Project Eyeball, 19 June 2001

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  • Title Section
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    11 1 projecteyeball eyebalLasial.com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Tuesday, June 19, 2001 80 CENTS
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      442 1 JUST THE TIPS OF AN ICEBERG After seeing the double feature a.k.a Tomb Raider, Francis Kan says you CAN have too much of a good thing. See Page 21 4 SHAME ON ITALIAN GAME Roma fans might be celebrating, but this was a season of shame in the Serie A.
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
    • Article
      Lock icon QUICKIE
      130 2 A BRITISH couple took their love to the great outdoors and triggered off a murder hunt, after a walker mistook her screams of passion for something a little more grisly. Following the walker’s tip-off, Berkshire police spent six hours scouring a lake and the surrounding woods near Reading for
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    • Article
      Lock icon WE BOOBOO-ED
      34 2 IN YESTERDAY’S article entitled “Avoiding a second stroke”, we said that the drug perindopril is produced by Ruder Finn. This is wrong. The drug is manufactured by Servier. We regret the error.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Worrisome digital divide in Asean
      358 2  -  SM Lee suggests global regulations for Internet By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg IT’S an oft-heard dilemma: Should we be governed by technology or should we try to control it? Countries in the region had responded differently and it had led to a worrying digital divide. Singapore
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      Lock icon Sing Tel to launch dial-a-drink service in Aug
      240 2  -  Suzanne Ong WHILE Ml is still running trials on using a cellphone to buy a drink from a vending machine, Sing Tel Mobile says it’s going ahead to make the service commercially available from Aug 1. Subscribers will be able to buy
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Lending a hand
        36 2 Many hands make light work as Sing l ei’s stall was being assembled at CommunicAsia 2001, which opened with Broadcast 2001 yesterday. Focusing on wireless communication, the event runs until Friday. Emmanuel Khong
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      • Article
        Lock icon NSman dies suddenly in NUH
        96 2 A FULL-TIME, 24-year-old National Serviceman died suddenly on Sunday night, two days after he was admitted to the National University Hospital (NUH) with a knee injury. With no medical record of any serious illness, Chua Ya Ta’s initial cause of death has been classified as
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      • Article
        Lock icon Student admits to threatening girl
        115 2 AN UNDERGRADUATE studying at Nanyang Technological University sent threatening e-mail messages to an underaged girl after she refused to have sexual intercourse with him in October last year. The girl, now 16, had admitted to having sex with several men, three of whom have been
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      • Article
        Lock icon Shores still free of phenol
        60 2 PHENOL, a toxic industrial solvent, spilled from a tanker which capsized in the Johor Straits last week has not reached Singapore’s shores. But the Environment Ministry is advising people to keep away from Pulau Übin, Pasir Ris, Punggol and Changi coasts because the salvage operations
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        Lock icon Performer plans to take a break
        43 2 WENDI KOH, arguably the most renowned performer in the Europa chain of pubs, is planning to take a break. The 35-year-old singer, whose contract with Europa ends in late September, wants to work on a long-overdue album.
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      Lock icon World Watch
      264 3 WASHINGTON The US will break with the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty as soon as it becomes an obstacle to building a nuclear missile defence shield. US Secretary of State Colin Powell gave no deadline, but said it would inevitably happen when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld decided it was necessary.
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      Lock icon Mystery of the missing billions
      410 3 HK may be laundering centre for money from China HONG KONG Some U 5564.3 billion (Ssll6 billion) poured into Hong Kong last year but there are no takers for the inference that the former British colony has outstripped mainland China, which drew US$3B billion in
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      Lock icon UK minister sports ignorance on radio
      232 3 LONDON The new British Sports Minister failed to answer any of five simple quiz questions about some of the most popular sports put to him by BBC Radio Five’s Sunday Service programme. Richard Caborn, appointed to the job a week ago, showed his ignorance
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    • Eyeball Focus
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        Lock icon Proceed with caution
        968 4  -  Relaxing of organ donor rules may lead to abuse, say experts By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg IT’S a clear green signal, but proceed with caution. That sums up the overall reaction to the Health Ministry’s study into allowing organ donations by persons living and unrelated to the kidney
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      Lock icon OTHER COUNTRIES ALLOW IT TOO
      237 4 SINGAPORE will not be the first country to allow living and unrelated people donate their organs. Countries like the United States, Britain and Israel already have similar schemes in place. The Ministry of Health told Eyeball in an e-mail that it was also looking at
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    • Singapore
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        582 5  -  But it’s set to shoot up when serious bidders join the fray later By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg CURRENT COE price $l. And no, it’s not a typo or a computer glitch. But if you’re one of the more than 600 people who logged on
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        Lock icon ‘Weekend warriors’ wind up in hospital
        515 5  -  EXERCISE IN JURIES TAKE THEIR TOLL By Teh Jen Lee local@eyeball.com.sg DO YOU know where to find a “weekend warrior” on a Monday? Well, it seems that quite a few have been turning up injured at the new Changi General Hospital sports clinic. Weekend
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    • Health
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        Lock icon Breast-fed babies are leaner
        307 6 OBESITY RISK LONDON The latest salvo in the ongoing battle whether on to breastfeed was fired over the weekend with British doctors saying that breast-fed babies are less likely to be obese than bottle-fed ones. These latest findings, which support the argument that “breast is best”,
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        Lock icon Pregnant? Switch off the microwave
        381 6 Electromagnetic fields seem to affect embryos adversely MISCARRIAGE RISK LONDON If you are pregnant, you should stay clear of any appliance that emits a strong electromagnetic field (EMF), such as microwave ovens or even public transport that runs on electricity. Mums-to-be from around the world
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      • Stork OPTIONS
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          Lock icon Infertility not caused by fungal infection
          614 6 DEAR Dr Chen: I had a serious vaginal fungal infection recently. I was given medication and told to douche regularly by my gynae. While he says that it is normal for it not to clear up all at once, I’m starting to get worried,
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Popular Thaksin a dilemma for Thai court
        530 7 Prime Minister makes tearful dosing statement in asset-concealment case Wires BANGKOK It’s like telling your love-blind teenage daughter to part with her moronic boyfriend, said The Nation, a leading Thai daily, while referring to the “problem” before a court prosecuting a popular leader:
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        Lock icon PAS to appoint a Chinese to highest body
        221 7 RARE MOVE Wires KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s main opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) will soon make a rare appointment of a Malaysian Muslim Chinese to its highest decision-making body. The official, whose identity was to be announced within a week, was described as
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        Lock icon Manila says the fight will go on
        361 7 Wires LAMITAN (Philippines) President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared in the heartland of the Abu Sayyaf guerrillas yesterday that there would be no let-up in the pursuit of the kidnappers even as the Philippine military said it believed abducted American Guillermo Sobero was dead.
        – Wires; Ap  -  361 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Bush sticks to his guns despite sweet talk
        657 8 Little change since European trip Nyt BLED (Slovenia) Over the past week, as President George W Bush moved from country to country and from prime minister to president, he was in some senses the epitome of diplomatic etiquette. Always, he told the
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        Lock icon Arrows of love pierce cupid Bush’s staff
        277 8 WASHINGTON Things are getting couple-friendly in the White House but not the scandalous sort associated with the previous administration, reported The Times of London yesterday. President George W Bush has been nicknamed the “Cupid-in-Chief because his staff are fast tying the knot to
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        Lock icon Crash course
        41 9 Police and fire-fighters looking at the remains of a single-engine Cessna that crashed into the back of a house in Ontario, Canada, on Sunday soon after it took off from a nearby airport. Only the pilot was injured. Ap
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        Lock icon Rivalry scuppers Microsoft-AOL deal
        498 9 They share differing approaches to Internet dominance Wires NEW YORK Microsoft and AOL Time-Warner won’t be bundling their software together anymore, after talks on shipping the AOL Internet access service with the new Windows XP operating system failed over the weekend. The failure could be blamed
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        Lock icon US trade fair counts on voter insecurity
        299 9 FLORIDA FALL-OUT Nyt BILLINGS (Montana) Over 50 entrepreneurs gathered at the weekend in one of the most unusual trade shows to hawk democracy. Capitalising on the weaknesses revealed in the Florida election last year, mum-and-dad operations and computer giants made a pitch to
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon NEW PHONE BRAND ON THE MARKET
        242 11  -  Steven Ng SOON you’ll be able to choose from even more mobile phones. Britain-based phone manufacturer Sendo is set to enter the local market, with customisable models for mobile phone operators. For example, Operator A can request for certain graphical icons for the user
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        411 11  -  SMS to morph into MMS, incorporating photos with text By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg IF A picture is worth a thousand words, how much would a single Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) message be worth? Touted as the next big step in the evolution of Short Messaging Service (SMS), MMS
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        Lock icon TRENDY MAKEOVER
        191 11  -  By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg MOST folk think of Siemens phones as the workhorses of the cellphone world: Highly efficient and feature-packed, but with no frills. That perception may change soon. Three upcoming Siemens mobiles have a trendier look, and can also be customised to suit individual tastes. The
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    • Business
      • Stocky TAKING
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          Lock icon GDP growth may dip below 3.5%
          456 13  -  Drop in non-oil exports will be drag By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg IT’S come to this now. Forget the revised 3.5 to 5.5 per cent Gross Domestic Products (GDP) growth forecast it could be worse than that. Economists now say that GDP growth this year
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          Lock icon Bulls or bears? Look at the weather
          592 13 Nyt A NEW study says that stock markets rise more often on days when the sun shines in the morning than when the skies are overcast and that the New York Stock Exchange is among the most weath-er-influenced markets in the world. These
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon KepCapital shares
          116 13 OCBC BANK, which has made a $4.8-billion bid for Keppel Capital Holdings, said yesterday that one of its former directors had bought some KepCapital shares for more than its takeover offer price. In a statement to the Singapore Exchange, OCBC said Oei Hong Leong, a non-executive director of
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          Lock icon Optus takeover
          79 13 THE Australian government said yesterday that it could impose conditions on Singapore Telecommunications’ (Sing Tel) takeover bid for Cable Wireless Optus to protect its national interests. Australia’s Communications Minister Richard Alston said that the government may limit SingTel’s access to Optus’ satellites, which carry defence data. Meanwhile, in
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          Lock icon STI up
          58 13 SINGAPORE share prices closed 0.4 per cent higher yesterday, with investors focused on merger and acquisition activity in the technology and banking sectors, dealers said. The benchmark Straits Times Index climbed 7.62 points to 1,713.72. Top gainer Venture Manufacturing ended up 3.4 per cent at $l2. OCBC, the
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          Lock icon Profits rebound
          47 13 MAINBOARD-LISTED watch retailer The Hour Glass reported a strong rebound in net profit yesterday for its full year ended March 31 this year. It posted a net profit of $16.8 million for the full year, compared to a loss of $7.4 million the previous year.
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    • Mailbox
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        Lock icon Permit private bus operators
        311 14 PUBLIC transport is, first and foremost, an essential service and must be affordable and efficient. A 10-cent increase for a feeder service is hefty as, on average, most people need to travel a few bus stops to get to a bus or MRT station. Since our
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      • Article
        Lock icon Existing system puts commuters’ interest first
        811 14 TO SAFEGUARD the interest of commuters, the PTC has a set of quality standards that public transport operators must meet. This includes minimum headways, maximum number of transfers allowed and provision of services to non-profitable areas under their “universal service obligation”. The PTC recently
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon A toy boy at 53
        801 15  -  By Dave Barry WHAT I do, first thing every morning, is play with dolls. The dolls belong to my 15-month-old daughter, Sophie, who likes to start the day by giving her dolls a toy bottle. She has a strong nurturing instinct, although it is not
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      • Article
        Lock icon Why not give private services a try?
        177 15 ‘Private operators eye feeder routes’ (June 14) Private bus operators have said they were willing to ply feeder routes at 20 cents less. Should they be given a trial? TRIAL ROUTE IF PRIVATE buses are able to run feeder bus services at a
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      23 2 Qood morning! 4* Showers in the predawn hours and morning over many areas. High: 33C1 Low: 24C Tides: 9.54AM/2.3M 9.26PM/2.7M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      28 4 Would you donate a kidney to a close friend? Might such a scheme lead to people paying for kidneys? Give us your two cents’ worth at http://eyeball. asial.com.sg
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      24 6 E-mail your fertility queries 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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      24 7 More on the court case at: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/paße. news.php3?clid=2&id=2962&usrsess=l The challenge before prosecutor Klanarong Chantik. http://web.thenationthailand.com/ thaksin Live transcript of Prime Minister Thaksin’s court defence.
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      22 8 Russian President Vladimir Putin waved the China card at Bush, says William Saffire: http://nytimes. com/2001/06/18/ opnion/18SAFI.html http://www. businessweek.com/ bwdailv/dnflash/ jun2ool/ nf*****618 947.htm
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      32 9 Net wars: Microsoft vs AOL http://www.washtech.com/news/media/ *****-l.html Microsoft and AOL are chasing the same goal of Internet supremacy using different means. http://news.cnet.com/news/ Check out the stories behind the collapse of the talks.
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      62 11 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF TOE INTERNET Of 3 WHAT ARE YOU g w VO\MG HBRB? ;t> «ca 9^ MgU6N! c SPEWCER?! BAR IMG EXTRA CASH PELIVERIWO MAIL PART TIME. ■s I r 0fc.19.0l E w p youve got a salary CHECK, PWIPENP CHECK, INVESTMENTS CHECK, ROYALTY CHECK AMP A BONUS CHECK...
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Barcelona wins
        62 16 Wires BARCELONA-A hat-trick from Brazilian attacker Rivaldo powered Barcelona to a 3-2 win over Valencia on the final day of the Primera Liga yesterday. The win earned the Catalans a place in next season’s Champions League at the expense of this season’s beaten finalists. Rivaldo’s hat-trick propelled Barcelona
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      • Article
        Lock icon Grabbi at Rovers
        40 16 LONDON-Blackburn manager Graeme Souness has launched a summer spending spree by capturing Italian hitman Corrado Grabbi for £7 million (5517.5 million), according to the footbal!36s website. Souness has a reported £2O million for new players this season.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Lippi Joins Juve
        51 16 Afp TURIN -Juventus has confirmed that former trainer Marcello Lippi will be their new coach. Lippi’s appointment was confirmed by the club after Carlo Ancelotti left. He had narrowly failed to guide the Turin giants to the Serie A title. Lippi will be presented to the media
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      • Article
        Lock icon It’s 11 or nothing
        46 16 Afp WELLINGTON All Blacks rugby star Jonah Lomu has made it indelibly clear he will not play anywhere but the wing. He’s had “11” tattooed to the left side of his chest following on from the trademark “11” etched into an eyebrow.
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      Lock icon Season of shame
      657 16 Despite grand finale, Serie A’s image takes a beating this year Reuters MILAN- While Roma fans will remember this as the year in which their 18-year wait for the title finally ended, for Italian football in general this has been a season of shame. Violence, doping, match-fixing
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    • Article
      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      129 16 BASK Hi-nALL: All-time great Michael Jordan two years into his retirement still proved too fast for some players in a friendly match in Chicago last weekend. When he tried to turn an opposing guard, the latter grabbed Jordan and broke two of his ribs. Log on to http://espn.go.com/nba/news/
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      Lock icon He’s still the man to beat...
      417 17 Reuters LONDON His ranking has slipped, the titles are drying up, and he has willingly tossed aside his crown as world No 1. But when Wimbledon gets under way in seven days’ time, Pete Sampras will be the man to beat. The seven-time champion
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      Lock icon SEVEN DAYS TO WIMBLEDON
      311 17 ...And this is the man who can beat him Ap LONDON Lleyton Hewitt could be the man to replace Pete Sampras as Wimbledon champion. So says Sampras himself. After dispatching two of the best grass court players in one day to successfully defend his Queen’s Club
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      Lock icon Blunders!
      564 17 Disaster and carelessness at US Open Lat-Wp TULSA (Oklahoma) What is the worst blunder in the history of sports? And what is the most disastrous act of carelessness on record? We may have new record holders in these ignominious categories: Retief Goosen and Stewart Cink. Goosen’s gaffe here at
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Designer Hall of Fame
      549 18 Put your money where it’s worth into the fashion world’s timeless objects of desire. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) traces the cult of designer classics. PASHION may be perceived as a flighty preoccupation, but it can be a worthy investment, if you spend your money well. With the
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    • Fashion
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        Lock icon Classics worth investing in
        913 19  -  June Wan Hermes Kelly bag Introduced as the famous “small, tall bag with straps” in 1935, it was renamed the Kelly bag in 1956, when actress Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco) appeared on the cover of Life magazine carrying one. Despite its hefty $5,600 (before
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      • Fashion LOG
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          175 20 HOW about getting your hair done at Sabun Cabane, where art and architecture meet follicle? This new salon at #O3-22 Tanglin Mall is like a 1960 s artist’s loft, with high ceilings, old furniture, and famous artwork and sculptures from Galerie Dauphin which can be purchased. Sit on
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          Lock icon Summer scent
          90 20 TAKING a hint from the purity of summer sunlight, Armani’s new fragrance is simply called White, and offers fresh, sensual notes. The most casual, relaxed, and youngest of the Emporio Armani fragrances, this, like the designer’s autumn/winter 2001/2 and spring/summer 2001/2 collections, is being endorsed by Fann Wong.
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          Lock icon Giving back
          99 20 WHO says fashion is selfish? Come July, Backstage Hair Salon will be celebrating its 10th anniversary with a charity drive for the Singapore Children’s Society. The salon wants to raise $50,000 through a series of activities next month, including $25 haircuts by top stylists on July 29 at
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          Lock icon Great white hope
          170 20 NEW in cosmetic whitening is SK-ll’s Skin Whitening range, which claims to deliver and take the difficulty out of choosing which products to use. Two new products Clear Whitening Cloth ($65) and Whitening Spots Erase ($55) have hit the stores. The undecided can take the SK-II Lifestyle
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          Lock icon Merc boutique opens
          45 20  -  June Wan THE first Mercedes-Benz Boutique in the Asia-Pacific opened yesterday at Changi Airport. The 114-sq m store is in Terminal 2, opposite e-hub. On its shelves is the exclusive three-pointed star merchandise based on four themes classic, motorsports, innovation and lifestyle.
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      • Personal STYLE
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          Lock icon Mambo king
          523 20 With his biking, beach volleyball, jogging, swimming and let's not forget acting it's a wonder that lx Shen finds time to shop for his beach-bum look, says JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg). PASHION as matchmaker? Oh yes, definitely. When lx Shen took to the catwalk at the Fashion Festival’s Hip
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    • Gender
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        Lock icon Bad mammaries
        646 21 Yes, too much of a bosom can be a bad thing. FRANCIS KAN (francisk@sph.com.sg) is mortified watching Lara Croft battle her twin terrors in Tomb Raider, and leaves the moviehouse traumatised for life. THERE used to be a simpler, more innocent time in the cinema, when gun-toting men
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      • Gender BENDERS
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          Lock icon New Yorkers strip for fun
          76 22 THE FULL MONTY has come to New York, with working professionals unrelated to the striptease industry showing skin on stage. According to the New York Post, local businessmen and women forget thenworkday blues by stripping naked and performing sex acts in an outlet called the
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        • Article
          Lock icon Brazil fights Aids with free condoms
          121 22 TO COMBAT Aids, the Brazilian government is handing out free condoms and pornographic paraphernalia to the populace. In conjunction with Lover’s Day Brazil’s answer to the more commercial Valentine’s Day 800,000 free condoms were handed out at movie theatres and newsstands, as well as
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          Lock icon Cancer drug works for heart disease
          90 22  -  Karl Ho A BREAST cancer treatment may also reduce cholesterol levels in men. According to Men’s Health, English researchers found that men with heart disease who take the drug tamoxifen, a synthetic hormone commonly used in breast cancer treatment, were 30 to 60 per
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        Lock icon Acting their age
        774 22 Nyt Who’s afraid of the older woman? Not French cinema, which, unlike Hollywood, continues to celebrate her allure in leading roles. ERICA ABEEL. author of Women Like Us, says why. OMENT from a L J current French i film: A woman in f f red, lies on
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    • Arts Fest
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        Lock icon FESTIVAL PROFILES
        332 23  -  By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg Who: FourPlay Electric String Quartet, touted as Australia’s premier independent “rock and roll string quartet”. Driving forces: Brothers Tim (viola and vocals) and Peter Hollo (cello and vocals), Veren Grigorov (viola and vocals) and Lara Goodridge (violin and vocals). The group started out
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        Lock icon Glass of many colours
        533 23 Renowned composer Philip Qlass’ preferred mode of work these days is collaboration. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) reports. HILIP GLASS in L colour. After the many photos of him in moody black and white, it was disconcerting to see the icon walk into the press conference in
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      33 23 June 19: Koyaanisqatsi June 20: Powaqqatsi Both at 8 pm, University Cultural Centre Hall. Tickets: $22 to $62 from Sistic (348 5555) Philip Glass Ensemble: A Retrospective on June 21 is sold out.
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