Project Eyeball, 20 December 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Wednesday, December 20, 2000 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon Forgot to send off your Christmas cards?
    80 1 You’ve still got time to beat the postman with one of our snazzy Eyeball e-cards. Make your choice of five great designs, sent from the comfort of your computer. Local or overseas, the postage is free. Or bring Christmas cheer to your desktop
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      345 1 MOBILES MOT DANGEROUS Mobile phones are not a health hazard. That’s the verdict of the latest study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, but it’s not likely to be the last word on the subject. See Page 9 Violence m DON’T BUG ME THIS CHRISTMAS Soh Wen
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      110 2 TALK about solving cases at a pace. Here’s another feather in the cap for Malaysian police. They have managed to crack the case of three men who used a coconut to commit a robbery. And the case was solved in double quick time too. The trio had hit a
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      Lock icon Jumping joy
      45 2 Adventurous types, and those with a strong stomach, tried the Eurobungy yesterday at the Ngee Ann City atrium. A combination between a bungee jump and a trampoline, the 7-m structure allows four people to propel themselves to new somersaulting heights simultaneously. Desmond Wee
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Season of sharing
        31 2 Food packages and hongbaos being handed out to the needy. The event, held in Eunos Crescent yesterday, was organised by the Kampong Übi Citizen’s Consultative Community. Clarence Chan
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      • Article
        Lock icon Media Works’ first sitcom unveiled
        236 2 THE first sitcom from SPH MediaWorks’ Mandarin Channel U will be set in an advertising agency, tentatively titled Champagne Jungle. “Whenever a deal is closed at an agency, champagne is popped. But it’s like a jungle out there in an agency, where danger awaits,” explained
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        Lock icon If SIA doesn’t sign, pilots stay: Taiwan
        127 2 THE Taiwanese prosecutors appear to be playing hard ball. They have said they might set a deadline for Singapore Airlines to sign a legal undertaking that will allow the three SQOO6 pilots to return to Singapore. Huang Mou-Shang, who is leading the probe,
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        Lock icon Jasons moves into Raffles City
        85 2 FROM toilet rolls to champagne and oysters Jasons Market Place at Raffles City has it all. Located in the basement, where Sogo Supermarket used to be, the Cold Storage chain’s 34th outlet offers more than 16,000 lines of products, sourced and imported from all over
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      Lock icon Govt rebuts new Gus Dur claims
      280 2 SM Lee never suggested the President might step down ONCE again Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has come out to rebut allegations made by Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid. This time, the Ministry was responding to remarks the Indonesian leader made to the Bangkok
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      Lock icon World Watch
      336 3 MEXICO CITY Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano spewed molten rock into the sky, causing small forest fires on its slopes in Puebla state where thousands had been evacuated but many refused to leave. PARIS France will outlaw blood donations from French citizens who lived in Britain and Ireland from 1980
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      Lock icon Coco Lee to sue promoter
      281 3 KUALA LUMPUR Asian pop diva Coco Lee will sue the promoter of her Singapore and Malaysia concerts, her lawyers confirmed. A statement released on Monday by Hong Kong’s Haldanes Solicitors and Notaries said Lee will sue for breach of contract, including not being paid her
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      Lock icon M’sia appoints woman A-G
      353 3 Move may herald revamp of legal system Wires KUALA LUMPUR For the first time, Malaysia yesterday appointed a woman as Attorney-General as part of a reshuffle of its legal system that has been heavily criticised by some quarters over the imprisonment of former deputy prime minister
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon S’pore firms would’ve fired Brad the cad
        645 4  -  To protect image and avoid liability By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg BEFORE you forward that lewd joke to your friends using the company e-mail account, stop because it could cost you your job. According to HR consultants, most companies here will fire employees if
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      Lock icon ‘He didn’t cross the line’
      402 4  -  NOT PORN OR SPAM By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg EVERYONE has been guilty of using company e-mail accounts to send personal messages at some point or other, and that alone should not be grounds for dismissal, said most of the people Eyeball spoke to. Those
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      Lock icon The ‘yummy’ e-mail that spammed the world
      59 5 After several hours, the e-mail has gone around the world. Swire, 26, a public relations account manager, has since gone into hiding and her parents’ home in Sussex has been besieged by reporters. She has also been offered numerous jobs, including one as
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      Lock icon E-mailing their way to shame
      174 5 Many employees have found themselves in trouble for abusing company e-mail privileges in various ways: LAST Friday, 41 employees at a British insurance firm were suspended for being involved in doctoring a lewd picture of cartoon character Bart Simpson. Earlier this year, the CIA fired
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      Lock icon Watch what you send
      211 5 THOSE personal messages you send out to your friends using your offic e-mail account don’t just disappear after you hit the “delete” button. Your company’s IT department has ways it can use to retrieve their content. So here are a few tips to help you stay
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      Lock icon SHE HASN’T LEARNED HER LESSON – YET
      202 5  - SHE HASN’T LEARNED HER LESSON YET Toh Bee Ping ONE recalcitrant e-mail user here has admitted to using her company account to send up to 15 jokes and messages with huge attachments to friends every day. And this, despite verbal and written warnings from her company to stop. Sharon (not
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      Lock icon More women returning to jobs
      509 6  -  One in two married women between 45 and 49 work By Sonny Phua sonnyp@sph.com.sg WOMEN in their forties are making a comeback to the workplace. Quietly. More married women who had stopped working have re-entered the workforce this year. However, most do so on a
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      Lock icon Schools get all the credit
      587 6  -  GCE N LEVEL EXAM RESULTS By Dawn Lee dawnlee@sph.com.sg FAITH can move mountains. Sometimes, it can yield fantastic school results too. The Bedok South Secondary School is proof of that. Two of the top students in the GCE N-level exams, the results of which were
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    • The World
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        Lock icon US suspects Iraq may build war computers
        509 7 BIG IMPORTS OF SONY PLAYSTATION 2 Washington Can’t lay your hands on a Sony Play Station 2? Uame Saddam Hussein. That hard-headed Iraqi dictator has been stockpiling a large number of the popular video game units a nd raising more than an eyebrow
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        Lock icon No new deal with rebels: Gus Dur
        590 7 But pledges to continue talks after truce ends on Jan 15 Wires &ANDA ACEH Wearing a bulletproof vest, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday v isited the bloodied province of Aceh and rejected a new truce with Separatist rebels while backing Aiore peace talks.
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        Lock icon Netanyahu drops bid for PM
        565 8 Sharon, Barak, Peres to vie for post Reuters JERUSALEM Right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu dropped out of the race for prime minister yesterday, while Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres weighed making a run, in the latest twists of Israel’s tortuous politics. Netanyahu’s withdrawal appeared to leave former
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        Lock icon Cocktails put life back into Noughties parties
        603 8 COMEBACK KICKS Reuters NEW YORK Lil Rushing Roy wanted to inject some real spirit into a bridal shower she was giving, so she ditched the usual juvenile games for a swanky martini party where imbibing invitees decorated martini glasses for the newlyweds. Roy,
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        Lock icon Short-term use of mobiles ‘harmless’
        748 9 But latest US study refers to older, analog phones AFP Washington Are mobile phones a health hazard? Well, these days that seriously depends on which study you quote. The latest ammo: A new, authoritative study that offers some comfort, because it has shown that there
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        Lock icon Gore not good enough to be Harvard president
        237 9 AP BOSTON Poor Al Gore. As if it was not bad enough that he lost out in the presidential race, he’s now being told he does not have the academic or intellectual standing to become the president of Harvard University, a job
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        Lock icon Ecstasy can cause lasting brain damage
        306 9 NEW FINDINGS LONDON The designer drug Ecstasy can cause lasting psychological damage, including anxiety and phobias, according to studies just released. Tests done on monkeys have already suggested that it is toxic to brain neurons, but human evidence has largely been anecdotal so far.
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Epson spits out a speed demon
        551 10  -  Printer thrives on good paper and lots of ink By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg HAVE you ever seen a printer that spews out pages with the speed of machine-gun fire? It’s quite a sight to behold. Standing in front of the Epson Stylus Colour 880
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        Lock icon New MP3 player from Nike targets sporty types
        397 10 PORTABLE SPORTS AUDIO NYT DAYTON (Ohio) Nike, the sneaker company, is branching out with a line of high-tech sports accessories to be sold under the name of nike techlab. The first product in the new line is a portable MP3 player called
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        Lock icon FLOATING INTO THE FUTURE
        95 11 •THE maglev, or t magnetically levitated train, uses powerful magnets to hold the train a few millimetres from the track and propel it with little noise or vibration. In April, a Japanese test maglev (left) set a speed record of 552 kph. •Shanghai is contemplating building
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        Lock icon Shanghai sets sights on futuristic trains
        407 11 Plans to build untested magnetic levitation line runs into controversy SHANGHAI The image is as seductive as it is futuristic: A train floating above its track races along at jet-plane speed. Now, Shanghai is buying into that dream. The city is contemplating building the
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        Lock icon Cheaper digital sound for small devices
        294 11 NEW SOUND SYSTEM Reuters DALLAS Texas Instruments on Monday unveiled a new all-digital sound system on a hand-sized circuit board that it said will deliver top-quality sound for hundreds rather than thousand of dollars to small devices such as portable CD players, personal computers
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    • Business
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        88 12 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Poh Lian 25.498,000 55 Nat Steel 19,895,000 294 PCI 19,544,000 132 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Shang Asia 2KHK$ 805 40 5.2 SIA 1720 20 1.2 ST Engg 279 13 4.9 Total number of gainers: 77 Top 3 Losers CENTS Creative
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        Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: www.smart money.com
        185 12  -  Nicholas Yong IF YOU have been burning up a lot of money in stocks, burn something else energy. At least that way, you will know which way the market is headed. This website is different from the rest for offering a variety of
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        Lock icon Labour unions begin to spook dotcoms
        639 12 Techie set in US getting organised to solve workplace woes LAT-WP SAN FRANCISCO There’s a new phantom that’s spooking dotcoms labour unions. Chase Rummonds had a good job, but got a lousy pay-raise. After two months of badgering, his bosses had still not responded
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        Lock icon French group to buy DKNY
        193 12 LVMH EXPANDS Wires PARIS French luxury goods group LVMH Moet HennessyLouis Vuitton said on Monday that it was snapping up Donna Karan International and its unlisted holding company Gabrielle Studio. The deal valued fashion house Donna Karan International at US$l95 million (***** million) and Gabrielle
        – Wires; Reuters  -  193 words
    • Mailbox
      • Eye On The ARTS
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          Lock icon Artists built this city, too, you know
          974 13  -  By Alvin pang alvinp@sph.com.sg Starting this week, Eyeball takes you on a guided tour of urban arts, culture and hijinks in Singapore, in Eye On The Arts, a fortnightly column. This week, resident poet-cum-websmith Alvin Pang looks at the art of city-making. WAY
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      • Single’s SAY
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          Lock icon Surviving singlehood this season
          471 14  -  By Soh Wen Lin wenlin@brandeis.edu IT’S round about that time when relatives and party acquaintances tend to get nosy about a single’s love life, or the lack of one. Just watch for any sibling, cousin or colleague above the age of 23 (or whatever the socially
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        Lock icon Causes of crash will remain a mystery
        342 14 ‘Not certain if MHBS pilot did it’ (Dec 15) THREE years after Silk Air Flight 185 crashed into the Musi River in Indonesia, the final report has not provided any concrete conclusions. How do Eyeball readers view the findings? SUICIDE OR SABOTAGE THE
        Wang Huifen  -  342 words
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      27 2 (food morning! Partly cloudy with thundery showers in the afternoon and early evening over most areas High: 31CI Low: 23C Tides: 7.01AM/2.5M 7.24PM/2.4M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/metsin
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      110 4 Eyeball readers came down hard on Bradley Chait in our website poll. Out of the 35 people who responded, over 60 per cent thought he should be sacked for abusing his company e-mail account and betraying his girlfriend’s trust. Almost a similar percentage of people said he should meet with
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      66 8 Are you in the mood for cocktails this Christmas? Surf these sites to learn how to mix, how to entertain and how to have fun. http:// www.idrink.com A site offering tips on how to mix cocktails. http://www.zvworld. com/etiquette/ cocktail%2oparty.htm If you’re in the loop, some of this etiquette might come
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      34 10 X Nike techlab has come up with other cool stuff like a heart rate monitor and a compass that monitors temperature and altitude. For more information, run over to the Nike site at http://www.nike.com
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      54 15 •P& h.sc^r.jj -‘.v--5 S m 1?: <■!«;> :as*£ t gH J Unrest in Maluku? Mystery blast in Siberia? You'll read about them in our World and Asia pages. Edited by Felix Soh r for whom no place on Earth is too far. In two of our five handy sections. MyStraitsTimes
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Basketball’s best
        102 16 Wires WASHINGTON Olympic gold medallists Teresa Edwards and Alonzo Mourning were named USA Basketball’s 2000 Female and Male Athletes of the Year, the USA Basketball’s executive committee said. Five-time Olympian Edwards aided the US Women’s Olympic Basketball Team to a perfect 8-0 record and the gold medal at
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      • Article
        Lock icon A friend in need...
        74 16 AFP LONDON A young British woman sailor sacrificed her position in a single-handed global yacht race and headed back to help a French colleague in danger. Ellen MacArthur, 24, diverted from her course to help her former sailing partner Yves Pariier when his mast broke in
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      • Article
        Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
        39 16 “I WILL not be signing an extension to my contract at this point in time.” Aston Villa goalkeeper David James on speculation if he’ll stay on at Villa Park after withdrawing his transfer request yesterday
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        Lock icon US in race
        72 18 AP LOS ANGELES-The United States will bid to stage the 2003 Fifa Club World Championship. This year’s tournament, the second, will be held between July 29 and Aug 12 in Spain. Fifa has increased the field from eight to 12 teams: Two each from Concacaf (North and
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        Lock icon Signori to stay
        71 18 AP BOLOGNA Bologna striker Giuseppe Signori has extended his contract with the Italian Serie A club until 2003. The former Italian international also said he wants to finish his career at the club although first he wants to achieve 200 Serie A goals. He currently has 153.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Maldini ‘tempted’
        36 18 Wires LONDON-AC Milan star Paolo Maldini has admitted that he is tempted to join his fellow Italians at Stamford Bridge with Chelsea. The Italian captain also said that he would consider joining Manchester United.
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      • Article
        Lock icon DID YOU KNOW
        36 18 DID you know that Italian maestro Roberto Baggio was voted fourth greatest footballer by Fifa at the recent Fifa awards night? Yes, the ponytailed one came next after Pele, Diego Maradona and Eusebio.
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        Lock icon Figo honoured
        78 19 Wires PARIS Portugal midfielder Luis Figo was named European Footballer of the Year here yesterday. Figo was awarded the “Golden Ball” in a poll of soccer journalists organised by French weekly France Football. Juventus midfielder Zinedine Zidane, who was the winner in 1998 and named World Footballer of
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        Lock icon Kudos for Akers
        62 19 AP BEVERLY HILLS Michelle Akers, who retired last summer as the leading scorer for the US soccer team, was honoured yesterday by Futbol de Primera as the best female soccer player ever. Akers, 34, scored 105 goals in 153 games during her 15-year career. She is one
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        Lock icon Hoax on Lazio
        99 19 AFP ROME Defending Italian champions Lazio discovered that they had been victims of an elaborate hoax during the Roman derby defeat by AS Roma on Sunday. Lazio found that not all the spectators in the VIP section were as illustrious as they were supposed to be. Prince
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        Lock icon LOOKING BACK
        29 19 FIVE years ago today, Benito Carbone scored for lowly Sheffield Wednesday, earning his side a 1-1 draw with Manchester United. The draw nearly derailed United’s Premiership ambitions.
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      Lock icon Hot air from Jordan
      639 16 Wizards worse with him in charge LAT-WP WASHINGTON This is the winter of maximum discontent for the Washington Wizards. Oh, sure, they have been bad for a while. But now they’re horrid. They’re worse than they have been in 34 years. And it’s time to discuss
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      Lock icon DISMAL RECORD
      152 16 Played: 24 Won: 5 Lost: 19 THE Wizards suffered a 99-91 loss at Milwaukee on Saturday. The Wizards just shot 38 per cent from the floor against the Bucks and lost despite holding a 43-40 rebounding advantage. It was Washington’s seventh straight setback. The last victory for the
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      Lock icon Wealthiest clubs of ’em all
      914 17 We all know that, financially, Manchester United is definitely not in the red. As for London club Chelsea, it may have yet to find its first away win of the season, but has been very successful dollars and cents-wise. Read on for the spoils that
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      Lock icon 5 points behind United
      451 18  -  Arsenal held by Spurs; fails to take advantage of Man U’s loss to Liverpool By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg IT WAS late. Almost too late. But a goal’s a goal, and Arsenal marches on, although not in the fashion it had hoped to. Tottenham Hotspur, buoyed by
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      Lock icon Silverstone keeps F1 till 2017
      268 18 VENUE TO BE UPGRADED Wires LONDON Formula One fans should be glad to learn that the British Grand Prix will remain at exciting Silverstone. According to the track owners, the site will stage the British Grand Prix for the next 16 years. An extraordinary general
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    • Ball WATCHING
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        Lock icon NFL’s ready to rumble
        488 19  -  Title race turns into home stretch By Jon Saraceno USA Today FIRST, a confession: As the NFL prepares for its final regular-season week, beware of ex-perts-schmexperts who are Super Bowl soothsayers. If I could predict next month’s pro-football heavyweight title combatants with any certainty, I wouldn’t
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      Lock icon Boxing and brain Injuries
      152 19 Sources: Reuters, British Medical Association, BBC The head injuries suffered by former IBF World Featherweight champion Paul Ingle have led to renewed calls for the sport to be banned. 1 Cumulative impact damage Repeated blows to head can cause minor bleeding on cerebral cortex, leading to
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      Lock icon Ingle injury sparks call to ban boxing
      305 19 IBF CHAMP IN CRITICAL CONDITION Reuters SHEFFIELD Paul Ingle remained in critical condition yesterday, but the surgeon who removed a blood clot from the English boxer’s brain said he was pleased with his progress. Robert Battersby said at Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital that
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  • Unwind
    • Travel
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        Lock icon No peace in Bethlehem
        856 20 The violence that has rocked the Middle East means Bethlehem will not be the cradle that Christmas pilgrams flock to this year. PAUL GARWOOD (pedas@sph.com.sg) reports from the Holy Land. Jaß PATHER Christmas is set to be the Israeli-Paiestinian conflict’s latest victim. Bethlehem believed to be
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    • Living Well
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        Lock icon Let there he light
        472 22 Taking a leaf out of Balinese design, open spaces and wide windows create a nice understated ambience in these s4~million homes, writes WONG SIOW YEN. DEVELOPER woos by trying to read the buyer’s psyche. “We pictured someone well-informed and well-travelled, someone proud to be Singaporean and
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    • Arts
      • Arts DIARY
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          Lock icon Xmas musical
          92 23 MIRACLES still happen. This is what happens to a young, crippled shepherd boy, Amahl, and his devoted mother who were visited by three kings on a star-guided journey. Together, they witness a miracle. A tender and inspiring 45-minute musical about the meaning of Christmas, A Miraculous Tale went
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          Lock icon Homegrown tenor
          73 23 HE IS Singapore’s pride Singapore-born tenor Lim Shieh Yih. Described as a “bright voice tenor” by the New York Times, he has returned to stage a one-night performance entitled The Wonderful World Of Songs His concert is to be held today at the Victoria Concert Hall and he
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          Lock icon Art awards
          78 23  -  Hera Chua CALLING individuals and young artists who have attained or shown promise of artistic excellence in the fields of dance, theatre, music and photography. National Arts Council (NAC) is giving two arts awards the 2001 Cultural Medallion and the 2001 Young Artist Award to recognise and encourage
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        Lock icon Chang’s new twin
        559 23 Hit musical Chang and Eng gets staged for the fourth season, this time with a new brother. TAN DAWN WEI dawntan@sph xom.sg) reports. F YOU look at them long enough, and close enough, the resemblance will start to grow on you. The latest pairing of RJ Rosales
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        Lock icon Chang’s back — again
        331 23 Chang’s back again GET ready for Chang and Eng for the fourth time. Can we really sit through it again? About 20 per cent of those who have bought tickets to the show most certainly can. “They don’t even know what’s new this time round, and they’ve bought tickets,” said
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        Lock icon Grad rags
        900 24 The Raffles LaSalle International School of Design has rolled out its latest batch of fashion design diploma holders. How will they fare in the brand name world of Qucci and Prada? JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) finds out what inspired their graduation show collections and their plans for the future.
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        Lock icon WHAT ARE THEIR COLLECTIONS ABOUT?
        175 25 ‘Wearable, but with special style lines. Perfection depends on the viewer s angle. I like to see beauty in people's clothing and from fabric.' EnyAryani Widjaya ‘lt comes from tattoos and research into Celtic culture. The contrast of cultures and the savage and the barbaric.'
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      45 23 Chang and Eng will play at Kallang Theatre from Jan sto 21,8 pm daily (except Mondays) and matinee shows at 2.30 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Special preview on Jan 4, 8 pm at Kallang Theatre. Tickets from $2O to $9O from Ticketcharge (296 2929).
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      27 24 Credits: Photography: Desmond Wee Styling: Daniel Boey Make-up: Tinoq Russell Goh (9816 2149) Hair: Anna at Isis Salon Models: Junita Simon, Wendy Jacobs, Alvin Goh at Mannequin
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  • Tube Talk
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      Lock icon CHAT AND MOUSE
      402 27 THE worst analogies ever written for a school essay: He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it, and now he goes
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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      474 27 Geena Davis is bugged by the evil, and sticky, plan for her in The Fly. Movies The Fly 7 pm Star Movies 58 Trust director Ken Russell to brew this inebriating cinematic concoction. Jeff Goldblum in one of best performances is the brilliant scientist Seth Brundle who undergoes a horrible
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      Lock icon Brits ban sexy Dahl poster
      119 28 Wires A POSTER campaign for an Yves Saint Laurent perfume featuring a naked Sophie Dahl was banned in Britain yesterday after it attracted more complaints than any advertisement since 1995. The Advertising Standards Authority ordered YSL to remove all posters for its Opium perfume on
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      Lock icon Madonna, Ritchie have low-key Scottish arrival
      183 28 Wires ONLY four fans turned up at the Inverness airport to see Madonna and Gny Ritchie (above) fly in for their Scotland wedding. Wearing a tartan jacket and black trousers, the pop star emerged from her jet to the strains of Calum Fraser, the
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      Lock icon Beckhams among UK's best-dressed celebrities
      172 28 Wires POSH SPICE Victoria Beckham (right) has beaten husband, David, in a British poll on the Best Dressed Star of the Year. The singer, known for her distinctive outfits which include skimpy dresses and a revealing slash-fronted top, beat runners-up Davina McCall and her Manchester
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        Lock icon Prince chooses drink over drug
        119 28 BRITAIN’S Prince William was offered cannabis during his trip to Chile, but he declined. After giving his minders the slip to go drinking, he spent a night in a bar in Coyhaique, Patagonia, sampling the local wine and cheap spirits. One of his companions on
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        Lock icon Eminem still alive
        71 28 A HOAX e-mail fooled millions into believing that Eminem (above) was dead, London’s Sun tabloid reported yesterday. The anonymous message announcing the rapper’s death in a car crash is rumoured to have been sent by his representatives to promote his single, Stan. The e-mail was broadcast by
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        42 28 Wires GWYNETH PALTROW is set to play Princess Grace of Monaco in a film. Ed Harris and Antonio Banderas are said to be in the running to play Prince Rainier .Steve Martin was named as host of the 73rd Academy Awards.
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