Project Eyeball, 20 March 2001

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  • 11 1 Projecteyeball. eyeball-asial,com,sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Tuesday, March 20, 2001 80 CENTS
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    • 405 1 GRAMMAR TWIST Dave Barry has the answer to what is grammatically wrong with this sentence: “Walking down the street, the sun shone brightly.” See Page 15 PING ABREAST Serene Goh is glad that there’s no end to the number of ways to enhance the bosom’s buddies without surgery. See Page
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      116 2 HOUSEWORK can make people fitter than a gym workout, say German health researchers. For example, cleaning the home is more effective than a session on a running machine. Ironing a load of clothes burns off the calories from a Mars bar. Changing a double-bed’s sheets burns off the effect
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    • 513 2  -  Accounting pros to lecture students By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg GO TO class and get headhunted by your teacher who happens to be a partner in one of the Big Five accounting firms, no less. Come August, this scenario will be played out at
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    • 292 2 Eri Akbar HOP aboard and it’ll save you a trip to see the taxman in person. Over 320 people turned up to file income-tax returns electronically aboard a special bus parked at Lot 1 Choa Chu Kang shopping mall last weekend. The bus,
      – Eri Akbar; Law Kian Yan  -  292 words
    • Eyeball NEWS
      • 87 2 STREAMING audio and video updates of Everest 2001 The Singapore-Latin American Everest Expedition will be available via the Internet. Temasek Polytechnic and the expedition team will attempt the updates using a special light-weight Mobile Earth Station device that will transmit the images, via satellite, to
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    • Article, Illustration
      336 3 I BERLIN The German foreign and defence offices have banned all Microsoft software from their systems, reported the magazine Der Spiegel. They are concerned that the US National Security Agency has “back door” access through Microsoft’s source code and can, therefore, easily read Germany's deepest secrets. PYONGYANG Washington
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    • 471 3 $44-billion network can zoom into any part of the globe Wires WASHINGTON The United States is building a vast new network of powerful spy satellites that will let it zoom into any corner of the globe at any time, reported The Times of London
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    • 260 3 Wires JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid has given his AttorneyGeneral 12 days to act on big corruption cases and “arrest three important people”. Or face dismissal. Or has he? Hours after presidential spokesman Wimar Witoelar went public with that announcement, AttorneyGeneral Marzuki Darusman held
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
      • 1012 4  -  Cut in minimum bid price for 3G licences too little too late in bad tech market By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg A HUGELY techno-savvy population. A high rate of penetration for mobile-phone service-providers. That would have been an ideal scenario to launch the third generation (3G)
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    • Singapore
      • 738 5  -  Natas, Case to address complaints By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THERE’S good news and bad news. The good news is that your holiday travel could be much more affordable than it is now. The bad news is that you’ll have to look out for fly-by-night
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      • 463 5  -  NERS SCHEME STARRS By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg STRAPPED for taxi fare with no Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in sight? Don’t fret. You can now “buy” some instant cash, up to $5O, with your ATM card. The Nets (Network for Electronic Transfers) Cashßack service, launched
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      • 676 6  -  Bill must be flexible, say S’pore expats By G Sivakkumaran gsiva@sph.com.sg THE good news could have been better. That’s what Singaporeans living abroad say about the latest news on overseas voting rights. Getting to vote is indeed great, but why the need for a
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      • 340 6  -  MIXED REACTION AT TALK By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THE DBS auditorium was filled to the brim with people who wanted to know the answer to the milliondollar question. Which is: How to cure cancer? While the answer remains elusive, most of the 500
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    • Health
      • 408 7 UK study looks at the role of astrology DON’T laugh, but researchers in the United Kingdom are conducting a survey to see if infertility treatment is influenced by the stars. And childless women have been invited to participate, reported The Telegraph. Astrologer Pat
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      • Stork OPTIONS
        • 458 7 DEAR Dr Chen: I have a fibroid that is growing and have been told to wait a while before removing it. I read on the Internet that there is a new procedure to remove fibroids without surgery. Can you tell me more about it?
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      • 312 7 CONTRACEPTION THE next wave of contraceptives: bikinis. You read it right. In a not too distant future, you could very well slip on a yellow polka-dot bikini before making whoopee and not fear getting pregnant. That’s not all. A vaccine against pregnancy
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    • The World
      • 573 8 US companies using ranking systems to lay off employees NYT NEW YORK The economic slowdown is turning the performance appraisal system into a workplace version of Survivor. The performance grading system used in happier times to determine pay, incentives and bonus is
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      • 401 8 EMPLOYEES at energy giant Conoco and Ford Motor have taken their companies to court, alleging that rating systems lead to favouritism and discrimination based on age, race and sex. MICROSOFT A LAWSUIT filed last October on behalf of blacks and women said the rating
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      • 540 9 Anti-Mahathir websites shut down KUALA LUMPUR More than 11 reformasi and opposition party websites have not been accessible to surfers since Saturday, reported malaysiakini.com yesterday. Their webmasters are crying foul and say it could be sabotage, with the needle of suspicion pointing towards the government. The common
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      • 316 9 WASHINGTON US President George W Bush might be the most powerful man on the planet, but he has been forced to give up his e-mail rights after lawyers warned him that any future e-mails could be made public and used against him. So the
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    • Technology
      • 362 11 Hanover show will showcase devices that facilitate the mobile office AFP BERLIN The world of high technology will gather in Germany this week for one of the world’s largest expositions of its kind, Cebit. This year, firms will showcase more ways to access the
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      • 207 11 FANCY a drink? Just wave a cash card over this Coke vending machine. A drink will pop out and the price deducted automatically. Shown off at yesterday’s Singapore Tourism Conference, the machine doesn’t use normal swipe-type cash cards, but contactless cards.
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      • 342 11 AIRBORNE WEB A US company plans to provide high-speed Internet access using solar-powered, high-altitude manned aircraft built to cruise at 15.6 km, or more than 3 km higher than the altitudes normally reached by commercial jets. Under Angel Technologies’ plan, the aircraft would beam
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      • 247 12  -  M-COMMERCE Steven Ng LOCAL firm Edge Matrix is confident that there’s lots of life left in Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) technology. Last week, they launched the WAPman Professional WTLS (Wireless Transport Layer Security) -a WAP browser that allows secure mobile commerce (m-com-merce).
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      • 61 12 An electrocardiogram on NEC’s home-use health-monitoring terminal Sukoyaka-net (Health-net) in Tokyo yesterday. The Sukoyaka-net, developed for the home care of the elderly, features a tonometer, a cardiograph and pulse measurement. It provides real-time data to a medical centre through the Internet. The system,
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      • Article, Illustration
        424 12  -  Marketplace wins Hardware Zone’s Best Sim Lim Square Shop award By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg FOR computer newbies, Sim Lim Square is scary filled with geeks buying computer parts, speaking a strange lingo to no-nonsense shopkeepers. So for a shop to win the Best Sim Lim Square Shop award
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    • Business
      • 498 13 INTERNET VENTURES NOW MINING FOR PROFIRS Washington Post LAST year, Jim Reardon was able to equip a home office with freebies he got off the Internet. A free colour printer from Estamps.com and a free scanner from Insight.com; unlimited Internet access through NetZero.com;
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      • 541 13  -  Expected US rate cuts give no relief By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg CALL it the Ides of March if you will, but the markets have just gone berserk. And it’s not just the stocks; even the Singapore dollar seems to have caught the flu.
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      • Business BUZZ
        • 99 13 SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS (SingTel) is expected to make a decision soon on whether it will bid for Australia’s Cable Wireless Optus, a company spokesman said yesterday. “While the outcome of the negotiations remains uncertain, SingTel expects to make an announcement soon,” said Ivan Tan, director of corporate communications
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        • 81 13 SINGAPORE-BASED Pacific Internet (PacNet) plans to shift its marketing focus from consumers to businesses in a bid to return to profitability, newly appointed chief executive officer Tan Tong Hai said yesterday. “My immediate priority is to bring the company back to the path of profitability,” Tan told
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        • 61 13 CONTRACT manufacturer Omni Industries yesterday reported better-than-expected net profits of $47.3 million for the full-year ended 2000, up almost 60 per cent over the previous year. In a statement, company chief executive officer Lee Kim Bock said 2000 was a good year for the contract manufacturing business.
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        • 55 13 TWO Singaporean property companies, mainboard-listed Keppel Land and Dragon Land, have signed a conditional agreement to form an alliance in a bid to expand their business in China. Keppel Land will subscribe to 117.6 million shares of the China-focused Dragon Land at US$0,125 (S$0.22) per share, with the
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    • Mailbox
      • Expat EYE
        • 781 14  -  By Susan Carroll susanc@sph.com.sg THIS year, the St Patrick’s Day parade, which was to be held last Saturday in Dublin, was cancelled. In order to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, several events around the country, including a one-day music festival, didn’t go
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      • 664 15  -  By Dave Barry Miami Herald IT IS with great decrepitude that we present another episode of Ask Mister Language Person, the column that was recently voted Best American Grammar Column by a panel of Florida voters who were actually trying to order Chinese food. The philosophy
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      • 105 15 WITH more newspapers on the scene, how do you think media standards have fared? 31% At least it’s less boring to read now! 29% Well, on the whole, competition has made news reporting more edgy and daring. 15% Mixed. Some have gone for low, cheap thrills, others
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 31 2 Qood morning! 4+ Generally warm and slightly hazy. Showers in the late afternoon mainly over northern, western and central Singapore. High: 33C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 7.58AM/2.1M 10.24PM/2.2M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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    • 51 4 To find out more about 3G technology, log on to these websites: http://www.ericsson. com/3g/default.shtml Learn more about what 3G can do for you at Ericsson’s website. http:// www.gsm world, com/ technology/3g concepts.html Find out what a 3G phone will probably look like. http://www.ida.gov.sg/ Website/ID Ahome.nsf/ HomePOpenForm Information on Singapore’s 3G
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 54 12 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET SO weftg RATHOR HOPWG you MIGHTVe LHAP&ieP OOM6 saisiTive wformatiom. 3-20 WO VOW IBS'S <3IRLFRI£W£7 GAVE HIM A HfCREY! MO. WIOHOtO, TH£ FBI HAO UOTICEV YOU EXCHANGE MESSAGES WITH EUGMEERS IW CHIU A... OH. I SURE V\V\ SO? •••K 7 i > C >eX\ >
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    • 53 14 Singaporeans who have lived abroad do you agree with the proposition that one has to leave one’s country to discover how much it means to you? Tell us at http//eyebalLasial.com.sg http://www.ire land.co m/event s/ st.patricks/2001/ For more on St Patrick’s Day festivities in Ireland and abroad. http://www.doras.ie A comprehensive directory
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  • Eye Sport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        54 16 INDIAN WELLS (California) Andre Agassi thumped long-time rival Pete Sampras 7-6 (7-5) 7-5 6-1 to capture the Tennis Masters Series-Indian Wells title. “It’s incredible, Fve been on the losing end so many times with Pete,” Agassi said. Agassi (above) after beating Sampras 7-6,7-5, 6-1 at the Tennis Masters
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      • 48 16 MADRID Real Madrid lost an opportunity to move towards the Spanish league title when they lost 1-0 at Real Mallorca. Deportivo Coruna’s 2-0 defeat at Las Palmas on Saturday had opened the door for Vicente del Bosque’s side to go eight points clear at the top.
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      • 80 16 LONDON Arsenal, who reached the last eight of the Champions League on Wednesday, drew 0-0 at Aston Villa and stayed second in the Premier League table, 16 points behind Manchester United with eight games to play. Other results: Liverpool 1 Derby 1 Bradford 2 Man City 2
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      • 48 16 Reuters ROME Defending champions Lazio demolished nine-man Juventus 4-1 in the Italian first division soccer, while AS Roma were held 0-0 at Reggina. Roma, who had won their previous seven league matches, moved on to 55 points, seven clear of Juventus and nine ahead of Lazio.
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    • 230 16 SEPANG might have been painted red after the Malaysian Grand Prix, but it seems that the Ferrari drivers are seeing red as well. At each other, mind you. No 2 driver Rubens Barrichello has voiced his displeasure over teammate Michael Schumacher’s overtaking manoeuvre on
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    • 558 16  -  Jordan’s No 2 talks to EyeSport about his team’s challenge this season By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg THERE was a time when Jordan’s Jarno Trulli said he wanted to race in the scarlet red of the Ferrari. Being Italian would give him an edge, especially since the last Italian
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    • 139 16 SOCCER: Football 365 seems to count a large number of Spurs fans among its readership. There are articles and multimedia interactives galore on the site to commemorate the departure of George Graham. Take part in the readers’ forum and decide for yourself whether he should have at least
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    • 639 17 Beats Mickelson to end dry spell and silence critics GUESS who’s having the last laugh on the PGA Tour? Tiger Woods, of course. Just when everyone was ready to walk over the 25-year-old golf phenomenon, Woods chewed up his critics and spat them out with
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    • 363 17 USELESS BEAT MAGIC 95-90 Lat-Wp ORLANDO (Florida) After he had sufficiently thumped his adopted hometown’s basketball team, Shaquille O’Neal stood in a hallway here and wrapped his beefy arms around his mother, Lucille. He gave her a gentle kiss on the left cheek. She smiled
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  • Unwind
    • Article, Illustration
      471 18 Island Shop is not just a wardrobe sanctuary for Sarong Party Qirls or Erykah Badu wannabes, says JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.con7.sg). Instead, its casual wear is for anyone who wants to feel he’s on holiday without ever leaving home. RE you a modern escapist with a keen eye for
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    • Fashion
      • 864 20 One of Frederick Lee's ultra glam dresses will take centrestage, alongside outfits by Oscar de la Renta and Vivienne Westwood, tomorrow night at Zouk. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) talks to the man who designs for divas. WHEN he was a boy of four, Frederick Lee would
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      • Fashion LOG
        • 85 20 SALE fiends, take note. On March 23, 24 and 25, Isetan is holding a warehouse sale at Trademart’s function room at 60 Martin Road from 10 am to 7 pm. Fashionwear, accessories, bags, shoes, and anything else found in Isetan stores will be up for grabs at discounts
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        • 66 20 CELEBRITIES always claim their private lives are not public property, but supermodel Naomi Campbell is about to put her privates on show, so to speak. She’s slated to appear in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues when it returns to London this summer. She joins other actresses and celebs,
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        • 109 20 THE older you get, the harder it is to keep your cool about wrinkles and lines, especially around the eye. Olay has two new products which claim to help nip the problem in the bud. Olay’s Revitalizing Eye Gel ($14.90) has cucumber extract, Pro-Vitamin B5 and witch hazel
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        • 60 20 TURN your wrist into a fashion statement with the cK Chain Link watch. A slender stainless steel chain meets a lacquered dial in seamless connection, forming a watch and bracelet in one. You can choose mirror, amethyst, photo blue, black or white as a base for the
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      • Personal STYLE
        • 564 21 Tan Kheng Ftua’s currently involved in Theatreworks Charging Up Memory Lane series, where actors direct plays they once acted in. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) jogs her memory on all things vanitas-related, and asks her which fashion era she hankers for. What’s your personal style? (Giggles
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      • 680 21  -  By June Wan junewan@sph.com.sg ON STAGE, as leggy models strut their stuff, a host of men on the side are acting like ducks: Beneath the cool and calm surface, they’re paddling furiously. Their mobiles, walkie-talkies and mental lists are close at hand. They know each and
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      • Gender
        • 295 22 It s almost a sure bet that Julia Roberts will nab the Oscar on Monday for her tough-talking, trash-dressing Erin Brockovich. JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) finds out why the Academy loves women with balls. SHE’s played them all hooker with a heart, stepmum, runaway bride and Hollywood
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        • Article, Illustration
          98 22 Won in 1979f0r Norma Rae This was the quintessential politicised-woman performance, warts and all. Cause: This tough chick tackles the union by rallying small-town troops, who are going deaf from the unbearable din of machinery and suffering the consumptive effects of “brown lung” disease. No sex please, we’re
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        • Article, Illustration
          75 22 Nominated in 1983 for Silkwood Canse: Taking on the nuclear power industry, this martyr mysteriously died just before blowing the whistle on her company’s slipshod methods. No sex please, we’re contaminated: Things could’ve gotten kinky with her housemates, but thankfully, Streep directed her energies elsewhere. Portrait of a
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        • 102 22 Nominated in 1988 for Gorillas In The Mist Portrait of a lady: Here, Sigourney Weaver played another kind of “alien” self-taught anthropologist Dian Fossey living reclusively in her own planet of the apes. Cause: Her sole mission was to protect the endangered mountain gorillas of the Rwandan rainforest,
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        • Article, Illustration
          81 22 Won in 1988for The Accused Canse: The attackers almost elude justice, so the not-so-innocent victim proceeds to challenge the unspoken biases of officials in the largely male judicial system, whose members think she “was asking for it”. No sex please, we’re rape victims: With all that sexual violence
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        • Article, Illustration
          90 22 Nominated in 1998 for Elizabeth Cause: She politicked her way through 16th-century court intrigue to bring her near-bankrupt empire back to its famed glory at great personal cost. No sex please, we’re monarchs: As a coltish maiden, she indulged in soft-core shenanigans with throne-room lover Lord Robert
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        • 85 22 Won in 1995f0r Dead Man Walking Portrait of a lady: Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun with liberal leanings working in an inner-city slum. Cause: After bringing Sean Penn’s death-row child-killer to a full acknowledgement of his crime, she becomes a staunch foe of capital punishment. No sex
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        • Gender BENDERS
          • 96 23 WHAT do you know. Apparently the Thais have a penchant for smacking each other’s bottoms in the bedroom. According to a new sex survey in Asian countries conducted by Time magazine, 37 per cent of Thai men and 34 per cent of Thai women gave a bottoms up
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          • 141 23 IT CAN only happen in Japan. Apparently, when Japanese girls in Tokyo want advice on sexual matters, they turn not to their school counsellor or their doctor. According to a report in salon.com, many a young woman would head out to a hamburger shop in Roppongi
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          • 93 23 A 19-YEAR-OLD American is suing a hospital in New York for the loss of his foreskin. Yup. William Stowell is taking Good Samaritan Hospital to court for circumcising him without his consent. According to ABC News.com, Stowell is upset because he misses his foreskin. He claims
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        • 68 23 Before becoming the ultimate Material Mum, Madonna made her point with conical, 1950 s bras. The chest that launched a thousand pictures, Laetitia Casta’s voluptuous beauty is now a symbol of France. Thanks for the mammaries. We’ll always love country star Dolly Parton and her
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        • Venus & MARS
          • Article, Illustration
            603 23 Miracle, Wonderhra, underwire, plunge, shelf, balconette, Maximiser, push-ups. SERENE GOH (sereneg@sph.com.sg) discovers that the secret to an ample bust now comes in many guises. STRIKING European beauty (henceforth known as Lady T) is a friend I’d often admired for her generous and pillowy bosom. One evening, persuaded
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    • 1057 24 DA t got to be SINGAPORE connected om 1 9 fflfa KS/MSS 3 Thirteen years ago, when her youngest child Mark was born, Mrs Mala Ang gave up her desk job as a clerk so she could take care of him properly, and has been a homemaker ever since. Now
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