Project Eyeball, 14 March 2001

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    11 1 Projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Wednesday, March 14, 2001 80 CENTS
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      412 1 Cairo’s calling See Pages 18-19 IT NEW AND IMPROVED They’re young, energetic and they sound like CEOs. They’re the new-breed principals. See Pages 4-5 6 things you should know today Teens get psychological tests: Dunman Secondary students will go through character profiling to help parents, teachers and other teenagers understand
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      92 2 HARRY Potter is being credited with a boom in eye tests among children, who are hoping they’ll have to wear glasses like their magical hero. Henry Churchill, director of Cambridge’s Specsavers Opticians, said Potter has helped remove the stigma of wearing glasses. “Harry Potter is a role model for
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      418 2  -  Sec 3 students in Pasir Ris to have their characters assessed, says MP Ong By Sonny Phua sonnyp@sph.com.sg COME May, students at Dunman Secondary in Pasir Ris South will have their characters profiled. The exercise called the Thumbs Up Profile is to enable parents, teachers
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    • Article
      Lock icon Leave your car at home on April 19
      237 2  -  CAR-FREE DAY Toh Bee Ping TRY cycling or public transport for a change. The Singapore Environment Council (SEC) has appealed to drivers to think green and leave their cars at home on April 19 Car-Free Day. This is the first time that
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Heart-transplant patient dies
        83 2 KRISHNASAMY CHANDRASEGARAN, Singapore’s second heart-transplant patient, died yesterday morning. He was 45, and had been warded at the Singapore General Hospital since late last year. Chandrasegaran received a new heart in 1991. He was then an operations assistant with the Port of Singapore Authourity. His health started
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        115 2 THE next time you hail a Comfort cab, watch out for the door. That’s because by the end of the month, 50 of its new three-litre Toyota Crown cabs will boast an automatic door, controlled by the driver. This is the taxi company’s latest
        Law Kian Yan  -  115 words
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        77 2 KELONGS and fishing villages may soon become relics. With the launch of the new Marine Fisheries Research Department, Singapore is set to position itself as a regional centre for research, training and information on fisheries technology. Mali Bow Tan, Minister for National Development, said at the
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      328 3 OKLAHOMA CITY Prince Haji Abdul Azim, 18, the son of the Brunei Sultan, underwent a medical procedure to correct a heart condition, known as Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, in which an extra fibre of heart muscle interferes with normal heart rhythm. PARIS France reported its first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease
      Bong Fortin  -  328 words
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      344 3 There’s a small risk of vision loss, says US doctor Reuters NEW YORK Men taking the impotence drug Viagra could suffer permanent vision loss, says a United States ophthalmologist who has personal knowledge of five such cases. The risk is “very small”, said Howard Pomeranz,
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      261 3 FINAL DESCENT OF SPACE STATION SYDNEY Thirty minutes is all the warning Australians will get in case the Mir veers off course. The long-delayed final descent of the dilapidated Russian space station is due to begin between Saturday and March 23,
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
    • Budget Debate
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        287 6 1 GOLF-CRAZY NSmen should count themselves lucky. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan has given his support to build another golf course for them. “Since there is an NSman in virtually every Singaporean household, and since golf is a sport that is
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        267 6 NEW PROPOSALS TO TACKLE PROJECTED POPULATION SIZE BELIEVE it or not, owning a snazzy apartment with a commanding view right smack in the business district is a possibility in the future. That’s because skyscraping Manhattan-style housing is on our urban planners’ drawing boards. National Development Minister
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        Lock icon Ironing out rough spots
        497 6  -  M’sia, S’pore resolving Issues: Jaya By Tamil Selvan AND Sue-Ann Chia tselvan@sph.com.sg sueann@sph.com.sg THINGS have started moving with Malaysia, as the prospect of settling outstanding bilateral issues has taken a step forward. Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has sent a reply on the
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        197 6 A “CALM and measured approach” would be Singapore’s policy in its bilateral relations with Indonesia, despite occasional hiccups, says Prof S Jayakumar. A case in point would be how Singapore reacted to President Abdurrahman Wahid’s outburst last November, when he alleged that Singapore was anti-Malay and that it
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        230 6 SORRY, condominium or private apartment owners, you will not be able to use your CPF savings to upgrade your property a la the main upgrading programme (MUP) for HDB flats. A plea on behalf of such property owners was made in Parliament yesterday by
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Success, but sacrifices, too
        642 7 Their victories are bittersweet. When Eyeball spoke to the two outstanding women honoured by Her World magazine, what came through was how rough the road to success can be. SERENE GOH (sereneg@sph.com.sg) asks them about the tough choices they face. WOMAN OF THE YEAR: JENNIFER LEE
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        Lock icon Retirement on the cards
        346 7 YOUNG ACHIEVER OF THE YEAR; J1NG JPNHONG SHE could have been a doctor or lawyer. She might even have dabbled in graphic designing. “But I chose sports at the end of the day,” said Jing Junhong, Singapore’s Olympic table tennis sensation, in Mandarin. “If I had
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    • The World
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        663 8 US Navy jet killed six officers during night training in Kuwait Wires WASHINGTON A string of possible scenarios could have caused the US military’s worst live-fire training accident to date, say experienced military pilots. The accident happened on Monday night when a Navy F/A-18
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        301 8 TRAWLER TRAGEDY AP PEARL HARBOR (Hawaii) The failure of USS Greeneville Commander Scott Waddle to detect a Japanese trawler through his periscope led to the collision between the two ships, the head of the Pacific Fleet’s submarine force testified yesterday. “This is the
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        652 9 To ensure security, not to grab power Wires JAKARTA Indonesia’s army is ready to step in to take control of security from the police if the country descends into chaos. In an interview with The Jakarta Post, Army chief of staff General Endriartono
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        Lock icon Tensions remain in race-sensitive suburbs
        437 9 K.L. RACIAL CLASHES AP TAMAN DESARIA, Kuala Lumpur Only a week ago, such fears would not have been taken seriously. But now many Malaysians are concerned that the lid has come off the simmering ethnic tensions in their country, and that the violence could spread.
        – AP  -  437 words
    • Technology
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        Lock icon Visor Edge set to take on Palm V
        133 10 HANDSPRING has released the the Visor Edge (right), which is Handspring’s extra-thin handheld designed to compete with the sleek, metal-clad Palm V series. The new model has a smaller expansion slot, but can also use modules designed for older Visors through an
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        382 10 MUSIC LABELS GIVE THUMBS UP FOR DATAPLAY Wires NEW YORK Three of the five major music companies Universal, BMG and EMI are throwing their support behind a tiny, recordable disc format to hit stores later this year. Labels see Data Play as away to get ahead
        – Wires; AFP  -  382 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Gnutella hit by PC worm
        492 10 Virus could turn destructive Reuters SAN FRANCISCO Napster fans, looking for an alternative to the embattled Internet musicswopping service, could be in for a viral surprise. Anti-virus experts earlier this week discovered a PC-infecting worm travelling through Gnutella, a system which allows Internet users to
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        Lock icon SEARCH FOR SERVICES NEAR YOU
        240 11 SINGTEL MOBILE’S location-based service, rolled out yesterday, is the first of its kind from a local mobile services provider. To use it, customers dial one of 13 codes to find nearby facilities, such as hospitals. The codes trigger different services. Use *612 for ATMs, *632
        Wang Huifen  -  240 words
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        301 11  -  It’s promising, but not 100% accurate By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg SINGTEL’S new location-based service, launched yesterday and available only for Sing Tel Mobile customers, is a cheap and fast way to search for amenities near you. Eyeball tested this fledgling service, and our
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        Lock icon This baby goes from 0 to 90 in 4 secs
        297 11 ELECTRIC SPORTS CAR LAT SAN DIMAS (California) Going from zero to 90 in 4 seconds is no easy feat, particularly if you’re doing it in an electric car. A San Dimas company has built two prototypes of the T-Zero (right),
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Wall Street slump sends STI into tailspin
        889 13  -  Even bine-chips take a battering By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg IT WAS a bloodbath not witnessed in recent memory. Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) fell again yesterday, badly bruising most stocks. Taking its cue from Wall Street overnight, the index plunged 51.87 points
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon Raising funds
          72 13 CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing said it made a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday to raise up to US$4 billion (Ss7 billion) via bonds or new shares. While the company’s funding requirements were sufficient for this year, funding for its newest fabrication plant, Fab
          Wang Huifen  -  72 words
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          45 13 SINGAPORE-based GES International said its second-half profit exceeded its first-half net profit of $12.09 million. But it warned that full-year growth would fall short of its 20 per cent forecast. Its turnover was $703.61 million for the first six months ended Dec 31,2000.
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          38 13 DBS said yesterday that it raised $70,000 for children’s charity Club Rainbow through its Internet banking promotion conducted in two phases last September and February this year. Some 4,400 customers responded to the online charity drive.
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          Lock icon IPO falls short
          30 13 PEOPLE’S FOOD HOLDINGS’ initial public offering on the Singapore exchange was 0.6 per cent undersubscribed. It offered 142.5 m shares, including 120 new ones, at $0.45 each.
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          Lock icon Let’s answer nature’s call
          924 14  -  By Soh Wen Lin wenlin@brandeis.edu FOR TWO days this past week, all schools in the Boston area were closed due to a snowstorm. Does that mean everyone got stuck indoors? Certainly not. After catching up with work and some much-needed sleep, we raced outside to build
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          Lock icon BOIBAMDS DOIFT LAST
          79 14 Do the bubblegum sounds of boybands delight you? 46% -They ’re like acne, they eventually fade away (thank God!). 22% They ’re such fake ditzy sugarpuffs that they’re an affront to real music. 21% -1 don’t dig them, but they’re harmless teenyboppers. 6% They ’re the cutest,
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      • Eye On The ARTS
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          Lock icon Don’t write off Net effect on art
          768 15  -  By Alvin Pang alvinp@sph.com.sg IT PROMISED a magical new era of instant gratification and world peace, made and later broke fortunes, wrecked reputations, riled authorities and brought strangers together. I’m talking about the Internet, of course. Freeloading, independent-minded Netizens have thumbed their collective
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      23 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder over many areas in the morning. High: 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 1.56AM/2.8M 2.35PM/2.8M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/metsin
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      56 10 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET WAMMA COME TO A PARTY WITH ME AMP MY FRIEMPS? THEY POM'T KMOW THAT: TO THEM YOU'RE JUST AMOTHER UMPEREMPUOYEP TWEMTYSOMETHIMG. WHO MAKES SIX FIGURES A YEAR? A 2. A.M., AFTERv WORK PARTY SPEMcER, I'M MOT BXACTUy OF £ROWP.„ Z EH, IT'S ALL RELATIVE. Nilt
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Montoya against lowering F1 speeds
      644 16  -  Engineers will find ways to get around rules to slow cars, says Williams driver By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg SPEED. That’s what Formula 1 is about, and it should stay that way. And even if the sport’s governing body, FIA, tries to slow the cars down,
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      Lock icon Hans saves necks
      143 16 Using a collar and yoke system made of carbon fibre and Kevlar, the device is attached to the helmet with a series of quick-connect tethers. •The device is worn around the neck and down the front of the shoulders, underneath the safety belts of the shoulder harness.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Prices of race tickets to stay
      122 16 AP KUAEA LUMPUR Despite poor ticket sales, organisers for this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix will not slash prices. But tickets for future races might be cheaper. Many Malaysians have said that ticket prices were too high. The cheapest ones cost RM$lOO (Ss46) and are
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        80 17 Reuters LONDON Dutch striker Dennis Bergkamp will not travel by car to Munich for Arsenal’s Champions League decider with German champions Bayern Munich tomorrow morning. Bergkamp has missed several European matches because of a fear of flying. But the club confirmed that he would not make the trip
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        82 17 Reuters INDIAN WELLS (California) Pete Sampras ended a streak of three straight defeats by beating German David Prinosil on Monday, while Andre Agassi gained a measure of revenge at the Indian Wells Masters Series. Sampras, who had not lost three matches in a row since 1997, won
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        50 17 Reuters MELBOURNE Basketball will be played at the Commonwealth Games for the first time in Melbourne in 2006 but cricket is likely to be ruled out, state officials said yesterday. Basketball will join hockey, netball and seven-a-side rugby as the four team sports at the four-yearly Commonwealth Games.
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      Lock icon Spurs surge ahead
      597 17 With best record in the West, San Antonio could do a 1999 again AP CHARLOTTE (North Carolina) Here come the Spurs. Just like in their last championship season in 1999, San Antonio is making a run at just the right time. And at least one coach believes
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      159 17 NBA: If you ’re a fan of HoopsTV.com, we have sad news. The site, which covered basketball in great detail has shut down. Die-hard fans, however, can hunt down some of its pages by doing a search for it at http://www.google.com You’d better hurry, though. There’s no telling
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  • Unwind
    • Travel
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        1152 18 There ere menv mutes to neeiyete in the Middle I esl s crudest city. Hut the best \eev to L/he eiro is with e rank end e smile. And vou ain count on thel smile hein returned, es PAUL GARWOOD discoccrs. YOU won’t last a month, it’ll
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        Lock icon WALE LIKE AN EGYPTIAN: A GUIDE TO SIGHTS IN AND AROUND CAIRO
        471 19  -  Paul Garwood KHAN EL KHALILI, or the Khan, is one of the oldest Islamic quarters of Cairo. It is a maze of streets filled to the brim with great bargains and expensive baubles. Check out scores of coffee
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        Lock icon Taking Tokyo
        485 20 The gateway to the Land of the Rising Sun will leave you bowing for more. EIM HUI LING (pedas@sph.com.sg) parts the norenfor a peek at the future that lives in the past. Where: Tokyo. History: Formerly a fishing town called Edo. Founded by warlord Dokan Ota who built
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        Lock icon Gourmet’s guide to eating in Penang
        338 20  -  By Angelica Tan tanaw@sph.com.sg PENANG, with its smorgasbord of hawker fare, is a gastronomic adventure for any foodie. Its eclectic marriage of flavours and influences from Chinese, Malay, Indian, Thai and Burmese cuisines make it a melting pot of feisty flavours. Penang laksa is
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      • Travel SHELF
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          90 20 RUGBY fans should make a trip to Hong Kong. The famous Hong Kong Rugby Tens lauded as the best rugby of its kind in Asia will see the elite of the sport competing for the Cup, Plate and Bowl on March 28 and 29.
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          Lock icon Discount for kids at Club Med
          113 20 HERE’S a reason to take a holiday at Club Med’s Cherating, Bali or Ria Bintan resorts with your family children between four and 11 get a $25 discount on each night’s stay. But you can’t send the kids alone they must be accompanied by
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          Lock icon Cheap flight tickets online
          82 20  -  Lim Hui Ling FOR a limited period only, you can travel cheap by logging on to http:// airfares.com.sg Current promotions include Singapore Airlines flights to Cairns from $530, tickets to Sydney from $6BO and seats to London from $9BO. All promotions can be availed of only
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    • Arts
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          57 21 THE curtain goes up on The Necessary Stage’s Freak Sons And Daughters tomorrow at the Drama Centre. It is a new play written and directed by Natalie Hennedige, who has been quite prolific in the past few years. It tells the story of a disabled person and a
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          Lock icon Teach with drama
          66 21 ARTS education gurus John O’Toole (Australia) and David Booth (Canada) will conduct a two-day Theatre Conference, starting tomorrow, to share their experiences on using drama as a teaching tool. Stir the creative impulses of your little ones by signing up for this event organised by NAC Arts
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          Lock icon Stomping Saturday
          43 21 CATCH a glimpse of New Orleans in the 1920 s and wind down to the soothing tunes of jazz from the Singapore Stompers on Saturday. The group is playing at the Clementi Central Food Centre, opposite Block 448. Admission is free.
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          77 21 ALL budding chefs and craft enthusiasts, listen up. You can make money by setting up your own stall at the festival village of the Singapore Arts Festival 2001. The outdoor event will be held at Fort Canning Park from May 31 to June 2. The park will be
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          Lock icon Arts in Australia
          60 21  -  Lim Hui Ling IF YOU have money to spare, why not fly to Australia to catch highlights at the Geelong Performing Arts Centre? This month, the hit from the 2000 Melbourne Festival, The Small Poppies, by Company B Belvoir, tells the story of the struggles of an
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        Lock icon Gaelic spirit
        832 21 It challenged Ireland's self-perception, and broke new ground in theatre there. JUKE WAN junewan@sph.com.sg) explores JM Synge's The Playboy Of The Western World. ID The Playboy Of The Western World help Ireland to gain its independence from Britain? That’s what Richie Welsh, tour director of Gaelic Storm, an
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        Lock icon Serious clowning
        681 22 Slava s Snowshow juxtaposes burlesque and mishap to create a Beckettian universe of tragicomedy. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) discovers that there’s actually some meaning in it. OR any kid in Orel, Pan isolated Russian village, an athlete was the coolest ambition and a ticket out of the small town.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Getting a headstart in arts
        422 22  -  Clara Chow A FIRST-TIME novelist and a fledgling theatre group had a nice surprise sprung on them. By the National Arts Council (NAC), no less. Author Tan Teck Howe and Peel Arts -a 1 1/2 -year-old theatre company had applied for the NAC’s Project Grant,
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    • Living Well
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        Lock icon Splendidly spaced out
        466 23 The owners’ acceptance of unusual, fashion-forward design ideas made this experiment in functional space and colour possible. RAPHIC designers Dyan and Francis G wanted a music and entertainment room to unwind in at the end of the day. Kelvin Bing of Renaissance Designers Planners came up with
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      30 21 JM Synge’s The Playboy Of The Western World is performed by Gaelic Storm tonight at Chijmes Hall at 8 pm. Tickets at $35 available at CalendarONE (Tel: 296 2929) outlets.
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      43 22 Slava’s Snowshow is on at the Kallang Theatre from April 10 to 15. Tickets at $40, $60, $80 and $95 (8 pm, Tuesday to Sunday) and $40, $50, $65 and $80 (2.30 pm, Saturday and Sunday), available at Sistic (348 5555) or http://www.sistic.com
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  • The Bach Page
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      Lock icon Strong, first impressions
      200 24 Karl Ho IN A sweaty and vein-bulging display, 10 bodybuilders erected a 3.7-m balau tree trunk at Practice Performing Arts School’s new office in Jurong East on Sunday. These iron-pumping men from Ultimate Body Impact Gym were brought together by artist Zai Kuning, who has been commissioned
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Julia Roberts man spends time with dictionary
        48 24 COULD Benjamin Bratt. a.k.a. Julia Roberts’ boyfriend, be hinting at something? “God, I just love them,” Bratt told Britain’s Daily Telegraph. “I find pregnant women especially attractive. I love their fecundity.” Fecundity? Has the actor been reading the dictionary between films?
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        138 24 Wires MEL CHISHOLM (left) declares: I’ll always be a Spice Girl, amidst rumours that the girls have split... Christina Aguilera (right) lamenting that she is forced to straighten her hair when her preference is for curly hair. “Image is way overrated,” she said at the same time as when
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      Lock icon Chat & Mouse
      131 24 Chat Mouse BEWARE of the following new computer viruses: CHILD VIRUS: It constantly does annoying things, but is too cute to get rid of. DISNEY VIRUS: Everything in the computer goes Goofy. FREUDIAN VIRUS: Your computer becomes obsessed with its own motherboard, or it becomes very jealous of the size
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