The New Paper, 26 December 1998
1998-12-26
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Advertisement20 1998-12-26 1 p I G/r/, 14, falls victim I in dating-service shock. I S others abused in I Internet /phone sex traps20 words
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Article, Illustration195 1998-12-26 2 OUR usual section takes on an unusual format today: A movie! Entitled Alamageddon, it features Ah Lam, the main character, in an intriguing plot set amidst a web of surreal events including the regional economic downturn and political upheavals. It's our way195 words
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Article, Illustration413 1998-12-26 2 THE MP AND THAT 'ANWAR PLOT' TAPE Source: Wire services. HE is a business partner of the prosecution's star witness, Miss Ummi Hafilda Ali. Now, Datuk Sng Chee Hua, a government MP from Sarawak, may end up becoming a star witness himself but forSource: Wire services.; Picture/ Afp - 413 words
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Article282 1998-12-26 2 THE recorded-in-London tape has been described as a bombshell in the Anwar case. It also made Miss Ummi "turn pale" when Anwar's lawyer read parts of it out in court on Wednesday. Miss Ummi is the woman behind charges of sexual misconduct against the former deputy282 words
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Article776 1998-12-26 3 More than three machines in Europe will their coin slots changed it. European banks and spend billions adjusting to it. FONG FOONG MElfinds what the Euro will mean to the average Singaporean? THE Euro will leave its mark. Francly, we'll put our last776 words
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Article177 1998-12-26 4 KEEN to party on the biggest dance floor in Singapore? Then join in the Countdown Party at Sentosa's Siloso Beach on New Year's eve next Thursday (Dec 31). The event will include a concert featuring Alex To, Kit Chan, Najib Ali, Panda Xiong and Shirley Yee, among others.177 words
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Article, Illustration446 1998-12-26 4 Fong Foong Mei - They came for Xmas fun goodies! By Fong Foong Mei THEY came, all the TNP faithful. They were joyful. And with the gifts they carted off, many of them looked triumphant as well. As early as 4.30 pm, some of the 500 readers who had won tickets to The NewPictures/ Choo Chwee Hua & Alvin Toh - 446 words
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Article33 1998-12-26 5 When planning for retirement, it isn't enough to just save religiously and have vague plans on what you want to do. One couple show CRISPIN A ROBERT how they handled retirement33 words
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Article, Illustration600 1998-12-26 5 FIFTEEN years ago, when they were newly married, Ivy Singh Lim and Lim Ho Seng decided that he would retire at 55. After working hard, Mr Lim, 55, who was the Chief Executive Officer of NTUC Fair Price, wanted to enjoy life, sleep late, goPicture/ Mohd Ishak - 600 words
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47 1998-12-26 5 Given my experience, I felt I could contribute that way. Besides, I would be in touch with business and keep my mind alert. Mr Lim, who decided that he wanted to be an independent board member of companies when he retired47 words
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Article45 1998-12-26 5 Retirement is another phase of life. It's not preposition for us to die. I, for one, want to do so mMtfifhings still. I always feel I can still achieve something. Like being an actor or going into politics. Mrs Singh Lim45 words
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Article171 1998-12-26 6 JUST one phone call can go a long way. Especially if it's to The New Paper's Hotline Plus. Your tip-offs can lead to stories that can: Help others such as two-year-old Mohd Azrin Mohd Asmawi, who fell seven storeys because his mother couldn't afford171 words
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Article, Illustration632 1998-12-26 8 Singaporeans in Indonesia There are hundreds of Singaporeans working and living in Jakarta. CRISPINA ROBERT finds out how life has changedfor one man and his family after the violence in May THE pictures of looting and death constantly flashed on the TV screen will forever bePictures/ Mohd Ishak - 632 words
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Article, Illustration247 1998-12-26 8 HE did not want to take a chance by staying on in Jakarta. So, immediately after the riots, on May 16, Mr Loo Kee San, 39, put his wife and children on a flight back to Singapore. Mr Loo, who works for the same company as247 words
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Article, Illustration506 1998-12-26 9 Michelie Ang - -SBy Michelie Ang Hp WO little old women hobbled up to I Mr Chan Keen Len's office one day. I A bus driver accompanied them. The two told Mr Chan (right), the manager of Singapore Bus Services Limited (SBS) Toa Payoh Route Group,Picture/ Ainin Toh - 506 words
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Article42 1998-12-26 9 THERE are now 15 route groups for 16 interchanges (Eunos Route Group is in charge of two interchanges). Route Groups were implemented in April. These groups ensure the smooth running of bus services, driver-management, customer service and administration.42 words
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268 1998-12-26 10 FROM yesterday until March 25 next year, Singapore Bus Services (SBS) is holding another contest for passengers during its 25th anniversary celebrations. Called the M SBS Service 25 Bus Ticket Bidding Contest", passengers collect as many tickets as possible from Service 25. All268 words
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Article, Illustration81 1998-12-26 10 mui<mui< ssasa Popular Hongkong actress Chan Chung Ling, 27, who was in Singapore recently for the TCS Star Awards ceremony, on her experience of being a newcomer in acting: I was very innocent. I didn't know how to explain myself to people sometimes I feel81 words
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Article, Illustration351 1998-12-26 11 Mention addiction and, in an instant, alcohol and drugs spring to mind. But there are other strange V things people get addicted to as IRENE KEW i finds out J HE needs coffee like a kid needs candy. Without it, his body will throw tantrums. Mr Daniel New,Picture/ Mohd Ishak - 351 words
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Article, Illustration365 1998-12-26 11 HIDE your slabs of Cadbury chocolate, Snickers bars and M Ms. Every time Mr Azad Angullia (right), 31, sees chocolate in any form lying around, it won't be long before he gobbles it up. Said the food caterer whose addiction started in his school days: "If I365 words
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Article, Illustration265 1998-12-26 11 YOU would think only little children had imaginary friends. You would be wrong. Second-year Nanyang Technological University (NTU) computer engineering student Jake Chong, 22, has an entire clan of them. In fact, he runs his own little imaginary kingdom and meets his clan for at leastPicture/ Joyce Lim - 265 words
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Article246 1998-12-26 11 THE people featured here are not seriously addicted. But when a person becomes too dependent on the substance, then help is needed. Addiction includes abuse and dependence on a substance, says Dr Brian Yeo, a consultant psychiatrist at the National University Hospital (NUH). You are dependent on246 words
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Article, Illustration875 1998-12-26 12 CHAN SEET FUN - S KOREA'S GOLF HEROINE By CHAN SEET FUN SHE'S the rookie who won four golf tournaments in her first year. South Korean Pak Se Ri is her country's heroine. She might have suffered from flu and fatigue last month but this never-say-die dynamo sounds far from burntPicture/ Afp - 875 words
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Article, Illustration217 1998-12-26 12 THE PAK SE Rl FILE Date of Birth: Sept 28,1977 Height 1.67 m Weight 52kg PAK, 21 picked up a golf club for the first time when she was 11. Her father, an amateur golfer himself, became her coach. She won more than 30 tournaments in Korea217 words
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Article, Illustration424 1998-12-26 13 Chan Seet Fun - 9 victims this year Reports/' Chan Seet Fun Red ALERT! Red alert! Young girls, be warned. There are perverts lurking out there, sex fiends who abuse dating services to set sex traps for unsuspecting young girls. They use the phone lines and Internet chat-rooms to get424 words
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Article426 1998-12-26 13 SHE got to know him on the Internet. And found out he was a "date from Hell" when they met. This real-life tale of a Net date gone wrong is told by student Catherine Gan. "My friend got to know this guy on the Net. He426 words
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Article, Illustration48 1998-12-26 15 mui*mui< Well-known British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber reveals that he doesn't like to Isten to music very much: I hate it (music) when it's in a restaurant or in a car or a taxi. My driver has instructions never to have the radio on.48 words
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Chapter293 1998-12-26 15 That's how many jobs may be lost between October and December HUNG over from too much partying? Here is some news from The Business Times that may drive you back to drink. Retrenchment in Singapore is likely to hit 10,000 in the October to December period, said Mr Cyrille Tan,293 words
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Advertisement179 1998-12-26 16 Come H9H celebrate the new-look n Youth Park A with The M J W J Great MAX I J 1 Challenge 1A- Because YOU Join us for a AX-tacular night at the new-look Youth Park! There'll be screening of MTV music videos and lotsa goodie-giveaways with Ivan Rantung and Kate179 words
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Article, Illustration372 1998-12-26 17 JILL LIM - by JILL LIM Perhaps it's time for un weapons inspectors in Iraq to retire. Yes, the United Nations Special Commission (Unscom) has its achievements: dismantling a chemical plant in 1993, dismantling a germ warfare plant in 1996. But these are like oases of success inPicture/ Reuters - 372 words
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Article145 1998-12-26 18 The f < Onttie first day of f Xm as rr roue AFP. WORK. Work. Work. Philippines President Joseph Estrada said this on Friday in a stark Christmas day message. Filipinos should stop acting like beggars and put in a day's wofth of honest labourAFP. - 145 words
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Article122 1998-12-26 18 ~7 Xinas— Reuters. MORE like the whole set, actually. This British grandmother was in such a hurry to post her Christmas cards, she did not notice that wedged between them were her new false teeth. Postal workers said the 74-year-old woman, who has not been named,Reuters. - 122 words
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Article71 1998-12-26 18 V martJ" Xmas— < Reuters. A CONFECTIONER has launched a brand of sweets called "Monica," on Thursday. Ms Oksana Kaduksaying, 23, from the former Soviet state of Ukraine said she wanted to commemorate US President Bill Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. One newspaper saidReuters. - 71 words
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Article, Illustration578 1998-12-26 19 The Jarawas have lived 1,000 years away from the rest of the world. Now they are creeping out of the jungles in the Andaman islands. IT could be, says SOUTIK BISWAS, the first journalist to meet them. Or it could be the tales carried back byPicture/ Swapan Nayak - 578 words
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Article184 1998-12-26 19 THE Jarawas belong to one of the four nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes of Negfito origin living in the Andamans. Very little is known about them. Jarawa is a term neighbouring tribes use to describe them it literally means The Other People. The 1991 Indian census estimates that there are184 words
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Article205 1998-12-26 21 Reuters. THE bodies of three North Korean agents were washed up on the shores of central Japan yesterday. They were lashed to a wooden raft, a police spokesman said. The men, dressed in military uniforms bearing North Korean red-star signs, were found near Takahama in FukuiReuters. - 205 words
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Article, Illustration248 1998-12-26 21 GLOBAL BALLOON ATTEMPT Reuters. BRITISH tycoon Richard Branson has decided to abandon his round-the-world balloon attempt. He will now land near Hawaii after failing to outrun a Pacific low pressure system. "I'm afraid we're just about to bring to an end the attempt to circumnavigate theReuters. - 248 words
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Article, Illustration293 1998-12-26 23 Boxing Day Special AFP. IT will create conflict between rich and poor in Hongkong. That is what critics say of billionaire businessman Li Ka-shing's recent remarks against the territory's "political environment". It has done Hongkong great harm, said Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee. "If IAFP. - 293 words
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Miscellaneous834 1998-12-26 26 Saturday Sunday TV channel channel Q channel channel 6.00 AM Underwater Encounters 6.00 AM Huka Muka 6.00 AM Extremists 6.00 AM The Dragon Emerges 6.30 Travel Travel 6.30 Bow 6.30 Adventure Rio 6.30 21st Century Is No Dream 7.00 AM Saturday 7.00 Good Horning Singapore 7.00 Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas834 words
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Article, Illustration370 1998-12-26 45 S Gulam - LIONS v PRE-OYMPIC SQUAD: 8.30 pm today, Jalan Besar Stadium VINCENT'S LINE-UP Goalkeeper Rezal Hassan Sweeper Aide Iskandar Defenders: LimTongHai, Robin Chitrakar Midfielders: Kadir Yahaya, Lim Soon Seng, AzaharSalleh, Razali Johari, Hafizat Jauharmi Forwards: Steven Tan, Rafi Ali On the bench: R Sasi Kumar, Zulkarnaen Zainal, Rudy370 words
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Article, Illustration201 1998-12-26 45 ASIAN GAMES LOOKBACK AFP. CONTROVERSIAL Sri Lankan sprinter Susanthika Jayasinghe is set to leave her homeland and train overseas. This comes amid growing criticism of her last-minute withdrawal at the recent Asian Games in Bangkok. Jayasinghe, the world 200 metre silver-medallist who is at theAFP. - 201 words
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Article165 1998-12-26 45 AFP. CHINA expressed disappointment over its medal haul at the Asian Games and called for further work ahead of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. "There were 35 gold medals offered in wrestling, boxing and men's judo at the Asian Games, but China took nothing home,"AFP. - 165 words
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Article, Illustration91 1998-12-26 48 Tiger JEFFREY LOW ranks his Top 20players of the Premiership every Saturday, making his selection after studying the players'form over the previous week. Here were his choices last week: 1: Gianfranco Zola 2: Dion Dublin 3: David Ginola 4: Sol Campbell 5: J FHasselbaink91 words
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Article90 1998-12-26 48 RYAN Giggs should be in your Top 20 list. He has contributed a lot in the midfield of the Red Devils (Manchester United's nickname) in recent matches. Agreed, he has not score many goals. But do consider his classic passes and ofF-the-ball runs, which are a joy90 words
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Article95 1998-12-26 48 Michael Owen has been unfairly criticised in recent weeks —just because he has not been finding the net. But after his France '98 World Cup reputation, he has been a very tightly-marked player in the Premiership. So he deserves to be given time to prove that he95 words
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Article106 1998-12-26 48 I'VE noticed that most of the 20 players on the chart only come from the top Premiership clubs. What about the outstanding players from the lesser-known clubs, who barely get a mention in your newspaper? Players like Jason Euell, Michael Hughes and Neil Sullivan (Wimbledon) and Richard106 words
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Article, Illustration451 1998-12-26 49 And so the "Christmas Crunch" is upon us, with the annual question lingering: Will the league leaders widen the gap at the top, or will they make it anybody's race? JEFFREY LOW previews this weekend's "live" matches on SCV, plus other possibilities... MAN Uv FOREST Enough is451 words
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Article, Illustration459 1998-12-26 51 THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE SOCCER PLAYER IS A 81G... HE arrived at Real Betis as the most expensive player in the world. More than 20,000 fans turned out to hail Denilson as the man who would bring the glory that had so long eluded this Spanish club. No matter459 words
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335 1998-12-26 52 ...MORE ON THE MOST EXPENSIVE FLOP THE problem with Denilson is that he could be trying too hard. "It goes like this," Michael Robinson, the former Liverpool and Manchester City striker who now hosts a soccer radio show in Spain, told335 words
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Article, Illustration273 1998-12-26 52 GIANLUIGILENTINI: £13 million (s3sm) from Torino to AC Milan in July 1992. Played 63 games, scored 13 goals. Car crash put him out for a year. Five years later, returned to Torino on a free transfer. ANDREA SILENZI: £I.Bm from Torino to Forest in August 1995. 12273 words
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Article, Illustration391 1998-12-26 52 $5.6 million a year for 10 years Huge match-winning bonuses A US$6OO,OOO villa Entire family to join him in Spain TO the religious Real Betis president, Manuel Luiz de Lopera, signing Denilson had been a breathtaking act of faith. The property tycoon had gambled his own fortune391 words
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Article, Illustration480 1998-12-26 55 jseptembw^986^nwa^Swrfta>^n^l Ich^^^7l998 y Singapore J* Based on a fictitious character. ,Y Cost of EDB Overseas Scholarship: About $250,000 per scholar. O Ah Lam goes to Harvard: EDB is said to be particularly flexible with its scholars. It allows them to pursue further degrees after their first degrees, defer480 words
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Article, Illustration197 1998-12-26 56 Money <Ah Lam> logy I August 1992, Harvard IMwraHy,^ Cambridge, Massachusetfc, US E MMP 1 focused. v 7 r <Ah_Lam> I know. For the past few days f have been wracking my brains but I just can't think of the right topic for my thesis. I am so close to197 words
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Chapter198 1998-12-26 57 International Business Development Division: Identifies potential investors in Singapore and promotes business consortiums. A StorMedia: In June 1995, US-based StorMedia opened its US$4O-milHon hard disk media manufacturing plant InTuas. O Disk media companies: On June 21,1995, EDB CEO Philip Yeo said that up to 10 foreign disk media companies were198 words
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Article, Illustration352 1998-12-26 59 1995, Singapore J Ah Lam catches up with his H puliw—hi«My*»iiiP»n>lraha B Wow, sounds like you're some big shot. You must be a scholar? I'm Cynthia. You can call me Cyn. 50... tell me about yourself. HI Cyn. My name's Leo. Nothing much to tell, really. I graduated352 words
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Article, Illustration608 1998-12-26 61 Jessica Leow - electric city SINGAPORETODAY Overseas scholarships use public funds to train young men and women for leadership or specialist roles in the public sector, said BG Lee. "So when a scholar breaks a bond,... K involves deeper issues... moral integrity, a sense of shame at breaking a solemn608 words
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Article, Illustration626 1998-12-26 63 Ah Lam breaks his bond: In February 1998, EDB said nine scholars had broken their bonds in the past two years, compared to almost none previously. a Foreign shares better than local, says @ngei: From May to November 1996, Taiwanese snack maker Want Want jumped from $2.10 to626 words
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Chapter136 1998-12-26 64 DOW PLUNGES: When the Dow iones Industrial Average plunged 300 points overnight in August, Asian markets fell between one and two percent 5 TURMOIL IN INDONESIA: The 32-year rule of President Suharto ended in May. Since then, the country has been torn by student demonstrations, rapes of ethnic Chinese women,136 words
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Article, Illustration565 1998-12-26 65 Star Search: The then-Singapore Broadcasting Corporation started the biennial contest in 1988 to create homegrown celebrities. > The boy suffers from an inherited blood disorder called Fanconi's Anaemia, a non-cancerous condition which can lead to leukaemia. His blood marrow —the body's blood factory cannot dot or produce enough565 words
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Article, Illustration852 1998-12-26 67 O Flight to quality: Deputy Prime Minister BG Lee mentioned this term during the recent debate on the report off the Committee on Singapore's Competitiveness. He said that around the world, there has been a tremendous shrinking back off investors. They call it "flight to quality", meaning they852 words
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Article, Illustration836 1998-12-26 69 kenjr@*ph.com.sg e Ken Jalleh J r IN this, the season of mirth, materialism and festive escapism, allow me a word of sobriety to sum up the year: Alamak. The ink is dry. The revisions are over. With hindsight's hesitant eye, we now punctuate 1998 with an emphatic exclamation.836 words
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Article, Illustration162 1998-12-26 70 i=s»S3v**Indonesian academ|c||jj^^^^ Vleb to cr A recent study of messaging Indonesian acadenrt' the "an.se student «tmsu some 'big brother^MppF^J^—|jg_g^edemo n fro Web to create^#® identities of seem to spark srs^-«jsrss&tfly, a e t^e students are taking, could be a coincitheir cue from a group dence but162 words
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