Project Eyeball, 3 April 2001

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  • 11 1 projecteyeball. eyebalLasial.com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Tuesday, April 3, 2001 80 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 347 1 AUSTRALIA IS MORE THAN BBQs Michael Dwyer is eager to promote the variety that is his homeland, through its films. See Page 13 if Singaporeans strutting their stuff on international catwalks. See Pages 18-20 GIVING GIFTS TO GALS Memo to son: Choose the most useless present and you won’t go
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      139 2 T-Bone Steak Died April 1, 2001 IT WAS a black day for the Tuscan gourmets as they gathered over the weekend to mourn the death of the Florentine beef steak. Their culinary glory is now illegal because of the mad-cow scare. The women wore black, threw flowers and cried
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    • 436 2  -  Lower tariff from next month; Case says petrol prices must also fall By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg GET set to receive lower power bills from next month. And, latching on to the news, the Consumers’ Association of Singapore (Case) is asking shouldn’t petrol prices follow suit? In a
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    • Article, Illustration
      26 2 Staff from the newly-formed Health Promotion Board yesterday gave out balloons at the Student Health Centre as part of its opening celebrations. Mike Lee
      Mike Lee  -  26 words
    • Eyeball NEWS
      • 111 2 YOU can leave that passport behind during those weekend trips to Johor Baru, when smart cards to facilitate travel between Singapore and Malaysia take off. The project was agreed on yesterday by Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng and his Malaysian counterpart Abdullah Badawi,
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      • 55 2 HAW PAR VILLA will get its original name Tiger Balm Gardens back and will also be restored to its former concept of a learning centre for Chinese heritage and mythology, said the Singapore Tourism Board. In the meantime, the park will remain open
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      • 60 2 THE 10-year limit for CPF members to top up their parents’ Minimum Sums using their CPF has been removed with effect from April 1, after the time limit for cash top-ups was removed last December. The Minimum Sum Top-Up Scheme enables CPF members to help their
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      • 46 2 FOR the last two years, an average of five maids ran away every week, said the Manpower Ministry (MOM) yesterday. But the overall situation has improved slightly with 208 maids being reported missing last year, compared with 268 in 1999.
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    • 341 2 STUDENTS BRAINS BEHING REVAMP “PRETTY provocative”. That was the term used to describe some of the new ideas Singapore Airlines (SIA) is toying with for its cabin make-over. And SlA’s vice-president of product innovation Tom Boozer, who used the label, added: “We want to
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    • Article, Illustration
      249 3 JERUSALEM Israeli helicopter gunships fired three rockets at a Palestinian van in the Gaza Strip, killing a leading activist in the militant Islamic Jihad group. The killing came a day after an j Israeli reserve soldier was shot dead j in a firefight in the West Bank. Bong
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    • 281 3 AP MOSCOW With an imitation prison fence set up in front of the United States embassy and a signa-ture-collecting train journey, Russians yesterday demanded the release of a top official being held on money-laundering charges in New York. Hundreds of people gathered outside the
      – AP; AP  -  281 words
    • 448 3 Group will ‘die as martyrs’ to prevent his ouster Wires JAKARTA More than 600 people yesterday signed up to join a death squad with a mission to prevent President Abdurrahman Wahid from being ousted. Recruiting them was a group called the Front For The
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
      • 985 6  -  Opinion divided on whether Think Centre’s joke was in bad taste or just humorous By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg A HARMLESS prank or is credibility the issue here? Veteran opposition MP Chiam See Tong believes that the Think Centre has
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    • 62 6 What do you think of Think Centre’s All Fools’ Day hoax? 41% Lighten up, they were just having fun. 22% They only hurt their own political credibility. 14% So what’s their point again? 12% A sly marketing ploy for a political talk shop. 7% Made a farce
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    • 519 7  -  By Soh Wen Lin wenlin@brandeis.edu A harmless All Fools' Day hoax, some say. But this young Singaporean studying in the United States doesn't see the humour in the Think Centre's election stunt. In fact, she feels cheated. ALL right. So I
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    • 442 7 Last week, UYEN VU (uyen@sph.com.sg) interviewed James Qomez to understand the man, his mission and the Think Centre better. She couldn't have chosen a better time. Thanks to All Fools' Day, she got a chance to see both faces of this outspoken political
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    • 431 7 GOMEZ WAS A PJLP MEMBER MANY of the Think Centre members have dabbled in politics. James Gomez, if you still believe him, said he was once a People’s Action Party (PAP) member. That was in early 1997. After completing his post-graduate education in England, he was
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    • Singapore
      • 954 4  -  Singapore logs into cheap messaging phenomenon along with rest of the world By Andrew Chin and Steven Ng andrewc@sph.com.sg stevenng@sph.com.sg Picture: Desmond Wee IF A student from Yishun Town Secondary plays truant, his parents will get to know about it via short messaging services (SMS).
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    • Health
      • The bigger the better
        • 445 8 LONDON Wondering if your new-born baby boy will ever get married? Well, apparently a man’s romantic destiny is determined from the moment he is born, reported the Electronic Telegraph. And researchers have just said that men who are small at birth are less
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        • 195 8 EDINBURGH Not only are bigger male babies scoring with the girls, but it seems bigger babies also score in school turning into brighter secondary school pupils, says research just out of Scotland. A study 0f449 Scottish children, by a team of doctors from the Uni- versity
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      • Stork OPTIONS
        • 417 8 DEAR Dr Chen: I read that an antioxidant called lycopene found in some fruit and shellfish may help to boost sperm count. The article also pointed out how 30 men who took 2 mg of oral lycopene twice a day for three
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    • The World
      • 997 9  -  Paul Eric Roca Picture: AFP LAT Abraham Lincoln was a manic-depressive racist who nearly lost the Civil War, screamed the headlines last month. DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, the historian whose upcoming book was the basis for the report, denies it. AT ST
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      • 658 10 Americans afraid of Chinese inspecting high-tech spy plane Wires SANYA (China) In a standoff reminiscent of the Cold War, the US yesterday sought to keep Chinese officials from boarding a Navy plane packed with with some of America’s most sophisticated spy
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      • 330 10 Wires SHANGHAI Chinese Internet chatrooms are ringing with calls to boycott US-made products, a warcry heard first heard after the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Surfers also called for China to back out of further integration into the global economy. “We can forgo joining
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    • Technology
      • 279 11 OPEN TO HACKERS CALIFORNIA A gaping hole in the Internet Explorer 5.01 and 5.5 browsers could cause the browsers to launch e-mail attachments automatically, and execute malicious codes leaving computers vulnerable to attacks, warned Microsoft. But a patch is available, reported ZDNet
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      • Article, Illustration
        75 11 Looking a bit like a stylish etch-a-sketch, Sony’s new Airboard is a portable liquid-crystal-display TV set that delivers crisp, clear images, and can be toted around the house like a cordless phone. It’s also part computer for reading and sending e-mails, and looking at webpages. Airboard, which
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      • 523 11 Program lets users share almost everything online NYT PARIS If you’d like to see one of the most amazing, powerful and revolutionary applications of the Internet so far, run, don’t walk, to Groove Networks and download Groove (http://www.groove.net). This is the future of the Web. Groove
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    • Business
      • Stock TAKING
        • 510 12 Want some tips on investing your money? Here’s the first of our fortnightly columns NYT FINALLY, it seems, value matters. After years when indiscriminate investors were willing to ignore matters like competitive strategy and profit driving stock prices to unsustainable levels -a focus on business
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        • 204 12 Francis Kan WITH the Singapore stock market currently one of the worst-performing in the region, there are plenty of opportunities to pick up undervalued shares, analysts said. In particular, they suggest that value investors look at blue-chip stocks like City Developments and Chartered Semiconductor. ING Barings analyst
          – Francis Kan  -  204 words
        • 386 12  -  By Paul Krugman NYT EVERYTHING about the US economy is down lately: Manufacturing production, overall growth, and needless to say, stocks. So why is the US dollar still rising? At the beginning of last year, when everything seemed to be going right for the
          – NYT; AFP  -  386 words
      • Business BUZZ
        • 64 12 THE Singapore dollar fell yesterday to its weakest level against the US dollar in 39 months, dragged down by weak regional currencies and a global rush for the greenback. The Singapore dollar was 1.8132 to the US dollar. Meanwhile, the STI ended down 1.51 per cent at
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        • 71 12 SALES of new residential properties in Singapore rose 35 per cent in the first three months of the year, compared with the fourth quarter of 2000, as developers adopted more realistic pricing, property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle reported yesterday. Home prices fell in this first quarter, pushing
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    • Mailbox
      • Expat EYE
        • 560 13  -  By Michael Dwyer mdwyer@sph.com.sg ASK Singaporeans to name an Australian film and the inevitable response is Crocodile Dundee. A few may also know of more recent comedies such as Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla: Queen Of the Desert but the common denominators in the Singaporean cinematic imagination
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      • 370 13 THE 14th Singapore International Film Festival’s Australia In Focus programme will show one feature and nine documentaries from Oz. At Golden Village, Great World City: Innocence April 14,7 pm They were lovers in Belgium during World War 11. Separated for 45 years, Claire (now married) and
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      • 772 14  -  By Dave Barry THE other day, my son and I were talking, and the subject of women came up. I realised that it was time he and I had a Serious Talk. It’s a talk every father should have with his son. And yet, far too
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      • 87 14 IT’S true, they’ve found a link between the chocs you chomp and your personality. Which do you usually pick? 30% Dark Chocolates (you’re the creative type). 22% Chocolate truffles and milk-chocolates (easy-going person). 17% Chocolates with light fillings and dark chocolates (thinker). 13% Van Houtens to chocolate-coated
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 23 2 Qood morning! *4 Showers with thunder over many areas in the afternoon. High: 33C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 5.13AM/2.3M 8.46PM/2.2M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 31 6 Based on 101 responses to Eyeball’s online poll. Will you still take the Think Centre seriously? Closely linked with the Opposition here, have they hurt their image? Tell us at http://eyefonim.asial.com.sg
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 23 8 http://www.cnn.com/2QQO/HEALTH/ 02/01/babv.size/ Low birth weights may affect a baby’s career as an adult. http:// www.usnews.com/ usnews/issue/ *****5/sbaby.htm Babies’ weights could spell their fate.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 55 14 GOOD GRIEF! OH,NOS FOOTED' MOUTH, DISEASE! RXJ-^-MCUlH DISEASE 1 I KNEW IT/ FOOT-^-MOyiH DISEASE! HtlV! (OOT- LOOKS DISEASE! hxjmndMOUTH HUH? FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE? m DtSE PSt\ Wmd m i&i!SEsmmumr n HOW MVPULS NtoVJTH whaT? 2 bDtStetxi-TrKxiul 'mm* disease? r~ DON T TELL ME! FDOTDISEASE! ITS FOOr-AND-) HERE? R»FM>MCXJffl DISBSE? V MOUTH
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  • EyeSport
    • 562 15 Conlthard’s decisive win, Montoya’s daring steal show Reuters SAO PAULO (Brazil) David Coulthard’s the unofficial No 1 driver for McLaren. It wasn’t laid out bare, but judging from the words of McLaren chiefs Ron Dennis and Norbert Haug, the Scot is the driver they are
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    • 251 15 Formula One McLaren puts a stop to the red-hot Ferrari streak. David Coulthard proves the great spoiler and now trails Schuey hy six points. 1 (4) McLaren i A safety-first approach earned McLaren a hard-fought first win of the season. MH’s retirement still casts doubts on reliability though.
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    • Sport IN SHORT
      • 110 16 Reuters PUERTO RICO-Texas Rangers shortstop Alex Rodriguez, baseball’s first US$25-miiiion-a-year (Ss44 million) man, had hoped for a better day against the Toronto Blue Jays. Rodriguez, playing his first game with the Rangers on Sunday, did little to help the Texas offence and even less for their
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      • 49 16 AFP ADDIS ABABA Sepp Blatter, president of football’s world governing body Fifa, confirmed here on Sunday that Africa would host the 2010 World Cup. Blatter repeated the decision at a press conference in front of African football officials including the Conference of African Football president Issa Hayatou.
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      • 77 16 AP CANBERRA Gold medals belonging to swimmers Alexander Popov and Michael Klim were recovered from a Canberra dam after being stolen, over the weekend, from the home of their coach, police said yesterday. Burglars took Australian-based Russian star Popov’s Atlanta Olympic 100-m freestyle gold medal and Klim’s Commonwealth
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    • 454 16 Age matters but not yet Agassi crushes awestruck Gambill to become oldest winner of Ericsson Open NYT KEY BISCAYNE (Florida) JanMichael Gambill did not feel the normal sting of defeat in the Ericsson Open men’s final on Sunday. The 23-year-old Gambill, regarded as one of America’s promising Davis Cup hopes,
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    • 276 16 THREE-LOSS STREAK ENDS NYT LOS ANGELES It was yet another entry in their expansive record of resilience, one more reason to believe this exasperating Knicks team truly derives power from adversity. After three horrible losses had them crestfallen and desperate, the Knicks rose
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    • 40 16 Charlotte 80, Boston 79 Minnesota 99, Portland 95 Utah 92, Vancouver 73 Orlando 104, Toronto 101 Detroit 104, Golden State 87 New Jersey 101, Houston 98 Phoenix 106, Milwaukee 99 Dallas 119, Sacramento 107 Philadelphia 104, Indiana 93
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    • 604 17 As the teams shape up for the Champions League quarter-finals, LUKE PACHYMUTHU (luke@sph.com.sg) picks who youll see go through to the semis. MANCHiaim UNITED vs BAYERN MUNICH BAYERN MUNICH and Manchester United were embarrassed over the weekend and will be looking to hide
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    • 253 17 English Premier League Liverpool's flying high. As for Manchester United, it gets dumped to me bottom of the rankings for a shoddy performance. TOP 5 1 Liverpool 14 7 8 The Reds outclassed Manchester United at Anfield, and are walking the talk of the “new era” brag. (Beat
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  • Unwind
    • Fashion
      • Article, Illustration
        1179 18 They re the beautiful ones who are helping to put Singapore fashion modelling on the world map. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) profiles our top catwalkers. CATWALK models live in a league of their own, breathing oxygen from the higher regions of the atmosphere. According to Celia Teh, director of
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      • BEST FROM THE PAST
        • 64 20 SINGAPORE’S top model in the 1980 s. With the highest number of assignments because of her Eurasian looks, she appeared on women’s magazine covers and commercia’s with alarming regularity. In 1989, after four years in the trade, she quit and opted for a somewhat quieter modelling agency career.
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        • 47 20 IN 1985, she was the first Singapore Girl to land a contract with New York’s Ford Model Agency. She is now married to a Frenchman and living life as lady of a 13th century chateau (complete with a moat, reportedly) on the outskirts of Paris.
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        • 62 20 SHE was Singapore’s Model of the Year in 1985. After winning a Cover Girl of the Year modelling contract, she moved to New York and appeared in advertisements with Rachel Hunter and Niki Taylor. Eyebrows were raised in 1989 when she posed nude for the Italian edition of
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        • Article, Illustration
          55 20 June Wan SINGAPORE’S first international supermodel, she won the Catwalk of the Year award in 1982, and graced the cover of Time magazine’s Asian edition. She was discovered by French legend Yves St Laurent, and later became the muse and house model for Givenchy. Hussey (below) is now
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      • 401 21 If it’s in crystal, its in fashion, as JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) discovers. VEN the stars have eschewed diamonds for crystals. Ashley Judd, Neve Campbell, Famke Janssen and Ellen Burstyn toted or wore Daniel Swarovski crystal accessories at the recent Oscar ceremony. One thing’s clear. Crystals are no longer
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      • Fashion LOG
        • 95 21 ORGANIC makeup that lets your skin look like skin instead of a mask. That’s what mother-and-daughter team Chantecaille is all about. Their line, a hit with the likes of Michelle Pfeiffer and Cate Blanehett because of its lightness, is available at True Colours in Ngee Ann
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        • 81 21 JUST in case you thought otherwise, the Calvin Klein jeans line is not only about blue denim it’s about colour, vibrant colour, in fact. This spring, you can find cK jeans in royal blue, garnet, citron, fuschia and mint in sexy shapes. Men can check
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        • 99 21 BEFORE putting all kinds of products on your face, check to see what you really need, and where. SK-IFs Beauty Imaging System (BIS) uses a high-resolution digital camera to take a picture of a section of facial skin, which is converted into digital data for analysis.
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        • 85 21 IN A time when people are attempting to be fashion chameleons, one easy way to change your look is not to rush out and buy a new wardrobe, but change the colour of your eyes. FreshLook’s Colorßlends uses technology to blend three colours into one, while its Colors
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        • 63 21 June Wan STRESSES of daily life getting you down? Pep yourself up with Shiseido Zen, a fragrance which uses aromacology to calm both mind and body. Tire scent comes from ryokuyu kyara (a resin base produced by bacteria on old wood) which increases alpha wave frequency
          – June Wan  -  63 words
      • Gender
        • 971 22 The Peranakan matriarch is not done with her reign yet. Not if impersonators like Kenny Chan, Ivan Heng or QT Lye have anything to say about it. SERENE GOB (sereneg@sph.com.sg) finds out they're heading a revolution to keep the bibik alive. OTHER is
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        • Gender BENDERS
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            88 23 HUMANS aren’t the only ones who cheat on their mates. Recent studies have shown that female swans are indulging in a little hanky-panky with males in neighbouring territories when their own mates are off foraging for food. An explanation advanced for this infidelity is “fertility insurance”, or ensuring
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          • 83 23 THE NETHERLANDS boasts of a high 75 per cent support for homosexual marriages, according to a survey. Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen recently legalised the nuptials of one female and three male couples, in a move that went beyond mere recognition of gay unions. A new national law has
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          • 90 23  -  Lim Hui Ling SWEDES are having first-date sex more often than they were a decade ago, according to a report by the Swedish National Institute of Public Health. At the same time, the use of condoms is reported to have declined. The study revealed that almost 20 per
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        • Venus & MARS
          • 723 23 For Ken, i t ’s a doll’s life Ken Carson, who’s spent the best years of his life as Barbie DolFs faithful toy boy, has hit 40. But what now? Women don’t like him, and he’s got no male friends. How much more can the little guy take, wonders hot-blooded
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  • The Bach Page
    • 223 24 Chat Mouse CEO rules A FELLOW had just been hired as the CEO of a high-tech corporation. The CEO who was stepping down met with him privately and presented him with three numbered envelopes. “Open one of these if you run up against a problem you don’t think you can
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    • 130 24 PAMELA ANDERSON (left) is into another entrepreneurial venture. Apparently, the VIP star wants to team up with Michael Bolton to initiate the first Bikini Golf Open, reported IMBd.com in all apparent seriousness. The first tournament will take place in June near a beach yet
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    • 142 24 VICTORIA BECKHAM’S life story will be out in a biography titled Learning To Fly come September. More popularly known as Posh Spice, she will make £1 million (552.57 million) from the book deal. If plans go smoothly, she might make some more cash
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    • Making HEADLINES
      • 55 24 SHANNON ELIZABETH (left) has a crush on Johnny Depp (right), calling him the most kiss-able person in the world. “I think he’s beautiful,” the actress said about trying to land a role as his love interest. “You don’t want to be 80 and look back and regret
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      • 28 24 Wires JAMIE LEE CURTIS liked how Jennifer Lopez now goes by J-Lo. She said she will be: “J-Lee, Jay Leno is J-No, and David Copperfield is D-Cupp”.
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