The New Paper, 31 December 1991

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1 27 The New Paper
  • 15 1 the new paper TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1991 MITA (P) 13/4/91 50 CENTS the new paper
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 164 1 Blum aJTM'PfiJ 1 WlII 1 IL-J HURRYING down Condon stroot tshod from rocordv Rut a Mall or fostorday, Stolla Rimington In ttM Sunday invostigation charts hoc first pkturo takan of bar tinea >ha past, from cupboard monitor a'/ >acama boad af MIS. Mystoriousty, school to hoad of tbo nation's movan-
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 624 2  -  LOOKALIKES ATTACKED By Yaw Yan Chong TWO men with similar looks were attacked within minutes of each other at the same place in Whampoa Drive. Technician Chen Khai Leong, 24, was hit on the head by a pole. He was discharged after being treated
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    • 193 2 IN August 1986, a 19-year-old national serviceman, Alan Ng Choon Meng, was killed after being mistaken for a rival gang member. Police confirmed that Alan was mistaken for a rival gang member when eight youths from the Gi Leng Kiat secret society attacked him. Alan
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    • 136 2 AP. MOTHER Teresa of Calcutta was listed in serious condition at a hospital in California after suffering from a brief heart failure. The 81-year-old Catholic nun was taken to the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla last Thursday after being diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia. Mother
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    • 498 3  -  By R Vijaya A GOOD day's sunshine is all that's needed to power the night lights of a trishaw that has hit the streets of Singapore. Drivers still have to pedal it. But the trishaw's fluorescent reading light and 10 red and yellow lights are so-lar-powered. The
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    • 151 3 SIX "cruder versions" of the solar trishaw were put on the road on National Day this year. But Mr Kum Lit Choy, managing director of Trishaw Tours Singapore's largest trishaw company said its drivers complained that model was too heavy. These were parked in Bras Basah
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    • 130 2 See you on Thursday THE New Paper wishes all its readers a Happy New Year. The paper will not be published tomorrow. We will be back on Thursday. IRENE NG'S BIKESIGHTS ON THURSDAY: MEET KRANJI VILLAGE CHIEF WHO NAMED FOUR ROADS HOTLINEPLUS OUR toll-free HotlinePlus for readers, on 734-7711, will
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 11 4 I poll ICK 11II' I
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    • 153 4 CHEWING gum will be banned in Singapore from Friday. This is because chewing gum disrupted MKT train operations, said the Environment Ministry. Also, chewing gum litter has been a perennial nuisance at cinemas and housing estates, it added. On two occasions in July and August, chewing gum
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    • 89 4 k HOT j A LITTERBUGS will soon have ta clean up litter at public places. The Environment Ministry said yesterday that the Government will introduce this new law to maintain Singapore's clean image. It said: "The Environmental Public Health Act will be amended to require all littering offenders
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    • 90 4 The Straits Times: Chewing gum to be banned. Business Times: Credit POSB plans to cut mortgage rates. Lianhe Zaobao: Import, sale and production of chewing gum to be banned from Jan 3; Government considers laws to deal with litterbugs. Berita Harian: Gum ban from Friday. SBC morning news: Leaders
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 52 4 OUTGOING Education Minister Tony Tan (right) has called on universities here to expand their facilities and programmes to give as many Singaporeans as possible a shot at tertiary education. He said the universities here should raise the intellectual tone of society, provide trained manpower and maintain high
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      • 55 4 BANKS, department stores and clans are helping to raise funds for lower-income Chinese families this Lunar New Year with a project called Hongbao from the Heart. Started by the Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the project will invite people
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      • 70 4 THE Inland Revenue Department (IRD) will be made a statutory board from April 1 next year. And there is talk that the agency will form a subsidiary to offer tax consultancy services. A source said the move to convert the IRD, which is facing severe staff shortage,
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      • 71 4 US Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher has became the first official of the Bush administration to say publicly that Japan is partly to blame for the lingering recession in the United States. Stagnation in the US economy is not totally due to Japan's trade policy but "they're exacerbating the
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      • 67 4 KHMER Rouge leader Khieu Samphan returned to the Cambodian capital amid tight security yesterday and went straight into talks with his former foes. He was thrown out of the Phnom Penh last month by angry crowds. A spokesman said the talks centred on implementation of the UN peace
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      • 59 4 INDONESIA has replaced the two military generals it sacked over the killings in East Timor. Major-General Mantiri is the new chief of the Bali-based Udayana military command which oversees East Timor. Brigadier-General Theo Syafei will be the military operations chief in East Timor. Both are Christians. The former
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      • 124 4 THE Housing Board plans to build 90,000 flats over the next five years. Most will be four-room, five-room and executive flats, said HDB chairman Hsuan Owyang. The board received 36,627 applications for flats in its financial year 1990-91. About 30,600 were requests to buy flats
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 181 4 I" When it comes to «le*Year *o ere 's yj P Road may^^^^ dosed. but why should that stop your celebrations? JL Head for Marina Village instead. Where you y can eat. drinfe and party into the new year. Our festive New Year's Eve menus start from 9 $60++. And
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 452 6  -  By Helen Chang Students at the Angio-Chi-nese School are getting a longer holiday compliments of the season. They start the new term four days later because their new $40 million school is not quite ready. Monsoon rains this month have slowed down work on the
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    • 360 7 NETS GUESSING CONTEST MADAM Chan Leh Chee, 34, earned a new Panasonic 26-inch colour television set I for her new flat in just 10 minutes. That's all the time it took for her to calculate when Nets would cross the $2 billion
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    • 258 7 H 'UNDREDS of obscene leaflets were thrown from the top of the Westin Stamford yesterday afternoon. The notepad-sized leaflet named an employee of the hotel. It claimed the employee owed $15,000 but had paid up only $5,000. It did not name the creditor. The
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    • 279 8  -  1 By Trudy Lim ALTHOUGH the new school year begins in two days, some textbooks are still not available. Bookshops have confirmed that some titles have yet to come. One parent called The New Paper's Hotline Plus to say he had mounted a
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    • 303 9  -  By Angeline Song MAKE sure you have enough money in your account to cover cheques you donate to charity. At least one charity fund has received more than 30 cheques, worth a total of $3,000, that bounced in the past 2Vt months. The private fund is
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 32 6 ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL NEW YEAR'S EVE $30 NETT inclusive of 2 standard drinks and novelties Open till 4 a.m. ORCHARD PLAZA #04-19 Orchard Road (Beside MERIDIEN HOTEL, near SOMERSET MRT STATION) Tel: *****55
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    • 32 8 <?J' wmi OUJPORMA J t£. "ft ft p It's New Year! A time for celebrations-. /v>n Make it specteLwth 4 /J California N^y the happy nuts. j Happiness In A Nutshell J
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    • 33 8 Heard a seen anything? Coll 11-*H Blim nonin® nut 734-7711 j I No Telecom charge for colls. Fax *****75 Or write to: The New Paper 390 Kim Seng H Rd. Singapore 0923 x*"--®:---
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 60 9 HOLIDAY PACKAGE Valid until 31/1/92 Single/Double MSIOO.OO nett inclusive American Breakfast OR Tim Sum Fm Reservations < all THE EMPEROR HOTEL MALACCA 121. Jalan Munsh ahduilah. ***** Melaka Tel: *****7 T«l«» MA ***** EMTEL F«« 2J8989 COCKPIT HOTEL Oxley Rise. Penang Road, (opp Orchard Road Singapore 0923. Tel: *****11 (2uunes)
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 425 10 Wire services. LEADERS of the Commonwealth of Independent States have failed to agree on a joint command for their non-nuclear armed force. The heads of the 11 former Soviet republics, however, did agree on a permanent unified command over the former Soviet Union's 27,000 nuclear
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    • 236 11 SOVIET uranium and plutonium the raw materials used for making a nuclear bomb are being offered for sale abroad. Proof of the sale surfaced when Swiss police confiscated 30 kg of Soviet uranium last month. This was disclosed by Mr Romano Dolce, assistant public prosecutor
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    • 229 11 AP. STANDING in line for food in Russia is no longer simply boring. Now it's also dangerous. Tempers are flaring and fistfights growing in frequency as shoppers rush to the stores before prices rise on Thursday throughout the vast Russian federation. In the worst incident so
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    • 345 12 THE British Government went to great lengths to hide its new spymistress from the world. But two British newspapers went to even greater lengths to show what she looked like. The world knew this month that Britain had appointed a new spymistress. The British Government even announced her
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    • 116 12 THE boys in the office already have a nickname for her they call her Remington Stella after the TV private eye, Remington Steel. In private life, Mrs Rimington, 56, is known to her neighbours as the mousy, soberly dressed, civil servant wife of the head of Britain's Health
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    • 180 12 Mls's job is counter-intelli-gence. In other words, stopping other people spying on Britain. It does not spy abroad that is what MI6 does. MIS collects information. It identifies the enemies of that state; others pursue and catch them. MIS came into being in 1909 to
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    • 458 13 MENTAL illness is increasing among foreigners in Japan, especially among Asians who come to work illegally in factories and the sex industry. Though there are no overall statistics, medical workers and officials are beginning to express concern, reports Asahi News Service. The Ministry of Health and
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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    • 77 10 Marina Village Productions <S Johnnie Walker Present COMOOfiB LIVE AT KHAMELEON! 4TH&5TH JANUARY 1992,7.00 pm, $30 rJ d|%_ Hurry, get your tickets now at- Tangs (Customer Service Counter) at level 2 4hME^^3|^^59^| Marina Village Office 9.00am 6.00pm Marina Village Information Counter after 6pm For more information call221 6500 or225 3055.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 148 11 PARAGON CLASSIC DRAW RESULTS Ist Prize: Two UTA French Airlines Return Tickets to Paris. Winner: ANGELINE TAN SU WEI |/C NO *****431 2nd Prize A 553,980 Charmont Chere 22k Gold Queen EKzabeth Pendant I Two Rlnton Restaurant Dinner Vouchers. Winner: MRS T. HUANG l/C NO *****34G 3rd Prize: St Louis
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    • 20 11 DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME READING THISAD. f (Save it with this Lmox.) I ■MWj i KaL v „y.^B fwwHg] tt
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 162 12 Dine 'n Dance V(,lir wa y This New Year's Eve, Europa East Coast invites you to dine 'n dance the night away with our season's best: Ist Drink Charge a* $35 nett and Europe's special New Year's Eve Dinner at $65++. We've now got 4 fantastic groups and a no
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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    • 105 13 EAT-ALL-YOU-CAN UNLIMITED TEPPANYAKI INDULGENCE (From 2 January 1992) Now for a limited period only, indulge all you can in our sizzling hot Teppanyaki Special BUFFET STYLE at the incredible price of only $25* (Lunch only.) Order as many items as you can possibly eat from our Teppanyaki menu which comes
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  • Article, Illustration
    966 14 •m How do busy executives fit exercise into their tight daily schedules? HELEN CHANG talks to five of them to find out the secret of packing everything in, without wearing yourself out. T ime. If only you had more of it. Then you would exercise. But time
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 131 14 0 n i a o FITNESS FEASTS FINGER-LICKING CHEESE FINGERS Ingredients: 1 tsp Margarine 2 tbsp Cheddar cheese spread 2-3 slices Sunshine Softmeal bread V2-I tbsp Sultanas ▼Al.vt Method: 4. When cool, cut each slice into 1. Mix cheese spread with approximately 6-9 Sultanas. fingers. 2. Trim crust of bread
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 80 15 fJET IT Mflim TEEN PROSTITUTES SMARTTALK ON FASHION'S FAST FORWARD lit I II IIUVV Anna is 15 Other girls are younger. The new must-buy, update last year's looks mmi- Why are they doing it? W CHEAP GOES CHIC MOTHER, PLEASE! Outstanding outfits tor a steal YOU CAN WORK IT OUT!
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 822 15 tuesdaytv BLIND DATE MNOSAAIR: THE SHPIH s ms pm) WALTER Davis (Bruce WiUU (Channel 12, 8 pm) NINE Deeja^9 from right, with Kim Basinger) takes Wfm JHHftg WALTER Cronkite follows the rWendi KoMleft).%he along a teautiful southern belle dinosaur trail out west to the J \T programme takes a retrospective
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  • Showtime
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      765 16  -  Idols can get married or go steady but fans will still love them. LO TIEN YIN asks the what makes an idol By Lo Tien Yin HIT'S public knowledge now TV stars Li Nanxing Land Yang Libing are going steady and looking for an apartment to be
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    • 519 17 IT was a night of the men at the Juara Lagu 91 songwriting contest. Apart from rock star Shima, 22, all the other winners were men. The contest is organised yearly by a Malaysian TV station at Putra World Trade Centre's Dewan Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur.
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    • 176 17 UPI. HEFTY actor John Goodman will portray Fred Flintstone, the tyrannical cartoon caveman, in a coming film a multi-million dollar Steven Spielberg project. The film is based on the large-scale animated cartoon series, The Flintstones. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the cartoon about a
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    • 426 18 Spend your New Year holidays with loveable dinosaurs, the sultry Kim Basinger and maybe a hunchback. Here is a guide to TV viewing for the festive season TODAY SBC 5 Live Wire, 8.30 pm Michael Jackson's much-talked-about Black and White video clip will
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 702 19 COMICRELIEF TUESDAYRADIO I School Daze /Koh Cheng Eng EZHE3IHBI **********5881 FM9OJ FM 92.4" UXi U Jk) 12.05 PM A Lunchdite with Rose Tan NOON Ntw» in Bri«f ~Y V)] Music and a LuncMima Quiz 12.03 PM Popular Classics J [l oi a. =a 2.05 Feminine Flair with Olive Saw 1.00
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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    • 226 20 TUESDAYRADIO K*****18H5H CkA QO a I'M UO.V -12.30 PM Sentimental Journey NOOM Newsdesk 12.45 Rediffusiofl's Daily 12.J0 PM Off tke Skelf > W Oram r d 3.30 New Ideas 10.00 News 3.50 What makes a Poem 10.10 Super US Cask Bonanza Crawl 400 News Draw (ceet'd) 4.09 Words af Fartk
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    • 253 20 COMICFELIEF C3thy/cathy Guisewite [I THOUGHT hK'O¥ BLACK TIE. 1 pTHEN I W DRESSV SNORT THEN I THOUGHT ME SHOULD r Mat.'. "FESTIVE 60 some WHERE LW»G DRESS. THOUGHT IT W ORESS. I HAVE JUST HAVE A SPECIAL NIGHT f/JSdfll 'ff THF MI6KTI U °L L, W#UL K i ™AT...mEOIU« «T
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 1030 22 n n 2100 Personal Services/ Products I LITTLE SPARKLE < CHILDCARE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE THIS IS A MODEL CTR. j Quality Service et Affordable I Pnc«t Ar« 9mmtt I I II II i i Limited vacancies available I I i I for children born In 1980's i i i i 4
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  • SPORTS
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      427 23 I It was a a ear for Singapore athletes. Some struck gold. Others tried, but faltered. Some of our best reflect on the year gone by and look ahead... GRACE YOUNG My main goal for 1991 was the SEA Games. I wanted to defend the Masters title
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    • 352 24  -  WHAT CHIEF RACE OFFICER HO KAH SOON SAYS The start can be done on any side, port or starboard. But I agree that whoever goes on port has the advantage. We can't help it If the wind shifts. Three minutes before the start, the line cannot be
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    • 259 24 Reuter. BORIS Becker and Steffi Graf came up top but a ballboy went down to a powerful Becker backhand and had to be revived on court. Such was the drama of the Hopman Cup tennis tournament held in Perth yesterday. Becker, looking fully recovered from the virus
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    • 219 24 SHE is only 13 years old, but Polish schoolgirl Dorota Starszewska is already a marathoner in the sport of boardsailing. And the testimony is all in her hands. Her blistered, plastered hands, that is. After only four months' experience on the Lechner Olympic Class board,
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    • 51 25  -  DAVID LEE Captain. Tiong Bahru Age: 33 Height :1.82 m Weight :82kg Position: Goalkeeper Occupation: Senior sales executive Former clubs: Cairnhill, Toa Payoh United, Tiong Bahru, Jurong Town, Tyrwhitt Soccerites Overseas attachment: Niac Mitra (Indo) 1982-83 Year joined present club: 1990 Favourite player: Gordon Banks Picture/ David
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    • 538 26 The New Paper Premier League Countdown continues with a look at Tiong Bahru CSC through the eyes of its captain David Lee. Although rated one of the frontrunners in the race for the title, its skipper and national goalkeeper tells BERNARD PEREIRA that nothing is
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    • Article, Illustration
      36 26 GROUND: Jalan Besar Stadium CAPTAIN: David Lee VICE-CAPTAIN: T Pathmanathan COACH: P N Sfvaji MANAGER: Robert Tan FOREIGN PLAYERS: Michal Vana, Martin Vana SPONSOR: Singapore Press Holdings; Adidas ($60,000 worth of sportswear and equipment)
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    • 73 26 Formed in 1974 1978 Champion Div 3 1979 Champion Div 2 1982 Champion President's Cup 1983 Champion Div 1 1984 3rd place Asean Clubs (Jakarta) 1985 Champion President's Cup 1986 Runner-up Div 1 1987 Champion Div 1, Champion Div 1 Knockout Cup, Champion President's Cup, 3rd place
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    • 29 26 w h T ve have a very good chance for the title as 90 per cent of our outfit is together for the second year running.
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    • 22 26 VL the double Vana venom, I'd say we have a good chance for the league and President's Cup double.
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  • 225 27 AP, Reuter. CARL Lewis, the world's fastest man, has been awarded the "Sport Oscar" of the year. He was picked as best athlete of 1991 in a survey conducted by Italy's largest sports daily, Gazzetta dello Sport of Milan. Lewis, who broke the 100 metres world
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 323 27 "Ilostl6kg,finally!" "Despite what I did, my weight just kept on increasing. One morning. I decided enough was enough. So I went through all the weight-loss advertisements I could find. The Expressions advertisement was the one that inspired most of all. "That afternoon, I called Expressions Slimfit Studio. L They were
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