Project Eyeball, 21 March 2001

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  • 12 1 Project eyeball eyebalLasiaLconusg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Wednesday, March 21, 2001 80 CENTS
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    • 353 1 GIVE CREDIT Better to be award-happy and give credit where credit is due, than ***** about criteria and such, says Soh Wen Lin. See Page 14 If you live, work or party along the Singapore River, here’s a new way of getting around —by boat. Log onto Eyeball’s Web Special
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      114 2 TWO dogs owned by Sylvester Stallone’s mum have predicted who will win this year’s Oscars. Jackie Stallone’s doberman pinschers have already correctly forecast George W Bush would become president. Now the psychic pooches say Chocolat will win the Best Picture Oscar. “My dogs said Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would
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    • 456 2  -  Silk altar doth used during WWII returned to Changi Prison Chapel By G SIVAKKUMARAN gsiva@sph.com.sg IT’S a tiny piece of cloth, but it’s a bookmark in the pages of history. The plain, cream-coloured piece of silk, all of 76 by 76 cm, was used as the
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    • Eyeball
      • 104 2 FROM this Saturday, you can fly direct to Munich, Germany, on a Lufthansa plane. This is part of the expanded service Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines (SIA) will be providing between the two countries. Besides the thrice-weekly new service, there will be additional flights to Frankfurt.
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      • 95 2 THE Consumer Price Index for general households which remained unchanged in 1999 went up by 1.3 per cent last year. It was due mainly to higher electricity and water tariffs, as well as dearer petrol and packaged tours, said the Department of
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      • 70 2 A MYANMAR national, believed to be involved in forging student and employment passes, has been nabbed by immigration officers. When they raided his hotel room in Jalan Besar on Monday, the officers found a computer set and other paraphernalia used for the forgery of such cards. The
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      • 84 2 THE Indian Cultural Carnival will take place at Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza on March 31. The activities include Indian dances, food, games, souvenirs and handicrafts. Organised by the People’s Association Indian Activity Executive Committee Co-ordinating Council (Narpani Pearavai), the carnival’s objectives are to create
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      • 46 2 These rare Lear s Macaws, which were imported into Singapore illegally from Brazil, were sent back home yesterday. Worth up to $BB,OOO each, these cobalt blue parrots are among the world s most endangered species, with only 130 in the wild. AFP
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    • Article, Illustration
      300 3 WASHINGTON US President George W Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori promised to support each other in efforts to lift their respective economies, amid growing fears the two countries’ problems could begin to reinforce each other. LONDON Troops were sent in for the first time to fight
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    • 629 3 Petty Officer admits he got it wrong, but skipper says he accepts responsibility for collision Wires PEARL HARBOR Petty Officer Patrick Seacrest told a US Navy inquiry yesterday that he had incorrectly plotted the distance of the Ehime Maru fishing boat from the nuclear submarine USS
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
      • 1728 6  -  Just two of several steps the Health Ministry may take to end the queues in specialist clinics By SUE-ANN CHIA AND DENYSE YEO sueann@sph.com.sg denyse@sph.com.sg SHOW up or burn a $lO-hole in your wallet. That’s the penalty
        Law Kian Yan; Desmond Wee  -  1,728 words
    • Singapore
      • 520 4  -  RSAF hopes more will join with its revised eyesight policy By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg SAW the RSAF recruitment ad on television lately? Notice a pilot, getting into the cockpit, with spectacles on? That’s an F-16 Fighting Falcon that LTA Mark Tan is getting into, by
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      • 382 4 WHEN Lieutenant Mark Tan found out that he needed glasses when he was in Secondary 3, he saw his dreams of being a fighter pilot come crashing down to earth. But that was before he found out that speckies like him could become a
        Eugene Wee  -  382 words
      • 670 5 Shopping for a good overseas degree offered locally is tough, but the graduates from the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS)’s University of Bradford(UOB) Programme are glad with the choice they made years ago. The quality of the degree programmes is something to be proud of.
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    • The World
      • 403 8 US fast-food firm sets up ocean target for Russian space station’s re-entry Wires LOS ANGELES Who says there’s no such thing as a free taco, let alone a free lunch? The Taco Bell restaurant chain said yesterday it will give a
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      • 345 8 ‘COLD WAR’ IN SPACE AP CAPE CANAVERAL He may not be able to become the world’s first space tourist after all, but Dennis Tito is nevertheless creating a stir. He was the reason that Nasa and the Russian Space Agency yesterday had their
        – AP; AP  -  345 words
      • 355 9 NET PROFIT SYDNEY It’s the New Economy way for kids to earn extra cash, and it doesn’t involve dirty dishes or sweaty hard work. Australian teens can now make their money simply by hosting banner ads for porn sites and online bookstores
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      • 74 9 The cavern stands empty after an explosion destroyed an ancient Buddha statue which was cut into the hillside at Bamiyan, Afghanistan. This image from a recent video was made available yesterday. The destruction of two statues, which dated back to the third and fifth centuries, was ordered
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      • 489 9 Second censure to be drafted AP JAKARTA Dismissing attempts to impeach him as unconstitutional, President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday said he had lobbied individual lawmakers and was prepared to fight in court if Parliament tried to oust him. He also predicted that demonstrations
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      • 509 10 Ethnic Indians demand a meeting Wires KUALA LUMPUR Nearly 200 ethnic Indian activists demonstrated outside of Parliament yesterday, blaming Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad for the recent ethnic clashes. Waving banners reading “We demand justice and development” and “Maintain harmony without racism”, the protesters
        – Wires; AP  -  509 words
      • 152 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR Opposition leaders have been questioned by the police on suspicion of sedition, for comments on the ethnic violence earlier this month that killed six people and wounded dozens. Secretary-general of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) Kerk Kim Hock was questioned by police on Saturday,
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      • 77 10 Reuters Meanwhile, Malaysian police said yesterday they were holding five men suspected of murder during the ethnic clashes between the Malays and Indians. They were arrested on Sunday night and two erf them are aged 16 years and below. The oldest is 32 years old. A
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      • 509 10 IT WAS AN ACCIDENT, SAYS WEB HOSTING SERVICE Wires KUALA LUMPUR An honest mistake, caused by a technical glitch, resulted in several Malaysian opposition and reformasi websites becoming inaccessible, a US spokesman for Tripod, which hosts Web pages for free, said yesterday. And, the
        – Wires  -  509 words
    • Technology
      • 309 11 New service claims to keep track of everything a computer user want AP SEATTLE Like a silent sentinel, Hailstorm will keep track of everything a computer user can imagine, from credit card numbers to calendars to address books. From there, the system will provide people with
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      • 410 11 ROBOT SAVES POST, TIME AND HASSLE Adapted from CityNet Telecommunications graphic AP ALBUQUERQUE (New Mexico) No chewed-up streets. No traffic jams. And perhaps best of all, a benefit for taxpayers. Cable-laying robot SAM keeps a low profile and slogs through the narrow sewer pipes at night,
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      • 186 12  -  NETWORKING Steven Ng YOU might not know much about it now, but in four years, as many as one in five Singapore homes could have it. It’s called home networking, where appliances like PCs, laptops and ovens are all connected and linked to the Internet.
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      • Article, Illustration
        44 12 A prototype of a smart phone incorporating a phone and a full-colour personal digital assistant was shown yesterday at Sprint s headquarters in Kansas. Sprint plans to unveil the phone at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas later this year. AP
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      • 342 12  -  LTA plans to launch real-time bus info system by 2003 By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg WAITING for the bus will still be the same tedious chore in two years’ time, but the good news is, you’ll know when it will arrive. The Land Transport
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      • 666 12 THE Napster era of instant online music may not be over. On March 16, US-based AudioMill.com released the beta version of its new software, the Bitßop Tuner. There are thousands of stream-ing-audio radio stations online at any given moment. You tell Bitßop what band
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    • Business
      • 455 13 COPING WITH DOTCOM CRASHES Lat-Wp the Internet economy roared, many people of modest Professional and personal pedigree suddenly found themselves rocketed into positions of influence, visibility and wealth. And now that much of the digital economy is crashing with the same nauseating velocity, a
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      • 460 13  -  Chan Brothers Travel bags Business Times’ Enterprise Award By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg E-COMMERCE is alive and kicking, thank you very much. Chan Brothers Travel, which bagged the prestigious Enterprise. Award by Business Times at a glittering function yesterday evening, said that the company’s
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      • Business BUZZ
        • 121 13 WATCH out if you are working for Creative Technology. The Nasdaq-listed company said yesterday that it would dismiss 10 per cent of its 5,500 staff and close a US plant as demand for its computer sound cards slows. The company also said that it would suffer losses of
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        • 90 13 ST ASSEMBLY TEST SERVICES, Asia’s No 2 chip-testing company, cut its first-quarter sales forecast to half of what it made in the fourth quarter, which ended December last year, saying a slowing global economy is reducing demand. The company logged sales of $92.8 million for the fourth quarter.
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        • 77 13 SINGAPORE’S economy is expected to grow by about 5.3 per cent this year and 6.5 per cent next year, according to a Reuters poll of 10 research houses. This is down from the Government’s forecast of a 5 to 7 per cent range and from Reuters’ December
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    • Mailbox
      • 205 14 ‘First law of holes: If you get in one, stop digging’ (March 18) YOU don’t have to be a Mark Twain, a Donald Rumsfeld or a Colin Powell. All you need is the experience of living life and an uncanny eye for the truth. What are
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      • 120 14 YOU don’t have to be one of the 32,000 surfers who downloaded these pithy gems in US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s collection to decide which you’d swear by: 26% The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind. 26% Victory is never
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      • Single’s SAY
        • 587 14  -  By Soh Wen Lin wenlin@brandeis.edu I CAN never decide if the future of Singaporean women looks bright or bleak. Sometimes I revel in how far we have come since the days of legal polygamy, foot binding and measuring the eligibility of a woman by
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      • Global eye
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          696 15  -  By Bhagyashree Garekar bhagya@sph.com.sg HERE’S to the power of words; maybe they can save Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid’s skin. He reportedly hopes to silence calls for his resignation next week with a carefully worded apology. His defence, which he is expected to present as he replies to
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        • 270 15 Young eye on the media (March 19) LAST year, Minister without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng said the proliferation of media here would stoke sensationalism. Recently, MPs and a minister said the media had become more sensational and sleazy. An independent group, Media Watch, has been
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    • 28 13 Log on to http://eyebalL asial.com.sg for Minister for Communications and Information Technology Yeo Cheow Tong’s speech on the lessons from the Internet revolution delivered at the awards ceremony.
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  • Eye Sport
    • Sport IN SHORT
      • 104 16 Reuters LONDON Although Gianluca Vialli is Tottenham’s second favourite to take over from sacked George Graham, his agent Athole Still had ruled out such a move. While the Italian’s shock sacking from Chelsea placed him among the hottest available managers in Europe, Still said Vialli “won’t
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      • 74 16 Reuters PARIS Injured goalkeeper Fabien Barthez will miss both of France’s international friendlies. He sustained a thigh injury while warming up for Manchester United’s English Premier League match against Leicester City on Saturday. United’s medical staff confirmed that Barthez would be unable to play for around two weeks.
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      • 138 16 THE European Tour announced yesterday that it will kick off this year’s Asian swing with the inaugural BMW Asian Open in Taiwan from Nov 22 to 25. Jointly sanctioned by the Asian PGA’s Davidoff Tour,' the event will carry a record purse of US$l.5 million (552.6 million).
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      • 90 17 ROME Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn has dismissed speculation that a rift may be forming between the Italian team’s two drivers. Said Brawn: “Rubens ran a bit wide when he was held behind Trulli. Michael had the chance to go around them both on the outside
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      • 68 17 LONDON Lennox Lewis thinks his showdown with Mike Tyson may never take place. The World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation champion told BBC television that wrangles over television rights had prevented a deal being finalised. “I always think positively but I have a nagging fear that it
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      • 81 17 SYDNEY Australia has appointed a four-man panel to find a new rugby coach to head their defence of the 2003 World Cup, as Wallaby coach Rod Macqueen stands down from October. While the new coach would not take over until the team’s European tour in October-November, the Australian
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      • 32 17 Wires JOHANNESBURG Guinea is out of their World Cup qualifying group after ignoring another Fifa deadline for the reinstatement of their football federation’s executive, a Fifa spokesman said on Monday.
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    • 226 16 AFTER the match, the Lakers brushed aside the on-court flare-ups with Kobe Bryant, perhaps forgiving him, perhaps wary of more distractions in a season laden with them. “He got upset about turning the ball over in that one sequence,” said Jackson, who blamed the loss on the
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    • 423 16 Cranky Bryant uninspiring Lat-Wp ATLANTA Kobe Bryant said he can’t play the way he would like to play anymore, so creaky are his ankles, so weary is he from bearing it. He stood stiffly after the worst Los Angeles Lakers loss of the season on Monday
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    • 127 16 SOCCER: England manager Sven Goran Eriksson has had his say, and now it’s your turn. With Football 365’s brilliant team selection mechanism, you can pick the 11 players you want to see take on Finland. So what’s the delay? Get voting, folks! (http://www. football365.com/selecta/) FORMULA ONE: Planet-Fl has
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    • Article, Illustration
      543 17 World skating champ unfazed by criticism as she prepares to defend her title Lat-Wp VANCOUVER They doubted her last year and it killed her, so she went out and skated like a fiend, sweeping through the air so gracefully and skilfully that there was nothing they could do
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    • 141 17 DEFENDING champion Anglo Chinese School (I) demolished Chinese High School 139-3 yesterday to storm into the semi-finals of the U-17 National Rugby Championships. The ACS (I) team impressed with its flair, maturity and aggression, and looks set to retain the trophy. It will meet St
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  • Unwind
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      906 18 Sun, sea and sex may be synonymous with Club Meds in Europe, but here in the Asia-Pacific region, the resort chain offers family fun. WONG SHER MAINE (sher@sph.com.sg) checks into Club Med Cherating and finds herself surrounded by kids. HINK Club Med and images of ill sun> sea
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    • Travel
      • 536 19  -  Wong Sher Maine EVERYONE has had the thought, at one time or another, of just. taking off. Simply quit your job and being like those free-spirited travellers who take a year off to see the world. But then money, loans and debts come into
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      • 909 20 IHT In the Japanese capital, how hip you are no longer depends on what you wear hut where you sip your java. KAORISHOJX reports. T’S NOT just about what you wear anymore. These days, Tokyo’s hip and cultured are less concerned about the latest Prada
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      • Travel SHELF
        • 84 20 THE British Tourist Authority has declared to all visitors that Britain is still a safe place to visit, amid public worries about foot-and-mouth disease. The disease, “unlike BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), poses absolutely no danger to humans, nor does it affect the safety of British
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        • 68 20 IF YOU happen to be in England over Easter, head for York. Jorvik, the Viking settlement with archaeological discoveries from 1,000 years ago, will reopen on April 7. Visitors in “time cars” will get a better concept of the Viking community. The view, over the
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        • 71 20 TRAVELLERS will be happy to know that a new hotel and travel website has been launched to cater to tourists planning to visit Thailand. More than 500 hotels and resorts are listed on the website, making it easy for you to find your perfect
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        • 56 20 CATHAY PACIFIC has introduced an innovative service for its passengers. Its new notiFLY service transmits flight information directly to a passengers’ cellphone. Just enter your flight details by logging on to http://www. cathaypacific.com and request a notiFLY message before departure or arrival to receive confirmations of
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        • 42 20  -  Lim Hui Ling ENJOY great savings to Frankfurt when you fly with Garuda Indonesia or Kuwait Airways. Tickets are being offered for $915 and $935 respectively. These roundtrip economy flights are currently available at http://www.flights.com
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    • Arts
      • 742 21 The Artists Village is bidding adieu to a 50-year-old coffee shop on Friday. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) finds out what’s brewing. HE affable man was T quick on his feet. I had barely sat down on the stool before the stout, slightly balding, friendly face
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      • Arts DIARY
        • 108 21 HOW about the Bard with a South-east Asian twist? William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is set to draw on art forms from this region. The highly visual production weaves masks (wayang topeng), puppets (wayang kulit), dance and sign language into an exotic fusion of island magic. Directed by
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        • 66 21 A JOINT Eingaporean-Malaccan production will be celebrating Peranakan heritage in a play at the World Trade Centre Auditorium from today to Friday. Dah sa-Chupak Tak Boley Ba-Gantang will certainly strike a chord in audiences here. Hilarious scenes abound with Bibik Leng Neo (Kenny Chan) trying to get
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        • 68 21 ABSTRACTS by Louise Farnay entitled Not Only Flowers Bear Fruit are on show. Influenced by Japanese and Australian aesthetics, Farnay is a two-time award winner at the Asia Modern Art Exhibition in Tokyo and has held five solo exhibitions. Her works are now on show at Artfolio SPACE
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        • 49 21 BUDDING starlets, here is your chance to try out for a children’s dance performance. The selected will take part in a production at the Symphony Stage, Botanic Garden. Children between the ages of seven and 14 can audition until tomorrow. For more information, call 9777 9075.
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        • 74 21 Lim Huiling JEKYLL AND HYDE, Dracula, and Romeo and Juliet will hit the road as part of the Northern Ballet Theatre’s tour of Britain. The highlight of the group is the cult doppelganger tale of Jekyll and Hyde. Directed and choreographed by Massimo Moricone with a score
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      • Article, Illustration
        723 22 Sometimes, big thoughts grow from small ideas. LIM HUI LING (pedas@sph.com.sg) talks about creation and inspiration to artists whose works are exhibited at Women Beyond Borders. HELLS, a black diamond, hair and the odd recipe. Sure, you can’t put women in a box, but what’s inside and around
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      • 316 22  -  By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg FREAK: monstrosity; an abnormal person or thing. Not entirely an inappropriate word to describe the two families in The Necessary Stage’s Freak Sons And Daughters; they are screwed up, either physically or psychologically, sometimes both. Mrs Woo,
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    • Living Well
      • 620 23 ET out the straw Gmat, fill up a basket with boxed goodies and gather friends or family for a casual meal outdoors even if it happens to be in your own backyard. Any way you do it, a picnic is always a welcome idea. There’s
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  • The Bach Page
    • 224 24 Chat Mouse Work and prison WHEN you think about the differences between work and prison, maybe prison isn’t so bad... In prison... you spend all of your days in a cramped cell. At work...you spend almost all of your days in a cramped cubicle. In prison... You get three meals
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    • 440 24  -  Jeanmarie Tan SINGAPORE’S newest broadcaster, Media Works, is primed to rock your entertainment landscape with an enticing promise: “We’ll make you fall in love with your television set all over again.” With artistes Adrian Pang and Michelle Chia serving as hosts, MediaWorks’ star-studded
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