Project Eyeball, 10 April 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball-asial-com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Tuesday, April 10, 2001 80 CENTS
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      363 1 BEWARE, RE-NAMED COMPANY Why do companies think they’re serving their customers by coming up with new names that don’t mean anything? See Page 14 BEWARE, FOREIGNER DRIVING American Rand Miranda rents a car and gets a taste of driving on the “wrong” side of our roads. See Page 15 BEWARE,
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      101 2 ELEPHANT feet, a crocodile head, a rocket launcher and two hand grenades that don’t work. This is the bizarre stash police uncovered from motorcycle gangs when they conducted a raid on 36 houses occupied by gang members in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. South Australia Police Commissioner Mai
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      Lock icon Dashe’s year
      42 2 A baby anaconda slithers over its mother, Dashe, which gave birth to 23 baby snakes on Sunday at the Singapore Zoo. The zoo brought in three South American anacondas to usher in the Tear of the Snake. The Straits Times
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    • Article
      Lock icon Major immunisation drive on the way
      347 2  -  Vaccination trials to combat diarrhoea-causing Rotavirus By Gail Aw local@eyeball.com.sg A MAJOR immunisation trial, designed to combat the Rotavirus which affects toddlers, is taking off in Singapore. The virus causes acute diarrhoea in children and could be fatal. A vaccine, developed by GlaxoSmithKline and
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Book Tibs taxi by SMS
        77 2 FROM today, Tibs will be the first operator to offer Short Message Service (SMS) taxi booking. However, it is only currently open to the 11,500 members of Tibs’ automatic vehicle location and dispatch service, Skytrek. The service will let customers save on mobile-phone charges and
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        Lock icon Car-Free Day gains a following
        74 2 NINE more days to Car-Free Day (CFD), and its organiser, the Singapore Environment Council, has already garnered much support from individuals, companies, and ministries. So far, about 80 companies including Hewlett Packard, Singapore Airlines and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing have pledged their commitment to get employees
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      • Article
        Lock icon Agencies help zip the red tape
        94 2 HOPEFULLY, this will end the frustration you experience when you have to contact a Government official regarding the maintenance of public property. You can now turn to nine lead agencies dealing with a variety of complaints from maintenance of trees, roads and drains, to
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      359 3 WASHINGTON Scott Evertz, a leader among gay Republicans in Wisconsin, will be named director of the White House Office of National Aids Policy. Members of gay groups said it was the first time an openly gay man or a lesbian had been chosen for appointment by any Republican
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      Lock icon Floating euthanasia clinic Down Under?
      145 3 SYDNEY The world’s first floating euthanasia clinic will drop anchor off the Australian coast and administer lethal injections or drug dosages to terminally ill patients, if Dr Philip Nitschke has his way. Euthanasia is illegal in Australia, but Dr Nitschke or “Dr Death” as he
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      Lock icon It was routine, says ministry
      419 3 Attending Keadilan briefing was S’pore diplomat’s job Wires A SINGAPORE diplomat attended a Parti Keadilan Nasional briefing as part of his duties to follow political developments in Malaysia, clarified a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman (MFA) yesterday. The spokesman was addressing media queries after reports
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Expats chime in on Singlish debate
        1341 4  -  YS Lam and Gail Aw Foreigners often find Singaporeans incomprehensible at first. But most say that when conducting business, people speak English properly. WONGSHER MAINE (sh er@sph. com. sg) reports. ALAMAK, so the Speak Good English Movement (SGEM) has been launched to ensure that
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      Lock icon System glitch hiked up fare
      551 5  -  Commuters on SBS 199 paid more for over a month By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg AFTER Singapore Power, it’s the Singapore Bus Service’s (SBS) turn to report a systems glitch. Several Nanyang Technological University (NTU) students who took re-routed bus service 199 were charged 10
      Clarence Chan  -  551 words
    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Motorists unite to pressure oil companies
        814 6  -  ‘Rolling’ boycott campaign launched online to press for lower pump prices By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg MO B.P. FOR APRIL 2001 This is the exhortation posted on the site urging motorists to boycott the “cartel”. NOW it is time to make oil companies take notice
        Wang Hui Fen  -  814 words
    • Health
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        Lock icon More women opt for C-sections
        775 7  -  Superstitions, vanity drive many decisions By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg IT’S A worrisome trend, say doctors. More women here are opting for Caesarian sections because of nonmedical reasons, bordering on vanity and superstition. “It’s a disturbing trend. They opt for Caesarians rather than a normal delivery,”
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      • Stork OPTIONS
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          Lock icon Conceived after going off the pill? Don’t worry
          406 7 DEAR Dr Chen: I stopped taking birth control pills about two months ago and became pregnant a month later. Will the estrogen in my body cause complications for my baby? What is the chance of problems occurring? ANXIOUS Dr Chen replies: Studies
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    • The World
      • Demands and deadlines
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          Lock icon Meet terms and Mega will replace Gus Dur, says PDI-P
          368 8 Wires JAKARTA The wait could be over. Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri’s party has revealed three pre-conditions for her to replace embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid, an aide disclosed yesterday. And Golkar has reiterated its decision to support her. The “Java” touch of
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          Lock icon Amien, Akbar set tete-a-tete terms
          480 8 JAKARTA At least two invitees have confirmed their attendence, with strings attached, to a heart-to-heart with President Abdurrahman Wahid. One of them his most vocal critic and People’s Consultative Assembly Speaker Amien Rais has greeted Abdurrahman’s latest attempt to ward off the threat of a
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        Lock icon Bush tells China to let crew go
        714 9 Says relations could be damaged Wires China planning nuke test WASHINGTON China is preparing to conduct a small, underground nuclear test in the midst of a standoff with the US over the detention of 24 American military personnel, reported The Washington Times yesterday.
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        Lock icon TO APOLOGISE OR NOT TO...
        489 9 SHOULD the United States say sorry, or is China being too belligerent? Excerpts from some commentary and opinion pieces on the ongoing spy plane standoff. Chalmers Johnson, a writer, who contributed this comment to The Los Angeles Times: (The US administration) seems to think that
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Compact video and audio, all in one
        388 11  -  First MP4 player to debut at $800 By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg YOU’VE heard about MP3. Now get ready for MP4. Korean-based firm Impactra intends to release the Sync-i touted as the world’s first MP4 player in Singapore by July or August. But early
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        Lock icon Put a PC on your Mac
        663 11  -  CROSS-PLATFORM SOFTWARE By Anil Menon anil@sph.com.sg YOU’RE a die-hard Mac user, but your office, like most, has a PC network and you have to bring work home. Or all your friends play games that have no Mac versions, and they are beginning to leave
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        Lock icon Put your 3D image into games
        679 12  -  Hi-tech Avatar Booth’s in town By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg JEALOUS of pop stars Robbie Williams and David Bowie who have starred in computer games as three-dimensional heroes? Fed up of having to be Lara Croft when playing Tomb Raider? Well, now it’s your turn
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      • Article
        Lock icon Intel closing in on 2 GHz
        85 12 CALIFORNIA The speed war continues. Intel is set to release a 1.7 GHz Pentium 4 processor into a market awash in price cuts and discounts. The 1.7 GHz Pentium 4, will debut on April 23 in PCs from Dell Computer, among others, sources told
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Troubled wait
        47 13 Creditors of debt-ridden Asia Pulp Paper (APP) attending a meeting called by the troubled company in Singapore yesterday. Singapore-based and New York-listed APP called for a moratorium on its sn-billion debt last month after it failed to meet interest and principal repayments on bonds. Reuters
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        Lock icon Bank stocks drag STI to two-year low
        638 13  -  Corporate moves fuel sell-off in DBS, OCBC By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg HOW the moral of the markets has changed. These days, it seems to be: Never put your money in a bank. A bank stock, that is. Or perhaps any stock for that
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      • Business BUZZ
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          59 13 HONG KONG-based Sunday Communications has pulled out of the race to bid for a 3G licence here, as it failed to submit a banker’s guarantee to the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore by yesterday’s deadline. It was one of the four bidders for IDA’s auction of3G mobile licences.
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          Lock icon Sing dollar pressure
          88 13 THE Singapore dollar remained under selling pressure due to the regional trend and reports that DBS Group was set to make a bid of up to HK$45 billion (5510.46 billion) for Hong Kong’s Dao Heng Bank. But wariness of central bank intervention provided some support to currency,
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          Lock icon STE profits up
          62 13 DEFENCE engineering conglomerate Singapore Technologies Engineering said yesterday that despite the absence of major deliveries in the next quarter, the group’s performance as a whole for the second quarter was expected to be comparable to the first. Its first quarter net profit rose 28 per cent to
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      • Article
        Lock icon Shorter cigarette butts point to hard times
        455 13 HEALTH OF ECONOMY NYT NEW YORK On Wall Street, there is an economic indicator that is found not in the financial pages, but on the pavement. Cigarette butts: The longer the butt, the better the times. In this cycle of fiscal uncertainty, it
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    • Mailbox
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        Lock icon It’s not all in the name
        797 14  -  By Dave Barry SEVERAL months ago, out of the blue, a company named “Cingular” started sending me bills. I had never heard of Cingular, and I honestly did not know what these bills were for, so I put them in the pile where I
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      • Expat EYE
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          Lock icon Driving ambition
          700 15  -  By Rand Miranda rand@sph.com.sg EVER since I landed on the shores of Singapore, I’ve been driven to distraction. Yep, in cabs, buses and MRT, I’ve been driven around. Which isn’t that much of a distraction since the public transport infrastructure here is exemplary. But I’ve owned a licence
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      • Article
        Lock icon SWINGING LIKE A YO-YO
        78 15 THE Institute of Mental Health (IMH) says there’s been an alarming rise in anxiety disorder and depression cases here. Stress could be a major factor. Are you at risk? What’s your current mental state? 39%-So -so; the usual ups and downs. 22% Shaken, but not stirred.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      19 2 (food morning! Showers with thunder in the afternoon. High: 33C1 Low: 25C Tides: 12.09AM/2.8M 12.50 PM/3.0M Met Service: http:/Avww.gov.sg/metsin
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      37 4 Native English speakers, do you think it’s really difficult to understand Singlish? Tell us your wildest experiences. Also, do you think that Singaporeans need a campaign to help correct the way they speak? Tell us at http^/eyeball.
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      75 6 What do you think about this consumer campaign? What else can motorists do to pressure petrol companies to lower pump prices? Tell us at http://eyeball.a&ial com.sg http://homepages.about. com/breakthecartel More about this local consumer movement, which is trying to pressure petrol companies in Singapore to lower their pump prices. The Singapore
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      128 7 1 Not everyone agrees with Dr Christopher Chen. In response to his March 20 column, a group within the Singapore Radiology Society wrote to Eyeball to argue that uterine artery embolisation (UAE), which is in fact available here since 1999, does offer a high success rate when used to treat
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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      71 12 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET HELEN, IT'S 5 O CLOCK W THE MORNING! I MUST FIGHT .THIS I7ESIRE TO CAOKLE ©OOP!' ivy.; mr 3\ s hello Helen? BUT I FEEL mmeiet I'VE GOT > a c&tete* i neep IV THERAPY t/04 x ;K ANP.f FfGLffcßP X fjC^ YOU PROBABLY STILL
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        64 16 AFP SUZUKA-Italian Valentino Rossi made a perfect start to the new motorcycling season by winning the seasonopening Japanese Grand Prix here on Sunday. The victory also marked Honda’s 500th victory in its four decades of Grand Prix motorcycling, in addition to its success in other motor sports. Rossi
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      • Article
        Lock icon Cricket probe
        62 16 Reuters WELLINGTON New Zealand cricket authorities yesterday said they would send a letter to Pakistan urging it to formally investigate allegations of matchfixing during a February tour of New Zealand. New Zealand Cricket operations manager John Reid said he was surprised that sacked Pakistan coach Javed Miandad had
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      • Article
        Lock icon Boxing ban urged
        65 16 AFP SYDNEY Australian doctors yesterday called for a boxing ban after fighter Ahmad Popal, who was injured in a bantamweight title fight last Friday, died. Australian Medical Association president Michael Sedgley called boxing a high-risk “unsporting” activity, with boxers risking severe head injuries and long-term illnesses. But
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      • Article
        Lock icon Australia scores
        56 17 COFFS HARBOUR (Australia) Australia scored the most comprehensive victory in soccer internationals’ history yesterday when it beat Tonga 22-0 in Oceania’s First round of qualifying for the 2002 World Cup Finals. A Fifa spokesman said the previous record in an international was China’s 20-0 defeat of Bhutan in
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        Lock icon Chiefs on Green
        61 17 JUST how much longer will the Kansas City Chiefs be standing behind Todd Collins as their quarterback? General manager Carl Peterson said the deal to obtain Trent Green NFL’s second-highest-ranked passer last year is in jeopardy because of excessive demands by the St Louis Rams and that
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        Lock icon Dope claims
        62 17 Wires NEW YORK CBS News on Sunday quoted former US Olympics Committee doping control ofFicial Wade Exum as saying that the US had sent drug-using athletes to past Olympics and the Sydney Games. A transcript of the network’s 60 Minutes II programme, due to be broadcast on Tuesday,
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      Lock icon Tiger slam!
      638 16 Woods triumphs in Augusta—is there no stopping this guy? USA Today NOW, Tiger Woods stands in a place all his own. It will be up to others to decide what it is called. Was it a true Grand Slam that came with an extraordinary Masters on Sunday, when
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    • Article
      Lock icon THE GUY WHO KNOWS NO CEILINGS
      216 16  -  By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg GOING into the Masters, there were some strange rumblings. Augusta favours foreigners. Vijay Singh will win. Don’t bet on Tiger. Bet on Bernhard Langer. Tiger’s lost his A-game. Blah, blah, blah. Well, now you know. It wasn’t the record-setting performance
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      Lock icon Liverpool ‘ahead of schedule’
      355 17 HOULLIER’S WARNING TO WENGER LIVERPOOL has Fired the First salvo. A confident Gerard Houllier has announced that his side is ready for the FA Cup final clash against Arsenal next month, and warned Arsene Wenger: “My boys are ahead of schedule.” A majestic header from substitute
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      Lock icon Heat stave off Knicks’ late rally
      372 17 Hardaway scores 25 points for Miami AP MIAMI When Muhammad Ali and his 10-year-old son, Asaad, visited the Miami Heat locker room following Sunday’s game, the youngster slowly approached Tim Hardaway for an autograph. “He thinks you’re great,” Ali said. “He thinks we’re the
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      148 17 Formula 1: British American Racing star Jacques Villeneuve, who was 1997 Formula One World Champion, 1995 IndyCar Champion and the youngest driver to win the Indianapolis 500 is 30 today. Check out PlanetFl for their tribute to the man and his career. (http://www.planet-fl.com/ news/article.html/fl/ ENG?ref=5643) Soccer: Club loyalty
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  • Unwind
    • Fashion
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        Lock icon Role MODELS
        1159 18 NYT Hollywood stars such as lima 1 luirman ami Penelope C ruz are finding it as lucrative to plav model as it is to nah movie roles. A RUTH LA FERLA report s Jm on Tinseltown s latest phenomenon. Jmk I HI lllilffilliliiiil T WAS a part to
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        Lock icon STAR-SELLING POWER
        302 19  -  Serene Goh HOLLYWOOD’S long-time advice is and this ranks up there with never work with kids and animals don’t hire a model to do an actor’s job. But, with the string of actors headed for print fashion ads, it seems that the style industry has no qualms picking
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        Lock icon Strike a pose Orchard Road
        736 20 The plan is to turn Orchard Road into a more happening place. The inspiration is to create a Fashion Incubator where young designers can showcase their works. The problem? Capital. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) reports. F ALL goes well, fledgling local designers will soon have a
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        Lock icon BE A FASHION DESIGNER
        318 20 FANCY being the next Alexander McQueen? Well, enter the Singapore Fashion Designers Contest and you could have that chance. You can succeed in this industry, as previous winners have proved: Gary Goh, 30, won the Singapore Fashion Designers Contest in 1993, on his third attempt. He
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      • Personal STYLE
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          Lock icon Fashionable Ferhad
          582 21 Singapore's newest local singer Ferhad Iberhim wears his clothes beautifully. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) finds out how he manages to look so well groomed. IS debut album Tubed has already earned him accolades in Malaysia, and is making music fans in Singapore, Britain and the rest of Europe sit
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      • Fashion LOG
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          Lock icon JPG launches bodycare
          69 21 COCOONED in the same seductive hourglass figure of his perfumes is Jean Paul Gaultier’s newest line, bodycare. Taking the sensuality of touch to the extreme, the bottles are satiny-smooth, with a delicate pink skin-tone colour. The four-product range body lotion ($5B), bath and shower gel ($5O), body
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          Lock icon Origins’ Nice Day
          96 21 ORIGINS’ ultimate supercharged daytime moisturiser, Have A Nice Day!, now comes in the form of a lotion, instead of cream. But the product, which comes with an SPFIS, is still packed with goodness time-tested extracts with advanced antioxidants to give your skin complete protection against the weather
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          Lock icon Time to Guess?
          95 21 GUESS?, the label synonymous with sensual and flirty casual wear, has released a Spring collection of watches that tout the same dictum. Logo mania pitches in with the letter “G” enamelled into the dials and straps of the Logo range. The popular G 3 chronograph exudes cutting-edge
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          Lock icon Crabtree & secretaries
          79 21  - Crabtree secretaries June Wan SHOW your appreciation for your hardworking secretary by buying her one of five Crabtree Evelyn gift sets developed especially for Secretaries’ Week, which starts on Sunday. Choose a lavender set ($75), relaxing aroma votive candles ($26.90) a spa set ($95), or a luscious food set ($59).
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    • Gender
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        Lock icon Butch Beauty
        992 22 NYT Androgyny reigns once again as major fashion houses fall for the masculine look. GUT TREBAY reports. ATURALLY, she is beautiful. Beauty is part of the job description. But her’s is not the complex loveliness of her grandmother, the Italian film star Lucia Bose. Rather, it is closer
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      • Gender BENDERS
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          Lock icon Stick to your gym routine
          60 23 DON’T get stumped by too many options in the gym. Indeed, Men’s Health magazine reports that switching programmes too often can sidetrack your goals. Resist the urge to use every new workout routine you see. But if you make your routine simpler and stick it
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        • Article
          Lock icon Don’t be knocked out cold
          91 23 OKAY, so we don’t yet have a cure for the common cold. But you can make yourself feel better if you have the sniffles, reports ABCnews.com. For instance, if people around you start sneezing and hacking or the kids are running a fever, you should
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        • Article
          Lock icon Deep voices up males’ appeal
          133 23  -  Serene Goh YES, men can make themselves irresistible to women. Just affect a deep booming voice, mention you’re already hitched and let slip that you’ve been to the gym. Of course, it helps if you look a little like Benicio Del Toro. According to The
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      • Venus & MARS
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          Lock icon Real men don’t drink fruit tea
          777 23 NYT Mango, passion fruit, rose, black currant, gingko tea. There's a frilly tea conspiracy out there and HOWARD KLEXNBERG just doesn't get it. AYBE this is just a L T J guy thing with me, i i H but I simply do j not
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon Chats & Mouse
      217 24 Chats Mouse Property laws of toddlers If I like it, it’s mine. If it’s in my hand, it’s mine. If I can take it from you, it’s mine. If I had it a little while ago, it’s mine. If it’s mine, it must never appear to be yours in any
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      Lock icon Zhang on Teen People’s list of Hottest Stars
      130 24 NINJA-ESQUE sweetie Zhang Ziyi (left) has made it onto the Teen People’s 25 Hottest Stars Under 25 issue. She is the only Chinese to be featured in the hit list of the sister publication of People magazine, alongside other personalities such as
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      Lock icon Bunton tops UK charts as solo act
      101 24 EMMA “BABY SPICE” BUNTON (right) has taken the solo route and shot to the top of the UK charts last week with her single, What Took You So Long. uk.news.yahoo reported that the single fought off a close challenge from Shaggy’s It Wasn’t
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Bussell’s joke: No Bond act for her
        57 24 PREGNANT London ballerina Darcey Bussell duped the media into believing she’ll co-star with Pierce Brosnan in the next James Bond flick. Internet news website Ananova and the BBC fell for the prank and reported it to other media outlets. No word on who
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        Lock icon Meanwhile...
        151 24 Wirse BOBBIE WILLIAMS wants his tiger underwear, used in his Rock DJ video, returned for a Sotheby’s auction. A selection of his weird stuff have been put up for the charity auction, including a motorised toilet he’s rode on stage... Man U football star David Beckham has invested £1
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