Project Eyeball, 23 February 2001

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    12 1 Project eyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 034/02/2001 Friday, February 23, 2001 80 CENTS
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      477 1 STEELY DAN REALLY WON? Oh, c’mon. Midnight Vultures by Beck (left) should be Album of the Year for being a free spirit in an industry that’s become a slave to trends. See Page 26 DINE IN STYLE AT HOME Personal chefs will whip up five-star, six-course meals for you and
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      135 2 THE Maori Haka dance is well known to rugby fans as the war cry the All Blacks use to intimidate their opponents. And it certainly worked too well for Kiwi Dion Thompson. He is accused of using it to intimidate a customer, who was at a cafe in Auckland.
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    • Article
      Lock icon WE BOO-BOOED
      34 2 In our article yesterday, headlined “Everybody would love a tax cut“, we said General Elections must be held before August 2001. The correct date is August 2002. We apologise for the error.
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      Lock icon Farzana better but not ready to face the world
      917 2  -  SIA promises plucky SQ006 hostess a ground job, anytime she’s ready By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg THIS Singapore Girl wants to fly again but she’s afraid of getting into a plane. Instead, Farzana Abdul Razak, the air stewardess who suffered extensive
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Singapore bans British meat
        164 2 SINGAPORE has banned pork, mutton and game imported from Britain due to the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) there. Import of British beef was suspended earlier because of the Mad Cow Disease. But unlike the Mad Cow Disease, FMD cannot be passed on to
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      • Article
        Lock icon JBJ appeals bankruptcy ruling
        80 2 WORKERS Party leader and Non-Constituency Member of Parliament J B Jeyaretnam is appealing against a high court ruling that makes him legally bankrupt. The appeal was lodged on Monday, and Jeyaretnam has also filed an application for a “stay of the order” declaring him bankrupt. Jeyaretnam
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      Lock icon World Watch
      340 3 PARIS French farmers angry over the government’s handling of the mad cow crisis threw eggs at Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany as the pair toured the annual farm show in the capital. Jospin was not hit as bodyguards used a briefcase to protect him.
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      Lock icon At least 75 slaughtered in Borneo
      501 3 Ethnic violence in Central Kalimantan continues as Gus Dur flies off to Middle East Wires JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid called for calm yesterday, before he left for a two-week trip to the Middle East. But his appeal went unheard in the remote Central
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon So, sex is bad but violence is okay?
        714 4  -  By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg That seems to be the message sent out by our censors after Hannibal was given a PQ rating. But public outcry against it indicates a shift in attitude. MOVIEGOERS’ appetite for blood appears to have stopped at Hannibal.
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      Lock icon Computer games should also be rated
      868 5  -  Present system unfair to adults By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg Bong Fortin WALK into a computer-game shop and you’re likely to be bewildered by the choice of titles that confronts you. From The Sims, where you control the everyday life of normal characters, to Quake
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    • Singapore
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        409 6 More protection for children SPARE the child. The Children and Young Persons (Amendment) Bill, introduced in Parliament yesterday, has amplified the definition of cruelty to children to include physical or sexual abuse, unnecessary physical pain, suffering or injury, emotional injuries and injuries to the child's health or development
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        Lock icon HDB shopkeepers 'deserve Govt aid’
        471 6  -  They helped build nation, says Mah By Sue-Ann Chia and G Sivakkumaran sueann@sph.com.sg gsiva@sph.com.sg WONDERING why HDB shopkeepers need Government assistance? Well, have you heard this argument before? Shopkeepers played a pivotal role in the early years of na-tion-building soon after independence, by helping to
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        Lock icon Things you need to know from the House yesterday
        370 6 lOIL price futures, a forward indicator, suggest oil prices will ease in coming months. So the cut in Opec production won’t hit Singapore. There should be no reason for higher household utilities bills. 2 The household electricity market here should be
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        Lock icon This software sees and tells
        312 7  -  Teo Yen Fen BY APRIL, a firm here will start selling a new Net filter that can “see” images and text on a site. The Sphinx PC Firewall can tell the difference between a pornographic site and a medical site (for example, breasts versus breast
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        Lock icon Preventing Net harm to children
        698 7  -  Parents prefer to educate By Toh Bee Ping and Eri Akbar beeping@sph.com.sg eri@sph.com.sg WE’LL ban them from the computer for a week, said one in five parents in a recent survey, when asked what they would do if they found their children viewing pornography on
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Nike admits factory abuses
        455 8 Shoe giant welcomes damning report on its Indonesian factories in bid to combat negative publicity AP PORTLAND Before you pick up your next pair of Nikes, check where it was made. The shoe giant, in a bid to protect its public image, came clean yesterday with
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        Lock icon Yankees go home
        58 8 Members of a civic group holding banners and a chain of handerkchiefs in front of the National Diet in Tokyo yesterday. They’re demanding the withdrawal of US bases from Okinawa and asking US officials to salvage a Japanese fishing boat, which sunk after a collision with a
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        Lock icon Treatment too costly for 99% of Malaysia’s Aids sufferers
        142 8 KUALA LUMPUR Cost, rather than absence, could turn out to be the main reason that most Malaysians living with HIV/Aids are unable to receive treatment. “With the multinationals increasing drug prices by 10 to 20 per cent next month, even fewer
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        Lock icon Nationwide classes kick off KL’s IT drive
        297 8 TARGETS FIRST WORLD BY 2020 Wires KUALA LUMPUR Information Technology (IT) is the new buzzword in Malaysia. The government will start nationwide IT classes on March 1 to realise the goal of a computer-lit-erate society. “We realise that IT is not only a
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        Lock icon Hopes for peace raised with Powell visit
        701 9 ARABS AND ISRAELIS BELIEVE HE UNDERSTANDS THEM Salon.com His personal charisma and ability to get on with leaders means the arrival of US Secretary of State Colin Powell in the Middle East today is restoring some hope of the peace process moving on,
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        Lock icon Hillarys brother paid for pardons
        589 9 We didn’t know, say Clintons NEW YORK Former United States President Bill Clinton was drawn into another murky controversy yesterday, denying he knew that his brother-in-law, Hugh Rodham, had been paid for helping obtain presidential pardons.. Rodham, the brother of New York Senator Hillary Clinton,
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Apple gets ger-roovy
        369 10 New iMac models come with psychedelic shells TOKYO Dressed in a pinstripe suit, a radical departure from his usual black turtleneck and jeans, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the veil off two new iMac models yesterday at Mac World Tokyo, reported CNet.com. Once again, Apple showed why
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        Lock icon For old times’ sake
        48 10 Visitors coming face-to-face with a model stegasaurus dinosaur, during a pre-opening preview of Jurassic Park at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka yesterday. The new 56.7-ha theme park complex opens on the waterfront of the western Japanese city at the end of next month. Reuters
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        Lock icon Record execs brush off Napster’s proposal
        296 10 NO DEAL AP NEW YORK Music executives yesterday shook off Napster’s offer to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit, saying it didn’t offer a viable business model and failed to address concerns over the security of online music. The timing of Napster’s proposal late Tuesday
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        Lock icon What’s on the menu?
        1229 11 ANDREW umN (andrewc@sph.com.sg) checks out the best-selling phones and finds out that when it comes to which phone they'd pick, Singaporeans favour style and a great menu over high-tech functions. The final instalment of a two-part series. PANASONIC GD 92 AT FIRST look, it may not
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    • Business
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        Lock icon GDP growth forecast stays at 5-7%
        565 13  -  US slowdown may keep Singapore at lower end of range, cautions Ministry By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg THE forecast stays, but there’s no telling for sure which way things will go. That’s the stance of the Ministry of Trade and Industry on GDP growth earlier
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        Lock icon No devaluation, says BG Lee
        444 13  -  By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave yet another hint yesterday that today’s Budget is likely to be a crowd pleaser. BG Lee said that Singapore will not devalue in order to make its products more competitive. “A devaluation does not
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon STI falls on Nasdaq losses
          76 13 CALL it Budget blues. Share prices extended losses on the local bourse yesterday with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) shedding 16.6 points to end the day at 1,944.62 points ahead of today’s Budget. Dealers said tech stocks led the fall after a spike in
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          Lock icon Olympus makes Omni partner
          60 13 OMNI INDUSTRIES has been appointed a manufacturing partner by Olympus Technologies Singapore, a unit of Japanese camera-maker Olympus Optical. Olympus struck the deal with the local electronics contract manufacturer and mainboard-listed Omni Industries’ subsidiary Omni Electronics. No financial details of the partnership deal were revealed. The
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          Lock icon Innovalues launches IPO
          38 13 LOCAL company Innovalues Precision launched its initial public offering (IPO) yesterday. Some 15.4 million new shares were offered at $0.35 each. The precisionturnparts manufacturer’s Sesdaq-bound shares have a historical price earnings ratio of 5.65 times.
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          Lock icon Great Eastern’s profits down
          51 13 Gail Aw MAINBOARD-LISTED insurer Great Eastern Life Holdings reported a 19-per-cent fall in net profit yesterday from $221.1 million in 1999 to $lBO.l million last year. The company attributed the decline to a $32-million provision. The Great Eastern scrip closed down 1.4 per cent at $7.20
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      • Eyeball SAYS
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          Lock icon Paying the price of pragmatism
          726 14 YOU need only to have read the papers in the last week to realise that the good life is not enough. That, in fact, it falls far, far short. Its value was called into question a few weeks ago, when a young man stood up
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        • Article
          Lock icon Todays youths dream – about the five Cs
          311 14 Todays youths dream about the five Cs ‘Let’s create a spirit of onr times’ (Feb 19) “CREATIVITY is not a means to an end, it is an end in itself. It doesn’t matter whether it makes money for the Singapore Inc machine. “We need a Singapore Zeitgeist, a spirit of
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        Lock icon Stop caning, start building that safety net
        884 15  -  By Adeline Goh adel@sph.com.sg THE latest reports from two Internet watch groups break with the tradition of assuming that the average Net surfer is a perv who spends all his time looking for porn. Instead, like a breath of fresh air, both groups
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        Lock icon MEASURING SUCCESS
        60 15 IF SINGAPORE needs new measures of success, we should look at... 35% Civic spirit and volunteerism. 25% The quality of life here (however you define it). 20% -How creative we are. 9% Our international standing. 7%-The size of my car, bank account and condo. 4% -The state of
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      51 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 ey enews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5806 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5461 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5461 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5832 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5817 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscription hotline 749-2577 Fax 746-1925 Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      26 2 Qood morning! Showers over many areas in the afternoon and early evening. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 12.15 AM/2.5M 11.20 AM/2.8M Met Service: http:/ /www.gov.sg/metsin
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      29 4 Do you consider sexual content on the big screen more objectionable than hardcore violence? Or do uncut scenes of gruesome homicides deserve more consideration? Tell us at httpV/eyebalL asialxonusg
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      48 5 Do you think the current Pass/Fail system of rating games needs to be refined? No. Most games are passed anyway. No. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Yes. What if another Half-Life situation develops in the future? Yes. Some games just aren’t for kids. Vote at http^/eyebalLasiaLconusg
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      70 7 Check out these sites to know more about how to guide your child when surfing: http://www.chatdanger .com What are the popular but dangerous chatrooms on the Internet? http://www.getnetwise.com A kids-friendly site which explores online safety. http:// www.pagi.org.sg A local site Parental Advisory Committee on the Internet with a forum on
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      21 7 »See Page 15 for what Adeline Goh thinks are the right measures to keep surfing safe for our children and community.
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      45 8 Nike recently had an e-mail tussle with graduate student Jonah Peretti in the US who wanted to protest against Nike labour practices by customising his sneakers with the word “sweatshop”. http://www.villagevoice.com/ issues/0107/iockbeat.shtml Peretti’s e-mail exchange with Nike. http:/ www.cleanclothes.org/companies/nike.htm Alleged labour abuses by Nike worldwide.
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      98 10 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET once were using the internet, mo *****'S vote WILL MATTER ANYMORE.... because WHAT VO YOU ME AM? MS. NICHOLS, WHAT'S THE FUTURE OF VOTING ON THE INTERNET? ill. Be in TOT THANKS fu con THAT'S FOR WOW! IT HAS NO FUTURE. SIMPLE ITS WHY IS
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      70 12 arch 2001 $5.00 SPLASH OUT! BATHROOMS soaked in style pages of BR LUANT NTERIORS HOME mm m m •r r &mmmA MS: <■** p japaHa**'* k 2 363£ IP 85S® i* 1' 1 3 >f P S its mm pip m 'ixm; m m I'i m V *l ili It
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Superb round
        67 16 SYDNEY-Teenage golf sensation Aaron Baddeley shot a nine-under-par 62 on the opening day of the Australasian Tour championship. The 19-year-old Baddeley, winner of this season’s Australian Open and Greg Norman International tournaments, collected an eagle and eight birdies in a superb round at the Concord Golf Club in
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        Lock icon Woods not a fan
        143 16 PACIFIC PALISADES (California) Don’t count Tiger Woods among fans of the PGA Tour’s new Shotlink System, which will track every player’s shot when it makes its debut next week. “I don’t think it’s very good at all,” Woods said. Shotlink is expected to revolutionise scoring and
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        Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
        16 16 THE late Wilt Chamberlain led the NBA with a record of 233,924 rebounds.
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        Lock icon Ticket sales bad
        85 18 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Only 35 per cent of the 90,000 tickets for the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix have been sold, with less than a month to go before the race. But there are still hopes of attracting 200,000 spectators for the three-day event, said Azmi Murad,
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        Lock icon Schumy optimistic
        122 18 Reuters ROME World champion Michael Schumacher said he was better prepared than ever for a new Formula One season as he flew to Australia yesterday for the first race on March 4. “The F2OOl has behaved very well from the first to last day of testing. It has
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        Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
        40 18 “I FEEL useless. It’s the first time this has happened to me and I feel bad about it.” Former French international Didier Deschamps, on having only played 675 minutes of league football for Spanish side Valencia
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        Lock icon Set to splurge
        89 19 AP BEIJING In its most lavish promise yet, Beijing has vowed to spend US$2O billion (Ss3s billion) if it is awarded the 2008 Olympics -a construction frenzy bid officials said would rival the building of the Great Wall, state media reported. The spending on new subways and
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        Lock icon Sampras beaten
        69 19 Reuters MEMPHIS (Tennessee) Top-seed Pete Sampras, playing for the first time since losing in the fourth round of last month’s Australian Open, was upset by unseeded Chris W’oodruff in the Kroger St Jude tournament yesterday. Sampras lost 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 to Woodruff, a Tennessee native who had not
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        Lock icon Capriati prevails
        43 19 Reuters OKLAHOMA CITYAustralian Open champion Jennifer Capriati beat Maria Vento of Venezuela, 6-2 6-1 in the second round of the IGA Indoor Championships yesterday. Top-seed Monica Seles also won convincingly, beating fellow-American Jenny Hopkins of the United States 7-6 (7-1) 6-3.
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        Lock icon ON THIS DAY
        26 19 IN 1984, the referee took Birmingham City and West Ham United players off the field twice as rival fans clashed inside the stadium.
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      Lock icon Harrington sets stage for revenge
      771 16  -  He leads Singh by one strobe in repeat of Malaysian duel By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg THEY’RE at it again. Just five days after their marathon final-round showdown at the Malaysian Open, Vijay Singh and Padraig Harrington are running neck-and-neck at the Caltex Singapore Masters. Singh
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      Lock icon Leeds silences Anderlecht
      482 17 Belgians humiliated 4-1 Wires BRUSSELS Memo to Anderlecht: If you want to talk the talk, you’ve got to walk the walk. The Belgians did a lot of prematch talking before their Champions League tie against Leeds, but had to eat crow and go back for seconds after
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      Lock icon Zoff says Eriksson bungled
      327 17 DRAW WITH REAL SERBS LAZIO OUT OF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Wires ROME When all else fails, blame your predecessor for screwing it up. Lazio coach Dino Zoff used that tactic to explain Lazio’s unceremonious exit from the Champions League after being held to a 2-2 draw by
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      Lock icon POWER RANKINGS
      836 18 National Basketball Association The Big Diesel pulls the Lakers into the No i slot in the West in this week's Eye Sport rankings. Think were nuts? Tell us at eyesport@sph.com.sg Player of the Week: Allen Iverson of course. Anyone who doubted this guy’s talent and ability to lead
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      219 19 RUGBY UNION: Jonny Wilkinson stands on the threshold of greatness. His impeccable kicking has notched 376 points in an England career that’s less than three years old, and he needs just 21 more to surpass his mentor, Rob Andrew, as England’s most prolific points scorer of all time.
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      Lock icon Benetton ready to burn up tarmac
      365 19 F1 team denies car foiled safety tests Wires WILL they or won’t they? It’s a question that’s on the minds of fans of the Benetton Formula 1 team in the wake of reports that it failed safety tests on its new car. For its
      – Wires; Reuters  -  365 words
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      Lock icon Injury-hit Lakers win their Spurs
      392 19 TEAMMATES TELP OUT TRIPLE-TEAMED SHAQ Lat-wp SAN ANTONIO (Texas) Down an All-Star and dragging themselves along at the end of a six-city tour of Iversons, Marburys, Duncans and all the pick-and-rolls they could eat, the Los Angeles Lakers played another night with desperation unusual for
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  • Unwind
    • Food
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        Lock icon Chefs for rent
        1002 20 YOU don’t have to be Bill Gates to have a personal chef in the US of A. Apparently, ordinary Americans can come home to a homecooked meal, whipped up by a personal chef who goes to their homes and cooks for them for as little as S$880
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      • Article
        Lock icon AT TOUR BECK AND CALL
        248 21 YOU can actually turn your home into Les Amis. The restaurant will do private dinners at your humble abode, if you want, for parties of 12 to 14 people. For $l5O a person, the menu includes pan-fried foie gras, a course of fish, a meat
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      • Pick of the EATS
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          Lock icon Chef Nobu at Four Seasons
          78 22 WITH restaurants in key world cities tucked under his belt, chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa now brings some of his signature dishes to One-Ninety at the Four Seasons Hotel. Chef Nobu’s famous dishes include creamy spicy snow crab; chicken with wasabi pepper sauce; scampi with spicy lemon
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          Lock icon “Live” scallops are the new salmon
          72 22 FORGET salmon. “Live” Giant Arctic scallops the largest of the scallop species in western and northern Norway are the seafood of choice this month at mezza9. At mezza9, try them as: “Live” scallop sashimi with Japanese plum vinegar sauce; carpaccio of scallop with fried
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          Lock icon Diet-conscious? Try semi-lunching
          56 22 TRY Blue Lobster’s newly introduced semi-lunch buffet for just $19.90 upwards. Aside from fresh seafood, there’s antipasti salads, soups and desserts like creme brulee and crepes. The buffet is served from 11.30 am to 2.30 pm, Mondays through Saturdays. Till the end of March, one diner dines
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          Lock icon Hawker’s Pick
          90 22  -  Angelica Tan Fatman Satay Satay Club No 1 #Ol-U7D Old Airport Road Emporium and Cooked Food Centre Open: 530 pm to midnight WHO could forget the Satay Club? Not us. And neither have we forgotten stall numero uno: Fatman Satay. They have a new location, and their skewered
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        Lock icon Sheer delight
        561 22 Shiro promises simple, elegant cuisine. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) visits the Japanese restaurant in its sleepy neighbourhood and came out beaming. Restaurant: Shiro Japanese Haute Cuisine Where: 24 Greenwood Avenue Tel: 462 2774 Opens: Noon to 2.30 pm and 6 pm to 11 pm from Mondays to Saturdays. Closed
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        Lock icon SHOPPING CART
        247 22  -  Angelica Tan Prices as per Market Place at Paragon JOHN WEST ALL DAT LIGHT MEALS TUNA ITALIAN $4.15 A CAN of convenience is what this is. They’ve even thoughtfully included a small plastic spoon for you to tuck into the meal. The tuna salad is not half bad
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    • Music
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        Lock icon Rock’s smashing lives
        1062 23 Death and violence at rock gigs are terrifying phenomena. RONALD RAJ AN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) finds out why Singapore has escaped unscathed. OCK concerts have R sometimes been compared to religious experiences in which one may catch a glimpse of God, as fans of Primal Scream did at Britain’s
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      • Music NOTES
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          Lock icon Radiohead to tour
          120 24 TO PROMOTE its forthcoming album Amnesiac, Radiohead will tour North America, hitting the West Coast in June, followed by the East after a month’s break. It will also release a single in conjunction with the album, which hits stores less than a year after Kid A debuted
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          Lock icon Key witness nabbed
          108 24 MATTHEW “SCAR” ALLEN, the fugitive who was missing from Sean “Puffy” Combs’ case since January, is ready to testify. He was alleged to have sparked the Club New York shootings on DecT27,1999, when Combs and Jamal Barrow fired guns. Law enforcement officers apprehended Allen in Maryland on
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          Lock icon Sales secret
          90 24  -  Lim Hui Ling THE secret to galactically phenomenal album sales, said label executives for Shania Twain’s Come On Over album, is the crossover marketing strategy. Twain shot from country rock to pop babedom with the release of her Come On Over album two years ago. “I knew (the
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        Lock icon Digital Indian
        654 24 HA! Talvin Singh (Universal) NOT since The Beatles discovered sitars and kaftans has the Indian influence been so pervasive in modern life. Fashion label Red or Dead sent down a Bollywood spring collection of saris, Madonna did her oms, Kula Shaker made hits out of Vedic chants and
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        Lock icon DOWNLOAD OF THE WEEK
        178 24  -  June Wan I LEFT MY HEART ALL OVER THE PLACE By Tim Rogers and the Twin Set From the album What Rhymes With Cars And Girls http://www.youami.com.au Time: 4 min 10 sec THOSE familiar with Aussie band You Am I will know Tim Rogers as their
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        Lock icon Good excuse to hate the world
        903 25 FOPIROCK TSAR Tsar (Hollywood Records) DO YOU know that if you rearranged the letters in “tsar”, you get “star” or “arts”? The only problem is, these two new letter arrangements don’t define the band. In fact, neither does its name! There’s nothing new or
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        Lock icon CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEES
        218 25  -  AFP LOVE Love (Elektra) THE BAND formed by Arthur Lee and ex-Byrds roadie Bryan Mac Lean quickly built up a strong reputation by playing in clubs in the Sunset Strip area. Love became the first rock act to be signed by the expanding Elektra Records,
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        Lock icon Who should have won?
        776 26 So Steely Dan won for Album of the Tear and Uz took home the Qrammyfor Record of The Tear. RONALD RAJAH (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) thinks they didnt deserve to win. HE winners have been named. We T prefer to call them pretenders to the throne instead. As always,
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