Project Eyeball, 12 March 2001

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    11 1 Projecteyeball. eyebalLasiaLconusg Mita (p) 034/02/2001 Monday, March 12, 2001 80 CENTS
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      453 1 M H.’l H ?i r ‘“i" M GIVE ME A BREAK, BOTBANDS Teen columnist Fiona Voon isn’t screaming her head off every time the Backstreet Boys come on. She’s actually too busy trying to appreciate their many talents. See Page 14 MONKEY KING REVEALED There may not be any crouching
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      102 2 HERE’S a proven way to deal with phone pests. In Croatia, ministers who let their mobile phones ring while Cabinet meetings are going on have to take colleagues out for lunch. The idea was the brainchild of Prime Minister Ivica Racan, who is reportedly sick of interruptions to meetings.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Things you should know from the House today
      570 2 Parliament sat on Friday and Saturday to continue the debate on the Budget, and the ministries covered were Communications and Information Technology, Law, Information and the Arts, Home Affairs and Health Here are io highlights from those sessions. IThe National University of
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Guidelines to treat hypertension
        129 2 MEDICAL experts have developed a local set of clinical practice guidelines the first of its kind here to better combat hypertension, or high blood pressure. “They are not meant to be cookbooks,” stressed Dr Low Lip Ping, chairman of the work group that put together the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Donate your old computer
        98 2 COMPUTER owners planning an upgrade can now help those families who cannot afford a computer by donating their old machines to the PC Reuse Scheme, launched by the Central Singapore Community Development Centre yesterday. Prof Yaacob Ibrahim, chairman of the Central Singapore CDC, said that under
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      • Article
        Lock icon Plan to aid LTTE foiled
        111 2 A PLAN by some people here to help the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka was recently foiled by the the Internal Security Department. This was revealed by Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng during the recent dialogue between Senior Minister
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        Lock icon New flats for Jalan Besar folk
        58 2 FOUR blocks in Jalan Besar constituency have been picked for the Selective En-Bloc Redevelopment Scheme. Residents of Blocks 6,8,9 and 10 at Upper Boon Keng road will move to new flats in Geylang Square by the end of 2004. The $l4O-million plan was announced
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        Lock icon Full steam ahead
        18 2 Participants of the Singapore Biathlon, held at Sentosa yesterday, starting their 1.5-km swim. Mike Lee
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      377 3 I CAFE CANAVERAL After some embarrassment when they dropped important equipment, two spacewalking astronauts Jim Voss and Susan Helms successfully rerouted cables outside the International Space Station. PARIS French voters went to the polls in 36,000 municipalities, including Paris, which President Jacques Chirac’s right-wing RPR looks set to
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      Lock icon Gus Dur may have to shelve fuel price hike
      226 3 Wires JAKARTA It was an abrupt fuel price increase in the last days of the former President Suharto’s regime that triggered riots which hastened his downfall in 1998. Now, President Abdurrahman Wahid’s government has to face the fuel price question. A
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      Lock icon Ex-health chief to succeed Mori?
      366 3 LDP grassroots leaders pick reformist Koizumi Wires TOKYO Junichiro Koizumi is the man the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s grassroots leaders want as Japan’s next prime minister. He was ranked the popular choice by the Yomiuri Shimbun daily, which asked local LDP prefectural leaders to name
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    • Eyeball FOOTS
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        Lock icon Some universities are fake
        1342 4  -  They’re unaccredited and offer degrees if the price is right By Uyen Vu uyen@sph.com.sg CHRISTOPHER YEH can’t keep track anymore of the number of times people have offered him a PhD for a few thousand dollars. As a hobby, the 35-year-old technical consultant has been writing
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      Lock icon You know you’ve stumbled onto a degree mill if...
      328 5  -  Paul Eric Roca IThe degree it offers can be earned in less time than at a traditional college. 2 Its list of accrediting agencies may sound a bit too impressive, and the accrediting agencies aren’t recognised by the US Department of
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      Lock icon Students’ get credits for life experience
      308 5 HOW easy is it to buy a degree? Just sign a cheque for US$l,9OO (553,325) and one will be in your hands in two weeks, said Michelle Sherman, self-described registrar of Shelbourne University, reportedly located in Ireland. “The way we work is, we give
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      706 5 AWARD-WINNING entrepreneur Kenny Yap, 36, thought it was an honour that someone considered him qualified for a doctoral degree based on his proven successes. With the favourable press coverage he had received as executive director of listed company Qian Hu Fish Farm, Yap caught the attention
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    • Singapore
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        835 6 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Dr Tony Tan visited the Republic of Singapore Navy's new Changi Naval Base on Saturday. EUGENE WEE (eugenew@sph.com.sg) takes you on a tour of the base, which will be one of the most modern ever built by the Singapore
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    • The World
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        457 7 PROJECTS DESIGNED FOR NON-SPECIALISTS NYT NEW YORK The WWW needs you! Exit the chatroom and join the new online social circle volunteer work. You can choose from labelling craters on Mars, teaching common sense to a computer, and helping maintain the most comprehensive directory of
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        Lock icon Eye-catching protest
        35 7 Zapatista supporters waiting under a banner before a rally in Xochimilco on Saturday. The rebels arrived in downtown Mexico City yesterday after a 15-day march to Mexico’s capital to demand Indian rights. Reuters
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        Lock icon Catch top dons live on the Net
        421 7 Founders of website aim to revolutionise study methods LONDON You don’t have to be in Oxford or Harvard to hear star lecturers like biologist Richard Dawkins and historian Niall Ferguson. Twelve of the world’s leading academic minds are now being made available to
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        192 7 LONDON Downing Street intervened to help a Middle-East arms dealer with a plan to build a business school at Oxford University that required the demolition of a Victorian building. The Prime Minister’s Office helped to smooth the way for the controversial building of the business
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        Lock icon Five killed in M’sian clashes
        985 8 37 injured and 153 arrested; situation now under control, say police Wires KUALA LUMPUR Riot police with shields and batons and backed by trucks mounted with water cannons fanned out across the suburbs yesterday as the death toll from four days of ethnic violence rose
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    • Science
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        Lock icon The heat is on
        1035 9 Global warming already doing damage Sources: BBC. EPA. ENN, NCDC Salon FOR the last 20 years, on average, the red-chested cardinal has made its singing debut at the Leopold Memorial Reserve in Baraboo, Wisconsin, the United States on Feb 8. This year, biologists recorded its first
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon RadioActive comes alive
        394 10 Web-radio scanner allows song downloads, but not sharing Lat-Wp IT’S no secret that the music industry hates Napster. But how will it feel about Radio Active? Radio Active is just one of what is almost certain to be a swarm of Web-based services aiming to satisfy users’
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        Lock icon Coconuts fuel green hopes
        111 10 Village primary school teacher and coconut farmer Kitti Maneesrikul, 53, has developed, on his farm in Samut Songkram, Thailand, a clean and cheap fuel from used coconut oil which can be used by cars, trucks and industrial engines. After using it for cooking, Kitti filters the
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        354 10  - 3G Games, Guys and Gals BUSINESS APPS WILL CATCH ON LATER Steven Ng TRADING shares from a bus. Checking e-mail at the pool. Will these apps power the 3G world? Not quite, says David Singer, executive vice-president of Gravitate Inc, a Silicon Valley-based mobile platform developer. People want cute first
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    • Business
      • Personal FINANCE
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          Lock icon Money to dress up the home
          1057 11  -  All major banks offer renovation loans up to $30,000 at competitive rates By Gail Aw local@eyeball.com.sg SO YOU’VE made the down payment on your dream home, but now you’re short of cash to do it up. This is when a renovation loan comes in
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      • Generation NEXT
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          Lock icon Killing us softly...
          648 14  -  By Fiona Voon teens@sph.com.sg REMEMBER The New Kids On The Block? They were such a phenomenon, staggering out onto the world stage, blinking from the neon glare of their own outfits. Now, we have Al, Plus One, ’NSync, Westlife and the Backstreet Boys all tottering around trying
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      • Article
        Lock icon Net BUZZ
        168 14 CREATIVE or not, boybands make money lots and lots of it. That means that music publishers have to spend more on creative bands, who do not initially make a high amount of cash to make them financially viable. POP SLUT at rec.music.funky RECORD firms haven’t changed since the
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      • Wry TECH
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          Lock icon Building the smarter bimbo
          725 15  -  By John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg I HOPE you are not tired of the whole Miss Universe controversy yet, because no argument is done until the tech guy (me) weighs in. Hey, I don’t make the rules, okay? On one side, we have the smart, very attractive demi-gods
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      • Article
        Lock icon CHOICE BREWS
        87 15 WHEN it comes to beer, what whets your palate? 33% Yeast and fermented barley? Ugh, pass me a Ribena! 25% It’s not what I drink, but how much. Make mine a cheap canned Tiger. 23% I’m a hip cosmopolitan, so it’s imported ales for me. 9% I’m a
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      59 2 News organisations, in their bid to outdo each other, may resort to yellow journalism. This fear was raised by several MPs in Parliament on Friday. Are news organisations here going too far with sensationalism? Tell us at htt]K//eyeball-asial.com.sg Also, read excerpts of speeches on the issue made by MPs and
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      31 2 Qood morning! 4 Showers with thunder in the late morning and afternoon mainly over northern, eastern and western Singapore. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 12.56AM/2.8M 12.58PM/3.2M Met Service: http:/ /www.gov.sg/metsin
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      24 4 Follow these links for more information on degree mills and distance education: http://homel.paciric.net.sg/-chrisyeh/ degmill.htm Christopher Yeh’s degree mill page. http://www.degree.net/ Tohn Bear’s Degree Net.
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      34 6 Want to find out more about the new Changi Naval Base? Take Eyeball’s exclusive tour at http://eyebalLasial.com.sg You can also watch a video of what Dr Tony Tan had to say about the base.
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      43 7 Become an armchair volunteer.and a patron of the World Wide Web with these organisations: http://clickworkers.arc. nasa.gov/top Help Nasa identify craters on Mars. http://www.openmind.org/ index.shtml The Open Mind Initiative wants to develop intelligent software. http://www.mindpixel.com Teach computers to be human by creating a mindpixel.
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      53 10 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET 2 i THE TRASH? Jy WOW, I'M GIAU THAT NIOHT'S OVER! D~ yeAH. some on. itL HELP you. ICK sa 1 *5 WE STILL SOT WmpW&m THE TRASH TO TAKE OUT. SS SPENOER, THERE'S STUFF W THERE PEOPLE HAVE EATEN! THERE, TOO, BUT I TAKE
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      39 11 For more on the different renovation loan packages: DBS http://www.dbs.com/ personal/loans/personal/ renoassist.shtml OUB http://wwwl.oub.com.sg/ servlet/psweb?ut=myoub/ pages/main.jsp&UlO Personal&rd=Product UOB http://www.uob.com.sg/ i loa homeßenovation.asp Standard Chartered http://www.standard chartered.com.sg/cb/loan/ hil main.htm HSBC http://www.hsbc.com.sg/ sg/product/1 renov.htm Keppel Tat Lee http://www.keppelbank. com.sg/ cgi-bin/inetcgi/ scripts/info/loans/pc.isp?
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      236 12 We are blessed to be the parents of a set of beautiful twins, Judah and Isaiah. David Pang A With the grace of God, we were blessed with a baby boy on 25th May 2000. Dear friends and relatives, love "Nirat" little, but love him longer. Simran Jeetan Rajpal Hurray!
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      217 13 I'm Alistair Tan. I'm 5 months old and Bkg. Looking at me now, you wouldn't believe that was a pre-mature baby when I arrived on 12 Sept 2000. Cute cuddly, full of charms and custom-made to fit our arms! Yuki Lee Jiawen, weight B.lkg, length 76cm... the proud parents are
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      37 14 Love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t escape the bubblegum sound ofboy bands on the airwaves. Are you sick of processed and hyped pop bands? What do you think of their “manufactured sound”? Tell us at httpV/eyeforam^sialxom.sg
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  • EyeSport
    • Article
      Lock icon Still slow sales for M’sia F1
      501 16 No live local telecast to boost sales AFP KUALA LUMPUR The confidence has evaporated and alarm bells are ringing loud and clear. With just six days to the Malaysian Grand Prix, only a worrying 32 per cent of tickets have been sold. “We sold
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        29 16 BRUSSELS Belgian champion Anderlecht inched closer to retaining its title yesterday, when Walter Baseggio scored the only goal in the 19th minute against Belgian Cup holder Genk.
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        Lock icon Double whammy
        38 16 MADRID Waiter Pandiani and Diego Tristan each struck twice to give Deportivo Coruna a 4-1 win at home to Numancia on Saturday. Other Primera Liga matches: Athletic Bilbao drew 1-1 with Villarreal; Valencia beat Osasuna 1-0.
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        Lock icon Ganz saves the day
        27 16 ROME Veteran forward Maurizio Ganz’s superb overhead kick gave Atalanta a 1-1 draw with AC Milan in the Italian first division on Saturday.
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        Lock icon Bayern Munich leads
        30 16 MUNICH Bayern Munich regained the German first division lead from Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. Bayern beat Energie Cottbus 2-0 to regain the top spot in the rankings.
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        56 16 Reuters LONDON-The British newspaper The Observer quoted Uefa chief executive Gerhard Aigner as saying that he wanted clubs to play no more than five imports, as well as measures to ensure that a team included players produced by the club. He also wanted a special EU exemption
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      Lock icon Last-minute Web recruit steals the show
      428 16 ESSANOH SHOCKS LEICESTER Wires MAYBE S-League clubs or the Football Association of Singapore could take a pointer from struggling English Second Division side Wycombe Wanderers. Short of players or strikers? Easy. Just advertise on the Internet or Teletext. That’s what Wycombe manager Lawrie Sanchez
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Guga is top player
        76 17 AFP INDIAN WELLS (California) Brazil’s Gustavo Kuerten’s rise to world number one last year with five titles has earned him the award as top tennis player of2ooo on the ATP Tour. The 24-year-old “Guga”, who finished atop the points table in the season-long Champions race last
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        Lock icon Parnevik leads
        101 17 Reuters CORAL SPRINGS (Florida) Jesper Parnevik said he is as comfortable in the lead as he is wearing some of his wild-looking outfits. That’s why his chip-in birdie on the final hole on Saturday may prove to be crucial. His brilliant parting shot from the greenside rough capped
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        Lock icon Mosley wins again
        78 17 AP LAS VEGAS Shane Mosley was too fast, too strong and too much for Shannan Taylor on Saturday night. He knocked Taylor down in the first round and punished the Australian with a dazzling array of punches before the fight was stopped -by referee Vic Drakulich on
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      Lock icon CRUX OF THE PROBLEM
      121 17 “WHETHER we do well each night often depends on what we focus on,” Rick Fox said. In other words, the Lakers are distracted, and you know why. The role players sometimes stand there watching what the rest of us watch. It’s all about Bryant and O’Neal.
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      Lock icon Play your roles, Lakers
      491 17 Support players must pull up socks if LA’s to defend title Lat-Wp LOS ANGELES They’re supposed to be turning it on. Instead, with the fourth and most important quarter of the regular season remaining, the Los Angeles Lakers simply don’t feel right. Whatever it is, it’s
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      188 17 NBA: Okay, so he isn’t exactly the star that kids associate with basketball. But give Grant Hill one good season in a good system Orlando and he will show you just what he’s capable of doing. Hill’s out after ankle surgery. But the Magic are hobbling on. To
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  • Unwind
    • The Tube
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        Lock icon Awards shows OVERLOAD!
        1302 18  -  Cox News Service With almost 50 on the tube, award shows make fab viewing fodder. KEVIN D THOMPSON delves into the truth about this winning game. GO AHEAD, turn on your TV. Change the channel. Chances are a well-known actor or musician is receiving an award right
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      • Eyeballing Television
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          Lock icon Great apes
          569 20 Blending a timeless tale and celebrated characters, Hallmark’s new two-part TV movie The Monkey King rises above the usual period epics of gods and monsters with its chinois chic. -TBAMiyf aptt! tam (jeanm@sph.com.sg) checks out these raiders of lost Chinese lore. AS A child, I loved to watch
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        Lock icon JOURNEY TO THE WEST
        157 20 THE Monkey King is based on the famous 500-year-old Chinese novel Journey To The West. In Hallmark’s revisionist version, Nick Orton, played by Thomas Gibson, is the “chosen one” the Scholar From Above. He descends into a mythical underworld to rescue the manuscript of Journey To
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    • Books
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        Lock icon Keep this book a secret
        989 21  -  Angelica Tan NYT Publishers don’t want details about their books leaked out before they reach the shelves, sometimes just to create a bit of hush-hush hype. EWYORKEmbargo. Yes, once again, the word rises from a publisher, resurrecting questions of just what is gained from hiding
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        Lock icon Melts in the mouth
        678 22  -  Reviews by Clara Chow CHOCOLAT Joanne Harris (Black Swan) $18.03 HE movie’s out, and it T stars thesps like Juliette Binoche and Judi Dench, so you know the book is worth a read. But it’s not just another sensual ode to food. For the uninitiated, the
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        Lock icon QUICK PICKS
        265 22  -  Clara Chow THE DARWIN AWARDS Wendy Northcutt (Dutton) THEY’VE made a book from the cult website which celebrates “individuals who ensure the long-term survival of our species by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion”. Many of the entries are guffaw-out-loud gems, like the
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        959 23 A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS Dave Eggers (Simon Schuster) SOME titles are magic. They confer a sheen of glamour, wit and worth to the book cover they grace, instantly transforming a publishing dud into a stud. In Eggers’ edition, it takes about three days to read the
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      • Book MARKS
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          Lock icon Reinstating Marlowe
          88 23 A CAMPAIGN is under way to get 16th-century dramatist Christopher Marlowe commemorated in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner. Fronted by the Marlowe Society, it seeks to redress the omission of Dr Faustus’ creator from the ranks of Britain’s great poets. But the greatest obstacle in the campaigners’ way is
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          Lock icon High drama
          48 23 NEW forensic evidence is suggesting that Shakespeare might not be all that squeaky clean. Two of the 24 pipes found in his home at Stratford Upon Avon bore traces of cocaine, reported The Times. Others had traces of myristic acid, a hallucinogenic, and traces of cannabis.
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          Lock icon Real spy intrigues
          79 23 THE hottest books these days are on espionage. Recently exposed spy Robert Philip Hanssen is the subject of at least two books thatare in progress. Time magazine correspondents Elaine Shannon and Ann Blackman are working on The Three Worlds Of Doctor Death (Little, Brown), a look at
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          Lock icon Nairobi’s not amused
          69 23  -  Clara Chow BRITISH author John Le Carre’s latest thriller, The Constant Gardener, is not very popular in the very country it is set in. Kenyan book-sellers have been pulling Le Carre’s book, which portrays their government in a negative light, from shelves. Last August, two shops were
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      264 20 MUST-SEE TV: THIS WEEK’S TOP PICKS Series George Wallace Wednesday, Thursday Midnight Arts Central THIS two-parter is an intriguing Emmy-winning saga about Alabama governor George Wallace’s rise and fall during the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. Anyone remember his notoriously racist motto “Segregation now, segregation forever”? Stars Gary
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  • The Back Page
    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Survivor extended one extra week
        74 24 HOLD on to your seats for one more week, Survivor addicts. The series’ finale has been moved back to May 3 by CBS to push its stakes further into sweeps —a key period when ratings data are used to compute advertising rates. CBS will stretch
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        143 24 Wires The actress, model and pro volleyball star cited those dreaded irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split with Laird Hamilton in her divorce petition filed last week in Los Angeles. The couple married in November 1997 and have no children... Ricky Martin may lend his vocals to
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      Lock icon Seinfeld kicks former sidekicks while they’re down
      117 24 JERRY SEINFELD (left), e whilst making the rounds It at various New York comedy clubs, doesn’t seem to care for his former co-stars. When asked about a possible Seinfeld comeback, The New York Post reported he’d quipped: “Yes, when all of our careers
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      64 24 Toko Ono, conceptual artist and the widow of John Lennon, feeling her way through a plexiglass labyrinth of one of her works, titled AMAZE, on Friday at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis. Yes Yoko Ono, the retrospective of her paintings, sculpture, music and memorabilia of her peace efforts
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      Lock icon Chat & Mouse
      336 24 Chat Mouse My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I couldn’t concentrate and got canned. Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I couldn’t hack it, so they gave me the axe. After that I tried to be a tailor, but I wasn’t
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