Project Eyeball, 13 March 2001

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  • Title Section
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    11 1 Projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Tuesday, March 13, 2001 80 CENTS
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      477 1 BUTT SMELLING That, and some of the other crazy things that you can and will do as a parent. See Page 16 RELEASE YOUR INNER ***** It comes naturally to women, says Jane Wan, though men showed they could claw as good as the ladies during Bash Beauty Contestants Week.
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      96 2 SAVING the kiwi would be easier if people were allowed to eat the threatened bird species, claims an Australian conservationist. Although New Zealand has a multi-million-dollar fund to save its national bird, Dr John Wamsley who runs the privately owned Environmental Sanctuaries thinks families should tuck into a Sunday
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    • Article
      Lock icon Public speaking for beauty queens
      195 2  -  TOASTMASTERS OFFER TO TRAIN CONTESTANTS Serene Goh HEAR ye, hear ye. In the wake of the much criticised Miss Singapore Universe pageant 2001 comes some relief. The Orchard Toastmasters Club has volunteered to train contestants as part of its community service. Philip Kwang, founder president
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      Lock icon Photos don’t reflect women
      395 2  -  Lack of images depicting professional success By Zubaidah Nazeer zubaidah@sph.com.sg IF A picture tells a thousand words, then it’s not very eloquent about Singaporean women’s professional progress. Statistics show a 6 per cent increase in female technicians and associate professionals between 1989 to 1999, but the
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    • Eyeball NEWS
      • Article
        Lock icon Space-law experts from Singapore?
        87 2 WHILE Singapore may not launch its own rockets, it may be able to offer legal and financial expertise for outer-space activities, said Attorney-General of Singapore Chan Sek Keong during his opening speech at the Space Law Conference 2001 yesterday. Organised by the Society of International Law,
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      • Article
        Lock icon ‘Be contributors, not consumers’
        86 2 MINISTER of State for Defence and Information and the Arts David Lim said that perhaps the reason that some young Singaporeans didn’t know what it means to be Singaporean was that they are consuming the opportunities created by previous generations. But he’s convinced things will change.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Head of Think Centre quits
        69 2 JAMES GOMEZ is stepping down as executive director of the Think Centre but has stayed mum on whether he will contest the upcoming General Election, saying that he wants to keep his options open. Gomez, who has headed the Think Centre since he set it
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      248 3 RERUN Air France has tentatively agreed to a compensation package worth £330,000 (*****,223) for the bereaved families of each of 96 German passengers who died in last year’s Concorde crash. KABUL Taleban Information Minister Qudratullah Jamal ruled out any compromise with scholars from the world’s largest Islamic organisation
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      Lock icon Harvard appoints Summers as president
      408 3 Could signal move away from fund-raisers heading Ivy League varsities NEW YORK It’s the return of the native in more ways than one. The appointment of Lawrence H Summers who was former President Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary as Harvard’s 27th president yesterday returns a Harvard
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      Lock icon Greeneville sub officers plan to blame the crew
      180 3 COLLISION Lat-Wp PEARL HARBOR (Hawaii) The defence strategy for three officers responsible for a US submarine that collided with and sank a Japanese trawler, may be to push the blame to the rest of the crew. According to a Navy spokesman, the
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon You can’t touch money at an e-bank
        1245 5  -  Old attitudes, dearth of value-added services hobble Net banking By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg LOWER costs, no queues, 24/7 access to your account. That was the promise of stand-alone Internet banks one year ago. With much fanfare, major local banks like OCBC Bank and
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    • Budget Debate
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        Lock icon Things you should know from the House today
        299 4 1YOU could informally call her the First Lady, but the President’s wife would prefer to be called Mrs Nathan. This is so as not to create the impression that she is holding an official position. Replying to NonConstituency MP, J B Jeyaretnam,
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        Lock icon Announcement centres off-limits to partisans
        338 4  -  This is to avoid tension similar to the Bishan-ITE contest in the last election By Tamil Selvan And Sue-Ann Chia tselvan@sph.com.sg sueann@sph.com.sg THE tension during the last elections at Bishan-ITE where the closely fought Cheng San GRC results were announced would soon be a thing
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        Lock icon MAS plans to expand banking services
        343 4 YOU may soon be doing your banking while buying groceries at the supermarket or while posting your parcel at the post office. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) plans to approve such “limited-purpose branches”. Banks can arrange to use these premises and their staff
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      • Article
        Lock icon GLCs help keep foreign firms at bay, says Hu
        197 4 IT’S the same persistent question: Are Government-linked companies (GLCs) good for the economy or are they crowding out smaller businesses? The problem boils down to a matter of perception. Size, it seems, does matter. Being bigger compared to small and medium
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Can you stomach it?
        741 6  -  Despite efforts to dissuade diners, very few would do without Life without shark s fins... By Denyse Yeo And Joanna Lim denyse@sph.com.sg joanna@sph.com.sg JUST how ready are Singaporeans to just say no to shark’s fins? Well, one couple that recently got married did, though at great
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        Lock icon Life without shark's fins... Campaign against finning to start with the young
        228 6 THE campaign to consume less shark’s fin is back, with a new target. This time, it’s aimed mainly at schools and restaurants. The drive, headed by Asian Geographic magazine and Wild Aid, along with partners like Discovery Channel
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    • Health
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          Lock icon If a cyst is removed, does the ovary go, too?
          536 7 Dear Dr Chen: I am 29 years old and have had several ovarian cysts, two of which had to be surgically removed. Lately, I have discovered that my remaining ovary has another cyst. My question is: What is the difference
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          Lock icon Fruit could fix sperm defects
          325 7 An antioxidant found in some fruit helped boost sperm in Indian trial LONDON It’s not just “fertile” imagination: Fruit can actually help boost sperm count, say researchers in India. They have discovered that an antioxidant lycopene found in watermelons, grapes, tomatoes and shellfish can help
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          Lock icon New test to see if sperm are spiffy enough
          269 7 OREGON The sperm count is “healthy”, but there are still no signs of conception. In many such cases, doctors can’t really explain why someone is infertile. So a joint team of US and Japanese researchers has come up with a new
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Amien says Gus Dur must go
        372 8 Security minister also issues worried warning, but Indonesian President remains adamant Wires JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid’s staunchest critic and National Assembly speaker Amien Rais yesterday joined the chorus of voices asking the President to resign. Along with a busload of other legislators, he mingled
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        Lock icon Rumour-mongers warned
        403 8 K.L. CLASH TOLL SIX, 23 MORE ARRESTED Wires KUALA LUMPUR Twenty-three more people with knives and explosives were arrested yesterday in a suburb of the capital, as the official death toll from Malaysia’s worst ethnic bloodshed in three decades rose to six. Police said a sixth man died
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        Lock icon Just old wine in a new bottle
        619 9 BUSH INC Lat-Wp So what’s different about Bush’s America? The White House has a new flavour the crispness of a blue-chip corporation. But its foreign policy is old hat it only amounts to some tweaking. WASHINGTON Candidate George W Bush had promised a
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        Lock icon BUSH RUNNING WHITE HOUSE LIKE A BUSINESS
        466 9 NYT WASHINGTON George W Bush, MBA, is running the White House with the crispness of a blue-chip corporation. In his seven short weeks as President, Bush has transformed how the White House and elements of the sprawling government operate in ways that contrast
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Canada may silence mobiles
        442 10 Government looking into jamming technology but phone industry says it’ll compromise public safety Reuters TORONTO The piercing ring of a mobile phone is enough to send many restaurant and movie patrons into a rage, but Canada’s mobile phone industry is dead against the government forcing etiquette
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        Lock icon M105: Higher-end handheld
        120 10 THE Palm ml05, a higher-end version of the entrylevel mlOO handheld, was launched in Singapore A last week, at a price of $349. It has 8 MB of memory compared with the 2 MB found in its sibling, the $269 mlOO. The ml05 also includes Palm’s mobile
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        Lock icon Palm eyes software to keep lead in sales
        381 10 LUCRATIVE CORPORATE MARKET Reuters NEW YORK Having dominated the consumer market with its pock-et-sized hardware, Palm is betting on software to help it grab the lucrative corporate market for handheld personal devices. With some 11 million units sold, California-based Palm claims over
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        Lock icon Gamers to gain rank and respect
        499 11 Local firm plans to give pro gaming in S’pore a boost IT’S a bit like creating order from chaos, and giving gamers a little bit of respectability. Local firm Slangg International intends to establish the gaming equivalent of the English Premier League for local
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        Lock icon Internet poster boys try to smile through their tears
        512 11 SILICON SUMMTT II NEW YORK It isn’t easy being an Internet billionaire. Just ask Jeff Bezos. “The last year, I think, has been a brutal one in every way,” the chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of struggling online retailer Amazon.com
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    • Business
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        Lock icon US market slide makes STI hit the skids
        651 13  -  Tech and bank stocks badly mauled By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg THE bears clawed the bulls across the Singapore market yesterday. The key Straits Times Index (STI) ended at a five-month low yesterday after the Nasdaq and Dow tumbled on Friday, as fund
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        Lock icon Amazon founder could face investigation
        310 13 SUSPICION OF INSIDER TRADING NEW YORK Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of the Internet retail giant Amazon.com could face investigation over insider trading, according to The Times of London. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly looking at share sales made by Bezos
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon SingTel’s new bid?
          51 13 THE stake for Australia’s second largest telco Cable Wireless Optus is apparently up, to $15.6 billion, for > Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel). Optus began assessing takeover offers yesterday, after receiving revised bids from “all interested parties”, including New Zealand’s Telecom Corporation and Vodafone Pacific. Sing Tel has
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          Lock icon Up’s 2nd tranche
          58 13 DBS ASSET MANAGEMENT (DBSAM) yesterday launched the second tranche of Up -a unit trust offeringinvestors minimum guaranteed returns of up to 3 per cent depending on the tenure, and a guarantee of principal. They can pick tenures of five to seven years and, according to DBSAM, can
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          Lock icon Tung Lok goes IPO
          74 13 TUNG LOK RESTAURANTS has launched an initial public offering (IPO) of 20 million shares at 23 cents each. It comprised a retail tranche of two million shares and a placement tranche of 18 million shares, of which three million shares are reserved for staff and business
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          Lock icon Possible snub
          71 13 SINGAPORE’S auction of the financial district’s Marina Boulevard site may draw a blank with developers, deterred by costs which could run to more than $1 billion even as they face a slowing economy, some analysts said. If this happens, it would be the second snub for the waterfront
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          Lock icon Clarification
          36 13 IN YESTERDAY’S article, “Money to dress up the home”, we listed Standard Chartered’s income criteria for sole applicants as $15,000 per month. It should have read as $1,500 a month. We apologise for the error.
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    • Mailbox
      • Expat EYE
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          Lock icon A bit of Singapura Americana
          885 14  -  By Rand Miranda rand@sph.com.sg AFTER my first week of living in Singapore last May, I broke down. No, it wasn’t tears, but after looking for a home, visiting my dog in quarantine, and trying to adjust to the heat, I figured I deserved a treat.
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        Lock icon The smell of parenthood
        755 15  -  By Dave Barry Miami Herald SOMETIMES people ask me: “Dave, what is the essence of parenthood?” I always answer: “Lowering your standards.” For example, I was recently in a restaurant, having a bite to eat with my brother-in-law, Steve. And when I say “having a bite
        – Miami Herald; Paul Eric Roca  -  755 words
      • Article
        Lock icon CREATING INTELLIGENCE
        74 15 SINGAPORE will be an intelligent island... 41% When our education system can produce creators, not clones. 26% -As soon as we deport all Miss Singapore contestants. 22% Once we have fast, cheap broadband connections for everyone. 6% When I can book tickets, pay for parking and order dinner
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      25 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder over many areas in the afternoon and early evening. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 1.24AM/2.8M 1.45PM/3.0M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      43 6 Witness the cruel process of finning, and snippets from the music video Nobody Loves You, at httpV/eyebalL asial.com.sg http://www.wildaid. org/Sharks/Threats/ threats intro.html WildAid’s features on the pressing need for shark conservation. http://www. sharkfriends.com/ sharkfmning.html Read more about the cruel practice of shark finning.
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      51 7 http://www.womenshealth.about.com/ health/ womenshealth/ cs/ovariancysts The symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cysts. http://www.gynsecondopinion.com/ OvarianCysts.shtml Read how a sonogram can give a clearer picture of ovarian cysts. Send in your fertility queries to or snail mail them to Project Eyeball, Stork Options, News Centre, Level 6, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore
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      48 9 For more on George W Bush and the world, log on to: http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus. org/ republicanrule/index.html Essays on George W’s foreign policy. http://www.tnr.com/*****1/ iudiso3osol.html Bush’s foreign policy team may be stellar but it is ignorant of the world economy. http://www.foreignrelations.Org/p/pubs/ rice 10-12-00 transcript.html Condoleezza Rice on Bush’s foreign policy.
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon First for Clavet
        62 16 SCOTTSDALE (Arizona) Francisco Clavet of Spain beat Magnus Norman 6-4,6-2 to bag his first career ATP hardcourt title at the Franklin Templeton Tennis Classic on Sunday. The crafty Clavet capped off a week of upsets that saw him oust Andre Agassi and defending champion Lleyton Hewitt. Clavet
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        Lock icon Real on top
        35 16 MADRID Real Madrid re-established its five-point lead at the top of the Spanish first division with a 4-0 demolition of lowly Real Sociedad on Sunday. Archrival Barcelona drew with Real Mallorca 1-1.
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        Lock icon Roma still leads
        39 16 MILAN- AS Roma maintained its six-point lead at the top of Serie A with a 3-1 home win over Brescia. Second-placed Juventus scored a TO win over Reggina, and Lazio suffered a 2-0 defeat at Bologna.
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        Lock icon Freeman doubtful
        43 16 Wires SYDNEY Olympic 400 m champion Cathy Freeman is unlikely to defend her title at the world athletics championships in Edmonton in August. A spokesman denied that the runner was pregnant and said a decision would be made later this week.
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        Lock icon Parnevik wins
        69 17 CORAL SPRINGS (Florida) Jesper Parnevik never got a chance to light his victory cigar on Sunday, but the flamboyant Swede still won his fifth career US PGA Tour title. Despite a bogey on the final hole, Parnevik won the Honda Classic by one stroke after Mark Calcavecchia’s 15-foot
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        Lock icon Sisters move up
        76 17 INDIAN WELLS (California) Venus and Serena Williams rolled into the fourth round of the US$2.O5-million (553.6-million) Tennis Master Series-Indian Wells on Sunday, putting the sisters two wins away from a possible semi-final showdown. Taking the court first, under a bright sun that was tempered by a cool
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        Lock icon IOC loves Toronto
        78 17 Wires TORONTOInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) delegates heaped praise on Toronto’s plans to stage the 2008 Olympics, saying they were impressed with the city’s athlete-oriented focus. It also dismissed detractors who sought to cast a pall on the metro’s squeaky-clean reputation. Members of the lOC technical evaluation team,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Kings hold court
      643 16 Jazz blown away 105-90 by Webber and company AP SACRAMENTO (California) Chris Webber says his hair is in cornrows because he’s a moody person. After his defence tied Karl Malone and the Utah Jazz in knots, Webber’s mood was excellent. Peja Stojakovic scored 31 points, and Webber
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      Lock icon INERSON’S INJURY COULD HURT SIXERS’ CHANCES
      347 16 AP BOSTON With everyone focusing on the battle out West, the Philadelphia 76ers served notice that someone had better start paying attention to them by becoming the first NBA team to clinch a playoff spot. The bad news? The 76ers may have lost Allen
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      Lock icon Irvine loves to hate other drivers
      425 17 They’re all tossers, he says In recent interview EDDIE IRVINE has never met a sound bite he didn’t like. Especially when it comes to people like Michael Schumacher and David Coulthard. In a recent interview with the Daily Telegraph, Irvine addressed several issues, including
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      58 17 BASKtVi'BAT.I.: NBA.com’s Mailbox of the Week features Knicks centre and Australia native Luc Longley. Ask Longley the questions you’ve always wanted answered at http://www.nba.com/ chat_and_ mailboxes/mailbox_l ongley_*****6.html? nav=ArticleList FORMULA 1: Can’t wait till the next Grand Prix? While away the time between races with the latest Juan Pablo
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      Lock icon Great result but lapses almost cost Reds
      415 17 F.A CUP Q-FINAL Wires LONDON It was a great result, but Liverpool boss Frenchman Gerard Houllier admitted that his side’s lapses in concentration nearly proved costly. “It was a banana skin, but there was no upset, we were determined to avoid that,” said
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  • Unwind
    • Fashion
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        Lock icon SKIN FLICKS
        876 18 The environment is one likely reason why your skin will never be as flawless as your great-grandmothers. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) explores the phenomenon of ‘city skin. WHY watch a horror movie when the environment’s effect on your skin is already a real-life horror story, starring you? The world
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        Lock icon SKIN SAVERS: PROTECT YOURSELF
        330 19  -  June Wan MOST cosmetic companies now have skin-care lines which aim to stave off the effects of the environment on skin. Among the latest to launch new lines are Dermalogica and Biotherm. Dermalogica’s Environment Control System (ECS) is supposed to work in a three-step programme to
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        Lock icon Subtle chic, not fleshy eyesores
        590 20 The stars all assembled at the Screen Actors Quild Awards, but where was the flesh parade? asks JEAMMARTR TAM (jeanm@sph.com.sg). S OSCAR-FEVER and its posturings pick up speed, celebrities have toned down the flesh parade. At yesterday’s 7th Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG), plunging necklines
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        Lock icon Show some skin
        579 21 NYT Leather is the garment in vogue for a lot of designer collections this season. ROBERT JANJIGIAN hides out at the catwalks. EW YORK-There is something about leather. It’s become a staple along Seventh Avenue. In collection after collection for the fall season ahead, leather garments abound
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      • Fashion LOG
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          Lock icon Louis Vuitton goes wild
          91 21 LOUIS VUITTON’S Damier Sauvage (French for “wild”) is this year’s look to covet. The rare leather is raw and natural, but retains a soft look with a small chequerboard print. Already in LV stores at The Hilton Shopping Gallery, Ngee Ann City and Raffles Hotel Shopping
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          Lock icon Ng Eng Teng wins Montblanc award
          161 21 commitment to the arts above and beyond the ordinary, and encourages others to do the same. Dr Ng has contributed over 900 sculptures, paintings and works to the National University of Singapore since 1997. He was a pioneer in visual arts in Singapore in
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          Lock icon Sunnyside up with Max Azria
          67 21 SUNSHINE plays havoc on all minds, even designers are not immune. At BCBG Max Azria, Spring/Summer 2001 is looking like a fun frolic. Floppy hats top off pantsuits and strappy dresses alike, the colour pink is taken from girly to flirty. Karate gi -style belts
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          Lock icon Burberry book’s got the look
          115 21  -  June Wan LAST year, Burberry went beyond the trench and put a bikini on models. This year, the classic Brit brand accelerates further up the road to contemporary chic. Its Spring/Summer 2001 collection look book is cleverly done as a collection of 14 black and
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    • Gender
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        Lock icon Read’em and grunt
        738 22 Lat-Wp Male magazines tell us everything from how to dress to where to have sex to what's it like to be a “real” man. ROB HIAASEN flips through them to find out what adventures in print are in store for his comrades in gender. EN are in
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        Lock icon MANLY WISDOM
        128 22 Maxim, September 2000 “The best thing about cooking outdoors: a campfire. It’s a hell of a lot simpler to work than that programmable microwave your mother gave you.” Men’s Health, April 2000 “Is it so wrong to judge something solely on its looks? To see a bottle of
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      • Gender BENDERS
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          Lock icon No nooky in Iran
          122 23 THE weather may be glorious and cold. But do noi under any circumstances, give in to carnal desires on the ski slopes of Teheran in Iran. The mountains are patrolled by police who will arrest you for breaking Islamic law if you should be caught doing
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          Lock icon The rats have it
          121 23 SCIENTISTS have long tried to find a sexually friendly material that will kill germs without damaging the genitals. According to salon.com, a group of Chinese scientists might just have found the key inside a rat’s testicle. The journal Science reported that a team from Shanghai’s Chinese
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          Lock icon Cover up
          65 23  -  June Wan COVER up the next time you hit the gym. Research from the Department of Sports Medicine at Saint Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine found that skin exposed to air-conditioning results in muscles getting tired faster. The research, reported Men’s Health magazine, showed that
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      • Venus & MARS
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          Lock icon Scratch that inner *****
          716 23 Anyone can be a *****, as last week's debate over the Miss Singapore/Universe pageant proved, says JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg). QN THE good old days when Neanderthals ruled the world, nobody was a *****. If someone pissed you off, all you had to do was club them
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      993 24 got to be connected iDA SINGAPORE ecelebrationsingapore Too Old for IT? Never! A week ago, Grandpa Ang was just your typical chess-playing, bird-watching grandfather, usually to be found either at the neighbourhood coffeeshop or at the senior citizens’ comer in his HDB block. These days, he is far more likely
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