Project Eyeball, 26 February 2001

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  • Title Section
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    12 1 Project eyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 034/02/2001 Monday, February 26, 2001 80 CENTS
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      498 1 SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER “How do I maximise the teeny weeny space that is my apartment?” John Lui goes where some people have gone before. See Page 15 V-DAYFOR YUAY SINGH The Fijian clinched his second title on the trot by taking the Caltex Singapore Masters with a two-stroke win
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      84 2 THIS is a feat most people would find difficult to swallow. Roger Weisskopf can identify the brand of toilet paper you are using, simply by tasting it. After all, the 32-year-old Swiss did practise for one year by making a feast out of the foreign toilet paper his travelling
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      350 2  -  Soon, it may cover more day surgeries, outpatient fees and medicine costs By G Sivakkumaran gsiva@sph.com.sg YOUR medical bills need no longer give you a heart attack. That’s because Medisave may soon be extended to cover more day surgeries, outpatient hospital fees and the payment of medicines.
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    • Article
      Lock icon ‘NOT AN ELECTION PLOY'
      138 2 SO IS this year’s Budget aimed at sweetening things ahead of a general election? Reporters posed this question to some ministers yesterday who were out at various functions. Finance Minister Dr Richard Hu said: “Don’t forget we had a very good year last year, the year
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon PM: Multi-racial approach needed
        177 2 ETHNIC-BASED self-help groups are a success and are here to stay, but what is needed now is a more multi-racial approach by these groups, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday at the Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) volunteers’ tea. Recently, the question of whether the
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        Lock icon S'pore's civil service No 2 in Asia
        143 2 SINGAPORE’S civil service has been ranked as one of the top two in Asia. According to a report by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC), the republic is in second place behind Hong Kong. Rated by businessmen in 13 Asian countries for
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        Lock icon Eating disorders on the rise
        152 2 BLAME it on the Ally Mcßeals and Kate Mosses if you will. Anorexia and bulimia nervosa, the two major eating disorders, are on the rise, particularly among teenagers and young adults. One to three people in 100 suffer from bulimia, and this is only a
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      Lock icon World Watch
      322 3 LONDON Britain's Agriculture Minister said yesterday a probable new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has been found in southern England in south Devon, meaning the highly infectious livestock disease had spread the length of the country. The source of the outbreak is believed to be in Northumberland. I BELGRADE
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      Lock icon KL alert for Indonesian refugees
      343 3 ‘They’re gathered in Batam, Sumatra’ Wires KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police are on high alert to stop a possible flood of illegal Indonesians who are trying to escape the economic hardship and the ethnic bloodshed in Kalimantan, senior officials said yesterday. “We have obtained information from
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      Lock icon Standing at attention
      39 3 Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo reviewing the troops in Quezon City yesterday. She called on the public to “protect and sustain” the gains of the People Power revolutions that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. Ap
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      Lock icon Fined for bombarding HDB with 7,500 e-mails
      496 4 AN E-MAIL-BOMBING case made legal history in May last year, when Kendrick Tan Cheng Kang, then 33, became the first person to be charged with, and found guilty of, unauthorised obstruction of a computer. Tan, a product development officer who was frustrated and
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Computer abuse isn’t just hacking
        1287 4  -  Scanning office data when you shouldn’t could mean jail By Uyen Vu uyen@sph.com.sg CURIOSITY, the story goes, killed the cat. And it could land you in trouble. Accessing unauthorised data on your office computer is no longer just a transgression against an employer. These days,
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      • Article
        Lock icon High-tech crooks face new charge
        348 5  -  Act covers criminal use of digital data Uyen Vu PEOPLE who use a computer or any data-processing device to commit fraud could now face charges under Section 4 of the Computer Misuse Act on top of the Penal Code accusations. The use of a computer
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      Lock icon KEEP P.C. CRIMES AWAY
      85 4 ACCORDING to police data, the most common type of computer-misuse offence is unauthorised use, particularly the use of someone else’s Internet account. Here are some words of advice from the police that computer users may find helpful: Take precautionary measures seriously change passwords regularly and keep
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    • Article
      Lock icon WHAT THE LAW SAYS
      282 5 Section 3: Unauthorised access “Securing access” can mean any of the following: altering, erasing, copying, moving, using or displaying data. “The form in which any program or data is output (and, in particular, whether or not it represents a form in which, in the case of
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon A SAFER MARKET
        140 6 THE spanking new hawker centre-cum-wet market at Geylang Bahru is not just new it also has some in-built fire-safety provisions. These include a steel roof and aluminium ceiling, fire alarm systems, fire hose-reels and portable fire extinguishers. Fire safety at wet markets and hawker centres has been
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        Lock icon ‘Workers must retrain’
        303 6  -  Lee says Manpower funds to be spent on upgrading skills in face of slowdown By G Sivakkumaran gsiva@sph.com.sg CALL it a “hardship allowance” if you will, but the Ministry of Manpower which has received a massive 42.2 per cent increase in its Budget allocation this year to
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        Lock icon Green open space is now a carpark
        817 6  -  DEPOT ROAD RESIDENTS STEWING By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg THEY all had rooms with a view until the Housing Development Board (HDB) decided to build a seven-storey carpark in front of them. The residents of Block 113 along Depot Road near Telok Blangah
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        Lock icon TAKING ACTION
        78 6 IF YOU are not satisfied with life around your home, just speak up. The HDB may act on it, as it did in these cases: Complaints about screeching tyres in multi-storey carparks led to HDB resurfacing the floors in 117 carparks. Work is being carried out in 43
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Killer medicine or life saver?
        391 7 Woman says anti-smoking drug put her in hospital MELBOURNE She thought the anti-smoking drug Zyban would help her kick the habit. But Bernadette Townsend, an Australian, landed in hospital four days after she started on the drug, which inhibits cigarette cravings, reported Australian newspaper Herald
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        Lock icon Rich calls pardon a humanitarian act
        269 7 JERUSALEM Fugitive financier Marc Rich, who received a controversial last-minute pardon from former United States President Bill Clinton, spoke out for the first time yesterday, describ- ing the pardon as a humanitarian act. In a statement from a public relations office in Tel Aviv,
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        Lock icon US defence shield gets Russian flak
        62 7 Sources: BMDO, Reuters The proposed US National Missile Defence system protects the United States from long-range missiles fired by so-called rogue states like Iraq and North Korea. But Russia is against the plan, saying it would spark a new arms race that would pull
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        Lock icon Billionaire is first tourist in space
        132 7 MOSCOW James Cameron’s bid to be the first space tourist has been sunk by the deep pockets of billionaire playboy Dennis Tito. A secret deal between American and Russian scientists has cleared the way for the former rocket scientist, who made a fortune on
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        Lock icon Refugees flee bloody Sampit
        534 8 Indonesian security team arrives to assess violence Wires SAMPIT Top Indonesian security officials had a first-hand look at a week of ethnic bloodshed in Central Kalimantan province, after arriving yesterday on Borneo island. The visit was the first serious response from Jakarta on the violence between
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        Lock icon 'Slap in the face’ song a big hit
        541 8 CONCESN OVER 'VIOLENT' DANCE IN BRAZIL Ap RIO DE JANEIRO Top Brazilian performers refuse to sing it. A bigcity mayor begged radio stations not to play it. Women protest that it is degrading and downright dangerous. It’s the Face Slap, a lilting,
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    • Science
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        Lock icon Reefs alive, but squint first
        925 9  -  S’pore s busy waters threat to coral By Mark Malby malby@sph.com.sg MENTION “coral reefs”, and the images that come to mind readily are those of Vanuatu or the Maldives. But you don’t need to travel so far afield for a glimpse of corals. The good
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Hotmail users may have to pay to keep spam at bay
        377 10 M.S.N MULLS FEE MICROSOFT is drawing up plans to levy charges on MSN, in a move that could sound the death knell of the free Internet portal if loss-mak-ing rivals follow suit. According to the British newspaper, The Independent,
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      • Article
        Lock icon Wireless Internet yet to win friends
        450 10  -  One-size-fits-all appliances do not appeal, says survey By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg YOU sensed it, but now the facts back it up: A global survey has found that mobile Internet access is just about as appealing as wet socks. This will give weight to the
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        Lock icon Surf's up
        196 10 Here are the key findings Japan has the most users of the wireless Web, while Finland and the US have the least. Nevertheless, users in all the countries generally feel that, at present, the Net is best accessed through a PC and not a phone. Only 15 per
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Rate Race
        326 11 A comparison oj home loan packages available in the market Rates Keppel TatLee OUB UOB OCBC Citibank Em Standard Chartered 2-Year 5-Year Fixed Fixed Year 1 2.75 3.0 25/3.0* 25/3.0* 2.98 3.28 2.95/3.25* 2.88 2.75/3.25* maximum maximum Year 2 3.9 4.0 3.9/4.25* 4.0/4.25* 7.0/7.25* 8.0/8.5* 3.95/4.25* 4.25 4.5
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      • Personal
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          Lock icon Home loans: Think long term
          797 11  -  Check interest rates after first two years and make sure you can afford it By Nicholas Yong and Gail Aw nicyong@sph.com.sg THE wise man who said that death and taxes were inevitable forgot to mention one other necessity these days home loans. Singapore’s competitive homeloan
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    • Mailbox
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Diving into danger
        487 14 ‘Case plunges into diving incidents’ (Feb 15) DIVE schools will have to come up for air in May when they become the targets of a campaign by the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) to upgrade safety and teaching standards. With four diving-related deaths in three years, Case
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      • Article
        Lock icon No use in blindly banning books
        527 14 ‘Banned?’ (Feb 19) YOU can watch a movie about the life of the Marquis de Sade but can’t read his books. In the age of the Internet, is banning books still a useful, relevant and necessary means of regulation? What are the alternatives? Readers
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      • Wry TECH
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          Lock icon Technology for small spaces
          587 15  -  Handy tips to reclaim real estate in a shrinking world By John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg LATELY I’ve been thinking about how to make the most of the space in my flat, because it’s so small and I have a lot of junk in it, which I’m holding
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      • Article
        Lock icon ‘IT’S NOT THE GENES, IT'S HOW YOU USE THEM'
        265 15  - ‘IT’S NOT THE GENES, IT'S HOW YOU USE THEM TRIO ‘Babies are born equal, genius comes later 9 Wry Tech (Feb 19) SMARTNESS was in the news recently. A feedback group here was unhappy with our education system; women here don’t want to marry dumb, uneducated men; there was a
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      28 2 (food morning! Showers with thunder are expected in the afternoon, mainly over northern, eastern and central Singapore High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: I.IIAM/2.7M 12.52PM/2.9M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      31 7 Zyban is but one of the methods used to help smokers quit their habit. http://www.eov.sg/moh/ mohiss/hlthinfo/hlthstvl/ smoking.html Find out where to get help to quit smoking in Singapore at this website.
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      225 12 mm Xavier, you definitely bring endless joy and laughter into our lives. We love you. Daddy and Mummy. Ruben, my little charming man. Your joy and laughter fill my heart, making you ever so precious, ever so sweet and I love you so. Joanna Ong Hams Syazwina, you light up
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      182 13 Hi, my name is Marcus. Dad mum say I am a smart boy because I know how to say 'yahoo' 'hello' at 3 months old. A bundle of joy, the arrival of our precious dragon baby boy Javier Ang. He is sweet and cute. Jasmine Khoo Hello, I'm Darryn Loh.
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  • Eye Sport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Yorke’s hat-trick
        100 16 FORM is temporary, but class is permanent. A fitting tribute to Dwight Yorke, the forgotten striker of Old Trafford. Yesterday, the Trinidad and Tobago marksman wrecked havoc on Arsenal with a hat-trick to lead Manchester United to a 6-1 victory. The Mancunians now lead the table with 66
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        Lock icon Eyeing Man U
        79 16 Reuters LONDON Roma coach Fabio Capello, whose club is six points ahead of Juventus at the top of Serie A, has said that he “would like to manage Manchester United”. “I like England, I like the spirit of the English football and I’d like to work in
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        Lock icon Schumy faces fine
        93 16 Afp BRUSSELS-German Formula L world champion Michael Schumacher is facing a U*****,000-a-day (*****,000) fine for not wearing a crash helmet from a Belgian sports company. Sports Europe claims in a statement that Schumacher has broken his contract by making it clear he will not be wearing a
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      Lock icon Win No 2 for Singh
      536 16  -  Singapore Masters in the bag now for US Masters By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg HIS critics may think Vijay Singh leads a charmed life. But for the newly crowned Caltex Singapore Masters champion, success is based solely on his hard work and sheer doggedness. Despite two
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    • Article
      Lock icon The top 10 at the Singapore Masters
      82 16 Player Score X. VXJAY SINGH (Fiji) 263 -21 2. WARREN BENNETT (England) 265 -19 3. MAARTEN LAFEBER (Holland) 266 -18 3. COLIN MONTGOMERIE (Scotland) 266 -18 6. ANDERS HANSEN (Denmark) 267 -17 5. PRADRAIG HARRINGTON (Ireland) 267 -17 7. FRANKIE MINIMA (Philippines) 268
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      Lock icon POWER BANKINGS
      334 17 Formula One The Formula i world championships kick off this Sunday in Melbourne. Eye Sport takes a look at the preseason form of the teams as a guide to what might unfold over the next iy races: That these guys are going to be on the starting grid
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      Lock icon Clippers beat Blazers!
      329 17 123-120 triumph in double overtime Ap LOS ANGELES Despite playing what Eric Piatkowski called “very stupid basketball” in blowing an 18point fourth-quarter lead, the Los Angeles Clippers had reason to celebrate two overtimes later. Jeff Mclnnis scored seven points in the second overtime as the Clippers defeated
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Real Madrid held
        62 17 Reuters MADRID Proving that grabbing the Primera Liga title last season was no fluke, Spanish champion Deportivo de La Coruna recovered from two goals down to force a 2-2 draw against leader Real Madrid. An 84th-minute strike from substitute Diego Tristan allowed Coruna to preserve its year-long
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        Lock icon Kuerten No 1 again
        56 17 Reuters BUENOS AIRES It was good while it lasted, but Andre Agassi has lost his world No 1 ranking. Gustavo Kuerten regained the spot when he beat Spain’s Fernando Vicente 4-6,6-2,6-2 to reach the Buenos Aires Open final. Eighteen-year-old Argentine Jose Acasuso defeated fourth-seeded compatriot Gaston
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        Lock icon Baggio’s brace
        47 17 Reuters MILAN- Just when you thought he had died a quiet death, Brescia’s Roberto Baggio scored twice against former club Fiorentina to earn a 2-2 away draw in Serie A on Saturday. Fourth-placed Atalanta managed only a goalless draw at home to bottom club Bari.
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        53 17 Reuters LONDON Leeds United ended Tottenham Hotspur’s unbeaten home league record with a 2-1 Premier League victory on Saturday. After Les Ferdinand had put Spurs ahead, Leeds ensured full points through an lan Harte penalty and a Lee Bowyer shot, the first league goals conceded in six
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  • Unwind
    • Crimebusters
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        Lock icon Asian crime sells well
        470 18 gr v: f Law and order, crime, and a glimpse M 1 into the gritty world of society s underbelly. Yes, great fodder for late-night reading. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) and JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) meet visiting thriller writers Christopher Q Moore and John Connolly. CCORDING to a
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        Lock icon Death deals dollars
        477 18 THE world’s only Irish-born American crime novelist is aghast. “Oh that’s such an awful question to ask!” John Connolly half wails, when asked how much of the US$l-million (S$1.7million) advance for his first novel Every Dead Thing is left. The gap-toothed (“I’m going to fill it in
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        Lock icon PRIVATE EYES SEE IT ALL
        213 18 ELEMENTARY, Watson. Crime is no respecter of nationalities. If the recent duo of visiting authors is to be believed, bad stuff, good cops and unwitting victims lurk everywhere from Ireland to Canada. This is a far cry from the days of Agatha Christie and Arthur
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    • Books
      • Book MARKS
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          Lock icon Musing on rare books
          124 19 CELEBRITY authors wax lyrical about the rare, out-of-print books that they love in a soon-to-be released volume edited by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill and Esta and Linda Spalding. To be published by Bloomsbury on March 5, Lost Classics contains essays by Margaret Atwood, John Irving and
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          Lock icon Cooking up a story
          61 19 OUR worst fears are confirmed. British readers have crowned a cook best author of the year. Nigella Lawson’s How To Be A Domestic Goddess beat off even JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to clinch the top authorial prize in this year’s British Book Awards. Book of the
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          Lock icon Clinton’s still thinking
          96 19 THESE days, Bill finds that he’s got to sit a lot in wife Hillary’s shadow. Hillary set wires abuzz recently with the US$B million (SSI4 million) sale of her book to Simon Schuster, but Bill’s book deal is yet to materialise. Several New York publishers told Inside.com
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        • Article
          Lock icon Gathering lyrical lovers
          81 19 LOVE Gathers All: A PhilippinesSingapore Anthology of Poetry will bring together for the first time, the love poetry of writers from both Singapore and the Philippines. The editors invite poets to submit up to eight new or already published poems on the broad theme of love, for
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Dear diary
        454 20 Nyt Beyond the day-date-time-appointment of your handheld or Filofax, a diary’s romance is in its unedited accounts of its writer. JANE GREIG revisits the charm of the humble journal and discovers its therapeutic secrets. teenaged girls, there’s something to be said for its therapeutic value. Want an easy
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        Lock icon HOW TO START TOUR OWN JOURNAL
        160 20 ESTABLISH a comfortable place and convenient time to write. Select a method to chronicle date and time, numbered entries or titles. Leave blank space for later comments (dated or made in a different colour ink). Use an attached envelope or companion box for trinkets
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        269 20  -  Bong Fortin Our finger on the pulse of the book world No Logo by Naomi Klein Smart read expounding new-style marketing built upon bland, utilitarian chic. Eschews ostentatious display of brand names. You’re one of the lucky (not to mention, exclusive, ooh-la-la) few if you’ve got your hands
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        Lock icon QUICK PICKS
        296 21  -  Clara Chow BIG STONE GAP Adriana Trigiani (Pan) HEARTWARMING chick lit set in the small Virginian mining town of Big Stone Gap in the *****. Stoic spinster Ave Maria bustles about as town pharmacist. When her mama’s letter reveals how she fled her native Italy as a pregnant
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        Lock icon More mature
        475 21 Nine years after A Brief History Of Toa Payoh, former newspaperman Koh Buck Song is hack with a new anthology of poems. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) meets the man who writes for the ‘general reader THESE days, Koh Buck Song dabbles in the Art of the New Economy. The
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        Lock icon When gentility needs soul
        341 21 THE WORTH OF WONDER Koh Buck Song (Times Books) THE FINEST poets achieve, over years, a defining tension, like a well-tuned guitar. Their writing treads the brink of crisis where, with craft and wisdom, they dance on the edge of revelation, danger or disbelief. At its
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        Lock icon Winning poetry
        1073 22 TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG Peter Carey (Faber) USTRALIANS like their heroes doused in tragedy. Those among the Irish convicts transported to Australia in the 1800s, who struggled against tyrannical English administrators and the harsh land, certainly fit the bill. Ned Kelly is such a hero. Falsely
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    • The Tube
      • Eye balling
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          Lock icon Four women and a radical history
          620 23 As the world marks International Womens Day next month, Arts Central will feature the lives of four figures whove helped shape the landscape of feminism. JEANMARIE TAN jeanm@sph.com-.sg) attempts to flesh out Qermaine (freer, Simone de Beauvoir, Toko Ono and Eve Arnold. OUR fearsome
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      34 20 If you’re short of ideas, log on to an online diary muse at: http://thriveonline.oxvgen.com Here you’ll find pages to print out and use in journal writing. Sample prompts include: “Becoming your parents” and “Fears”.
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      325 23 Richardson (right) is branded a criminal when she tries to escape right-wing tyranny in The Handmaid’s Tale based on Margaret Atwood’s acclaimed novel. MUST-SEE TV: THIS WEEK’S TOP PICKS Movies The Handmaid’s Tale Tuesday 10 pm Arts Central SET in a dystopian, fascist America in the not-too-distant future, Kate (Natasha
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon Friend has a steamy past
      120 24 FOR the sitcom Friends, winning the immunity challenge meant having Jennifer Aniston (far right) engage in a shocking lip-lock with guest star Winona Ryder (right). Battling ratings with reality TV show Survivor, Friends producers are upping the ante with the controversial kissing scene for an
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      Lock icon Portia gets pound of hair
      92 24 NOTTING HILL star Hugh Grant (left) has done it. Snipped off his trademark fringe, that is and about time too. No pictures are available yet Grant’s hiding from cameras but the ’do is described as being a “longish crew-cut”. Apparently the GI Joe-esque coif might
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      Lock icon Toy story
      47 24 YOU can recreate the gore of Quentin Tarantino’s cult film Reservoir Dogs with action figures from Artisan Entertainment, based on its colourful criminals. Expect renditions of Steve Bnscemi, Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel’s characters in April to mark the 10th anniversary of the heist movie.
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      Lock icon Single in the works?
      112 24 PROBABLY the most controversial duet in this year’s Grammys, Elton John and Eminem’s live rendition of Stan might be released as a single. Interscope Records and the Recording Academy are deliberating on the single after the duet made its way to US radio stations, with part
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      Lock icon Sweet, fizzy dream
      93 24 FORMER presidential contender Bob Dole (right) revealed his penchant for nubile, pop stars in a quip to Late Night host Conan O’Brien: “I’m in good health. I’d like to do a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears.” But Dole, oops!, had to do the ad without the jiggly
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    • Chat & Mouse
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        184 24 Actual stories provided by travel agents. I had someone ask for an aisle seat on the plane so that their hair wouldn’t get messed up by being near the window. I got a call from a man who asked: “Is it possible to see England from Canada?” 1
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