Project Eyeball, 18 June 2001

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  • 11 1 projecteyeball. eyebalLasial,com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Monday, June 18, 2001 80 CENTS
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    • 458 1 We welcome foreign talent, BUT... In general, the underlying message from the Government seems to be that locals are pretty much useless, untalented and totally lacking in creativity.’ Eve 77 ‘By restricting opportunities for citizens to question and to develop their own views, the country has produced cogs in the
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      97 2 FATHERS are now better bargain hunters for their families than mothers. According to a recent survey by British supermarket chain Somerfield, 45 per cent of men said they zoom in for the best deals, compared to just 29 per cent of women. One in five fathers added they get
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    • 572 2  -  More than 100 children audition for part in musical By Pong Chen Yen local@eyeball.com.sg WE DON’T know about the musical itself, but the audition for Tam’s character in Miss Saigon yesterday was a big hit. More than 100 children and their parents showed up at the Action
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    • Eyeball NEWS
      • 132 2 SOME 300 lucky residents in Ang Mo Kio, Bishan and Thomson will be the first in Singapore to enjoy a range of interactive multimedia services on their TVs, when Sing Tel tries out its interactive television (iTV) in the next quarter. Using remote controls,
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      • 105 2 A 59-YEAR-OLD Singaporean was arrested by the Central Narcotics Bureau at Woodlands checkpoint when officers conducting a routine urine test operation, called Operation Ranger, found a package of heroin in his white BMW. The unemployed man, stopped on Saturday night, tested negative for
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      • 86 2 A NEW welfare scheme launched yesterday will give needy Punggol residents more than just handouts. The additional feature is the circle of “friends” they can approach for help and counselling under the Friends of the Family scheme initiated by Cheng San GRC MP Dr Michael
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    • Article, Illustration
      339 3 WASHINGTON Four Texans have told federal authorities that they paid U *****,000 (*****,000) to an Arkansas group promising that Roger Clinton would have his half brother, thenPresident Clinton, grant them a pardon and diplomatic passports. Their testimonies are part of an investigation into the Clinton pardon scandal. LONDON
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    • 274 3 It almost happened in 1952, says book LONDON The Americans were planning to launch a “preventive” nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in 1952, a new book has revealed. The Hidden Hand, by Richard Aldrich, professor of politics at Nottingham University, contains a secret
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    • 47 3 US adventurer Steve Fossett preparing for take-off in his Solo Spirit gondola from Kalgoorlie Airport, Western Australia, yesterday, before strong winds ripped the balloon, forcing him to abort his third attempt to complete the first solo circumnavigation of the Earth by balloon. Reuters
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    • 185 3 The new flavour in fruit fizzy LONDON What looks like a grape and tastes like champagne? Fizzy fruit the result of a scientific breakthrough to carbonate fresh fruit. A Texan researcher found that under certain conditions, most natural fruit can be filled with carbon dioxide to make the flesh fizzy.
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
      • 1138 4  -  Unit trusts, vouchers among offers By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg HOME buyers should consider themselves lucky. These days, property developers are bending over backwards to woo wary buyers. Faced with flagging sales, developers are offering promotions ranging from deferred payment plans to unit trusts to
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    • Singapore
      • 686 5  -  A self-defence programme teaches more than just taekwon-do to kids By Pong Chen Yen local@eyeball.com.sg A NEW form of martial arts, introduced in September last year, is fast gaining popularity. The Little Dragons Programme, an alternative form of taekwon-do designed especially for kids, has found
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      • 320 5  -  SOON AT SGH PHARMACIES By Pong Chen Yen local@eyeball.com.sg ROBOTS dispensing medicines? No problem. That’s the general reaction of the man in the street to news that the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is set to install a series of “robotic arms” in its pharmacies to
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      • 838 6  -  Telcos say they’re playing it safe By Eugene Wee eu.genew@sph.com.sg LOCAL telcos are careful not to buy too much into the hype as the curtain goes up on CommunicAsia 2001, a four-day telecommunications and information technology trade show. The show, which kicks off
        Source: Newsweek  -  838 words
      • 445 6 THE bridges on the wireless information superhighway have been burned and there’s no turning back. All around the world, telecommunications industries are being brought back to earth after the hype and their blind quest to bring third-generation (3G) mobile phones to the world last
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      • Monday MUSINGS
        • 1156 7 What happens when a counsellor herself needs counsel? When active volunteer Winnie Tang suffered a stroke, it was only natural that she turn to self-motivation to see her through, she tells UYEN VU (uyen@sph.com.sg). SHE had seen the gamut of human drama. She had worked with
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    • The World
      • 473 8 CRUCIAL GENERAL ELECTION IN 2004 Wires KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohahmad has always got his party to agree to a no-contest for his post and that of his deputy whenever talk of a challenge has surfaced. The chances are bright,
        – Wires  -  473 words
      • 221 8 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Ahead of a special meeting next Sunday to let the Malaysian Chinese Association’s 2,500 delegates vote on the controversial takeover of two independent newspapers, its leaders continued to trade insults. Party president Ling Liong Sik, who heads one camp, was quoted by the
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      • 428 8 Rebels trading hostages for cash MANILA Californian tourist Guillermo Sobero may have been killed by his Abu Sayyaf captors, presidential spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao conceded yesterday. The military had said earlier it could not confirm rebel claims that they beheaded Guillermo last week, but Tigalao said: “From the
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      • 591 9  -  By Thomas Friedman NYT READING about all the anti-Americanism US President George W Bush has encountered on his trip to Europe, I was reminded of the 1970 s Randy Newman song Political Science. Its main verse was: “No one likes us I don’t know
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      • 453 9 ...when a relative donates one on their behalf WASHINGTON A quid pro quo kidney donation scheme, pioneered in the US, leapfrogs patients to the top of the waiting list if their healthy relatives donate their organ. A report in Britain’s Telegraph yesterday spoke of two
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    • Technology
      • 928 10 Salon No longer cowed by the feds, the colossus of Redmond returns to business as usual, says Salons ANDREW LEONARD. ANY day now, the ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals will rule on whether Microsoft should be broken up as per Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s orders. No one
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    • Business
      • Article, Illustration
        51 11 It’s back to picking the freshest chicken for this buyer as poultry made its way back to Hong Kong markets on Friday. But sellers are complaining that higher retail prices have hurt business despite the resumption of trade after a bird flu outbreak halted supplies for a month.
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      • Personal FINANCE
        • 543 11  -  Can’t decide between bonds and shares? Try something in between By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg IF YOU want the safety of a bond but the appreciation of a stock, you had better gun for preference shares. Don’t let the term floor you. Preference shares are just “hybrid”
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      • 345 11 SINGTEL'S OPTUS BID Wires SYDNEY Sing Tel seems to have cleared another hurdle in its quest for Australia’s Cable Wireless Optus. The Australian government on Sunday backed investment by foreign governments in its telecommunication companies. Just last week it had extended a review on whether
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    • Mailbox
      • 979 14 Hey, what about me? (June 14) IN AN interview on the PAP’s newly launched website, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said that his vision was for Singapore to become a “vibrant cosmopolis”, with people from all parts of the world calling it home. In his
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      • Wry TECH
        • Article, Illustration
          579 15  -  By John Lui johnlui@singnet.com.sg LAST week, Microsoft admitted that some of its software was a turn-off to users, which is sort of like Jack the Ripper confessing that he may have had a few anger-management issues. The software Microsoft was talking about was Clippy, the animated assistant that
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      • 199 15 ‘Ban, what ban?’ (June 14) SURE, Janet Jackson’s All For You may have been recently banned here. But are censorship laws really as draconian as we like to complain? Only some 20 titles a year are banned here, and many even get “un-banned”. Are the laws
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    • 17 8 The complete interview with Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (above) at http://www.nstpi. com.mv/Current News/ NST/Sunday/Enter tainmant/*****6 *****323/Article/ indexsun htl
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    • 72 9 More on organ donation ethics and policies: http://www.beloitnews.com/ alive/column/iun99/ howards62o99.asp A doctor’s point of view on the ethics of organ donation. http://www.thegift.orß.sg/ whv-organ-donation/policies-! aws.html Policies and laws to do with organ donation in Singapore. Special &Delicous e Steajj| to 5© °*f C° Monday to Saturday (Sun PH close) 5.00 pm
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
      • Article, Illustration
        84 16 AP SAO PAULO Inter Milan striker Ronaldo yesterday accepted an invitation by Brazil’s new national coach, Luiz Felipe Scolari, to train with the team ahead of its World Cup qualifier against Uruguay on July 1. Still recovering from knee surgery, Ronaldo is only expected to return to full
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      • 41 16 Wires LONDON Hassan Kachloul has vowed to lead Ipswich to the Champions League after turning down Celtic, Aston Villa and Derby County. The Moroccan midfielder has accepted an offer of £17,000 (5544,000) a week after leaving Southampton for nothing.
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      • 46 16 Wires LONDON Football36s yesterday reported that Chelsea managing director Colin Hutchinson had revealed that the club is in talks with Barcelona about bringing Emmanuel Petit back to London. But the £7-million swoop is unlikely to go ahead until Barca has finished its season.
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      • 72 16 AFP MEXICO CITY Costa Rica scored a historic 2-1 World Cup qualifying win against Mexico over the weekend to keep itself on course to qualify for next year’s finals. The result in Mexico City puts Costa Rica in second place in the six-team Concacaf final group
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      • Article, Illustration
        52 17 AFP BALTIMORE-World heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman has been accused of helping launder U 5537,000 (5566,000) for a cousin, who was later jailed for drug trafficking, The Baltimore Sun reported yesterday. Rahman has refused to comment on the allegations. Rahman has refused to comment on the accusations of money
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      • 71 17 AP BRONDBY Hasim Rahman’s next boxing opponent Brian Nielsen of Denmark outpointed American Orlin Norris over the weekend to defend his IBC world title in this Copenhagen suburb. The 114 kg Dane won a unanimous decision over Norris. Nielsen had problems getting through Norris’ blocks, although some fast
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      • 81 17 AP MELBOURNE Two amateur Australian Rules football players died during matches in Victoria state on Saturday. Both collapsed while not being involved in the play. A 28-year-old player died at Boort during half-time after doctors, who had been watching the game, failed to revive him, police said. At
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    • 728 16 With O’Neal, Bryant and coach Jackson, LA is in for more good years Lat-Wp PHILADELPHIA Told on Saturday night that he seemed a little down for a man who had just won his fourth NBA championship, Robert Horry pressed out a smile. “I hate to
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    • 134 16 FOOTBALL: Manchester United’s new coup Ruud van Nistelrooy said “No Sweat” when he was told of his manager’s verbal barrage during half-time pep talks. In a feature in Soccernet, the Dutchman explains why he prefers that “hellish” treatment. Click on http:// www.soccernet.com for more. GOLF: So, was it
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    • 582 17 Lazio midfielder says he was framed in fake passport scandal ROME At long last, Juan Sebastian Veron has broken his silence on the scandal that implicates him in an alleged fake passport scam. At a hearing yesterday, Veron spoke of the “betrayal” at Lazio, which is
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    • 58 17 For Liverpool fans, all roads yesterday led to the Suntec City exhibition hall, where organisers were handing out free $4O-tickets for the Liverpool-Singapore Select clash at the National Stadium on July 17. Hundreds of fans set up overnight camp at the venue on
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  • Unwind
    • 826 18 Emblazoning the literary awards that a book has won on its cover helps make the volumes fly off the shelves. But what significane does each attach to the value of the hook? CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) gets into the spine of the matter. THE Orange Awards have been given
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    • Books
      • 974 20 Serene Goh CLARA CHOW (darac@sph.com.sg) asks Orange Prize-winning author Kate Qrenville about getting the better of Margaret Atwood, and what she plans to turn her creative energies to next. THIS year’s Orange Prize-winning novel was born when Kate Grenville got chased by an animal
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      • 760 21 Clara Chow MY ONCE UPON A TIME Diran Adebayo (Abacus) $17.41 from Borders IT’S a good job Diran Adebayo has the underrated talent of plumping out his words to keep his reader chewing. Good because while his sophomore outing My Once Upon A Time starts with a simple
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      • 376 21  -  By Clara Chow cl arac@sph. com.sg IN DENYSE TESSENSOHN’S introduction to her latest and seventh book, she recalls going to her convent school’s office with her friend in 1959, with a request to use the phone: classmates at school told me that the PAP was communist and that
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    • Arts Fest
      • 559 22 Complete nonsense, or fraught with meaning? Forget about trying to understand Heiner Qoebbels 5 Hashirigaki, says TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg), and just enjoy it. What: Hashirigaki, a musical theatre piece by German drama stalwart and composer Heiner Goebbels. It was inspired by Gertrude Stein’s novel
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      • 462 22  -  By Clara Chow clarac@sph.com.sg A WOMAN beats a drum under a white sheet, shouting unfathomable riddles to a gaping butterfly. As the questions mount, the butterfly made up of three actors flutters helplessly and keels over, not uncomically. This image from Theatre Ox’s work in progress, One Breath
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      • 135 22  -  Tan Dawn Wei Sold out THESE Arts Festival shows are sold out: One Breath Left by Theatre OX, today; Philip Glass Ensemble: A Retrospective, Thursday; Dracula by Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Friday and Saturday. Stefanova talks FOR those interested in learning more about theatre criticism, Bulgarian theatre critic
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    • The Tube
      • Eyeballing Television
        • 647 23 For the best laughs, trust the experts who cut their teeth on stage, says JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg). Only stand-up comedy kings like Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano and Christopher Titus can put the fun back into dysfunction showing now in their eponymous sitcoms. OR nine years, a P fluffy
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 253 23 MUST-SEE TV: THIS WEEK’S TOP PICKS Movies Tike General’s Daughter Saturday 9 9 pm 9 HBO (Ch 60) WHILE investigating the brutal murder of the General’s daughter, a detective from the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division uncovers a grim conspiracy. Director Simon West’s (Tomb Raider) military thriller stars John Travolta and
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  • The Back Page
    • 297 24 Chat Mouse Trainspotting FOUR strangers travelled together in the same compartment of a European train. Two men and two women faced each other. One woman was a very wealthy and sophisticated 70-year-old lady who was decked out in the finest of furs and jewelry. Next to her sat a beautiful
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    • 224 24 Dawn Wong SINGAPORE will air its own version of the Survivor series minus the tribal council come September. Channel U, together with the People’s Association Youth Movement (PAYM), has sent five twentysomethings on a 40-day trek to 40 locations in China including Chengdu, Luoyang and Beijing. Unlike the
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    • 158 24 HOLLYWOOD’S most glamorous couple will soon have an equally glamorous home for a possible new addition to the family. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are said to have set their sights on their dream home —a Beverly Hills property which will cost
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    • Making HEADLINES
      • 116 24 BRUCE WILLIS’ new squeeze is a Czech beauty pageant queen more than half his age. Willis, 46, is said to be over the moon over 21-year-old Eva Jasanovska, whom he met while filming his new movie Hart’s War in Prague. But Jasanovska, a
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      • 81 24 Wires RECENT Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro broke his wrist on Thursday while shooting a scene for his upcoming film, The Hunted. Dudley Moore, Christopher Lee and English Patient director Anthony Minghella received honours on Saturday from Queen Elizabeth. The three were among those named Commanders of the British
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