Project Eyeball, 31 May 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Thursday, May 31, 2001 80 CENTS
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      483 1 U-S AND UJMf. STOP SULKING SJM.S. ADVERTISING SET TO GO BIG America should stop bellyaching about the UN and start taking it seriously as a body that, among other things, takes on the thankless humanitarian missions that the US wants done, but doesn’t want to do itself, says Thomas Friedman.
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      97 2 AN EXHIBITION of 20 decaying birds full of maggots and insects is being planned to open at Prague’s National Museum. The birds are encased in airtight display cabinets so onlookers are able to observe the decaying process. Ornithologist Pavel Krizek says he wants to highlight the danger of electricity
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Teens to do NDP precision drill
        615 2  -  NCC shortens NS learning curve, says DPM Tan By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg IF YOU think the “soldiers” performing the precision drill display at this year’s National Day Parade (NDP) are a tad shorter than they should be, it’s not your eyes playing tricks on
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        Lock icon NTUC and Case oppose fare hikes
        218 2 TRANSPORT OIL prices have stabilised and the public transport providers have been reporting profits. So why do they want to raise fares? And at a time when workers are bracing for more layoffs? That was the crux of the arguments by the Consumers’ Association
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        Lock icon Op a success for baby with big head
        79 2 INDONESIAN toddler Chen Shuyun’s head was reduced by about a third of its size in a successful six-hour operation which began at 11 am yesterday. She has hydrocephalus, a condition that results from accumulation of fluid in the brain. Doctors at the
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        Lock icon 515 retailers won’t sell tobacco today
        69 2 A RECORD number of 515 retailers will not be selling tobacco products today in commemoration of World No Tobacco Day. This is a big increase from the 284 retailers who participated last year. For the first time, 60 provision shops, or mama shops, have
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        Lock icon Charities to spend more for tax relief
        62 2 CHARITIES will now have to spend more on charitable activities to get tax exemption. At present, tax exemption is granted if a charity spends at least 80 per cent of its income and donations on charitable activities. Beginning tomorrow, capital gains from asset
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      353 3 pgSST Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has reportedly authorised his attorneys to draft a request to block his execution after FBI belatedly turned over 4,000 more documents to McVeigh’s attorney, but will make the final decision before anything is filed in federal court. LOS ANGELES I President
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      Lock icon Blair blamed for MS’ publicity coup
      420 3 Campaign visit exploited for software launch LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair’s judgment has been attacked after he allowed Microsoft UK to hijack his campaign visit to their headquarters on Tuesday to promote the launch of their latest software. Blair’s visit to Microsoft was to
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      Lock icon Eve had 33 daughters; they had us
      222 3 D.N.A. STUDY FINDING Reuters HAY-ON-WYE (Wales) We are all descended from the 33 daughters of Eve. Just order a swab kit from http://www.oxfordancestors.com, take a sample from your cheek and send it back to find out who your original ancestor is. Professor Bryan
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        947 4  -  ...advertisers cashing in on the SMS phenomenon By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg IF YOU think SMS beeps on your mobile phone are a nuisance, stop reading this story right now, because you might get irritated by what’s coming next. McDonald’s is doing it. So is
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Low’s leadership challenged
        656 5 WP member dams Sunday’s election violated party’s constitution CRACKS have already begun to surface in what was earlier thought to be a rather smooth transition of power at the Workers’ Party (WP). Barely four days after Low Thia Khiang became secretary-general, his leadership has been challenged by
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        Lock icon Govt gives green cars a push
        591 6  -  Initiatives boost testing, developing vehicle technologies By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg ADD a dash of class to “green” technology and you have the No Emission Car or Necar 4A. Based on the cushy MercedesBenz A-class, Daimler Chrysler’s prototype green car which experiments with fuel-cell technology
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        Lock icon Teachers tackle Sex Education 101
        712 6  -  BACK TO SCHOOL By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg FOR a change, the teachers were the students. The class? Sex. Not just plain sex, but the Ins And Outs Of Sex Education. Intriguing topic. The teachers were captivated for a full 3Vi hours. If they didn’t
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Mega ‘snubs’ Gus Dur at meet
        259 7 JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid faced a moment of embarrassment yesterday when Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri turned down his invitation to read out his speech before an international summit. The embarrassing mix-up some say a deliberate snub came when the clinically blind President made a few
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        Lock icon Lawmakers vote 365-4 to back impeachment
        656 7 Fate of Abdurrahman now rests with upper house as violence continues Wires JAKARTA It’s now up to Indonesia’s 700-member upper house to save Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid. With a vote of 365-4, Indonesia’s lower house of parliament (DPR) yesterday voted to back a measure
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        Lock icon M’sia frees two ISA detainees
        663 8 Judge roles arrests were in bad faith and unlawful, asks lawmakers to scrap Act Wires KUALA LUMPUR Two Malaysian opposition leaders were set free from jail yesterday after a judge ruled that their arrest was illegal and called for the abolition of the Internal Security
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        Lock icon Daim is ‘definitely coming back’
        223 8 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin, whose future in the government has been the focus of speculation, will return to office once his leave is over, a Cabinet minister said yesterday. Although there was no confirmation from Daim himself, a longtime minister said
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        Lock icon Azizah joins war against takeover of dailies
        273 8 Ap KUALA LUMPUR A major opposition party yesterday joined cause with those opposing the takeover of two influential Chinese language dailies by the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA). Late last night, as the top MCA leaders voted 32-8 to push ahead with plans for
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        Lock icon US should start paying its dues to the US – oops! – UN
        454 9  - US should start paying its dues to the US oops! UN By Thomas Friedman NYT EVER since the United States got voted off the island at the United Nations Human Rights Commission three weeks ago, Congress has been hopping mad and the UN-hat-ers have been on a tear. So I
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        Lock icon China retains ‘normal’ trade status with US
        395 9 Extension for one more year will help democracy, says Bush Wires LOS ANGELES United States President George W Bush said on Tuesday that he would ask Congress this week to extend China’s “normal” trade status with the US for one more year. Bush
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        Lock icon Nato doesn’t buy Bush’s defence plans
        302 9 POWELL FAIL URE NYT BUDAPEST In his first effort to sell US President George W Bush’s nuclear missile defence (NMD) plan to allies, Secretary of State Colin Powell could not even convince Nato members that the threat of a missile attack against their countries
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Intel and HP launch new-breed processor for servers
        335 10 AP PALO ALTO (California) After nearly a decade of development and two years of delays, Intel and Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday launched the first in a new generation of microprocessors that they hope will dominate the next era of computing. The Itanium processor,
        – AP  -  335 words
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        Lock icon Licence to roam
        382 10  -  Wireless surfing, calls from the office By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg SAY goodbye to your mobile phone and hello to iPAQ at least while you are in the office. You’ll get to make phone calls and surf the Net wirelessly on your handheld Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC, but
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        Lock icon A lot more than a fashion accessory
        317 10  -  APPLE’S NEW iBOOK By Jared Tham tech@eyeball.com.sg IT’S not often that you find a laptop that makes a fashion statement, but Apple’s ißook can easily double as a fashion accessory. It may not have any curves, but it’s easily the best-looking laptop in
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        1040 11 Weiku start Net revolution in China SHANGHAI It’s a spring Saturday afternoon, but the sunshine doesn’t intrude on the scene in the New Brightness Performance Hall. Originally a huge storage space in a mall built in the early 1990 s on the outskirts of
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Analysts can make you poorer
        495 13 WEBSITE MEASURES BALUE OF BROKERAGES’ ADVICE NYT AS MUCH as they would want you to believe otherwise, analysts are no prophets. Worse, their stock-picking skills are no better than your average Joe’s. While that was something that smart investors the world over had suspected all
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon NZ against Qantas bid
          119 13 ONE step forward, two steps back. That’s what seems to be happening. New Zealand’s political powers-that-be yesterday minced no words in saying that they were against Qantas’ attempt to buy Air New Zealand. The deal involves Singapore Airlines (SIA) selling its 25 per cent stake in
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          49 13 BAD news if you recently bought technology stocks -of late, they’ve been falling. Yesterday, they dragged down the Straits Times Index by 1.16 per cent, or 19.5 points. The index closed the day at 1,662.74 points. Volumes, too, were lower at 434 million shares.
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        Lock icon Dollar DEX returns finatiQ fire
        428 13  -  Matches cut as unit trust war hots up By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg THERE is no ceasefire in sight in the local unit trust war. Internet-only bank finatiQ, which fired the first salvo in the sales-charge battle, has extended the discount period until June 14. Not
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        Lock icon HE’S THE MAN
        214 13 HIS hand fired the first bullet in the unit trust battle. The man who unwittingly started the price war on the local unit trust scene was Bank of Singapore’s (BOS) new chief operating officer Philip Spencer. According to finatiQs chief editor Vasu Menon, it was Spencer who
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          Lock icon Come on, spam me some more
          523 14  -  By Lim Puay Leng puayleng@sph.com.sg AN OPEN letter to all mobile-phone marketing personnel: As a proud member of Generation X or M or Z (or whatever letter of the alphabet that is currently deemed “cool” and “high-tech”), I love to stay in touch with
          Mik Zarzuela  -  523 words
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          Lock icon Save alfresco dining areas
          256 14 ‘Holland Village eateries in trouble’ (May 29) THE five upmarket eateries along Jalan Merah Saga are losing their popular and lucrative but illegal alfresco dining areas. The decision to order the shutdown of the outdoor dining areas of Michelangelo’s, Original Sin, Sistina Pizzeria, Da Paolo and
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      • E-Male ADDRESS
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          Lock icon Passion – without a plan
          697 15  - Passion without a plan By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg i Was just a seven-year-old Primary 1 student when JBJ blazed a trail for the Opposition by winning his first seat in Parliament m 16 years. Of course, I was too young then to know he was making history in 1981 by
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          Lock icon Studio flats for young is a step in the right direction
          260 15 ‘Younger folk may get studio flats’ (May 28) “IF THERE are requests for studio apartments from younger couples or singles, we will consider it,” said National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan about the scheme which now caters for people
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      • Article
        Lock icon MUSICAL MUSINGS
        89 15 HOW do you feel about the repackaging of National Day songs for a new generation? 24% Sentimental ballads about home, family and friends really touch a chord. 22% All this cheesy stuff makes me cringe. 16% Who cares? It just gives the audience something to do at the
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      49 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 eyenews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5461 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5807 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5864 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5832 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5815 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscription fax line 746-1925 Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore *****7
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      24 2 (food morning! 4* 4 Showers with thunder in the afternoon affecting many areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 5.13AM/2.4M 7.15PM/2.3M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      242 5 CLEAN PUBLIC TOILETS EDUCATION PROGRAMME 2001 Point, Click Flush! www.env.gov.sg/cleanloo Ist prize 2nd prize 3rd prize 4th prize sth to 15th prize Drop in to the Clean Public Toilets Education website today for fun, games prizes! Spot the Differences within 40 seconds and you could be a winner! 21 May
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      36 8 Some call for a boycott of the dailies that the MCA wants to take over. Others question the new owners’ pledge of noninterference. For a cross-section of views from the Malaysian readers, go to http://www. malaysiakini.com
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      43 9 The American National Missile Defence plan explained: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ nation/specials/nationalsecurity/ nationalmissiledefense/ A report on missile defence with FAQ_and links to the Anti-Ballistic Missile and test-ban treaties. http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/html/ bmdolink.html Home page of the organisation within the US Department of Defence responsible for missile defence systems.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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      68 11 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET WHEW PIP YOU MOVE BACK WfTH YOUR PARENTS, LUCY? ABOUT A MONTH A<30 My PI-ACE WAS BROKEN INTO, AN 17 A LOT OF My STUFF WAS STOLEN. MO! y£AH, BUT My FOLKS LIVE RIOHT 170WN THE STREET. SO MOVIWO BACK IN WASN'T A BIO PEAL.
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      47 12 Get over a million people for a hot and sweaty session aS a uy ou'tt *\W fltttnertarv It's just a phone call away. Call C.A.T.S. at 1800-737-1166 for Classified advertisement bookings and you'll reach out to 1,388,000 readers of The Straits Times. Source: ACNielsen Media Index 1000
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  • EyeSport
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        Lock icon Buffon likely to stay
        100 16 ITALY Gianluigi Buffon will turn down a £22-million (S$56.9-million) move to Barcelona to stay with Parma, which qualified for the Champions League last weekend, reported onefootball.com. “At the moment, it is 70 per cent that I will not leave Parma,” said Buffon. “The other 30 per
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        Lock icon Solano eyes Real
        72 16 LONDON Nolberto Solano has risked the wrath of Newcastle manager Bobby Robson by admitting that he would love to quit St James’ Park and join Real Madrid. “If there was a firm offer I would shut my eyes and walk or swim as far as the Bernabeu,”
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        95 16 Reuters MADRID Dutch national team captain Frank de Boer says he is prepared to take whatever action is necessary to prove his innocence after his B-sample confirmed a positive test for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone. Barcelona president Joan Gaspart backed the player, who is in
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        Lock icon Dropping doubles
        123 17 PARIS Serena Williams has pulled out of the French Open doubles tournament to concentrate on the singles, the American sixth seed said yesterday. Serena was due to partner her sister Venus, with whom she teamed up to win the doubles title at Roland Garros in 1999. Serena, who
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        Lock icon Henman moves up
        52 17 ELEVENTH seed Tim Henman crushed Dutchman Sjeng Schalken 6-4,6-2,6-2 yesterday to move into the third round of the French Open. Henman, who is on course for a fourth-round clash with Australian sixth seed Lleyton Hewitt, will face Spain’s Alberto Martin or Guillermo Canas of Argentina in the
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        Lock icon Ferrero wins
        53 17 Reuters JUAN CARLOS FERRERO wasted little time booking his place in the French Open third round. A devastating display from the Spanish fourth seed earned him a 6-2, 6-2,6-0 victory over Marcos Ondruska. Ferrero sent winners all over the court as he raced towards his second straight-sets victory
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      Lock icon Nice guys no more
      663 16 Bucks think it’s time to get physical Ap ST FRANCIS (Wisconsin) There’s bad blood simmering between Milwaukee and Philadelphia in the Eastern Conference finals, and Bucks coach George Karl thinks that’s a good thing. “We’ve played four times, we shouldn’t like each other right now,” Karl
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      172 16 BA.Snb~A«tALL: The Eastern Conference finals are turning out to be really interesting. There’s blood, flying elbows, technical fouls, even the odd threat or two. In the locker room, the Bucks seemed to be yelling at each other, but seem to have turned the page, while the 76ers are
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      Lock icon Shame on you, PGA
      657 17 US Supreme Court ruling in Martin case shows up golf body’s bigotry Lat-Wp CASEY MARTIN won his case to ride in a golf cart on the PGA Tour. The United States Supreme Court ruled for the disabled golfer on Tuesday, ending years of fights between Martin
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      Lock icon France shows it’s world class
      268 17 EASY 5-0 WIN OVER SOUTH KOREA AP DAEGU (South Korea) Two brilliant volleys early in the game set up world champion France for an easy 5-0 win over co-host South Korea in the opening game of the Confederations Cup yesterday. Even without Zinedine Zidane, France
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  • Unwind
    • Movies
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        Lock icon The Big BOMB
        634 18 Yes, it was a disaster, and not for any of the historical reasons. The film Pearl Harbor, RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) found, is an experience in pyrotechnics and a love triangle, but not much more. N DEC 7,1941, the forces of Imperial Japan swooped down on the unsuspecting
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        Lock icon 5 reasons why Pearl Harbor is not a war movie
        139 18  -  Ronald Rajan 1 Unlike Ben Affleck’s character, people in real war movies who are presumed dead, usually stay dead (see Willem Dafoe in Platoon). 2 In real war movies, all females are either charming native girls, hookers or refugees. Soldiers
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        Lock icon The Internet HATES Michael Bay
        647 19  -  Los Angeles Times CLICK over to the website Ain’t It Cool News, enter a chatroom and read what some think of the idea of Michael Bay directing a movie about Pearl Harbor. Here’s Primal Scream: “How dare Michael Bay (the worst director in Hollywood) tackle
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        Lock icon Slapstick that’s not spot on
        535 20  -  Lim Huiling SPOT David Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb, Joe Viterelli THE summer’s blockbusters are here. But just when you thought Hollywood had flushed away toilet humour, with the Farelly brothers taking a break after Me, Myself Irene, here’s something that jumps and, well,
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      • Out ON DISK
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          Lock icon NORTH BY NORTHWEST
          93 20 Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint $19.90 (VCD) A CLASSIC from Alfred Hitchcock. There’s action, comedy and repartee in this ode to Cold War politics. Grant is the suave ad-man Roger Thornhill, who is mistaken for a spy and then pursued across the United States. In order to
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          Lock icon THE GIFT
          105 20 Keanu Reeves, Cate Blanchett, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank $19.90 (VCD) THE Gothic mystery may now seem dated after the Blair Witch Project, but director Sam Raimi helps turn this into a sexy, twist-a-minute, supernatural thriller about investigations into the disappearance of a beautiful socialite. Psychic Annie Wilson (Blanchett)
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          135 20 Regis Royer, Elsa Zylberstein, Anemone, Claude Rich $19.90 (VCD) ONE of the most popular French painters, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec brought innovation to lithographs and brought the belle epoque to life with his pictures of Parisian dance halls and cabarets. He is the centre of this romantic tale. The film
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          Lock icon A Fantasy watch, finally
          69 21 HERE’S another must-have for Final Fantasy merchandise collectors Final Fantasy: The Watch. It’s based on the design of Aki’s alien-detecting “Wrist Holo” from the upcoming movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Gorgeously sleek, the Seiko timepiece can’t detect life forms, but it does feature stopwatch functions,
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          Lock icon Watch the real Pearl Harbor, live
          98 21 HISTORY and war buffs have never had so much fun at the movies, considering Hollywood’s recent string of releases. However, if the movies fail to satisfy your lust for battle scenes and information, turn to the next best option the Web. At Hollywood.com, you
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          Lock icon Tomb Raider movie website stuns
          77 21 THE movie version of Tomb Raider promises to be state-of-the-art. Don’t be surprised, then, when you discover that the official site is just as technically stunning. Included at http://www. tombraidermovie.com/ splash_frames.html are a host of features including trailers, cast interviews, event footage, and even a
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          29 21 ‘Qood chap, he didn't die until he’d landed and shut down the engine officer in Pearl Harbor introducing Ben Affleck to the British Air Force
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        Lock icon Stars in the extras
        589 21 NYT It used to be just a tangled web of biographies and behind-the-scenes. But online movie sites are getting more creative, engaging more audiences than ever. MATTHEW IMQRAPAUL reports. THE website for AI, Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming film about artificial intelligence, invites a typed response on any
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        179 21 YOORINAL Mark Nunrtely At: http://www.britshorts.com/ Time: 6 min 35 sec EVER wondered what happens in the men’s toilet? Here’s the answer. Comedian Paul Kaye (who created Dennis The Pennis, notorious for ridiculing celebrities on The Sunday Show) is host and universal bloke, taking the viewer through the urinal’s
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    • Arts
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        803 22 It’s no walk in the park, selecting shows for the Singapore Arts Festival. And sometimes it’s physical obstacles like mountains and raging rivers that stand in the way of the National Arts Council’s quest for the best. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) talks to
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        Lock icon GLOBAL VILLAGE
        304 22 GET in touch with that kampung boy or girl in you at the Festival Village on Fort Canning Hill. For three days, you can get your Fill of cultural performances from Asia, including the Middle East, and feast on Asian cuisine. Keep that picnic basket handy if you
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    • Clubbing
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        Lock icon Party drinks are just a call away
        287 23 NOW you can throw your own liquor buffet at home. Drinks companies are giving customers a new home delivery option for large orders, with some throwing in free delivery and booze at suppliers’ price. For example, liquor retailer Parker’s Wines sells eau de
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        Lock icon Bar to basics
        694 23 Yes, it’s another Irish pub. But Shamus O’DonnelYs, the three-week-old addition to the fraternity, is set to put the spirit back where it belongs. RONALD RAJ AN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) ventures inside, to find the “craw 5 at the bottom of a pint of Quinness. OR a country that
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      81 19 For various views on Pearl Harbor, log on to: http://www.ibiblio.org/ phha/Main.html Contains good-sized photos of the US Navy during the attack, as well as an up-to-date discussion board. http://www.execpc.com/ -dschaaf/ Contains survivors’ remembrances, as well as a link to view a live streaming video of the USS Arizona Memorial at
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      28 22 The Festival Village is open from today to Saturday at Fort Canning Park. Tickets are $l5 ($lO for students) from Sistic (348 5555). Admission starts at 6 pm.
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      97 23 Where: Crystal Wines Spirits Tel: 737 3540 Minimum: $5OO. Where: Parker’s Wines Tel: 736 3556 Minimum: A dozen bottles of eau de vie at $46 each. Where: Palms Beverages Tel 285 2353 Minimum: 24 bottles of Strobe, $l2O. Where: Asiaworld Developments Tel: *****12 Minimum: 24 bottles ofXO Beer, $145. Shamus
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      Lock icon Chat & Mouse
      285 24 Chat Mouse Who wants to be a what? FAMILY Fortunes is a British game show where the finale involves one person under the spotlight. The aim is to provide an answer which matches the most common answer given when the same question was asked to a 100 members of the
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      Lock icon U gets longer, stronger
      246 24 LOOKING for more choices on the tube? Try Channel U, which will extend transmission hours to 16 hours a day. It will begin its broadcast day at 10 am, through 2 am, starting June 4. New programmes will also be lined up, such as the Taiwanese
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      66 24 ACTRESS Emma Thompson will take a year off to tour Africa with her family. During her trip, she will help raise awareness of HIV and Aids on behalf of charity Action Aid, reports London’s Daily Mail. Accompanied by her partner, Greg Wise and 17-month-old daughter Gaia,
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      65 24 CATHERINE ZETA-JONES (left) teamed up with legendary opera star Lnciano Pavarotti in a charity concert on Tuesday in Modena, Italy. The international music event Pavarotti And Friends aims to raise funds for Pakistani children. The tenor has invited many guest stars at similar concerts.
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