Project Eyeball, 1 February 2001
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Title Section11 2001-02-01 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 034/02/2001 Thursday, February 1, 2001 80 CENTS11 words
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Advertisement533 2001-02-01 1 Youth Parliament by end of the year So you think that young people are apathetic a nd uninterested in politics? Well, maybe they tteed to jump in before they can get hooked. One way is to set up a Youth Parliament by f he end of the year, says Youth533 words
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NEWS & VIEWS
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Article, Illustration109 2001-02-01 2 A US$2OO (SS3SO) bill bearing the likeness of President George W Bush would seem to be an obvious fake. But it seemed real enough to fool one fast-food cashier. Danville police are looking for the person who used the bill to buy US$2.l2 worth of food at Dairy Queen,109 words
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Article, Illustration53 2001-02-01 2 Singapore has sent emergency supplies worth $86,500 to the people of Gujarat, which was rocked by a massive earthquake last Friday. Nearly 4,000 kg of emergency supplies were loaded into an armv j airplane yesterday morning. The plane took off to Bhuj, the epicentre of the killer earthquake.The Straits Times - 53 words
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Eyeball NEWS
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115 2001-02-01 2 SINGAPOREANS have become a more restless bunch over the past decade, at least when it comes to housing. The Department of Statistics Advance Data Release on Households and Housing revealed that some 58 per cent, or 531,000 households, have changed residence in the past115 words
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83 2001-02-01 2 SINGAPORE may have a sports school in three years in the form of a secondary school that gives equal weightage to academic studies and sports. Community Development and Sports Minister Abdullah Tarmugi, who heads the Committee of Sporting Singapore, said a report will be83 words
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Article84 2001-02-01 2 SINGAPORE’S public records will soon be electronically archived. The National Archives of Singapore (NAS) signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday with Kodak and local solutions company SQL View to get this going. Once in place, all documents generated by the Civil Service will be moved84 words
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Article, Illustration149 2001-02-01 2 IF YOUR plans for Valentine’s Day included two seats at The Corrs’ concert here, it’s time to make new ones. The Irish superstar siblings have postponed their Feb 14 gig at the Singapore Indoor Stadium gig indefinitely because lead singer Andrea has a severe149 words
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Article103 2001-02-01 2 TELL your company there’s one more reason to keep workers in the pink of health. Well, 5,000 reasons actually. A grant of up to $5,000 will be given by the Ministry of Health to encourage Singapore Health Award recipients to improve health programmes within their103 words
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Article168 2001-02-01 2 Card use up by 16% last quarter SINGAPOREANS love to flash their credit cards especially during the Christmas season. Consumers charged some $3 billion of their purchases in the fourth quarter of last year, an increase of almost 16 per cent over the same period168 words
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Article, Illustration285 2001-02-01 3 WASHINGTON The US Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 to confirm President George W Bush's controversial conservative nominee for Attorney General, John Ashcroft. A full Senate vote for final approval is expected within the week. BOGOTA A hostage crisis aboard a hijacked plane with 30 passengers ended late Tuesday,Bong Fortin - 285 words
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Article, Illustration637 2001-02-01 3 Relatives of victims unhappy co-accused got away Reuters CAMP ZEIST (The Netherlands) A Libyan intelligence agent was jailed for life yesterday for murdering 270 people in the bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockerbie in Scotland 12 years ago. In a dramatic– Reuters; Reuters - 637 words
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Eyeball FOCUS
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Article, Illustration840 2001-02-01 4 Leong Pik Yin - One suggestion to get them interested in politics By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg WANT kids to become politically aware? Give them a taste of it. A good way for the Government to engage young Singaporeans would be in supporting the setting up of a “youthClarence Chan - 840 words
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Article, Illustration276 2001-02-01 4 Youth parliaments in Europe, Australia and the United States have proven to be an effective way to get young citizens involved in national policy-making and to heighten their political awareness. TASMANIA THE Tasmanian Youth Parliament is an annual event involving hundreds of young people aged276 words
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Article, Illustration551 2001-02-01 5 Wong Sher Maine - By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg IF YOU have the man most likely to be Singapore’s next Prime Minister standing right in front of you, what would you ask him? Journalists, pens poised over paper, waited for headline-making comments from Deputy Prime Minister Lee HsienClarence Chan - 551 words
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347 2001-02-01 5 G Sivakkumaran; Zubaidah Nazeer - Ideals rule, not bread-and-butter issues PROFESSIONAL TALK By G Sivakkumaran and Zubaidah Nazeer gsiva@sph.com.sg zubaidah@sph.com.sg PROFESSIONALS would rather focus on ideas and ideals than mere bread-and-butter issues. At least that’s what emerged at a dialogue session held by the Feedback Unit on the major concerns of Singapore’s professionals. Co-chairmen Jennifer347 words
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Singapore
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Article574 2001-02-01 6 Leong Pik Yin - EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg THE past was great, but the future doesn’t seem all that rosy. Last year, jobs were available a dime a dozen. It was particularly good for managers, professionals and the technically-skilled with 35 per cent of574 words
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Article851 2001-02-01 6 Nicholas Yong - New scheme to complement CPF By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg Bong Fortin IF YOU have been losing sleep thinking about the upcoming deadline for paying taxes, here’s help. How about saving your hardearned money and writing off your tax against the money stashed away? That’s precisely whatBong Fortin - 851 words
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Article, Illustration914 2001-02-01 7 Denyse Yeo - Patients pay for lack of pharmacists By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg YOUR local pharmacist is indispensable when it comes to getting prescriptions filled and buying that anti-histamine you can’t get off the shelf. That’s if you can get hold of one, and according to customers,Alphonso Chan; Clarence Chan - 914 words
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The World
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Article, Illustration475 2001-02-01 8 He’ll reclaim post ‘through courts’ Wires MANILA He may have fallen from grace, but he isn’t going quietly. Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada came out of seclusion yesterday to tell cheering supporters he was still the rightful President and vowed he would not use violence– Wires; Reuters - 475 words
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Article, Illustration388 2001-02-01 8 FIGHTING BACK AFP JAKARTA On the eve of his “judgment day”, President Abdurrahman Wahid put on a confident face. He brandished the fact that he had the backing of his Vice-Presi-dent whose party holds the most seats in Parliament. “Sister Mega supports me,”– AFP; AP - 388 words
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Article, Illustration41 2001-02-01 9 Residents of the Indian city of Chandigarh forming a human chain in the shape of India yesterday, during a memorial for victims of the Gujarat earthquake which struck on Friday and killed tens of thousands of people. ReutersReuters - 41 words
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579 2001-02-01 9 One points out fundamental difference in policy in Malaysia and Singapore KUALA LUMPUR Two prominent opinion makers in the New Straits Times and Malaysiakini.com yesterday tried to provide some perspective to the debate over the progress of Malays on both sides of the579 words
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296 2001-02-01 9 REALITY T.V. Reuters LOS ANGELES Survivor and Temptation Island have some natural competition coming. The ABC network is adding a new dimension to reality television with plans for an unprecedented live broadcast of childbirth on Good Morning America next week. The morning talk show has– Reuters - 296 words
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Technology
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Article, Illustration1021 2001-02-01 10 Eugene Wee - Cheaper models set to flood the market soon By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg WHO needs a 10-CD changer in your car when you can store 200 songs in a single compact disc using the MP3 format? MP3 players for cars are still pretty new, but they1,021 words
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Article359 2001-02-01 11 Procedure will be cheaper after that THE scientists who said they would help infertile couples make clones have estimated a rough birthday for the world’s first cloned baby. The date by which man will create man with technology: 2003. Shortly after that, the procedure could be359 words
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Article, Illustration502 2001-02-01 11 Teo Yen Fen - VCD AND DVD HERE TO STAY By Teo Yen Fen yenfen@sph.com.sg THIS year, give a long kiss goodbye to movies on tape. Unless you have a VCD or DVD player, you’re pretty much out of luck these days if you’re in the mood for some in-homeAlphonso Chan - 502 words
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Article62 2001-02-01 11 Reuters MADRID Spanish smokers finding it hard to kick the habit are being offered support from their mobile phones. By sending messages such as “Have a cold shower!”, “Come on! You can do it” and “Lay off the drink!”, mobile messaging company Myalert.com hopes to marry– Reuters - 62 words
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Business
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Article1141 2001-02-01 12 Dotcoms take the cake in brutal layoffs VACUOUS venture capitalists, pompous marketing executives, egocentric programmers, lemminglike day traders one needn’t look far when searching for dotcom downturn villains, reports salon.com. From start to finish, the past few years of speculative neweconomy bubble-headedness will no1,141 words
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245 2001-02-01 12 NYT GOODBYE casual Fridays, welcome cancelled week days. In a bid to cut expenses, Charles Schwab Corp, the US brokerage firm, has told about half of its employees not to show up for work on three Fridays in the next five weeks.– NYT - 245 words
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Article, Illustration323 2001-02-01 13 – Francis Kan - Francis Kan IN THE end, it was terse. A simple e-mail from his boss said it all. “Come, see me as soon as you get in,” it said ominously. None of the usual ranting, ravings and paranoia that he got accustomed to in the323 words
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Article, Illustration611 2001-02-01 13 AMAZON.COM, the Internet site that defines e-commerce to millions of people, announced on Tuesday that it was cutting its workforce by 15 per cent, or 1,300 employees. “This was painful but very necessary for us to reach our goal of profitability in the fourth quarter,”AP - 611 words
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Mailbox
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Article, Illustration570 2001-02-01 14 Drought of teachers: Is it going to got worse? (Jan 30) THE shortage of teachers seems to be getting worse. And many more are harbouring thoughts of early retirement or resignation, while the number of students keeps going up. Several secondary schools are turning to570 words
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Article276 2001-02-01 14 Thinking of buying a home? (Jan 29) TO BUY or not to buy? If that is the question that’s been plaguing you, here’s the answer: Make haste and snap one up now. At least, that’s what the analysts seem to be saying. Do you276 words
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E-Male ADDRESS
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Article, Illustration745 2001-02-01 15 Eugene Wee - By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg THE Prime Minister wants me to run for Parliament. Well, not me exactly. To be precise, his People’s Action Party is looking for singles. PM Goh Chok Tong recently acknowledged that the singles constituency was a big one and,745 words
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Eyeballing THE NET
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Article, Illustration468 2001-02-01 15 Lim Puay Leng - By Lim Puay Leng puayleng@sph.com.sg THE legal battle between cyber free-riders and capitalists is an ongoing guerrilla battle that should last longer than the Vietnam War. People, and not just your typical kiasu Singaporean, will do anything to get a468 words
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Miscellaneous25 2001-02-01 2 Qood morning! Cloudy with showers in the late morning and early afternoon. High: 30C I Low: 23C Tides: 3.46AM/2.6M 3.52PM/2.4M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/ metsin25 words
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Advertisement32 2001-02-01 3 For more on the Lockerbie tragedy: http:/ www.geocities. com/CapitolHill/5260/ headpage.html A comprehensive site on the investigation and trial. http://web.svr.edu/ -vpaflo3/ The official memorial site for the victims of Pan Am Flight 103.32 words
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Advertisement43 2001-02-01 4 Does Singapore need a youth parliament? Will it politicise the young and help the Government reach out to them? Tell us at asial.com.sg Find out more about youth parliaments overseas: http:// www.evp.org The European Youth Parliament. http://www.tased. edu.au/tasonline/ vmca/vp.htm YMCA Tasmanian Youth Parliament.43 words
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Advertisement44 2001-02-01 6 For more information on SRS, taxes and CPF, log on to: http://www.gov.sg/mof Explains the features of the SRS http:// www.iras.gov.sg/T axlnfo/ taxrate.htm Provides the tax rates for resident individuals http://www.iras.go v.sg/Taxlnfo/lncome/iit frame.htm Explains income-tax in detail http://www.cpf.gov.sg/cpf info/home.asp Useful information relating to your CPF44 words
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Advertisement49 2001-02-01 9 Read the opinion pieces. http://malaysiakini.com/ Column/ 2001/01/**********.php3?author= CHIAROSCURO<br>MGG%2QPiIIai A columnist says the issue of comparing Singaporean and Malaysian Malays is “A Storm In A Teacup”. http://www.nstpi.com.my/z/Current News/ NST/Wednesdav/Editorial/**********0637 A New Straits Times editorial says Singapore should show more respect towards the sensitivities of its neighbours over the Malay issue.49 words
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Advertisement20 2001-02-01 11 How do you feel about human cloning? Can such a thing be morally justified? Let us know at http://eyebalL asial.com.sg20 words
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Miscellaneous56 2001-02-01 11 CELLULAR STATIC TERRIBLE! 5 MAW, THE vova y is UOUG, WHYT7 voumiss THE MEETfW^ EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHER USES 'EM NOWADAYS. rM SURPRISED IT DOESN'T CAUSE SOME KIND Of MASS PLANETARY DISRUPTION! MR. WATSON? =4 TOO PHOUB TRAFFIC. Jg Ilf f*=t II WAIT I SOT HIM i 3<KAX3I JMAHA23 .113856 words
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EyeSport
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Article, Illustration451 2001-02-01 16 Four first-timers on the rosters NEW YORK Karl Malone and David Robinson are headed to yet another NBA All-Star Game, while four first-timers were added to the rosters for the mid-season tilt in Washington on Feb 11. Fourteen players joined the starters through a vote– Reuters; Bong Fortin - 451 words
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Article, Illustration500 2001-02-01 16 – Luke Pachymuthu - Luke Pachymuthu IT’S about time the NBA woke up and took notice of Antonio McDyess. Kudos go out to all the coaches who voted the Denver Nuggets’ power forward to the All-Star reserve line-up, which was announced yesterday. McDyess’ selection also makes him the first Nuggets playerAFP - 500 words
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Article, Illustration661 2001-02-01 17 Superstars’ selfishness and immaturity hurting team Salon.com DOES anyone remember anything in basketball history comparable to the Shaquille O’Neal-Kobe Bryant feud? Even remotely comparable? When I ask that question on radio shows, some callers are quick to say “Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen”. Well,– Salon.com; AFP; Reuters - 661 words
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314 2001-02-01 17 BRYANT SETS RECORD Wires CLEVELAND Shaquille O’Neal was in the locker room, Kobe Bryant was firing jump shots like they were going out of style, and coach Phil Jackson was stewing on the bench about his young pup’s ways. Welcome to the 2001 Los– Wires - 314 words
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Sport IN SHORT
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Article, Illustration104 2001-02-01 17 AP MADRID (Spain) FC Barcelona beat cross-town rival and defending champion Espanyol 2-1 on Tuesday in the first leg of the quarterfinals of Spain’s Copa del Rey. Rivaldo put Barcelona ahead in the 12th minute of play with a free kick and scoring his second goal in the– AP; Reuters - 104 words
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Article49 2001-02-01 17 LONDON Arsenal beat lowly Bradford City 2-0 at Highbury on Tuesday to remove Sunderland from second place in the English premier league. First half goals during the match helped lift Arsenal’s points tally to 44, one more than Sunderland but still 12 behind leaders Manchester United.49 words
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Article59 2001-02-01 17 “IN ARGENTINA there’s no coherent policy to tackle drug-taking. “Current politicians only end up encouraging those who are selling drugs. “No doubt everyone will say, again, that I’m speaking out because I’m mad or because I’m under the influence of drugs. But I’d much rather be ill than stealing59 words
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Article51 2001-02-01 18 AP RIO DE JANEIRO Vasco defender Junior Baiano tested positive for cocaine in a drug test after the national championships, the Brazilian Soccer Confederation said on Tuesday. Junior Baiano, whose real name is Raimundo Ferreira Ramos Junior, took the test after the final game of the Joao Havelange– AP - 51 words
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Article, Illustration54 2001-02-01 18 PARIS French champions Monaco were docked two points on Tuesday for fielding a player who allegedly used a false European passport. Chilean defender Pablo Contreras was suspended for four months with two months of the ban suspended. Chilean international Contreras has been banned for four months after usingAFP - 54 words
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Article64 2001-02-01 18 AP CANNES The end of the transfer battle between the European Union and soccer’s governing bodies is almost in sight, Fifa general secretary Michel Zen-Ruffmen said on Tuesday. “I am convinced that within three or four weeks, the united Fifa family will be able to convince the– AP - 64 words
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Article28 2001-02-01 18 IN 1982, Kevin Keegan scored Southampton’s winner against Middlesbrough. His team reached the top of Division One for the first time in its 97-year history.28 words
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Article61 2001-02-01 19 Reuters NEW YORK-Orlando Magic forward Bo Outlaw was fined US$lO,OOO (5517,500) and suspended one game by the NBA for making physical contact with an official, while Bucks coach George Karl was fined US$5,OOO Tuesday for criticising referees. Outlaw was punished for bumping referee David Jones in the– Reuters - 61 words
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Article, Illustration85 2001-02-01 19 Reuters TOKYO-World No 1 Martina Hingis rebounded from her setback in the Australian Open final with a 6-3,6-3 thrashing of Zimbabwe’s Cara Black on Wednesday. Top seed Hingis looked anything but the road-weary warrior who ran out of energy against American Jennifer Capriati in the Melbourne final, as– Reuters; Reuters - 85 words
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Article44 2001-02-01 19 AP NEW YORK US Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe will not be calling on big brother John McEnroe to help him in next week’s world group first-round tie against Switzerland. McEnroe instead recruited Todd Martin, Jan-Michael Gambill, Justin Gimelstob and Andy Roddick.– AP - 44 words
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Article48 2001-02-01 19 SUNDERLAND striker Niall Quinn has played a total of 14 seasons in the English league. He made his debut for Arsenal in 1985 and then moved to Manchester City and Sunderland. The 35-year-old has appeared 254 times in the Premiership, and has bagged 64 goals.48 words
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Article, Illustration408 2001-02-01 18 Houllier and his boys start to eye English soccer’s top spot Wires LIVERPOOL Manchester United had better not be too comfortable at the top of English soccer. Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier has warned that Manchester United’s domination of the English Premier League is slowly but– Wires; AFP - 408 words
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254 2001-02-01 18 RUGBY UNION Reuters WELLINGTON The New Zealand Rugby Union is out to win a share of the money generated when the All Blacks play overseas. “We need to change the international funding arrangements of rugby because other nations are profiting at our– Reuters - 254 words
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Article, Illustration201 2001-02-01 18 NFL: It’s not the Lombardi Trophy, but... File this under the “Looks aren’t everything” category. Giants tight end Pete Mitchell won an award before Super Bowl kickoff: He was picked as the player women most wanted to date in voting on the website http://www.udate.com. “I’m only dating oneAP - 201 words
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Article, Illustration317 2001-02-01 19 SETS LAP RECORD Reuters BARCELONA Frenchman Jean Alesi set a lap record at the Circuit de Catalunya yesterday as he topped the times in Formula One testing in Barcelona. Alesi completed 95 laps in Prost’s new Ferrari-powered APO 4 as he took almost 0.6 seconds off– Reuters; Reuters - 317 words
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Article696 2001-02-01 19 New owner to drive team to F1 success IT WAS the little engine that could. At least until the end of the 2000 season. Team Minardi, the tiniest operation in Formula One, managed to keep its seat at the big dance since its inception in 1985696 words
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Unwind
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Article, Illustration161 2001-02-01 20 ‘Fengshui comforts us. And so far, we’ve been doing well by consulting geomancers, so why change it?’ Dennis Foo executive director of ABR Holdings, which owns Europa and Roar ‘Lan Kwai Fong closed down because it used to be a medicinal hall. People get sick and obtain medicationWang Huifen; Yen Meng Jiin; Bong Fortin - 161 words
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Clubbing
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Article, Illustration961 2001-02-01 21 Singapore clubs may pump out different beats, but many believe there is one way to keep their business booming: fengshui. KARL HO (karl@sph .com.sg) reports on the yin and yang of good business. 0BJECTS in clubs around town are more metaphysical than they appear. The golden-gong talisman placed betweenWang Huifen; Yen Meng Jiin - 961 words
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Article, Illustration893 2001-02-01 22 – Karl Ho - Karl Ho DON’T mess around with fengshui. A misalignment of the divine energies and your Chinese horoscope might lead to your family breaking up or you dying from the ebola virus. Similarly, club owners ignore bad fengshui at their own risk: They might facePictures: Wang Huifen - 893 words
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Movies
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Article, Illustration827 2001-02-01 23 The man with the most distinctive eyehags in Hollywood is on a homerun, bagging roles in some of the seasons hottest movies. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) profiles Benicio Del Toro, who recently won a Qolden Qlobe for his role in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic. THE almost-famous Benicio Del Toro827 words
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Hollywood GOSSIP
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96 2001-02-01 23 HOW much disrespect can you show Captain Kirk? First, the now-tubby William Shatner gets stuck making emergency rescues dramatic in Rescue 911. Now, he’s doing beauty pageants. The organisers of the revamped, reworked Miss USA pageant have roped in the former Captain Kirk to96 words
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Article, Illustration177 2001-02-01 23 THE Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG) nominations are out and there are hardly any surprises. Julia Roberts (Erin Brokovich) got the nod for lead female along with other no-brainer choices like Joan Allen (The Contenders), Juliette Binoche (Chocoiat), Ellen Burstyn (Requieum For A Dream) and Laura Linney177 words
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113 2001-02-01 23 CATE BLANCHETT may co-star opposite Kevin Spacey in The Shipping News, to be directed by Lasse Hallstrom (Chocoiat). Based on the 1994 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Annie Proulx, the Miramax project centers on a man (Spacey) who tries to piece his life together113 words
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Article, Illustration690 2001-02-01 24 Sandi Tan - Reviews by Sandi Tan PROOF OF LIFE(PG) Russell Crowe, Meg Ryan, David Morse, David Caruso THERE’S something about men at work that makes for great drama. Television opened up emergency rooms, police stations and courtrooms for us and, 20 years after Quincy MD, we’re still watching, transfixed.690 words
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Cyber SNITCH
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Article, Illustration91 2001-02-01 24 IF YOU’VE fancied yourself a Hollywood scriptwriter but never quite made it past the opening line, fret not, help is here! Plot-O-Matic, at http://maddogproductionsxom, is a site that will customise your storyline faster than you can say Michael Crichton. Just fill in the blanks (choices offered) for91 words
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Article117 2001-02-01 24 HERE’S a multiple-choice test with questions such as “You’ve been entrusted with a secret hologram message contained in the buckle of your space pants. ‘Tour starship, which happens to be trolleying a load of Radio City Music Hall Rockettes to a command performance for the Ewoks117 words
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Article91 2001-02-01 24 ACTOR Alan Alda is not just a goofy M*A*S*H medic, he’s also an avid science buff who has hosted Scientific American Frontiers for over seven years. At http://www.pbs.org/ saf/alan.htm, there are recommendations from Alda on projects that anyone can try to attempt. Join the search for91 words
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Article32 2001-02-01 24 A case like this? Very fast.’ Mr Fernandez The shifty security adviser in Proof Of Life. Unfortunately, American Peter Bowman (David Morse) stays kidnapped for another four months.32 words
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Article, Illustration902 2001-02-01 25 ANOTHER LIFE (PG) Natasha Little, Nick Moran, loan Gruffudd, Tom Wilkinson LIKE the case with Dance With A Stranger, about the last woman to be hanged in England, the story of Edith Thompson, executed in 1923 for murdering her husband, was a sensation in England but virtually902 words
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Article229 2001-02-01 25 – Jeanmarie Tan - Jeanmarie Tan THE PRETTY GIRL http://www.ifilm.com THIS is no beauty-queen satire or a Julia Roberts rip-off. Instead, Gorman Bechard’s grainy, monochromatic, short film is a five-minute profound statement on mortality and how meaningless life is. It’s a poetic story of a beautiful young woman who lies in her229 words
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Article, Illustration982 2001-02-01 26 Proof Of Life, which opens in Singapore tomorrow, is better known as the movie which saw romance bloom between Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan than as a gripping thriller. The affair is the latest in what has been one of Hollywood's most-observed tradition: on-set couplings. JUNE982 words
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Advertisement22 2001-02-01 22 Want to open a thriving club? Then get some handy pointers from geomancers. Click onto eyebaULasiaLconusg for some “wind and water” tips.22 words
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Tube Talk
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Article317 2001-02-01 27 Signs you work in the 21st century Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the backseat of your car. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses. Keeping up with sports entails317 words
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Page 27 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous336 2001-02-01 27 A Gable and Leigh try to find love during the US Civil War, even as Atlanta burns around them. Movies Gone With The Wind 9 pm TCM 17 Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh are the star-crossed lovers Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara in one of the greatest movies ever. Frankly,336 words
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Miscellaneous41 2001-02-01 27 The sth5 th Wave By Rich Tennant s, a H “Well, heck, all the boy did was launch a search on the Web, and up comes Tracy’s retainer, your car keys and my bowling trophy here on a site in Seattle.”41 words
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The Back Page
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Article, Illustration149 2001-02-01 28 THE cast for Spider-man looks set with Willem Dafoe signing a deal to play the lead’s nemesis, the Green Goblin, reported The Washington Post. But the actor almost didn’t get the part as filmmakers were considering other celebrities such as Jack Nicholson and John Malhovich. but149 words
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Article, Illustration173 2001-02-01 28 SHOCK rocker Marilyn Manson (right) could be playing candy maker Willy Wonka in a remake of the classic children’s movie Willy Wonka The Chocolate Factory. But don’t expect him to be all sugary and spice, as Manson a fan of Wonka intends to inject a173 words
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Article, Illustration150 2001-02-01 28 THINGS don’t seem to be all that rosy on the set of Basic Instinct II. Director David Cronenberg (far right) was reported to have quit the project late last week because of alleged “vicious fights he was having with Sharon Stone (right)”, PageSix.com reported150 words
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Making HEADLINES
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Article85 2001-02-01 28 EMINEM has his eyes on one woman and she is his former wife, Kimberly Mathers. The rapper is apparently “so determined” to make sure their relationship works that he has given orders to “keep the usual hangers-on away from him” during his European tour.85 words
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Article, Illustration75 2001-02-01 28 Wires ROWAN ATKINSON could be playing the lead baddie Mondavarious in the upcoming Scooby-Doo film. Joining Atkinson are Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinse Jr. Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardeliini.Pop singer Aaliyah who appeared in Romeo Must Die has signed on for the next two sequels to The Matrix... Russell– Wires - 75 words
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Advertisement205 2001-02-01 28 To: Jane Cc: Subfect: [True Confessions Dear Sis, How's life in KL? As usual, I'm writing to you for advice on love. Valentine’s Day is coming and I need some female ‘expert’ opinion (you’re always so good at it). Remember Stacy? I didn’t expect our relationship to get serious, but205 words
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