Project Eyeball, 15 February 2001

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  • Title Section
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    12 1 projectball. eyebaU.asial.com.sg 1 Mita (p) 034/02/2001 Thursday, February 15, 2001 80 CENTS
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      519 1 BULLOCK SCHLOCK Love her or hate her, it’s hard not to just plain like her. But when will Sandra Bullock stop playing America’s congenial sweetheart? See Page 26 WENDI GOING S, 4 GETS j? TOUGH™ fendi Koh talks about horny men and spiteful women. See Paves 19-20 RECOGNISING N.S.MEN “Show
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      105 2 WITH relatives like these, who needs enemies? One Romanian was apparently so miffed at what his mother-in-law left him in her will, that he sold her grave with her body in it. Claudiu Vlad, from Buzau, was given only a pot of jam when his mother-in-law 77-year-old Roxana Petrescu
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    • Article
      Lock icon New rules will not hinder opposition
      287 2  -  Says Govt of the Political Donations Act, but opposition MPs disagree Sue-Ann Chia WILL the Political Donations Act (PDA) make it more difficult for opposition parties to raise funds? Of course not, said Minister for Information and the Arts Lee Yock Suan yesterday morning.
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    • Eyeball NEWS
      • Article
        Lock icon Plan for water supply from Riau
        144 2 GAS has arrived from Indonesia, so how about a water pipeline next? In fact, Singapore and Riau province will be looking into this. Specifically, if there can be long-term water supply from Bintan island. Minister for Trade and Industry George Yeo revealed this at
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      • Article
        Lock icon NTUC Income agents get palmtops
        114 2 EVER felt that filling insurance forms is a pain? Agents feel the same way, no doubt. So, to make things easier for both parties, NTUC Income has teamed up with local software solution company, SMP.com, to equip its agents with palmtops. Thanks to touch-screen technology,
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon An animated night
        43 2 A couple making the most of a romantic, moonlit evening at the Night Safari yesterday. Some 35 couples went aboard the “love tram” and explored the jungle on Valentine’s Day, with only nature and singing cicadas bearing witness. Wang Huifen
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      • Article
        Lock icon Team back from Gujarat
        184 2 LANGUAGE could have been a hurdle for Singapore’s medical team that went to do relief work in Gujarat, India, in the aftermath of the earthquake. But for a team member of Gujarati descent who provided a vital link, calming anxious patients in their native tongue. “I
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      • Article
        Lock icon TP students shine with projects
        100 2 THE creativity and ingenuity of final-year Temasek Polytechnic (TP) students were on show at its annual engineering projects exhibition, which began yesterday. Among the 550 projects were a device that protects taxi drivers from robbers and a gadget that helps to save water. The showcased
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      Lock icon World Watch
      367 3 LONDON International family planning charity Marie Stopes is offering a cut-rate Valentine’s Day voucher for a vasectomy, touting the gift as a perfect way to “give her a new man”. Having a freer sex life will now cost £5O less a snip, at only £2OO. I SAN SALVADOR
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    • Article
      Lock icon UK paedophiles let off lightly
      480 3 Outrage over short sentences meted out to seven men LONDON Child pornography is usually seen as one of the vilest possible crimes but apparently the law has yet to catch up with societal expectations none of the seven British men jailed for their part in
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      Lock icon Passion of a violent kind
      50 3 A demonstrator hurling a rock at police in Dhaka yesterday to protest the killing of three activists. Four people were killed in the Bangladeshi capital on Tuesday as protesters went on strike to force Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to quit for an early election. Reuters
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP
        176 4 CHECK that the instructor is certified by one of the major diving agencies the National Association of Underwater Instructors (Naui), the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (Padi), Scuba Schools International (SSI) or the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC). Find out whether the dive centre conducts refresher courses
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      • Article
        Lock icon Case plunges into diving incidents
        710 4  -  Wants code for dive centres to prevent more deaths By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg DIVE schools will have to come up for air in May when they become the targets of a campaign to bring safety and teaching standards in line. Getting to the bottom of
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        Lock icon SUF can’t play underwater cop
        267 4 NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION IS CASH-STRAPPED MONEY no enough. That’s the reason we don’t have a code of practice, said the Singapore Underwater Federation (SUF), a non-profit organisation that represents the diving industry here. “A non-profit organisation is only as good as the members who support it,”
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      Lock icon Sidekick is trusty mobile office
      237 5 TEO’S NOKIA HOW does Dr Teo Ho Pin keep himself abreast of what is happening in the consumer scene? He relies on a handy assistant to remind him which of his five different offices needs him that day. It’s a gadget called the Nokia Communicator
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      Lock icon WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE
      123 5 1985 Lecturer in building and estate management at the National University of Singapore 1996 Member of Parliament for Sembawang GRC 1999 Left teaching to become Chief Operating Officer of nececity.com Holdings 2000 Took over as Case president 2001 Chairman, People’s Action Party’s Government Parliamentary Committee for National
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      Lock icon He’s every shopper’s best friend
      608 5  -  Case chief aims to empower consumers By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg HIS is the mouth that has given the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) teeth. Barely eight months after Dr Teo Ho Pin took over the reins of Case as president, he took petrol companies to
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Keeping memories alive
        462 6  -  Singapore’s first war museum opens today Foo Lyn Lee THE main attractions at this museum are not the artefacts, but the painful memories it keeps alive. As artefacts go, there are snails, shoes, old badges, letters, diaries and photographs. The stories they tell are of hunger, humiliation
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        Lock icon ‘VENTURING’ FOR RALEIGH
        116 7 RALEIGH International is a Britain-based youth development charity that sends volunteers called venturers to spots like Chile, Belize and Mongolia for environmental and community projects for 10 weeks, It runs as many as 11 expeditions every year. Those interested can sign up on the Web (http://www. raleigh.
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        Lock icon The media’s coverage of the Prince’s Chile trip
        132 7 PRINCE WILLIAM slipped out and drank local wine and cheap spirits in Coyhaique and Pantagonia during his Chile expedition but he did decline the cannabis, said a Raleigh International participant. Buckingham Palace’s response: We shall not comment. He carried on a secret
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        Lock icon The S’porean, the Prince and the wild
        666 7  -  One man sees William as a humble and fun-loving chap By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg TO THE rest of the world, he’s Prince William, the future king of Britain. To one Singaporean, though, he’s simply Will, a nice, humble bloke who jokes around
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      • Article
        Lock icon A GAME OF MURDERER
        125 7 HOW do you play “Murderer”? Any number of players, usually about 10, group together. Each one of them is then dealt with just one card. One or several “King” cards are included in the game. The players who get the “King” are considered the murderers. Through
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    • The World
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        Lock icon What Estrada tried to hide
        451 8 Sealed envelope that brought him down contains bank records of large transactions Ap MANILA The country finally found out the contents of the envelope that helped trigger the downfall of President Joseph Estrada. Senators opened the sealed envelope yesterday and discovered huge bank transactions that
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        Lock icon II nudist couples wed in Jamaica
        704 8 VALENTINE GIGS Wires RUNAWAY BAY (Jamaica) When you get married in the nude, where does the best man keep the wedding ring? A lot of the guests were kept wondering as 11 couples tied the knot in the buff on Valentine’s Day which was
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        Lock icon Investigators look at emergency ascent
        169 9 Sources: Associated Press, Federation of American Scientists The inquiry into a US Navy submarine’s sinking of a Japanese fishing boat, with the loss of nine lives, will focus on the procedures involved in making a rapid ascent or “emergency blow”. The USS Qreeneville crew is
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        Lock icon Japanese survivors outraged
        477 9 Civilians were at sub’s controls Wires HONOLULU Survivors of a Japanese fishing trawler hit by an American submarine were outraged to hear that civilians had been at the controls of the surfacing sub. They were openly angry at a press conference held on Tuesday by 14 of
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      • Article
        Lock icon Avoid piracy, tax peripherals
        677 9 COMBATING COPYRIGHT VIOLATORS Nyt FRANKFURT Here’s a novel way to combat piracy tax anything on the PC that can be used for copying, such as CD drives and scanners. It’s a classic case of hitting where it hurts most. Such a move could add about US$BO
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    • Technology
      • Article
        Lock icon How MPA works
        144 10 1. ON INSTALLING the software, user keys in a product keycode during setup. The software will then generate a unique identity code based on the computer’s hardware configuration. 2. User sends the ‘identity code to a local Microsoft customer-service W centre. He can either do this over
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        Lock icon Microsoft’s piracy killer
        519 10  -  New technology prevents copying by requiring software to be ‘activated’ by a unique code By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg THOSE who depend on $B-a-disc pirated computer software had better start saving up. Because a new technology developed by Microsoft might just wipe out the entire pirated-soft-ware industry. Called
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        Lock icon Windows XP: Reliable, secure and powerful
        269 10 On T uesday in Seattle, Microsoft chairman Bill Qates gave a preview of the company’s next operating system called Windows XP. It will be the first official Microsoft title to feature its new product activation technology. Here’s what he said to expect of the
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        Lock icon Mobile TV turns on bus riders
        481 11  -  World’s first debuts in 1,500 buses By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg A TALL guy in front of research executive Josephine Lee, 25, spoilt her first glimpse of digital television, and the bus engine drowned out MTV’s sound. But she had a nicer ride anyway, thanks
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      • Article
        Lock icon BATTLE ON FOR SHORT ATTENTION SPAN
        246 11 YESTERDAY’S launch of TVMobile is only the start of the goggle box being almost everywhere you turn in a few months’ time. Media Corp TV’s TVMobile launch came in the wake of an announcement on Monday of Channel OOH! (Out-of-home), a product of Captive
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        Lock icon Dutch cops nab virus creator
        266 11 ANNA WORM Wires AMSTERDAM Dutch police in the northern town of Sneek said yesterday they had arrested the self-proclaimed creator of the Anna Kournikova computer virus after he turned himself in. The 20-year-old man allegedly posted a letter on the Web on Tuesday saying he
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    • Business
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        Lock icon S’poreans not too upbeat
        547 13  -  But optimistic on regular incomes By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg THE Year of the Snake ain’t looking too hot to most Singaporeans. They’re not upbeat on the stock market and the economy. The one bright spot: Singaporeans are optimistic about earning a regular income. A survey conducted
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        Lock icon The future is here
        58 13 Source: Mastercard International Scores of Masterlndex Country I Dec2000 June 2000 Singapore 84.2 87.4 "China 78.6 76.3 New Zealand 68.4 43.7 Malaysia 67:4 .,89.6 Hong Kong 67.2 74.2 India 60.4 64.2 Thailand 59.7 52.4 Indonesia 54.1 Australia 44.6 56.0 Philippines 35.5 33.0 South Korea 25.9 61.3
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      • Article
        Lock icon Greenspan: A profile in cowardice
        507 13  -  SENATE TESTIMONY ON TAX CUTS By Paul Krugman Nyt THREE weeks ago Alan Greenspan, in his now-famous testimony to the Senate Budget Committee, gave decisive aid and comfort to the advocates of huge, irresponsible tax cuts. Rumour has it that Greenspan himself was taken aback
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon Internet sales
          78 13 TRADITIONAL retail businesses in Asia reaped more benefit from Internet sales during the holiday season compared with their purely online competitors, according to a survey by Nielsen/Netßatings. The measurement service said that established “clicks and mortar” retailers had successfully parlayed their brand names onto the Net to boost
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        • Article
          Lock icon New primary dealer
          52 13 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has granted foreign investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston “primary dealer” status allowing it to deal in Singapore Government Securities (SGS). Primary dealers are expected to provide liquidity and underwrite issues at SGS auctions, give feedback to the authorities and assist in
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          Lock icon Autron on SGX
          81 13 HIGH-TECHNOLOGY supplier Autron Corporation, which trades on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), has won approval for a dual-listing on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Current shareholders can transfer their shares to the Central Depository for trading on the Singapore bourse,it said. The company will not
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        • Article
          Lock icon SIA buys 20 Boeings
          89 13 SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) today announced a US$4-billion (556.9 million) order for 20 Boeing 777-200 aircraft, 10 on firm order and 10 on option. The price includes the cost of aircraft spares and spare engines. These aircraft will replace SlA’s existing fleet of A3lO-300 aircraft. With this
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    • Mailbox
      • Eyeballing THE NET
        • Article, Illustration
          Lock icon Gag the e-mail joker please
          810 14  -  By Anne Meyers talk@eyeball.com.sg ON A recent trip, we stayed with friends. My girlfriend was showing me her computer, and an e-mail joke appeared. The joke contained references to drunkenness, adultery and public indecency. It was not a very funny joke and seemed even more
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      • E-Male ADDRESS
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          Lock icon Doing right by the boys
          557 15  -  By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg MANY will say that national service is a noble duty. But in the immortal words of my Hokkien platoon mate: “Noble eh s ai chiak boh? Wu luigia boh?” Translated, it means “noble” is not something you can eat, nor is
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        • Article
          Lock icon LEARNING THE LESSON
          77 15 WHAT should we do to attract and retain teachers? 35% Free market: Let teachers choose where and what to teach. 27% Better working conditions, less committees and meetings. 15% Professionalise the teaching service, like law and medicine. 12% It’s only love of the job that matters. 11%
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        • Article
          Lock icon World Cup dream can take years
          317 15 ‘Will they really make it to the World Cap in 2010?’ (Online, Feb 5) THE Lions gained a 1-1 draw with Kuwait last week, but fell to Bahrain 1-2 in a match rife with fan fury. After their somewhat dismal performance, do you think
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      27 2 Qood morning! Windy with periods of showers expected over many areas in the afternoon. High: 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 3.56AM/2.6M 4.45PM/2.3M Met Service: http:/ www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      31 4 Want to know more about scuba-diving centres? Check out the following sites: http://www.padi.com http://www.ssiuk.com http://www.naui.org http://www.bsac.com Also, tell us about your experiences with dodgy dive centres and shoddy instructors at httpy7eyeball.asial.com.sg
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      40 5 TALK to the man who took on the petroleum giants when Dr Teo Ho Pin goes on a live webchat this Monday. Log on between noon and 1 pm at httpV/eyebail. asial.com.sg and give us your take on consumer causes.
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    • Miscellaneous
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      67 11 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET BUT You'Re LOSIUG moue y, too! BUT My i fMVEST- f I AReT^ GETTWG >= KJtUeP! HELEW, OUR COMPAQ STOCK IS PLUMMETING! nUH-UH. lI7UMPEI7 ALL MY STOCK yesterday. a 'cause i CAUGHT THE BROKERS WHO FRAUPULEMUy IMFLATEP IT! u THeyxe FALLING TO THEIR PROPER LEVEL.
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      166 12 sK V. j I swr^fc Wli m m ■-■■r Win a Tommee Tippee Hamper worth $5OO s < a. i i ii 5i 'i i i Just send us a non-returnable photograph of your baby (below 1 year old) and a birth announcement message of not more than 30 words.
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Real Madrid 3 Lazio 2
        48 16 REAL MADRID’S Luis Figo scored a late winner for a 3-2 European Champions League win over Italian champions Lazio on Tuesday to virtually assure a place in the quarterfinals. Holder Madrid now has three wins out of three to easily lead Group D.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Leeds 2 Anderlecht 1
        72 16 LEEDS had a comeback 2-1 victory over Belgian Anderlecht, thanks to goals from lan Harte and Lee Bowyer. Adrian Stoica had opened the scoring for Anderlecht midway through the second half at Elland Road. A delighted Leeds manager David O’Leary said: “After going a bit flat
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        Lock icon Arsenal 1 Lyon 0
        49 16 A 58TH-MINUTE header from Frenchman Thierry Henry, following an Ashley Cole cross from the left, earned Arsenal a 1-0 victory at Lyon. The victory lifted the English club off the bottom of Group C into second spot, putting it firmly on course for the quarterfinals.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Bayern 1 Spartak 0
        63 16 Wires BAYERN MUNICH beat Spartak 1-0 in the Munich Olympic stadium, thanks to a goal by Brazilian Giovane Elber in the 79th minute. On a black note for Munich, which has seven points from three games to lead Group C, the booking of midfield general Jens
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      • Article
        Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
        33 16 “UNITED (Manchester) may be the best team in England, but that means nothing here.” Valencia midfielder Gaizka Mendieta, before the two teams clashed in their European Champions League match
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        Lock icon Rose on Injured list
        98 17 Ap NEW JERSEY-San Antonio Spurs forward Malik Rose was placed on the injured list on Tuesday with a sore right hip. Rose was averaging nine points and 6.7 rebounds per contest in 40 games. The 26-year-old Rose started in the 99-97 loss in New Jersey San
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      • Article
        Lock icon Grizzlies may leave
        98 17 WASHINGTON After six years of losing hundreds of games on the court and millions of dollars at the bank, the Grizzlies look ready to leave Vancouver possibly as early as next season. NBA commissioner David Stern met team owner Michael Heisley in Washington on Monday and agreed
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      • Article
        Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
        63 17 “THIS is the year. I dreamed of a parade in five years and this is the fifth year. To have a ring on the finger, a parade for Philadelphia, what a great way to go out. I’m a goal-setter, a dream-maker. Once you attain that goal
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        Lock icon Mansell back?
        80 18 Afp MELBOURNE Five rookies will race in the opening Grand Prix of the Formula One season here on March 4 and could be joined on the starting grid by former champion Nigel Mansell. The 1992 world champion has not raced in FI since 1995, when he walked out
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      • Article
        Lock icon Venue upgrade
        33 18 Ap KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s sports minister has said that 14 of the 40 venues for the South-east Asian Games will be upgraded before the region’s premier sporting competition begins in September.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Rush for tickets
        54 18 Afp SEOUL The scramble for tickets to the 2002 World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea kicks off today in what is expected to be one of the biggest ever sales launched on the Net. Nearly three million tickets are expected to be oversubscribed. For tickets,
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        Lock icon SPORTSTALK
        41 18 '‘ATHLETES aren’t like normal people... Being rich and attractive aren’t the only factors in finding romance with another equally rich and attractive person, but they sure go a long way.” Vinnie Iyer in his Valentine’s Day column for Sporting News
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      Lock icon IN THE DOCK
      53 16 Leeis players Let Sawyer (left)* Jonathan Woofigate (right)* and teammates Tonj Hexk nrortlK aai Mtekad Dnberzy were all said to be part of the mob that beat up two brothers* They aSegeilf also eoaspirei to pervert the course of justice by attempting to cover up what had
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      Lock icon ‘I was running for my life’
      591 16 Young Asians tell court about alleged beating by Leeds United players Wires LONDON Just hours before Lee Bowyer scored the winner for Leeds United in their Champions League win over Lyon, two young Asian siblings were giving testimony in a Hull city crown court,
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      243 16 NBA: The Sacramento Kings pulled off an impressive road win against the Utah Jazz, but Chris Webber saw no action in overtime after being carried off the court with an ankle injury. Watch the Kings and post-match highlights of the game on http://www.cnnsi.com/ basketball/nba/news/2001/ 02/13/kings NBA: Allen Iverson
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      Lock icon It’s all love for Shaq and Kobe
      486 17 Feuding stars patch up differences and help beat the Nets Lat EAST RUTHERFORD (New Jersey) If you had been, say, marooned on a desert island for the past month and missed all the headlines about the Shaquille O’NealKobe Bryant feud, you wouldn’t be
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      Lock icon BLAZERS TOO HOT FOR WOLVES
      370 17 Reuters PORTLAND (Oregon) The white-hot Minnesota Timberwolves taking on the Western Conference’s best team. A fight for second-place in the West between the Sacramento Kings and Utah Jazz. A clash between the Eastern Conference’s two division leaders. The NBA kicked off the second-half of its
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      Lock icon On a high, and dry
      456 18 Daly off the bottle and set to add zest to Malaysian Open Wires JOHN DALY, the reformed “wild thing” of the US Tour, is off the booze, the medication and the chocolate, but he hasn’t given up blasting long drives. Which is good news for
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      Lock icon Ruiz confident his new game plan will work
      380 18 RE-MATCH WITH HOLYFIELD Reuters NEW YORK Fighters are taught to stay focused on their game plan no matter what, but John Ruiz isn’t so sure that was the best advice to follow in his first fight with Evander Holyfield. So, in their
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  • Unwind
    • Clubbing
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        Lock icon Wild, Wired, Wendi!
        1305 19 TRUST Wendi Koh to always liven up a club night. Unlike her more sedate counterparts who croon while sitting on stage, Roar’s 35-year-old rock ’n’ roll danger girl is a tornado of synchronised dance moves and snarling vocals which draw even the most disinterested observer into her
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        Lock icon ALBUM ON THE WAY?
        108 20 John Molina “I’m actually working on one now. We were just talking about it last week. I plan to start recording as early as next month. The whole project is still in its infancy though, so no details are available yet.” Zul “No, lah. We have
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    • Pick of the CLUBS
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        Lock icon Sugar
        97 21 13 Mohamed Sultan Rd FOR the eighth time in its 2¥i -year history, chameleonlike club Sugar changes its theme. Its previous “no-theme” theme now gives way to a flashy swimming-pool look called Drowning in Sugar. The cosy joint now sports tiled walls, lane dividers, floats and even a diving
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      • Article
        Lock icon Father Flanagan’s
        66 21 Chijmes, 30 Victoria St WHILE most youngsters have birthday parties that feature soft drinks and clowns, Father Flanagan’s Irish Pub intends to celebrate its fourth birthday with alcohol and a healthy dose of Irish cheer. The Feb 17 party will kick off with a barbecue at 7.30 pm,
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        Lock icon Brix
        75 21 Grand Hyatt, Scotts Rd EVERY three months or so, Brix brings in a new live act. From Feb 19 to May 19, US-based band HB Concept will be playing. The seven-member band is formed and led by the multi-talented Henri Brown and has toured Europe and Asia to high
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        Lock icon Venom
        93 21  -  Jeremy Au Yong 9 Scotts Rd IT’S not exactly what you would expect to see in a club, but Venom will host a fashion show come Friday. Cosmetic maker M.A.C has chosen Venom as the venue for the fashion cum make-up show to launch its new Spring 2001 colours.
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      Lock icon Fresh fruit in town
      266 21 Orange is in and the crowds sureknow it. KARL HO checks out the new fruit on Mohamed Sultan. IT OKMd ITS official launch is Ifegt indication, then the dub us &nlia i bearing iron. On Monday, a plethora oi clubbers descended onto the 7,000-nj it outlet
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      Lock icon “The orange fell out of his chest and...”
      82 21 “The orange fell out of his chest and Renee Kaur, 25, marketing executive: ...revealed his flat chest and small titties. Reagan Sang, 24, actor: ...rolled onto the ground, and kept rolling until it was picked up by a beautiful woman, who said: “Oh my god, that’s my friend’s!” Ann Chan
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    • Movies
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        Lock icon Make way for Gladiator
        744 22 Salon.com Ridley Scott’s epic will probably slay its celluloid rivals at the Oscars. ANDREW O’HEHIR speculates why. VEN if Ridley Scott’s sword-and-sandal exercise Gladiator looks poised to sweep many of the major Academy Awards categories on March 25, there are some intriguing subplots under the toga.
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        Lock icon FOOTSOLDIERS SODERBERGH AND LEE?
        49 22 Best Director: Although Soderbergh (left, directing Michael Douglas in Traffic) garnered two nomsfor Traffic and Erin Brockovich, and Ang Lee (below, directing Crouching Tiger) got a nod, they may just lose out to Ridley Scott for Gladiator, which will probably sweep the awards. Reuters Ap
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        685 23 Nyt There's a new flavour in Hollywood: ink-stained movies. STEVE MURRAY looks at Tinseltown's current obsession with writers. T’S been a period of the write stuff for Hollywood. Usually when you think about movies, you think Tom Cruise scaling a cliff, Jim Carrey freaking out or Cameron Diaz
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        647 23  -  Sandi Tan QUILLS, RCA) Geoffrey Rush, Joaquin Phoenix, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine THE Marquis de Sade lived in France between 1740 and 1814 and was known for a head full of cruel fantasies. Lucky for him, no one put it on the guillotine. During his lifetime, he
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          88 24 STILL not in the mood for love? Hop on to http://www.hollywood.com to catch some of movie-dom’s steamiest scenes to get you revved up. The clips include Dennis Quaid using that New Orleans charm on Ellen Barkin in The Big Easy (1987), Risky Business (1983),
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          100 24 IT’S just a movie, it’s not real true or false? False, really, if it’s mathematics you’re talking about. At The Math In The Movies Page (http://world.std.com/ -reinhold/mathmovies.html) there is a comprehensive and growing list of movies with scenes of real mathematics. Good
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          80 24 June Wan IF YOU still cherish the hits from the movie The Commitments, and have the cash, make your way to New York, where, from March 15 to 23, stars from the movie will perform. Tickets can be pre-booked at http://www.pulver.com/ commitments/tickets.html Never heard of
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          29 24 ‘That’s the peril of composing such incendiary prose Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade on why his books got burnt, in the movie Quills
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        683 24  -  Sandi Tan MISS CONGENIALITY, PG Sandra Bullock, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Caine, Candice Bergen CONGENIALITY. That’s Sandra Bullock’s cross to bear. In the movies, she’s almost always the gal with the jokes and the ready smile. In the press, she’s the star who makes sandwiches for her crew. She
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        221 24  -  Jeanmarie Tan THE PIGEON AND THE ONION PIE http://www.ifilm.com Time: 3 min 41 sec BECAUSE it’s presented by “Wholesome Products” (cute touch), you can forget any snippets of profanity or flatulence abuse. Aesop-like, this charming fable seems to be expounding one overriding moral: You can rise above your
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        1020 25 BOUNCE, PG Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck, Johnny Galecki, Natasha Henstridge A MOVIE with a personality disorder, Bounce flips from a plane crash tragedy to a ditzy romantic comedy before flopping to a landing position as a Taiwanese-style tearjerker. It’s not entirely a disaster, but those who enjoyed
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        1028 26 Sandra Bullock’s latest, Miss Congeniality, is already a top US box-office grosser. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) raises the curtain on the brunette American sweetie-pie who packs theatres and a punch. with the fact that she’s a witch (Practical Magic, 1998). Small-town girl with self-destructive streak and issues about
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          126 26 DESPITE producing more than 1,000 movies during its heyday, Shaw Brothers has been absent from the scene for more than two decades. Now the company, which was brought to fame by Sir Run Run Shaw all those years ago, is trying to make a comeback to
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          97 26 UNBREAKABLE star Bruce Willis has decided to sober up for the sake of his kids. Willis, who is known for taking his fair share of drinks, said that he knew it’s time to act his age. “In my heart I’m 25, but I know I’m 45 so
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          128 26  -  Jeremy Au Yong WHILE the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was busy announcing the Oscar nominations, the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation was also christening nominees for the anti-Oscars, the Razzies. John Travolta’s revolting effort, Battlefield Earth, leads this year’s turkeys with eight nominations, including
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      296 27 THE following list of phrases and their definitions might help you understand the mysterious language of science and medicine. These special phrases are also applicable to anyone reading a PhD dissertation or academic paper. “It has long been known../’ I didn’t look up the original reference. “A
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      454 27 Movies Three Fugitives 7am# Star Movies 58 Nick Nolte stars as a gruff ex-con and professional bank robber. His efforts to prove himself a law-abiding citizen are thwarted when he unwittingly becomes involved with an amateur thief (Martin Short) and his half-baked scheme to rob a bank. Pretty good for
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      174 28 ‘What a nasty piece of work 4 she is’ ml SHE might be one of the hottest teen pop acts, but Christina Agnilera (above) seems to be rubbing her peers the wrong way. Steps star H, whose real name is lan Watkins, dissed the pop princess, calling her the “biggest
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      215 28 IF YOU expected Keann Reeves to be some Sensitive New Age Man in The Gift, forget it the actor plays a wife-beating murder suspect, and that role opened his eyes to violence and rage. “One of the things that was odd about the role was that
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      133 28 MADONNA’S new mother-in-law is living on welfare benefits, while the singer and husband Gny Ritchie are lapping up their lavish lifestyles with a new $15.2 million home in London’s West End. “The government is giving me £5O (Ssl26) a week, plus my rent is paid, and
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        68 28 AFTER news of their split broke, Tom Cruise decided to leave Nicole Kidman alone. The actor moved into Los Angeles’ poshest hotel the Bel Air, which comes with a secluded pool and he plans to stay at the $35,500-a-week location until he finds a new' home. To
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        68 28 Wires BUGS GRANT is set to cameo on Ally Mcßeal, thanks to new girlfriend Portia de Rossi. The actress has asked producers to write Grant in for a part. possibly a rich client that her character falls in love with... She played a virgin in Grease, but Olivia Newton-John’s
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