Project Eyeball, 5 March 2001

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    11 1 Projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 034/02/2001 Monday, March 5, 2001 80 CENTS
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      475 1 SPORTY TECH All those new-fangled gadgets and swimsuits are great, but water-less water is even better, says John Lni. See Page 14 CAN'T TEACH SENSITIVITY Classroom-taught creativity hardly produces bushy-tailed beavers raring to apply their new “skills” to real-life situations, says young columnist Fiona Voon. See Page 15 BEST BOOKS
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      129 2 THOUSANDS of children across Britain are to drop buttered toast next week to see if Murphy’s Law holds true. The Tumbling Toast Test is to be conducted by 150,000 children in secondary schools. Participants will let the buttered toast slip 20 times from a plate and record how many
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      Lock icon Beauties without brains
      510 2  -  Undergrad is queen of insipid contest By Ronald Rajan ronrajan@sph.com.sg YOU could tell from the trailers: Intelligence was no pre-requisite for these alleged hotties. And beauty treatments by sponsor Adonis weren’t going to save the day either. Indeed, the first Miss Singapore Universe finals, broadcast “live” on
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Constructive coffeeshop talk
        175 2 COFFEESHOP talk became much more than idle chat yesterday at the first-ever “Knowledge Kopitiam”, a new discussion format that’s part musical chairs, part debate. It had participants swopping tables every 15 minutes to encourage the “cross-fertilisation of ideas”, said organisers. Organised by the People’s Association and the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Ketamine abuse on the rise
        162 2 THE number of Ketamine abusers arrested increased nearly five times last year, revealed the Central Narcotics Bureau. Seventy-nine arrests were made compared to 14 in 1999, the year Ketamine, also called “Special K” or “K”, emerged in the local scene. Abuse of Methamphetamine, commonly known
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      • Article
        Lock icon Accident claims one more cop
        75 2 A THIRD police officer, Sergeant Benny Tan Chiew Leong, 23, who sustained serious injuries in the police Land Rover accident along East Coast Parkway on Saturday, died in Changi General Hospital yesterday. Two other officers, Inspector Ranosasni bin Mohamed Salleh, 23, and Corporal Dzulkhair bin
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        Lock icon Retailers’ woes being looked into
        109 2 HELP is on the way for shopkeepers, but they can’t relax yet. This was told to retailers in Tanjong Pagar district by their mayor, Dr Ow Chin Hock. Dr Ow, who is also Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, chaired a dialogue session for about
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      318 3 HONOLULU The US Coast Guard has suspended its search for nine people lost at sea when their Japanese fishing vessel was rammed and sunk by a surfacing US Navy submarine. The Navy is scheduled to open its hearings into the accident today at Pearl Harbor. ZURICH Swiss voters
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      Lock icon M’sian opposition party quits alliance
      527 3 DAP set to contest state polls on its own Wires KUALA LUMPUR Dealing a jolt to Malaysia’s fragile opposition front, a constituent party has pulled out of the alliance ahead of an election. According to local press reports yesterday, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) said
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon It’s not such a taboo to seek therapy
        1045 4  -  Singaporeans slowly opening up to idea of psychiatric help By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg YOU don’t have to see a dancing baby in your bedroom before you visit a shrink. Neither do you have to be a mob chief suffering a midlife
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    • Singapore
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        1045 5  -  They do everything from mopping to fixing leaky faucets By Sheila Murugasu sheilam@sph.com.sg YUPPIES will be yuppies. You don’t expect them to -of all things in the world babysit maids and tinker with their weekends to suit the domestic’s timetable, do you? And the result is a slow
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        Lock icon How the Budget makes its way through Parliament
        439 6 FRIDAY, FEB 23 FINANCE Minister Dr Richard Hu (left) made his Budget statement in Parliament for Financial Year 2001/2002. (This customarily happens on the last Friday of February.) MONDAY, MARCH 5 AFTER a minimum of seven clear days later (in this case
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        Lock icon QUESTIONS YOU WANT ANSWERED
        418 6 The Budget debate is scheduled to take place from today to March 16. No doubt, Members of Parliament are waiting to shoot their questions at the different ministries, on behalf of the people. Here are some queries on Eyeball readers’ minds: EDUCATION Will more money be
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Thumbs down for globalisation
        67 7 The demonstrators didn’t get what they wanted, but they were happy to get close. Italian riot police on Saturday blocked thousands of anti-globalisation protesters a few hundred metres from the site of an environment meeting of the G-8 nations. The protesters staged a loud, but peaceful
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        Lock icon A million bucks brings on the smiles
        615 7 It’s official: Money, well lots of it, can buy happiness LONDON Money can buy you happiness and it’s the economists who are telling us so. For the first time, the practitioners of the dismal science have put a tag on happiness. And it
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      • Article
        Lock icon Italian mafia goes top of the pops
        387 7 THE ‘HIT’ PARADE PARIS Parents, don’t fret over Eminem’s controversial lyrics, because the real deal is yet to hit, and gangsta rap has nothing on it. An Italian mafia gang is diversifying beyond drugs and prostitution and is exporting its favourite tunes, reported
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        Lock icon Thai blast: Drug lords suspected
        553 8 PM Thaksin says bomb was meant to assassinate him Wires BANGKOK Drug traffickers from the infamous “Golden Triangle” are seen as being behind Saturday’s bomb explosion on a jetplane that Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shin- awatra was to board. The bomb had gone off under
        – Wires; Reuters; AFP  -  553 words
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        365 8 PHONE WARNING AVERTS BIG DISASTER Reuters LONDON The Real IRA is back to haunt Londoners once again. Police suspect that the guerrilla outfit, a splinter group from the Irish Republican Army (IRA), was behind a powerful explosion early yesterday outside the BBC’s Television Centre
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        Lock icon Britain paralysed over mild disease
        432 9 FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE LONDON It was supposed to be a weekend to unwind, but it turned out to be a time to become wound up. All thanks to the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak, which some British,dailies are now calling “the plague that never was”. Major sporting
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        Lock icon UK firms ban e-mail to encourage creativity
        518 9 ‘No e-mail Fridays’ meant to promote face-to-face interaction LONDON Bill Gates would surely object to this new corporate custom. You’ve got a new e-mail, but your boss will not allow you to open it until first thing Monday morning. But this seems to
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      • Article
        Lock icon Japan goes crazy over Choco-eggs
        198 9 LONDON The land which exported the Tamagotchi electronic pets and Pokemon card fever, is now gripped by a new toy phenomenon Choco-eggs. These contain miniatures of a bird, fish, mammal or reptile, and were designed as educational toys. But adults have fallen prey to the
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Nasa dumps $2.3-b rocket plane project
        293 10 COSTS, TECHNICAL WOES HIT PROGRAMME Reuters WASHINGTON Nasa has killed the experimental space plane programme that was the centrepiece of its effort to develop a new generation of vehicles for space travel, The Washington Post reported on Friday. Nasa had invested five years and
        – Reuters; AP  -  293 words
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        Lock icon Run on Napster as it fights to stay legal
        386 10 Music-swop service promises to weed out one million titles AP SAN FRANCISCO While Napster worked to deploy technology to weed out one million song titles, millions of users flooded the site and other servers to trade music that record labels say
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      • Article
        Lock icon Sony sets up shop in your home
        192 10  -  Andrew Chin THE Amazon.com of consumer electronics landed in town last week. Sony Singapore has launched its online shopping website, Sony Style, at http://www.sonystyle.com.sg, the first by a large consumer electronics brand to sell products directly to Singapore. You’ll find products such as
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    • Business
      • Personal
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          Lock icon NO PENALTY FOR EARLY
          148 11 IF YOUR car costs $55,000 or less, excluding the COE, your car loan will fall under the Hire Purchase Act. This means that legally, the financial institution providing the loan owns the car and you are considered the hirer. But there are some perks to borrowing
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          1005 11  -  Some research could save you a packet By By Gail Aw and Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg MENTION the price of a Mer-cedes-Benz in Singapore to a foreigner, and the response will probably be “What!”. Cars in Singapore are said to be the most expensive in
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      • Wry TECH
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          Lock icon The sporting edge
          546 14  -  By John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg SPORTS and technology have an uneasy relationship, going back to the days when the Greeks first invented the Olympic Games and the participants were all naked. They were nude to ensure that everyone played fair and didn’t have extra boshiki hidden in their
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          Lock icon Stupid and tasteless
          384 14 Are we learning the right Survivor skills? (March 2) SURVIVOR, the CBS TV-hit, in which contestants lie, backstab and cheat to win US$l million (551.74 million), has raised an outcry in the United States. Parents and teachers there say it’s hazardous to the moral health of children.
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      • Generation NEXT
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          Lock icon Creativity can’t be taught in class
          473 15  -  By Fiona Voon teens@eyeball.com.sg ONE wonders if it is a bleak tragedy or a glorious triumph that we have wrought. Our education system seems to be efficiently churning out so many Dollys as to make the whole cloning industry overseas blush sheepishly. Regimented examinations
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        • Article
          Lock icon Fitting in is what we do best
          315 15 Let’s create a spirit of our times (Feb 19) WE COMPLAIN how students are politically and artistically apathetic, said Grace Chua in her last column. The sad truth is that we’re so often too wrapped up in our own little fishbowl-lives to see
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          Lock icon CURBING MOBILE MENACE
          68 15 What’s the best solution to cellphone pests in cinemas and restaurants? 50% Leave it to owners to install cellphone jammers. 26% Rely on good education to create good manners. 16% Fine the offenders. 5% Offer discounts if patrons turn off their phones. 3% Stop fussing; if I
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      86 4 Therapy: No big deal or no way? Would you ever seek professional help when you’re faced with problems? Tell us at http^/eyebalLasiaLcom^sg To find out more about counselling and therapy, check out these sites: http://mypage.ihost.com/ samh Singapore Association for Mental Health. http://www.ncss.org.sg The National Council of Social Service, which provides
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      32 5 DIY, full-time maid, or professional housekeeper which do you prefer and why? Do you think professional housekeeping will ever be as popular here as in the United States? Tell us at httpV/eyebalLasiaLconusg
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      63 7 Now let’s be honest here: Just how much will be enough to make you happy? Give us a specific figure and tell us why at httpV/eyeball.asial.com.sg Confused over your current emotional state? Take a happiness quiz. http://www.myprimetime.com/health/ stress busters/happiness/Happiness.isp Happiness comes from the choices you make, say the creators of
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      28 8 http://www.ianes. com/regional news/ europe/news/jir/ jir*****4 1 n.shtml An in-depth profile of the group. http://news.bbc.co. uk/hi/english/static/ northern Ireland/ understanding/ default.stm A BBC special on Northern Ireland’s quest for peace.
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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      41 10 7& dm i -0 ooi r OOJOS ©2OOl Peter E. Zale Distributed by Tribune Media Services O 0 > m FS s si > 8 ■5! 11l 3 v» iiiagßHWwnnwnniiiTf» i www.peterzale.com www.comicspage.com t S.Z <A-» 78 (A •m [iEN, SWEETHEART OF THE
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      32 11 For more on car loans: DBS; www.dbs.com/personal/loans/ personal/cfinancing.shtml POB; http://www.uob.com.sg/ i loa carloan.asp QCBC: http:// www.ocbc.com.sg/me/loans/ carloan.shtm Maybank: http://www.maybank.com.sg/template/indexP.htm OPB:http://www.oub.com.sg/servlet/psweb?ut=myoub/ pages/main.isp&UlC=Personal&rd=Product& CONT=OUB Car Loan nitihank: http:/ www.citibank.com.sg/singapore/products/ Hong Leong http://www.hongleongfinance.com.sg/fcar.html loans/ carindex.htm
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      303 12 Hi,l am Noah Chan. I'd be so happy if I won the first prize in this contest. jPf. Hello babies! My name is Syazawani Adawiyah. Everyone calls me Wani. My proud owners are Mummy Wan and Daddy Yus. They.pamper me a lot and I just love it! On Aug 11th
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      240 13 Vote for me or. else... I'll cry. I promise a budget full of happiness, smiles and a pinch of naughtiness all year long. Maitri Kamath Denise's arrival brightens the life of daddy mummy. To see her smiling growing everyday, brushes away our hectic day of work, bringing joy to a
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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      38 14 SMBNN*Kr •y* •V'-V'-VV/V wy*: v/.vv, i •vy.v V* Nr y-/r “I don’t know what program you been usin’, Frank, but it ain’t the right one. Look your menu bar should read File, Edit, Reap, Gather...” www.the5thwave.com. 2001 Rich
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Schuey stays true to form
      972 16 Crash, safety marshal’s death clouds Australian GP AP MELBOURNE World champion Michael Schumacher led from start to finish yesterday to win an Australian Grand Prix marred by the death of a track marshal and injuries to seven spectators during a fifth-lap crash. Schumacher continued the
      – AP; AFP  -  972 words
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      Lock icon Groping for a streak
      514 17 LA Lakers lurch towards playoffs as they claw a win from Grizzlies Wires VANCOUVER Why oh why are the LA Lakers softening, rather than being emboldened by last year’s championship winning season? As Phil Jackson leaned against a grey cinder-block wall, he mulled over the conversation
      – Wires; AP  -  514 words
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      Lock icon Wiltord shows what he’s made of
      284 17 WENGER'S IMPRESSED Reuters LONDON Slammed, dumped and denounced as waste of £13 million (S$33 million), the striker finally got the last word in with a hattrick against West Ham on the weekend. Like many modern players Sylvain Wiltord prefers to air his feelings on
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      89 17 SOCCER: Football365 has taken upon itself a media-watchdog role to hilarious effect. It also targets journalists and headlines. (http://www.football365. com/ content/otg/ mediawatch/ fw_ mediawatc_*****4.htm) FORMULA 1: So, Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher now has a total of 45 career wins and needs just seven more to break Alain Prost’s record.
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Ruiz is champ
        105 17 AP LAS VEGAS-John Ruiz made Evander Holyfield look old, and made himself a heavyweight champion. A bloodied Ruiz knocked Holyfield down in the 11th round on Saturday night and had him hanging on for his fighting life en route to a unanimous 12-round decision that made him
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        Lock icon Controversial draw
        63 17 AFP MADRID Barcelona’s Brazilian forward Rivaldo fired in two stunning equalisers and saw a deflected injury-time strike disallowed for offside as Saturday’s clash with Real Madrid ended in a controversial 2-2 draw. In a furiously contested match in front of a 75,000 full house at the Bernabeu, Rivaldo
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        Lock icon Ranatunga in brawl
        93 17 AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka’s former skipper Arjuna Ranatunga and his family were engaged in a brawl with schoolboys who played their cricket ball into Ranatunga’s family home, police said. Four students from Asoka College were hospitalised after being beaten by Ranatunga, his brothers and security guards at
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  • Unwind
    • The Tube
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        894 18 Cox News Service Chemistry is a mysterious element that’s difficult to define, but easy to recognise. Like good taste, you know it when you see it, and on television, you re dead in the water without it DXANE HOLLOWAY cheeks out the chemical reactions when she tunes in
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        Lock icon Back of the class
        494 20 It s back to school with TCS 51 Moulmein High, which promises hard moral lessons for students. JEANMARIETAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) finds out if the show makes the grade. Y FRIEND tells L T J me some very k i H surreal stories f B when teaching at
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        Lock icon Discovery still top cable channel
        422 20  -  Jeanmarie Tan IT’S a revelation to discover that the humble documentary reigns supreme over Hollywood, MTV and football. Yes, it seems everyone’s thirsty for knowledge. According to the AC Nielsen popularity poll for July 1999 to June 2000, Discovery Channel (SCV Ch 12) has remained
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    • Books
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        Lock icon Well versed in e-mail
        704 21 A homegrown e-magazine is beginning to make inroads in cyberspace, bringing edgy urban poetry to hundreds of readers' computer screens. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph .com.sg) speaks to the people behind the scene about rules, Fight Club and sarcasm. Thirteen months ago, a flurry of poetry, mere bits
        Wang Huifen  -  704 words
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        Lock icon Marry by the book
        973 22 Since Jennifer Lopez stole the groom in The Wedding Planner, marital miracle-workers have made news. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) finds out if the hooks have the answers to your big day. OS THERE a quick way of gleaning the know-how to stage a wedding to make ’em
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        Lock icon Fischer fails to hook you
        411 23 DON’T READ THIS BOOK IF YOU’RE STUPID Tibor Fischer (Vintage) THE famously reclusive Fischer had his Under The Frog nominated for the Booker Prize and The Thought Gang leap-frogging into reprints, while its film rights were snapped up. Even those who did not read it
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        95 23 THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN Laurence Sterne When: Published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767. What? A huge, rambunctious, experimental novel. The narrator, Tristam Shandy, tells the story of his life but constantly back-tracks and digresses. Hailed as a masterpiece for its stream-of-consciousness
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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      312 19 MUST-SEE TV: THIS WEEK’S TOP PICKS :WV,. The Haunting Saturday 9 pm HBO 60 AN OBSESSED psychologist (Liam Neeson) lures three insomniacs (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson and Lili Taylor) into a haunted mansion. As expected, all hell breaks loose. Directed by Twister’s Jan De Bont, it’s more a tale of
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon She’s got the look...
      232 24 Karl Ho ZOUK home to Singapore’s beautiful people celebrated its 10th birthday with cowboy hat-wearing bouncers and long, snaking queues of revellers. Eyeball helped blow out the candles at Saturday’s private party and found out how the gig’s best-dressed women got their look. Anna Belle Francis,
      – Karl Ho; Pictures: Clarence Chan  -  232 words
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      Lock icon Chat & Mouse
      466 24 Chat Mouse Womens guide to gifts for men RULE NO 1: When in doubt buy him a cordless drill. It does not matter if he already has one. As a man, you can never have too many cordless drills. No one knows why. RULE NO 2: If you cannot afford
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