Project Eyeball, 29 May 2001

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  • Title Section
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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Tuesday, May 29, 2001 80 CENTS
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      506 1 MEN CAN COOK When it comes to housework, men aren’t sloppy they’re just more high-tech and efficient, says Alvin Pang. See Page 22 KSU ADAPTING WITH ACALCULATOR American Rand Miranda not only has to get used to a new culture (and Singlish), he, like most expatriates, had to consult a
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      108 2 A CALIFORNIAN couple has won US$lBO,OOO (*****,000) from Heinz because a ketchup bottle they bought was a teaspoon short. Bill and Marcia Baker discovered the 500-ml bottle was underfilled while baking five years ago. When Bill poured the sauce into measuring cups, he saw there wasn’t the 500 ml
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    • Article
      Lock icon Fly on your seat of choice
      391 2  -  SIA to let economy-class passengers pick seating online BY EUGENE WEE eugenew@sph.com.sg WINDOW, aisle or right smack in the centre it’s your choice. Economy-class passengers on Singapore Airlines (SIA) will soon be able to choose online where they want to be seated on their
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Strengthening the bond
        36 2 A father and his son rock climbing over the weekend at the Singapore Training and Development Association on Yuan Ching Road, part of "bonding” activities organised by the Centre for Fathering. Emmanuel Khong
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      • Article
        Lock icon Get your Aussie visa online
        89 2 IF YOU are heading Down Under this school holiday, you can get your visa through the Internet. The cyber equivalent of a visa, the Electronic Travel Authority (ETA), will be issued in seconds. It is valid for both social and business visits of up to
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      • Article
        Lock icon Tourist arrivals drop in April
        50 2 SINGAPORE tourist arrivals fell 3.8 per cent year-on-year to 612,800 in April, caught by down- turns in its two biggest markets, Indonesia and Japan. Arrivals from Indonesia in April fell 5.6 per cent to 94,433, while Japanese numbers were down 3.6 per cent to 58,340.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Training standards for herbalists
        101 2 TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine practitioners were urged yesterday to develop training standards to help shore up their professional image and gain customer confidence. Chan Soo Sen, Senior Parliament Secretary at the Health Ministry, told reporters yesterday that he has asked herbalists from the Singapore Chinese Druggists Association
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      Lock icon Boy in hospital with shock after Westlife show
      148 2 CONCERT CASUALTY A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy was one of two people who were sent to hospital after a concert by Irish band Westlife on Sunday night at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. The boy was in a shock apparently overcome by fear of the
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      324 3 LONDON*" I The Conservative Party, gambling that public j I opposition to the European single currency could boost its sagging election fortunes, jg charges that converting to Euro would cost the country five times as much as it spent j dealing with the millennium bug. s WASHINGTON The
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      Lock icon Villages dying of Aids in China
      484 3 Blood selling leads to HIV epidemic in Henan province NYT DONGHU (China) The most striking things about people from this village are that their threadbare clothes seem way too big and nearly all of them share a hollow, desperate look in their eyes. In
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      Lock icon THE VICIOUS CYCLE
      186 3 CHINESE drug companies saw isolated villages in the early 1990 s as an ideal place to get cheap, clean plasma, the part of the blood that is used to make medicines like gamma globulin and clotting factors. Health officials became enthusiastic middlemen, setting up blood-collection stations that
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    • Eyeball
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        Lock icon Holland Village eateries in trouble
        925 4  -  URA may soon order their relocation BY KARL HO karl@sph.com.sg FIVE upmarket restaurants along Jalan Merah Saga in Holland Village are breaking the rules by continuing to offer their popular alfresco dining areas. Closing these sections, some of the owners told Eyeball, could mean losing
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon New phase for Opposition
        650 5  -  Observers happy with smooth transition of power in Workers’ Party and new leader BY DENYSE YEO denyse@sph.com.sg THE old warrior may not like what he hears on the ground. But, really, J B Jeyaretnam’s departure from the helm of the Workers’ Party (WP) after last Sunday’s
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    • Health
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        339 6 Eggs for sale at $180,000 America’s brightest women are selling their eggs to pay college tuition fees LOS ANGELES Forget the age-old dilemma regarding the egg or the chicken, here’s an easier question to answer: What comes first egg or college? For some of America’s brightest women, selling their eggs
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        291 6 SWEDISH LONGEVITY STUDY LONDON The next time a woman asks: “Does my bum look big in this?” tell her larger derrieres are a sign of good health. It seems that big-bottomed women now have good reason to cheer. New research has found that women with
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      • Stork OPTIONS
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          424 6 This weekly column features readers queries, answered by fertility expert Dr Christopher Chen. DEAR Dr Chen: Which is a more accurate indicator of ovulation cervical mucus or temperature elevation? Dr Chen replies: Before I answer your question, I want to clarify what ovulation really is,
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Graft cases closed but impeachment rolls on
        150 7 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia’s attorney-general yesterday cleared President Abdurrahman Wahid of any wrongdoing over two graft scandals that drew parliamentary censures and triggered a push towards impeachment. But the decision is unlikely to derail growing pressure to oust him because the criticism has moved
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        Lock icon Gus Dur acts, but what did he do?
        635 7 Vague call to enforce law and order leaves observers dumbfounded Wires JAKARTA Two days before a showdown with a Parliament bent on impeaching him, President Abdurrahman Wahid confounded his opponents with an innoc-uous-sounding statement. In a nationally televised address yesterday, he ordered
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        Lock icon ‘NOTHING SPECIAL’
        158 7 Wires JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid’s political rivals pounced on his statement that called on security forces to enforce law and order in the country as ineffectual. Amien Rais, speaker of the supreme People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) said: “It’s nothing significant...nothing specialnothing important.” He added: “I am taking this...as
        – Wires; Reuters  -  158 words
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        Lock icon Day 2 of riots in Oldham contained
        360 8 Twelve whites and Asians arrested Reuters OLDHAM (England) A second night of rioting between whites and Asians here died down early yesterday after hours of petrol bomb attacks and stone-throwing. “We managed to contain the situation using zero tolerance and a massive presence.
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      • Article
        Lock icon HOW THE VIOLENCE STARTED
        156 8 An argument between two 15-year-old boys one white, one Asian snowballed Saturday evening when the mother of the white boy called for help on her mobile phone. Ten white men arrived in two taxis minutes later and rampaged down the street, attacking houses and shops owned
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        Lock icon Tackling the deeper causes
        322 8 LONDON Why are there no riots in Brixton and Toxteth any more? The Independent argued in its editorial yesterday the unrest in south London and central Liverpool 20 years ago were similar to those in Oldham today the same combination of socio-economic deprivation and of angry
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        Lock icon Abu Sayyaf owns up to resort kidnappings
        449 9 US hostage goes on air to back claim Wires MANILA Abu Sayyaf rebels claimed responsibility yesterday for the kidnap of 20 people from a tourist resort in the southern Philippines and forced a US missionary taken hostage to speak to a local radio
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        Lock icon Dieting live: New twist to reality TV
        290 9 GERMAN SHOW AP BERLIN Six men and six women will start a 105-day slimming drive in front of the cameras as a German channel launched the latest variant on reality television, Big Diet. Channel RTL II is hoping to repeat its success with
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      • Article
        Lock icon Nicotine vaccine may prevent addiction
        271 9 NYT NEW YORK Many smokers battle nicotine addiction with the often frustrating and limited assistance from chewing gums and patches. Now, a US biopharmaceutical company has won a patent for a nicotine vaccine. Nabi Corp in Maryland, says that the drug can block nicotine from
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Remote control home is here
        773 11 X-10 is what makes it intelligent Salon CALIFORNIA Patrick Deutsch has turned an average Vallejo, California, condominium into a 21st century Taj Mahal. Using motion sensors, infrared transmitters, cameras and dozens of other products that communicate with each other via a protocol known as “X-10”,
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        Lock icon Few takers for used mobiles
        395 12  -  They were once popular, but consumers now buy new models on contract BY ANDREW CHIN andre-wc@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREANS' like to buy things brand new, especially their cellphones. But it wasn’t always like this. As recently as November last year, second-hand phones sold very well among Singaporeans.
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        Lock icon 52,600 minds meet in cyberspace
        574 12 NEW YORK IBM invited all 320,000 of its employees to a marathon brainstorming session called Worldjam last week, capping a nine-month, multimilliondollar effort to imagine and build a suitable room in cyberspace for an event that would be impossible to hold anywhere else. By the
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    • Business
      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon GES to buy Eltech Electronics
          78 13 PERSONAL computer maker GES International said yesterday that it would buy contract manufacturer Eltech Electronics at 32 cents a share. It said in a statement that the purchase would be by way of a share exchange or a cash alternative of 34.88 cents for each
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          Lock icon M1 attracts 3 bidders
          74 13 SINGAPORE’S second cellphone operator Mobile One (Ml) has attracted three major bidders after having set an unofficial minimum floor price of US$l.2 billion (552.2 billion), industry sources said yesterday. A bid from British mobile giant Vodafone Group is seen as the strongest, while the other key
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          Lock icon Serial on buying spree
          54 13 COMPUTER peripherals and components’ distributor Serial System said yesterday that it is in acquisition talks with a few component distributors in Asia. Serial chief executive Derek Goh said that the company was looking to acquire another electronics component distributor based in Asia. He, however, declined to
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          Lock icon No comment, says SingTel
          66 13 SINGTEL declined to comment about a report that the company was interested in acquiring British Telecommunications’ 20 per cent stake in Hong Kong’s SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings. The Oriental Daily in Hong Kong had reported that Sun Hung Kai Properties had rejected a plan to acquire the
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        Lock icon Role model
        35 13 Monorail Malaysia Technology staff giving the thumbs up to the first made-in-Malaysia light rail train model after its launch near Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The company will produce 24 cars for KL Monorail. Reuters
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        Lock icon Pennies are all the rage
        410 13  -  Retail investors shunning blue chips to buy heavily into small firms BY FRANCIS KAN francisk@sph.com.sg MOVE over Singapore Airlines, DBS Group and Sing Tel. The hot counters in today’s market are names you’ve probably heard very little about: Wah Shing, K1 Ventures and Autron. Retail
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      • Article
        Lock icon More Net buys, more goods returned
        227 13 US$11B IN PURCHASES LIKELY TO BE SENT BACK NYT CALL it a double whammy. These days, doing business on the Net may not be the only curse. If you sell catalogue items say, women’s outfits online, expect your godown to be filled with returned
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    • Mailbox
      • Expat EYE
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          Lock icon An enriching experiences
          762 14  -  BY RAND MIRANDA rand@sph.com.sg IN THE past 13 months or so, I’ve had to do more maths than at any other time in my life. Being American, I have had to adjust to centimetres, metres and Celsius and how they convert into inches, feet and Fahrenheit. Hardly
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      • Article
        Lock icon MOBILE PERKS
        65 14 WHAT kind of trimmings would you like with your mobile phone? 34% -Just the solid basics: Good reception, user-friendliness. 21% SMS and enhanced message functions like being able to send pictures. 15% Extensive calendar, organiser, address-book storage. 13% Bluetooth wireless technology. 10% MP3 playback or recording facilities. 5%
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        Lock icon Wisdom of the ages
        815 15  -  BY DAVE BARRY MIAMI HERALD COMMENCEMENT Address to the College Class of2001: As I gaze upon your eager young faces, I am reminded of the words of a wise old dead person, who said, and I quote: “As you go through life, always remember one thing.”
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      • Article
        Lock icon More than courses to make a financial planner
        257 15  -  SIEW KONG ‘lnsurance agents spread their wings’ (May 23) MORE insurance agents are going for special courses to train to become personal financial planners. So besides insurance, agents are learning about tax, estate and retirement planning and even investing traditionally the stronghold
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      9 2 See Page 23 for a review of Westlife’s concert.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      26 2 (jood morning! Showers with thunder over many areas in the late morning and early afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 2.45AM/2.8M 5.05PM/2.3M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      96 5 What impact will new Workers’ Party chief Low Thia Khiang have on the party’s image and style of operations? Tell us at: http^/eyeforanLasial.comjsg OORPERFIELD 'i i&mli&Mli r k«fi f I c >lll ARE YOU COMING WITH ME DAVID COPPERFIELD LIVE AT SINGAPORE INDOOR STADIUM JUNE 27 TO JULY 1 2001.
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      25 6 E-mail your questions on fertility issues to talk@eyeball.com.sg or snail mail them to Project Eyeball, Stork Options, News Centre, Level 6,82 Genting Lane, Singapore *****7.
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      40 9 Find out more about the guerilla group behind the kidnapping at these sites: http://web.nps.navy.mil/-library/tgp/asc.htm A profile of the Abu Sayyaf group based on a report by the US State Department. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/ asia-pacific/newsid *****00/*****44.5tm An analysis on kidnappings in the Philippines.
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      139 11 Interested in learning more about X-10 to help transform your home into a “thinking” one? Check out these sites: http:// www.xlOideas.com This site offers an introduction, hot software, a selection of home automation products and even a forum to discuss your wild and zany ideas. It also contains links to
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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      83 11 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET JOHN, TAKE THE OTHER CALL. I'LL HOLP. &&U T want to; HELEN! IT *S A CLIENT WANTING MONEY I CAN'T GIVE HIM? V 13 r COURSE WITH THAT JOS THE LIFE OF A VENTURE CAPITALIST IN <2001! EVER WISH yOUT? SOME INTO ANOTHER PROFESSION? VOU
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Pit lane war over this
      744 16  -  BY Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg TRUST McLaren to embarrass itself by mouthing off. As if having the team’s pole-po-sition driver stall on the grid of the most glamorous race of the year wasn’t enough, the powers at Woking outdid themselves by crying foul. Their target? Arrows
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      156 16 FORMULA ONE: You ’ve read about the McLaren brouhaha over being “held up” by Arrows driver Enrique Bernoldi during the Monaco Grand Prix. That’s missing the point, which is that the team failed to provide David Coulthard with, well, a car that starts. Read all about it at
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Effenberg to quit
        128 17 MUNICH Stefan Effenberg, 33, has announced his intention to quit Bayern Munich at the end of next season as he has nothing left to win at the club, reported onefootball.com. The playmaker scored Bayern’s goal in the drawn Champions League final against Valencia last week and converted
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        Lock icon No to rule change
        79 17 Reuters EUGENE (Oregon) Dozens of athletes including Marion Jones, Maurice Greene and Ato Boldon are urging the International Amateur Athletic Federation (lAAF) to reject plans to change its false-start rule. They said, in a petition, that the proposed rule change which disqualifies athletes after one false
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      • Article
        Lock icon Torrisi fails test
        55 17 Reuters ROME Parma said on Sunday that its experienced defender Stefano Torrisi was one of two Serie A players to have failed doping tests. In a statement on its website, the club said it was told by the Italian Football Federation that Torrisi had tested positive for
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      Lock icon Lakers sail into Finals
      627 17 Pummel Spurs 111-82 to sweep Western Conference playoff Lat-Wp LOS ANGELES Regular-season underachievers turned playoff juggernauts. The Los Angeles Lakers began their true title defence on Sunday evening, the moment they walked out of the Western Conference finals and into the NBA finals, when General Manager
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      Lock icon Venus Williams out
      286 17 FRENCH OPEN AP PARIS Venus Williams lost her first-round match at the French Open yesterday 6-4, 6-4 to Austria’s Barbara Schett. The reigning US and Wimbledon champion seemed to rally after dropping the first set, then produced a string of unforced errors, allowing the 24th-ranked Schett to
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  • Unwind
    • Fashion
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        Lock icon Sale by strategy
        822 18 Whether you re a Qreat Singapore Sale virgin, or simply strapped for time, the eighth Sale doesnt have to be an exercise in haste and terror, says JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg). PACE it. You’ve missed the grand opening weekend of the Great Singapore Sale. You cannot take leave
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        Lock icon GUY’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING THE GREAT SINGAPORE SALE
        474 19 June Wan OKAY guys, there’s no way to escape it; the Sale of the year is on. As long as you have a girlfriend, wife, or significant other of the female persuasion, you’re bound to be hounded into fighting the masses at
        – June Wan  -  474 words
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        Lock icon SHOPPER FITNESS
        372 19 June Wan TWO hours of shopping can burn about 200 calories, the same amount a brisk half-hour walk will kill. But those of us who spend most of our time sitting in front of our computers will need help even to do that. Jason Lim, 29, a personal
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      • Personal STYLE
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          Lock icon Slim chance
          649 20 Would you expect one of Marie France’s hot bods to prefer drinking water to facials, and wearing jeans to designer duds? Hong Kong actress Flora Chan doesn’t even like washing her enviable straight hair, she tells TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg). Heck, this girl even sleeps in flannel. YOU
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        Lock icon It’s never too late to build those arms
        355 20  -  BY Susan Swartz NYT HERE’S a tip for tank top season: Take control of those arms you’ve developed over the years and show them off (read: the Goldie Hawn wave). This was first demonstrated at this year’s Academy Awards when the svelte
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        Lock icon Hang loose, surfs up!
        343 21 With longer, looser trunks ruling the waves, any body can be hip this season as the fashion tide turns towards the surfer look, reports at.wia E Tm.i. GOOD news from the waterfront, fellas. You don’t have to have a body like Adonis to sport the new
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      • Fashion LOG
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          Lock icon Classic cufflinks, manly rings
          80 21 ACCESSORIES for men are entering new realms these days, but classic, steadfast designs remain the bestsellers. At Dunhill, pick from masculine finger ornaments including the Blason, Cigar or Trusty rings. The more subtle male can go for cufflinks instead. For a quirky mix of cool casual
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          Lock icon Furla bursting with summer colour
          144 21 SUMMER’S banishment of dull greys and blacks is still going on upon international catwalks. Here in Singapore, Furla’s newest range reflects that rainbow trend, fuelling shoppers with saffron orange, sunflower yellow, apricot, sugar pink, cherry red and turquoise. Handbags are organic and curvy, with feminine
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          Lock icon Carry your laptop in LV leather
          80 21 WHAT could be better than a gorgeously simple yet modern computer case for your laptop? Louis Vuitton’s Luke has glazed leather embossed with the traditional Damier motif on the outside. Inside, two leather straps hold things firmly in place. Available in resin, navy or
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        • Article
          Lock icon Membership has its privileges
          110 21  -  JUNE WAN IT WAS bound to happen in this Net-savvy age: A lifestyle portal for members only on the Web. At Noblian.com, like-minded surfers can get updated in categories such as Gourmet, Decanter, Golf, Travel, Vogue and Around Town. Members also have complimentary 30-MB of space
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    • Gender
      • Gender BENDERS
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          Lock icon Less talk is better
          95 22 IS COMMUNICATION really the key to solving all your relationship woes? No, claim researchers from Purdue University in the United States. They found that couples who were less skilled in the art of communication were actually happier than those more skilled. Apparently, the better communicators just
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          Lock icon No to facial hair
          108 22 IF YOU’RE thinking of cultivating some facial fuzz, banish the thought. A study by Gillette in Australia shows that women find men who are not hirsute facially more attractive. The reason? Trust, plain and simple. Nearly 85 per cent of the women surveyed said that a
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          Lock icon A tomato a day...
          85 22 A STUDY by the University of Tel Aviv has found that eating a 3 A -cup of tomato sauce a day can cut your risk of exercise-induced asthma by half. Men who added 30 mg of lycopene one of the yellow or orange pigments found in
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      • Verms & MARS
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          Lock icon Doing more in one man-hour
          746 22 Women are from Details, men are from Big Picture. When it comes to housework, dont knock the male, but look at the ultimate result instead, says ALVIN PANG (ahinp@sph.com.sg), who can bring home the bacon and cook it too, in double-quick time. THEY don’t call
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    • Music
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        Lock icon Lifeless
        657 23 If you i cere looking to Westlife to jolt Singe fore out of the concert desert you dbe disappointed. RONALD RAJ AN (ronrajan( a sph.com.sg) survived a night of screaming fans, but wonders what for? O, THE lads that make up Westlife aren’t the greatest singers in the world.
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        Lock icon Eschew the slang words, dudes
        423 23  -  BY Anna Holmes AP MEMO to writers: Don’t try to slip any “socialites” into Town Country. When searching for the right word for a tasty pie crust for Gourmet, don’t even think of calling it “crispy”. At Allure, eschew “bad hair days”. Oh, and you’d
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      116 18 The greatest warriors develop their strategy before going into battle. Smart sale hounds do the same. Here’s where to get some hints before venturing out: http://www.greatsing aporesale.com.sg Official site of the sale, with a map-link service provided by www.can.com.sg to help shoppers locate particular malls and find out how to
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon Chat & Mouse
      246 24 Chat Mouse Taken for a ride A YOUNG man comes up to the border on his bicycle. He has two large bags over his shoulders. The border guard stops him and asks: “What’s in the bags?” “Sand,” answers the young man. The guard is a bit skeptical and asks the
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      Lock icon Cheeky art in Montreal
      139 24 GOING naked, for art’s sake. That was what more than 2,000 people did in downtown Montreal on Saturday for New York-based photographer Spencer Tnnick. Tunick specialises in taking group photos of nude bodies in city centres. He expected no more than 300 people to answer his
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      Lock icon Director’s Rogue ways to prepare cast
      151 24 BAZ LUHRMANITS Moulin Rouge premiered in Cannes recently and opened to great reviews in many parts of the world, though its Singapore dates have yet to be set. Known for his creative ways of shooting movies, Luhrmann who also directed Strictly Ballroom and Romeo
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Madonna flies, as does the fur
        103 24 NIKI HARRIS, a back-up singer for Madonna’s upcoming world tour, said that the diva (above) will be “flying” across the stage, hanging from wires during parts of the concert. “Just to come out and sing is simply not her thing,” Harris said. In other
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        Lock icon Meanwhile...
        88 24 Wires HEATHER LOCKLEAR (right) appeared a tad frazzled at a Los Angeles Lakers game on Sunday, dressed in stone-washed denims. The actress should stay out of the public eye when she’s not glammed up. Just the other day, she was seen hoofing into New York’s swanky Oak Bar in
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