Project Eyeball, 11 June 2001

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  • Title Section
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    12 1 project eyeball. eyebalLasiaLconusg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Monday, June 11, 2001 80 CENTS
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      335 1 BUS COMPANIES, LISTEN UP! John Lui has the solution to bus overcrowding. And it’s connected to the new scientific discovery that sheep fart methane. See Page 15 GETTING TOUR FAIR SHARE Want to know about share-margin trading? Here’s our guide, but it’s a high-risk thing. You’ve been warned. See Page
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      108 2 HOW do you end a lovers’ tiff? Kiss and make up? Nah. The best way, according to a survey of Italian couples, is to order a pizza. Hundreds of couples were asked by the Italian Meta institute how best to end a row. More than half said they phoned
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    • Article
      Lock icon No need for more Net rules, says Opposition
      815 2  -  They won’t have impact anyway, say members BY Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg IT’S no surprise that Opposition political parties think that no rules are needed to govern the Internet during election time. After all, they don’t have the grassroot network of the People’s
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      Lock icon Bridge to reform
      36 2 Wards of Project Bridge which works to improve the self-esteem of out-of-school youths and get them back to the classroom performing at Woodlands Drive yesterday for the centre’s first anniversary. Chia Yuan Che
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Siamese twins out of ICU
        82 2 JAMUNA and Ganga Shresthra, the Siamese twins who were separated two months ago, are out of the intensive care unit and the bandages on their heads have been removed, doctors said yesterday. Said Dr Keith Goh, who directed the 96-hour surgery: “Their wounds are almost
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        Lock icon Militants ‘giving Islam a bad name’
        63 2 THE Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines arid the Taleban in Afghanistan were creating an “unfair and misleading” image of Islam, Minister of State for Manpower Othman Haron Eusofe said at the Masjid Sultan Auditorium in a speech marking Prophet Muhammad’s birthday yesterday. He called
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      Lock icon World Watch
      335 3 GAZA CITY The Palestinians yesterday accused Israel of not being serious about a ceasefire after three Bedouin women from the same family were killed by Israeli shelling overnight. It was the deadliest incident since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ordered a ceasefire eight days ago following a suicide attack
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      Lock icon McVeigh to meet death unrepentant
      535 3 Will die by lethal injection today for Oklahoma bombing Wires TERRE HAUTE (Indiana) As he waits to be executed by lethal injection today, 8 pm Singapore time, Timothy McVeigh shows no sign of repentance for having committed the worst act of terrorism on American soil.
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      Lock icon FINAL WORDS
      120 3 RICHARD BURR, one of Timothy McVeigh’s lawyers, said his client wanted to include defiant lines from the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley as part of his final statement. I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Companies not feeling employees’ strains
        1233 4  -  Many unaware how to prevent RSI By Uyen Vu uyen@sph.com.sg THE incidence of repetitive strain injury RSI for short may have become all too common, but what’s still lagging is the recognition that employers can help prevent it. RSI, an injury to muscles and joints
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      Lock icon What the professionals recommend
      153 5 Follow these guidelines to make sure your work station doesnt give you repetitive strain injury. The computer monitor should be about one arm’s length away from the user. The screen should be directly in front of the user to prevent unnecessary twisting of the body. Table
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      Lock icon RSI’s a pain in the neck, wrist, back, shoulder...
      372 5 WHAT is repetitive strain injury (RSI)? The term covers a broad range of conditions where the soft tissues muscles, tendons, nerves, joints are injured by sustained strain. The conditions were first identified in factory workers and produc-tion-line employees, those who do
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    • Singapore
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        1034 6  -  Faith in economy and low COE prices driving factors By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg RECESSION? What recession? One hard look at the statistics, and you could be convinced that the economic slowdown is a figment of an analyst’s imagination. According to the Department of
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      • Monday MUSINGS
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          889 7 IMRAN AHMED tries his best to sever himself from his job every time he comes home. It’s not easy. Even when he’s watching the news on television, he can’t help but analyse how each event is going to affect the markets the next day. “We can’t
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Men cite harassment – by men
        419 8 Men cite harassment by men But US courts offer little shelter to cases of ‘horseplay’ or ‘locker-room antics’ NYT NEW YORK It has long been tolerated as horseplay or locker-room antics, but now more and more men are filing sexual harassment charges about it. Men are complaining of unwanted sexual
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        Lock icon SAME-SEX CASES
        164 8 SOME same-sex sexual harassment cases: Two managers at the Burt Chevrolet used-car dealership in Colorado told lewd jokes and groped the salesmen who worked there, according to a 1999 lawsuit. They would refer to the men as “woman” or “whore”. The men also had “their genital area grabbed”.
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      • Article
        Lock icon For America, it’s back to the valley of the dolls
        592 8  -  By Maureen Dowd NYT WASHINGTON I usually avoid sweeping generalisations. Lately, however, I have come to the unavoidable conclusion that most women are nuts and on drugs and that the drugs are clearly not working. But I have some anecdotal
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        Lock icon Another man caught with knives in Japanese school
        352 9 AFP TOKYO Another potential copycat stabbing was averted yesterday, when Japanese police caught a knife-wielding man at a school playground not. far from the western city of Ikeda where eight children were stabbed to death by a deranged man two days ago.
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        Lock icon Bush gets coached on art of diplomacy
        313 9 Experts tutor President before be heads for Europe WASHINGTON The US President received a special and private tutorial in the living room of the White House and at his Texas ranch recently to prep him up for his fiveday European tour that kicks
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        310 9 BUSH SR ADVISE SON ON NORTH KOREA NYT WASHINGTON Former US President George H W Bush appears to have shaped one of his son’s most crucial foreign-policy decisions, by sending the White House a memo forcefully arguing the need to re: open negotiations with North Korea. The
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon From dot.com to dot. gone
        441 10 Feed and Suck, two of the Net’s oldest sites, go broke Salon TWO of the Net’s oldest and bestknown original content sites, Feed (http://www.feedmag.com) and Suck (http://www.suck.com), ceased operations on Friday when their parent company, Automatic Media, said it had run out of cash. “We
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        Lock icon SITES’ OFFERINGS
        132 10 Plastic.com (right) EUPHEMISTICALLY billing itself as “a collaboration between the world’s smartest readers and editors”, Plastic’s strength lies in the way it involves the reader by seeking contributions and views. Snch.com THIS hip e-zine is described as “an experiment in provocation, mordant deconstructionism, and buzzsaw journalism”. Known for
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      • Article
        Lock icon Get ready for a shock
        284 10 ELECTRIC GAMEING NOW, this is what we call a shocking piece of news. Mad Catz, a United Statesbased developer of game peripherals, is creating a device that actually gives you electric shocks while gaming. But don’t worry about being zapped to death by the product,
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    • Business
      • Personal FINANCE
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          Lock icon Get a loan to buy blue-chip counters
          871 11  -  But share-margin facility may not yield enough to even out interest payments By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg BUYING those pricey blue-chip counters is not as easy as eyeing them those premium scrips don’t come cheap. One lot of these shares could cost you between
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      • Article
        Lock icon Tech shares could see gains
        303 11 CHIP-MAKERS Wires IF MARKET analysts are to be believed, blue chips and technology shares here may reap some handsome gains this week. This is mainly because players have switched focus away from small caps at the end of last week and shown renewed interest in
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    • Mailbox
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        Lock icon They can press buttons as well as men can
        390 14 ‘The pick of the pack’ (June 7) THE army’s out to recruit more women. It scored a first by organising a drive to recruit them at the China Jump club, and is hoping to enrol 50 women officers this year. What
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        Lock icon Make ‘gifted’ scheme a course
        458 14  -  SINGAPOREAN21 ‘The gifted divide’ (June 8) IT’S a virtual “gifted” scheme for the brightest undergraduates at the National University of Singapore (NUS). But not everyone is happy with the idea of an educational elite. For instance, why segregate them in a brand-new hostel of their
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      • Wry TECH
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          Lock icon So fart, so good
          712 15  -  By John Lui johnlui@singnet.com.sg BUS fares going up. Movie-ticket prices up. Petrol-pump prices ain’t coming down. So it came as good news this week that something bad will soon become not so bad. You’re way ahead of me, as usual: You knew I was talking about
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        Lock icon Bands, but no pretty boys, please!
        183 15 ‘Where have all the big acts gone?’ (June 8) WHEN the Asian crisis hit in 1997, the local concert scene which used to see megastars like Whitney Houston and R.E.M. dried up. Do you miss these big acts? Who would you pay big money
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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@eyebdll.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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      27 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder in the morning and afternoon mainly over northern, eastern and western Singapore. High: 32C1 Low: 25C Tides: 1.31AM/2.8M 3.24PM/2.3M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      39 3 The Oklahoma City bomber and the nation he attacked share this belief: Strike your blow at the moment it sends out the most resounding message. An American reflects on the season finale of Timothy McVeigh at: http://time.com/ time/naion/article/ 0-8599-*****9.00.html
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      100 4 The US Department of Labor estimates that work-related musculoskeletal disorders (including carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis and back injuries) account for 34 per cent of all lost workdays every year due to illnesses and injuries. For carpal tunnel syndrome, in particular, the time taken off for recovery 25 days on average
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      261 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! Stop The Litterbug Stop the litterbug and stand a chance to win attractive prizes!
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      33 6 Do you think it’s a good idea to buy a car now? Yes, why not? While COE prices are down. No. At least not during a slowdown like this. Tell us at http^/www.eyeball.asial.com.sg
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      53 7 A JKv 1! o 1 U. JJ i Is your child short-sighted? Call 773 9406 Healthy children, 6-12 years are invited to join a clinical study* on anti-myopia medication. Reputable U.S. pharmaceutical company is sponsoring a clinical study at several centres in Singapore. For more information, please call Singapore Eye
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      55 9 President Bush will have to deal with questions about his policies on missile defence and global warming in his five-nation European tour this week. http://www.msnbc.com Bush and British PM Tony Blair: Their politics differ but they share interests and toothpaste. http://www.msnbc.com Bush may be backtracking on his tough talk of
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      46 9 SMALL PRICE BIG ROOM *s*l 3«*ii wro I*llll w n hotel 88 Complimentary Drinks Weekday Weekend Standard Room $45 $55 Superior Room $55 $65 Deluxe Room $65 $75 Transit Passenger/Stop Over $lB Tel: 842 0188 (10 lines) Fax: 842 0388 12, Geylang Lorong 10, Singapore *****5
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      77 10 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET m 3API yes, r« mBAPI OH, OH SO BAPi I RUIBI I RULE? CAWT TOUCH M 6 'OAUS6 I RULE! WHAT'P SHE 170?: then how £7O you KNOW irs BRIU-lAWT? I VOWT KNOW, I'M NOT SMART ENOUGH TO UNPERSTAWP IT m WHy ELSE WOUU7 SHE
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      38 11 Special Delicous 0 Steal** Cfi* mXP 3*3 f Monday to Saturday (Sun PH dose) 5.00 pm to 11.00 pm Hejiayi Food Catering Pte Ltd 1 Liang Seah Street (Opp. Bugis Junction) #Ol-05/06 Singapore *****2 Tel: *****61 Fax: *****28
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      322 12 She is our beautiful girl. We've long waited for Jenaieve Pan. Jeanette Wong Kansas Pan A sweet little boy to tuck in c snug. To love and cuddle, to kiss and hug. How wonderful you are in our life! Sri Ranjani Anand Babu Come squeeze my cheeks everyone, promise I
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      219 13 Behold, a son was born “Reuben" on 23rd November 2000. He's beautiful, blessed and full of smiles and weighs a healthy 3.09 kg at birth. Eugenie Tan A miracle has happened, so wonderful and true. Christopher Shirley are thrilled to announce the arrival of Donovan Sng, Dec 5, 2000 at
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Brazil coach fired
        80 16 Wires RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian coach Emerson Leao was sacked by the Brazilian Soccer Confederation (CBF) yesterday after his team’s poor performance in the Confederations Cup. France beat Brazil 2-1 in the semi-finals. The South American team then went on to lose to Australia in the play-off
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        103 16 AFP YOKOHAMA-Japan’s good run at the Confederations Cup was rewarded when two of their players were named in Fifa’s Team of the Tournament. Goalkeeper Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, who conceded only one goal in the tournament, and AS Roma playmaker Hidetoshi Nakata were both named in a line-up dominated
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        Lock icon Veron for Man U?
        49 16 MANCHESTERManchester United will start talks, on Wednesday, over Lazio’s £2O million ,(Sss2 million) midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron’s future, Soccernet reported. The Argentinian’s representatives are due to fly in from South America to begin negotiations with United. Veron earns a tax-paid £60,000-a-week salary in Serie A.
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        Lock icon Ferrari fined
        83 17 Reuters MONTREAL Ferrari was fined US$lO,OOO (S$18,000) yesterday for a pit lane incident at the end of qualifying for the Canadian FI Grand Prix. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said that Rubens Barrichello and a Ferrari representative were summoned, after a report that mechanics had worked on the
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        Lock icon New vault mark
        100 17 AP STANFORD-Marion Jones might have been the US Open track meet’s star attraction, but Stacy Dragilia took centre stage by setting two world records at the weekend. She set the first world record at the Angell Field in 60 years with a mark of 4.5 m in
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        Lock icon England down Canada
        74 17 Reuters VANCOUVER England achieved a record-equalling 10th successive test win with a 59-20 victory over Canada yesterday, making it a clean sweep of the two-test series. England chalked up eight tries, including two each by lock Simon Shaw and stand-off Dave Walder, whose three penalty goals and
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      Lock icon 3 out of 3 for France
      387 16 Beats Japan to add Confederations Cup to World and European trophies AP YOKOHAMA France completed a triple of international titles yesterday, after a Patrick Vieira header and a goalkeeper’s blunder helped it to beat Japan 1-0 and win the Confederations Cup yesterday. In the
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      Lock icon French star to coach Monaco
      505 16 DESCHAMPS QUITS VALENCIA Reuters PARIS Didier Deschamps, France’s most successful player, announced at the weekend that he was ending his playing career to coach AS Monaco. Deschamps will be in the principality later today to sign a fouryear contract, the French first division team announced.
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      Lock icon Going after each other’s throats
      573 17 Insults fly after Villeneuve hints that Montoya could have caused him to crash Reuters MONTREAL Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya was reprimanded and given a stern warning yesterday after a tussle with fellow driver Canadian Jacques Villeneuve. According to sources close to the Williams-BMW team, Montoya’s
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      Lock icon Hendrawan is world champ
      455 17 WINS BADMINTON TITLE WITH NER VES OF STEEL AFP SEVILLE (Spain) Indonesia’s H Hendrawan won the men’s singles title at the world badminton championships here yesterday, defeating Denmark’s Peter Gade in straight games. Olympic silver medallist Hendrawan won 15-6,17-16 after a dramatic final at the San
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  • Unwind
    • Books
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        Lock icon Towers of BABBLE
        874 18 An eight-year-old girl is screaming her head off nearby. A womans mobile phone goes off loudly (horrendous ring tone to boot), and she answers it with equal gusto. Then the PA system starts to blare. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) says (quietly): Welcome to weekends at our libraries. T
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        Lock icon HUSH, KEEP IT DOWN, PLEASE
        193 19  -  EYEBALL’S SOUND CHECK Clara Chow HOW noisy are our libraries? Eyeball measured the decibels at two popular libraries. Woodlands Regional Library On a Saturday, at noon Minimum: 42.9 dBA. Maximum: 79.4 dBA. Quietest area: Reference section on second floor; the global reading (which is averaged
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      • Book MARKS
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          Lock icon Nod to e-books
          33 20 AMERICA’S National Book Foundation said last week that it will start considering e-book entries for its National Book Awards. The catch? Entries must still be submitted in bound hard copy.
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          Lock icon Cleaning up Kerouac
          47 20 JIM ISRAY, who bought the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road from Christie’s last month, is sending his US$2.2-million (Ss4-million) buy for a good clean-up by preservationists at Indiana University. The manuscript was written in one continuous roll of paper in 1951.
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          Lock icon Ulysses draft on sale
          68 20 A HAND-WRITTEN draft of a chapter from James Joyce’s Ulysses is going under the hammer next month, reports BBC News, and watchers are predicting it could fetch up to £1.2 million (Ss3 million). The Eumaeus chapter’s draft is written in black, red and green ink, with
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          Lock icon The Gotti diary
          69 20 VICTORIA GOTTI, daughter of imprisoned mob boss John Gotti, started a weekly column in The New York Post yesterday, writing about the city’s residents. Gotti, 36, is the author of three best-selling romance/mystery novels, the most recent of which was last year’s Superstar. She split up last
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          Lock icon Orange Prize winner
          47 20  -  Clara Chow THIS year’s British-based Orange Prize for fiction was judged by an all-female panel. Australian author Kate Grenville’s The Idea Of Perfection was top pick. The novel was also the only book which appeared on the shortlist drawn up by an all-male jury.
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        Lock icon Bet on this horse
        496 20  -  Clara Chow SEABISCUIT: AN AMERICAN LEGEND Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)/399pp. $39.99fr0m Borders A BOOK about an American racehorse is a long shot on anybody’s reading list. But once started on this true story, you’ll be racing to finish it. Currently No 1 on the New York
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        Lock icon THEY’RE NOT HORSING AROUND
        79 20 NEVER thought that a horse could be a protagonist for a book? Then you should check out these other equine classics and racetrack gems: BLACK BEAUTY Anna Sewell Victorian children’s classic about the ebony horse’s life, from idyllic colthood to carriage-drawer to abused cab-horse. Made into
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        Lock icon Help! I need a job
        691 21 So, youve been told that these are uncertain times, where jobs are scarce and dream posts even fewer. Eyeball picks out two books which might help you get your foot in the interview door. DON’T SEND A RESUME Jeffrey JFox (Hyperion)/172pp. $27.71 from Borders AT
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        Lock icon QUICK PICKS
        165 21  -  Clara Chow SCHOOL’S out. Time to stock up on these paperbacks which will put a smile on your face and not tax your brain. BADBOY Olivia Goldsmith (Harper Collins)/324pp. s2B.B4from Borders The author of The First Wives’ Club turns her hand to the age-old problem of Mummy’s Boy
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        Lock icon BLUFFER’S GUIDE TO THE BARNUM MUSEUM
        157 21  -  Clara Chow Steven Millhauser (1990) Who: Magic realist, postmodernist writer from New York. Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and the United States National Book Award, for Martin Dressier. What’s it about: The first of three collections of short stories. The Barnum
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    • The Tube
      • Eyeballing TELEVISION
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          Lock icon If only Al stayed dead
          688 22 Creature-feature Walking With Dinosaurs was the biggest thing on TV in 200 million years, and prehistory repeats itself with its sequel, The Ballad Of Big Al. But fake dims, says JEANMARIETAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg), should remain extinct. E HAD the brain of a crocodile, but the heart
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        Lock icon Lose the Kit-sch
        607 23 It would’ve been even better, if it weren’t for the outrageous costumes, antics and pyrotechnics, says TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg), who was at Kit Chan’s maiden solo concert on Saturday night. 00 WHAT ifFann Wong was the first Singaporean to stage a concert at the Singapore Indoor
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        Lock icon EYEBALL PROFILES
        410 23 Who: Canadian theatre company Les Deux Mondes, which presents the Asian premiere of Leitmotiv. Founded in 1973, it is one of Canada’s premier theatre companies, having earned numerous awards, including the Governor General of Canada’s Award in 1993, for its production of The Tale Of Teeka. The company
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      274 22 MUST-SEE TV: THIS WEEK’S TOP PICKS -3 aft*m ,7 m Movies Anna And The King (right) Saturday 9 pm STAR Movies (Ch 58) EAST meets West when an English schoolteacher (Jodie Foster) is employed to tutor the King of Siam’s (Chow Yun Fat) children. She initially clashes with the imperious
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  • The Back Page
    • Chat & Mouse
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        Lock icon Top io reasons to go to work naked
        125 24 No one ever steals your chair. Gives bad hair day a whole new meaning. Diverts attention from the fact that you also came to work drunk. People stop stealing your pens after they’ve seen where you keep them. You can add “exotic
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        Lock icon Dalmatian marks the spot
        78 24 A NURSERY school teacher was delivering a van full of kids to their homes when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting on the fire truck was a Dalmatian. The children fell to discussing the dog’s duties. “They use him to keep crowds back,” said one. “No,”
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        Lock icon Is it Tom Hanks?
        49 24 FROM a passenger ship, everyone can see a bearded man on a small island, desperately shouting and waving his arms. “Who is it?” a passenger asks the captain. “I’ve no idea,” the captain said. “But every year when we pass this island, he goes nuts!”
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      Lock icon Comma-tose Duchovny wants To Be A Millionaire recount
      158 24 HE MAY be starring in his first film comedy, but when it comes to punctuation, David Duchovny (right) is dead serious. The actor claims improper punctuation caused him to flub a US$5OO,OOO (S$900,000) answer on a May 2000 celebrity edition of the
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      Lock icon Courtney doesn't Love Vancouver
      102 24 COURTNEY LOVE (left) may never return to Vancouver, her manager said, after more than US$lOO,OOO (S$180,000) in jewels and property were stolen from the star’s suite while she was filming. Among the items said to have been taken is the wedding ring given to her by
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      Lock icon ARTS FEST: MAKE A DATE WITH PHILIP GLASS
      125 24 BE AMONG the first in Singapore to “meet” legendary minimalist composer Philip Glass, as well as Australia’s premier independent “rock and roll string quartet”, Four Play. MSN Singapore, the online sponsor of this year’s arts festival, has organised a lunchtime live-chat special
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Eminem’s beats can’t be beat
        88 24 FASHION designer Betsey Johnson, a breast-cancer survivor, keeps herself in shape by exercising to the music of Eminem. “Ignore the words, whatever. But what a great beat,” she said. Music and fashion are a natural combination for Johnson, who started her company in 1978. Her
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