen, inspired by the
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          55 23 WANT instant luxe under your Christmas tree? Find the answers in Hugo Boss, whose cashmere sweaters, chunky brogues, updated Oxfords and understated accessories will make great gifts that he couldn’t refuse nor she, as Boss has brought in its women’s range. Available from the Boss
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          99 23 FOR a chill worthy of the season, even though you’re stuck in hot and wet Singapore, turn to MAC, which has the goods. The pearlised metal collection is a range of very untraditional icy pastels, including lipsticks in Miss Mofit (pale icy lavender),
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          62 23 SHOES! Okay, now that we have your attention, there’re bags as well. Hue is a new shop at Scotts Shopping Centre that carries a self-titled range (priced between $49 and $B9) designed by owner and ex-Tangs shoe buyer Doris Tan, and imported
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          74 23 GET jewellery in a shade fit for royalty right here in Singapore. In a burst of ingenuity and creativity, Lee Hwa Diamond Gallery and Singapore Polytechnic have developed the world’s first 19 K purple gold jewellery, an amalgam of yellow gold and aluminium. The precious metal
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          56 23  -  June Wan NEW bijou bags from Louis Vuitton’s Epi Z have smooth resin tone-on-tone handles that shine with subtle iridescence. Bags and purses themselves boast lusciously rich tones of lilac, vanilla and mocha. Available at Louis Vuitton stores at Ngee Ann City, The Hilton Hotel shopping
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        845 24 If you want to be a male matinee idol in Japan, it helps if you look girlish. JEANMARIR TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) explores the fad of pin-up androgyny in popular Japanese culture. RUST the Japanese Tto give new meaning to the term “boy meets girl” at least among
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          82 25 HERE’S another reason to sire your troops early. According to a Boston University study, men born to older fathers run a greater risk of getting prostate cancer. More than 2,200 men were studied over a period of 20 years. The research showed men born when their fathers were
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          59 25 BE MAGNANIMOUS if you have been hatching a grand plan for revenge against the bully who squirted ink at you in primary school. Finnish researchers who studied 16,410 kids between the ages of 14 and 16 have found out that bullies are more likely to be depressive and
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          71 25 YOU’VE probably heard this one from many a Chinesepowdered deer antlers give your mojo a major boost. Well, trials in New Zealand have borne this out, although not in bed. Apparently, Kiwi athletes who were given the velvet-like substance covering Bambi’s antlers showed improvement in strength and muscular
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          67 25 Wires SO YOUR bed doesn’t excite either of you anymore. Why not rent a room? A study in the US has apparently shown that couples are 40 per cent more likely to do the nasty while staying in some form of paid accommodation. The subjects in
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        643 25 LAT-WAP Men are worthless and weak when it's time for Christmas shopping. And that’s why they should he drafted into the Weekend Woman Warrior Workshop, argues SUSAN CAMPBELL. LL right. Pipe down. I’ll keep the engine running in the van for a moment longer,
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        270 25 AFP SINGAPORE Forget the notion that grocery shopping in Asia is not a man’s thing. A survey of 10 Asian countries has found that males no longer want to leave the final say on what to buy to their partners. “In fact, a growing
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      • Venus & MARS
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          Lock icon Heel me out
          822 26 She’s a ‘height slut manipulating her size with flats or stilletos to suit the occasion or mood. SAM I-SHAN (pedas@sph .com.sg) unburdens the trials and tribulations of being i.ym tall Y NAME is Sam IL T J shanandlama i J height slut. I f J adjust my
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        472 26  -  By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg MEET Asia’s next action femme fatale Norika Fujiwara. Like reigning action queen Michelle Yeoh who carried the flag for Malaysia, Fujiwara is another beauty queen (Miss Japan 1992) who’s got more stuff to strut than just catwalk moves. For one,
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      573 27 WHAT if the Beatles had been computer freaks? UNIX Man He’s a real UNIX Man Sitting in his UNIX LAN Making all his UNlX.plans for nobody Knows the block size from “du” Cares not where /dev/null goes to Isn’t he a bit like you And me? UNIX
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