Project Eyeball, 24 April 2001

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  • Title Section
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    11 1 prjecteyeball. eyebalLasiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Tuesday, April 24, 2001 80 CENTS
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      440 1 MORE OF ME Celebrities such as Oprah have their own magazines, and guess who goes on the cover month after month? See Page 23 X MARES THE SPOT “Mathematics are one of the fundamentaries of educationalising our youths,” says President Bush. Who am I to disagree? See Page 23 RAGE
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      121 2 ALL the ETs may have gone home, and so the British Flying Saucer Bureau is closing after nearly 50 years of UFO spotting. The group, which once had 1,500 members worldwide, used to receive at least 30 reports a week of sightings of unidentified flying objects, but these had
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      Lock icon SIA heroine faces pay cut
      301 2 Farzana could lose $2,650 a month FARZANA ABDUL RAZAK, the SIA stewardess who was seriously injured when Flight SQOO6 crashed in Taipei last October, will be taking a hefty pay cut if she’s unable to report to work by next month. She’ll be losing $2,650
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Get shots before travelling
        81 2 TRAVELLERS to Saudi Arabia are advised to be vaccinated against strains A and C of the meningococcal infection, so as to guard against the more uncommon W 135 strain. Two pilgrims returning from the country have been infected with it. One patient has recovered, while the
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      • Article
        Lock icon CPI up 1.8% in March
        103 2 THE Consumer Price Index in March rose by 1.8 per cent compared to a year ago. This was mainly due to higher housing costs, which went up 4 per cent, and health costs which went up 3.6 per cent, and miscellaneous items which saw a
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      • Article
        Lock icon Think Centre website affected
        65 2 THINK CENTRE’S website was down for approximately two hours yesterday due to a glitch in the host company’s server. According to the Centre’s spokesman, Jacob George, the host server experienced some router problems. The civil society group has been publicising various activities involving opposition leaders on
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      • Article
        Lock icon Sistic scores a world first
        80 2 SISTIC.COM has scored a world first with its e-ticketing technology that enables it to deliver tickets to your home. It has tied up with Trustcopy which has invested about $3 million in research for this e-solution and expects the system to be ready by the
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      Lock icon Experts to review medical education
      290 2  -  TO MAKE SURE S’PORE SYSTEM IS UP-TO-DATE Denyse Yeo A COMPREHENSIVE review of Singapore’s medical education system. That’s what an international panel of medical-education experts, who are in town till Thursday, have been tasked with. They will help make sure that the system here is
      Law Kian Yan  -  290 words
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      300 3 HONGKONG Hong Kong International Airport emerged yesterday as the world’s best airport for 2001 in a British travel survey conducted on 412,000 passengers. Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport was voted second best in the survey, followed by Singapore’s Changi. TOKYO Six former top officials at a nuclear fuel-reprocessing
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      Lock icon One round of air, please
      58 3 It’s not beer that’s got these two Canadian tourists so cheery in Bangkok recently. Instead, they’re enjoying some fresh air in the capital’s first oxygen bar, 020. It offers a 20-minute breath of oxygen with aromatherapy for $4, giving people a chance to escape the
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      Lock icon Deadly HIV may turn life-saver
      472 3 Its Invasive nature can plant good genes, says biologist LONDON The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may become man’s next hope as a cure for cancer and other disabling inherited illnesses. But HIV as a cure sounds like an oxymoron how can a virus that destroys
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Arts Council funding sends confusing signals
        990 4 Some plays get it. Others don’t. And the National Arts Council gets flak for not being clear about what its criteria are. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) examines the issue. MONEY. When it had to come from the National Arts Council, it didn’t make Rent
        Clarence Chan; Law Kian Yan  -  990 words
    • Article
      Lock icon MONEY FOR THE ARTS
      250 4 THE National Arts Council provides various grants to performing arts companies: Two-year major grant: Helps develop leading Singapore arts organisations through the creation and presentation of innovative and artistically excellent programmes, and nurture world-class artistic talent. Some companies benefitting from this scheme are the Singapore Dance
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      Lock icon OTHER SOURCES OF ARTS FUNDING
      116 5 WHILE the National Arts Council may be the most active in providing funds for artists and arts groups, other alternative forms of funding are also making themselves available. Among these are the Lee Foundation and the Arts Fund, both of which are highly popular with
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Singapore’s eye in the sky
        519 6 Photo: Clarence Chan FROM the ground, it looks like a f lying pizza with wings. But its odd shape aside, the Republic of Singapore Air Forces E-zC Hawkeye airborne early-warning aircraft plays a crucial role. It can detect threats 20 minutes before they reach our
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        Lock icon NSP man hurt in accident
        207 6 POLITICAL ROAD TRIP CUT SHORT SEVENTEEN stitches in his mouth, pain in his chest, right elbow and knee, and a broken BMW motorbike. That’s what Steve Chia, assistant secretary-general of the National Solidarity Party (NSP), has to show for his solo road trip to North
        Law Kian Yan  -  207 words
    • Health
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        Lock icon Prozac takes away pain from periods
        438 7 PMS sufferers benefit, says study THEY don’t call it a wonder drug for nothing. The “sunshine” antidepressant drug, Prozac, may even help ease symptoms of severe premenstrual syndrome, report British newspapers. A study published yesterday by researchers at a university in Hamilton tested Prozac
        Desmond Wee  -  438 words
      • Stork OPTIONS
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          Lock icon Chances of becoming dad drop with age
          483 7 DEAR Dr Chen: Eve read countless articles on how women’s fertility is affected after they reach 35. At what age does a man’s fertility start to decline? Why? If I want children after I’m 40, will my chances be affected? KANCHEONG Dr Chen
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Gunmen in Turk hotel surrender
        495 8 Hostages released unharmed Wires ISTANBUL After 12 hours holed up in a luxury hotel, 13 pro-Chech-en gunmen surrendered to police yesterday and released, uninjured, all 120 hotel guests and staff members held hostage overnight. The gunmen agreed to end the standoff after Interior Minister Sadettin
        – Wires; AP; Reuters  -  495 words
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        Lock icon Cessna warned, ‘but didn’t respond’
        489 8 MISSIONARY PLANE AND PERU AIR FORCE ON DIFFERENT CHANNELS Reuters PHILADELPHIA The tragic shooting down of a US missionary plane by the Peruvian Air Force could have been caused by a series of errors in communication. The pilot of the Cessna 185 said he pleaded
        – Reuters; AFP  -  489 words
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        Lock icon Prime Minister Koizumi?
        691 9 Hashimoto’s power broker concedes defeat after reformer sweeps party’s primary ballots Reuters TOKYO Outspoken reformer Junichiro Koizumi appeared poised yesterday to win the race to become Japan’s Prime Minister after he swept voting by local chapters of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). His triumph over the
        – Reuters; AFP  -  691 words
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        Lock icon Gus Dur still undaunted
        310 9 PRESIDENT’S BACKERS CONTUNUE SHOW OF STRENGTH Wires JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid expressed confidence that the country was capable of overcoming its problems despite being at a critical juncture right now. He gave his assessment at a swearing-in ceremony for four new ambassadors, who are to
        – Wires; AP  -  310 words
    • Technology
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        Lock icon Wait for cheaper surfing not over
        617 10  -  New broadband providers to focus on businesses first By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg IF YOU’VE been waiting for cheaper and faster broadband access, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. The rates for unlimited access from the two new kids on the Internet access block
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        Lock icon Home in the sky
        88 10 The International Space Station viewed from the US space shuttle Endeavour on Saturday as the shuttle approached the station and docked. The hatches were opened on Monday when air pressure on both sides was equal. The seven-person international crew is scheduled to carry out joint operations
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      • Article
        Lock icon Yahoo opening big entertainment site
        240 10 TO ATTRACT MORE SURFERS AND ADVERTISERS Reuters PALO ALTO (California) Yahoo unveils today a new broadcast site offering an increased selection of audio, video and multimedia content. The effort aims to attract more visitors as well as advertisers. The company said the new service will
        – Reuters  -  240 words
    • Business
      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon Raffles goes Swiss
          82 11 MAINBOARD-LISTED hotel group Raffles Holdings announced yesterday that it was buying Swissotel Hotels Resorts for $439 million. Raffles said it will buy the 23-hotel chain from Swiss aviation conglomerate SAirGroup via a cash acquisition of its stock and assume debt totalling 122 million francs (S$130.56 million). SAirGroup,
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          Lock icon STXupl.7%
          76 11 THE benchmark Straits Times Index closed 1.7 per cent higher yesterday on a continued blue-chip rally following last week’s US Federal Reserve rate cut of 50 basis points, according to dealers. The index gained 28.71 points to end the day at 1,684.9. The top gainer was DBS Bank, which
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        • Article
          Lock icon Low growth
          89 11 A SURVEY by market research firm AC Nielsen on Singapore’s consumer spending last year has revealed that despite a 2 per cent growth in the dollar value of spending, the value growth of consumer expenditure remained low when compared to the 3.2 per cent increase in population, a
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          Lock icon New stakeholder
          48 11 HONGKONG-BASED BondsInAsia, which operates an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities in Asia, announced yesterday that French-bank BNP Paribas has invested an undisclosed amount in its venture. The bank will hold an equal share in BondsInAsia with existing shareholders Citigroup, HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Bridge eMarkets.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Stocks also have Monday blues
        420 11  -  THEY PERFORM THE WORST AFTER ‘BAD FRIDAY’ By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg MONDAY morning blues is not a problem peculiar only to people. Even the markets behave lethargically on the first working day of the week. Investors looking to buy stocks might want to time their
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      • Taking STOCK
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          Lock icon Templeton’s tenets
          630 11 Photo: AP Sir John Templeton, the founder of the Templeton organisation Templeton Qlohal Investment Funds is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of global investing. He has retired from active management of the Templeton f unds, but has left managers who follow these 16 immortal principles of
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    • Mailbox
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        Lock icon Maths: The X-act science
        795 13  -  By Dave Barry Miami Herald PRESIDENT BUSH says our schools need to do a better job of teaching mathematics, and I agree with him 150 per cent. Many high-school students today can’t even calculate a square root! Granted, I can’t calculate a square root either, but
        – Miami Herald; Paul Reic Roca  -  795 words
      • Expat EYE
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          Lock icon United in rain speak
          806 14  -  By Susan Carroll susanc@sph.com.sg WHEN I ring home from Singapore each week, the first question my mother tends to ask is, “What’s the weather like?” Hot, I say, and dry. Or hot and wet. I’m still waiting for that cool and wet season, or is it
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          Lock icon WEBSITE IRRITANTS
          59 14 WHAT are your biggest pet peeves about websites? 50% Pop-up/animated/banner ads. 14% Java applets that crash my browser. 13% Slow-loading, chunky graphics. 12% Long and pointless Flash intros without a “Skip it” option. 5% Confusing, unfriendly navigation. 3% Garish wallpaper and hard to read fonts. 3% “Under -construction”
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      29 2 (food morning! 4 4 Showers with thunder over many areas in the late morning and early afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 11.48AM/2.7M 11.43PM/2.8M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/metsin
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      38 4 With more new plays expected to push the bounds of controversy, should NAC set down a transparent set of funding guidelines? Or are such hard-and-fast rules going to curb experimentation, rather than help it? Tell us at asiaLcosLSg
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      65 7 On the Net: How to alleviate pre-menstrual symptoms: http:/ www.onewoman, com/redspot/do.html Learn more about PMS. http://www.drgaila.com/ quizzes/pms/quiz.htm Take this quiz to find out how severe your PMS symptoms are. http://www.pmsingwoman.com An online support group for women who suffer from PMS. Send in your fertility queries to talk@eyebalLcom.sg or by snail
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Reds beat Spurs
        87 15 AFP LONDON For the third game in a row, Gary McAllister provided the decisive goal as Liverpool beat Tottenham 3-1 on Sunday to stay in contention for a place in next season’s European Champions League. Liverpool, already chasing a unique cup treble, moved past Chelsea into fifth
        – AFP; Reuters  -  87 words
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        Lock icon Roma still in lead
        82 15 AP ROME AS Roma erased its two-match winless streak by beating Udinese 3-1 on Sunday to stay atop the Italian league standings. Its win moved the team six points clear of second-placed Juventus, which drew 0-0 at Parma. Scoring for Roma were Damiano Tommasi, Vicenzo Montella
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        Lock icon Real Madrid wins
        79 15 AP MADRID Real Madrid took another step toward the La Liga title with a 3-2 win at Zaragoza, while Barcelona slumped to a 3-1 defeat at struggling Osasuna and had three players Simao, Ivan de la Pena and Sergi Barjuan sent off in the second half. After
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      Lock icon Davids flunks drug test
      297 15 Fails urine test after March 4 match AP MILAN- Juventus’ Dutch star Edgar Davids has tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone, Italy’s leading sports daily reported on Sunday. La Gazzetta dello Sport said the urine of the 28-year-old midfielder tested non-negative in an anti-dop-ing exam
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      Lock icon Rahman may fight with Tyson first
      391 15 INHERITS MANDATORY DEFENCE AP NEW YORK Iron Mike Tyson is on the verge of getting a heavyweight championship fight because of a right hand he didn’t even throw. Hasim Rahman threw it, then chanted, “No Lewis-Tyson, no Lewis-Tyson”. The punch knocked Lennox Lewis loose
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      99 15 FOOTBALL: With its win over Spurs on Sunday, is Liverpool slowly getting out of Manchester United’s shadow? Hear what Macca has to say of the Reds’ hope of the Treble at http://www.skysports.com MBA: The Lakers are starting to look more like defending champions on the court. Find out
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      Lock icon Lakers’ message: ‘It’s our time’
      852 16 TrailBlazers crushed 106-93 in playoff opener Lat-Wp LOS ANGELES Not bad for a hockey town. Those poor Portland Trailßlazers stepped from Figueroa Street into a time warp. From a sunny April to a maddening June. From an ordinary Game 1 to a howling Game 7.
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Capriati wins
        84 16 Reuters CHARLESTON Second-seeded Jennifer Capriati wore down world No 1 Martina Hingis with an onslaught of deep, penetrating ground strokes to claim a 6-0, 4-6,6-4 victory in the final of the Family Circle Cup over the weekend. The win is set to take Capriati up to fourth in
        – Reuters; AP  -  84 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Hockey foes draw
        82 16 AP BUENOS AIRES Argentina and Australia drew 1-1 in the first game of a four-match women’s field hockey test series on Sunday, a face-off being billed as the Olympic final revenge. Australia beat Argentina 3-1 at the Sydney Olympics, but since then nine of their squad have
        – AP  -  82 words
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        Lock icon Record unbroken
        97 16 AFP WALNUT (California)Marion Jones failed in her bid to break the 300 m world record on Sunday at the Mt SAC Relays. Jones, who won three gold medals at the Sydney Olympics, won the event in 35.68 seconds but missed the world mark -a 35.46 effort by Britain’s
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Textures for the masses
      762 17 Tonight's Temasek Design School's Apparel Design and Merchandising graduation show will be its biggest in its four-year history. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) learns why. THINK twice before pooh-poohing the student fashion show. You never know when you might spot the next Stella McCartney, Katherine Hamnett, John Galliano,
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    • Fashion
      • Personal STYLE
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          Lock icon Musical flair
          488 19 LXM HUI LING- (fun@eyeball.com.sg) discusses eggs, foot reflexology and retro bell-bottoms with Hong Kong's prince of hip-hop Alex To. HHHHHH OST people L T J idolise pop icons I like Michael j Jackson. It is no different with Alex To he is a fan of Jackson, too. But
          Mike Lee  -  488 words
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        Lock icon Accessories take couture spotlight
        451 19  -  By Suzy Menkes IHT PARIS French fashion held an open house for accessories earlier this month. And so powerful are these expensive little treasures that clothes now seem like the extras. From Versace mules in champagne-pink pony skin to embroidery encrusting Nina Gill’s bags and belts
        – IHT; Reuters  -  451 words
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        Lock icon Cool about Cannes
        726 20 Pierre Rissient, who helped Eric Khoo break into the Cannes Film Festival, now finds himself in the producers seat at the Singapore International Film Festival. He talks to JEANMARIETAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) about the cut-throat world of film festivals, minus the drama. S KEY talent scout and programmer of
        Wang Huifen  -  726 words
      • Fashion LOG
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          Lock icon Nautica goes denim
          92 20 FOR the man who wants variety in jeanswear, Nautica has premiered its spring/summer denim range here. Fashionable males will hanker for the handbrushed vintage look, in both the usual and utility carpenter-jeans styles with 18and 19-inch bottom openings, and features such as a rubber-like thermo-reactive denim coating.
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          Lock icon Cosmetic bouns
          66 20 REPLENISHING your makeup needn’t burn a hole in the pocket. From now till Dec 1, shopping for cosmetics at True Colours will be more rewarding. For every $250 spent, customers get a $5O voucher. While six people will win a pair of return air tickets to Hong Kong
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          Lock icon JPG’s summer scent
          82 20 NEXT to his fashion shows, Jean Paul Gaultier’s limited edition summer fragrances are his most eagerly awaited creations. This time round, the scent Classique is a sexy, sun-kissed and alcohol-free fragrance and body gel inspired by pansies. The scent ($75) gets its freshness from Silician mandarin, Bulgarian
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          Lock icon How logo can yon go?
          86 20 IT’S okay to flash that brand name about, now that Louis Vuitton has brought logomania back into fashion. Bvlgari’s Logomania Spring Kits are a collection of seven all-time favourite Bvlgari scents presented in logo-clad packaging. Prices range from $42 for the Petits et Mamans Kit
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    • Gender
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        Lock icon After divorce come the funny stories
        340 21 ATLANTA Karen Karbo knows that divorce is painful, but the Oregon author has managed to find humour in the relationships that develop after marriages end. “Every ex has his or her own bizarre, blackly comic stories of revenge, depression and the new complexities of
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        Lock icon Wedded but solitary bliss
        710 21 Lat-Wp They're Westernised, want privacy, but not children. While they get married to please their seniors, EDWARD A GARGAN finds that the trend is to maintain distance. O WHITE gown for LiRongonher wedding day. No veil either. A husband was there, but Li wasn’t planning on
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      • Gender BENDERS
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          Lock icon Don’t get shorty
          94 22 AGEING is a bummer, not least because it makes you shrink. Avoid it by starting on a fitness regimen. Aerobic exercise, it has been shown, can stop the shrinking process that comes with age, reports Men’s Health. A team of researchers at the Wingate Institute in Israel
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          Lock icon Love, Italian style
          112 22 A LITTLE infidelity can turn a man into a better husband. Or so the Italians would have you believe. According to a study published in the journal Psychology and Communication, many Italian men compensate for their guilt in having affairs by being more affectionate to their wives.
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        • Article
          Lock icon Not Just a painkiller
          65 22 DO NOT belittle the humble aspirin. It can do more than get rid of that headache after your mother’s through with your spouseless state. A study by the Imperial College of London apparently shows that it is also a good little soldier against prostate cancer. The
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      • Venus & MARS
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          Lock icon Real men don’t need tools
          668 22 Do all men turn into whimpering weak kneed buffoons at the sight of power drills and other gadgets? Not RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg). OW many times have you flipped through a man’s magazine only to chance upon a picture of a rugged workman in a sweatshirt
          Paul Eric Roca  -  668 words
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon From cover to cover
        915 23 AP It’s no longer enough for Hollywood stars just to appear on the cover of magazines. Celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O'Donnell are putting out mags named after themselves. PETER CARLSON reports. CELEBRITIES are like dictators: They want everything. You give them a chunk of
        – AP; Reuters  -  915 words
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        Lock icon NEW CHAMPIONS OF NARCISSISM
        139 23 THE Olsen twins (left), Mary-Kate and Ashley, can’t seem to get enough of themselves. Just look at how much of them there is in the first issue of their mag. PHOTOS: 63, including ads for their TV shows, their video game, their line of teen clothing,
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      22 20 Catch Boesman Lena tonight at 7, Golden Village Grand. Tickets are still available at CalendarONE hotline: 296 2929 and online at http://www.filmfest.org.sg
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon Chat & Mouse
      250 24 Chat Mouse Did you know Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least I.Bm away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. No piece of
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      Lock icon ‘Slappy’ Happy People guitarist in court for air rage
      81 24 REM guitarist Peter Bnch (right) appeared in a London court yesterday on air-rage charges. Ananova.com reported that Buck faced two counts of common assault on an air crew, among other charges. The guitarist for the band that had a hit with
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      Lock icon Turlington, Burns have baby-bonus plans
      123 24 SUPERMODEL Christy Turlington (right) let on that fiance/actor Ed Burns and she are setting making babies the No 1 priority after their wedding come autumn. She told Vogue Germany she wanted “at least four or five” kids. A dedicated yoga practitioner, Turlington would raise her
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Williams shops, Halliwell ‘skitches’
        128 24 LONDON’S Daily Star reported on Robbie Williams’ spending binge over the weekend as he blew £15,000 (5539,200) in an hour on designer gear for fieri Halliwell, in a bid to heal a rift. And she might have been an United Nations goodwill ambassador, but the former
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        Lock icon Meanwhile...
        67 24 Wires THE National Enquirer reports that Jennifer Anwton has refused to cover her sick Mum’s hospital bills after she was recently warded for double pneumonia-Sylveater Stallone has undergone what seems to be a mid-life epiphany. “Climbing that mountain of ambition, being so prolific, put the emphasis on the wrong
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