The New Paper, 16 July 2000

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    • 32 1 Baby's head nearly cut off Pr(twWn The bite that Trauma of woman bitten by HIV victim over an ice-cream every on fears /Paae 4 Hit, y n Ifetli X>A li'k v" vmtm
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  • 485 2  -  Baby cries Mum rushes in sees... NEWS By Ng Wan Ching THE bloody scene terrified her so much that she simply ran off. The 28-year-old Malaysian mother never expected her two precious babies to come to such a horrifying and tragic end. After all, they were sleeping
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  • NEWS
    • 935 6  -  A fortnight ago, trainer Henry Tan was disqualified for "drenching" a horse to stop it from winning: Salt water was pumped through its nose into its stomach, so that it had to be put down. The annals of racing are filled with tales of horse-tampering to
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    • 121 6 A MONTH later, on October 28,1979, the real Evergreen Song returned to racing and was placed fourth in a 1,250 m race in Ipoh. In May 1980, sight months after the ringer incident, Evergreen Song won a race in Ipoh. He didnt wis another race and was
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    • 203 6 THERE was a big hue and cry after it was announced that "Evergreen Song", winner of Race 3 at Bukit Timah on Sept.22, 1979, had been disqualified and relegated to last. The Singapore Turf Club refused to honour winning tickets on horse No 2, which
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    • 568 6 JUMPING OFF On Aug 13, 1988, a horse called Nano Nano was the hot favourite in the opening race at Kuala Lumpur. He was backed down as a certainty and it looked like the six other runners would have to fight it
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  • 370 7  - Life's lessons from a tree THE WEEK NEXT WEEK: Guest editor LIM CHONG JIN Course manager Visual Communication Temasek Design School NO, I am not a botanist or a placard-carrying crusader of ecological issues. But then again, I won't be offended if you called me a tree aficionado and a
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    • 40 8 ffil svoiioo* S Thanks to Yahoo! Mail, your closest buddy Connect will always be an arm's length away, no matter where yon are. I ike the bonds of friendship, Yahoo! Mail is personal. free, and yours to treasure for life!
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  • EXPAT
    • 1423 9 EXPATS come here for many reasons. Some, because they want to work here. Some, because of the high opinion other expats have of Singapore and Singaporeans. Some, because loved ones are Singaporeans. Indeed, almost a third of marriages (29.3 per cent) registered here in 1996
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    • 321 9 Last week, we featured a column by Mr Richard Mori, the former chief editor of website expatsingapore.com, on how expats and locals can integrate. Mr Mori was asked for his view* because the Expat Page has received some letters frbm locals who notwed that some expats mix
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    • 134 9 IP MSigl?IS I•; 13?£ I WHO introduced you to Singapore? Wat It a friend, a relative, or did you read about Singapore from brochures or in the InternetfDo your expectations match up to reality? Do you have any regrets coming here? What is it that
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  • NEWS
    • 746 10 MOUNT GARBAGE THIS "house" is a wooden shack barely bigger than your normal HDB toilet. A scavenger father, 49-year-old Jesus Garcia, lives in it with his three young children. The oldest is six, the youngest, two. The shack is home for these children. The
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    • 78 10 ON July 10, an avalanche of garbage at the Payatas dumpsite buried dozens of shanty homes. Heavy rains during the Kirogi and Kai-tak typhoons had loosened the soil foundation, causing the slide of rubbish. Result: 141 people were buried alive. Almost a week after the disaster, rescue workers
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    • 867 11 NOT many Singaporeans can do what Joyce Liu can and does often. She can show a visitor around town, point out one of our landmarks and say: "My grandfather built this!" She'd be talking about the Victoria Memorial Hall (now called the Victoria Concert Hall) and
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    • 171 11 CAIRNHILL conjures up pictures of high rises, condominiums... easy street. It has been that way since the earliest days of Singapore when, even before any condos were built, it qualified as one of the classiest neighbourhoods in town! Nutmeg, And a Touch of Spice The Story of
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  • @ A GLANCE
    • 340 12 They tortured 14-year-old girl THE three teenagers may have whispered the word, but they each said "Guilty" in Mandarin. Melvin Yeo Yew Beng, 17, unemployed; Neo Soo Kai, 17, a cook, and his 17-year-old girlfriend, an Institute of Technical Education student, pleaded guilty to the following acts
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    • 195 12 [niQcus] A STUDY by Singapore researchers may put the minds of most men here at ease. It says that the penis size of the Singapore man is normal. And that when aroused, most men have an adequate length. On average, this is 12
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    • 51 12 All that's left of a trailer camp at Pine Lake, Canada, hit by a tornado. It looks like a garbage dump twisted metal and broken wood strewn about. On Friday, a tornado wreaked havoc at the camp, killing seven people and injuring 36. Picture/
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 95 12 HIGHER pay and a review that aims to improve their pay and career structure. That's what teachers can expect in the coming months in a bid to attract new blood into the profession. Even new teachers are not left out. Starting next year, they may earn
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      • 81 12 SINGAPORE Polytechnic students who cannot afford the more expensive study tools need not worry anymore. At least 1,300 students will receive an yearly subsidy of $100 or more to buy items such as $140 graphic calculators. These students come from households earning less than $2,000 a
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      • 87 12 SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has got the green light from its shareholders' to continue its share-buyback scheme. But it will not set a limit on its share price as it did in its last financial year. At an extraordinaiy general meeting yesterday, SIA said the number
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      • 79 12 ACTOR Mel Gibson, has been accused of English-hating, no thanks to his latest movie The Patriot Hollywood has also been taken to task for yet again trampling over the facts. British film critic Alexander Walker even suggested Gibson should be turned back at the border. The
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      • 66 12 ABOUT 1,400 mosque committee members were sacked yesterday in Terengganu. These mosque officials were appointed earlier without approval of the current Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) state government. A circular to about 400 mosques in Terengganu said district religious departments would take over administration until new members were
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      • 87 12 WHY is there fighting in Maluku? Blame it on Muslim groups, said Indonesia's Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono. For the first time, he also blamed some of his own troops of involvement and added that they may have been paid by associates of former presidents Suharto and B
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    • 90 12 MUSIC MANIA: Take the family down to the Raffles City Atrium at 1.30 pm today. There will be a free performance by singer Mark Chan and three young musicians from China. You also stand to win The Arts Magazine goodie bags. BOOK TREAT: Go grab some books
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    • 141 12 Why some meals can I mmmhmh|HHHflHH go ON and ON and 0N... I Irresistible TIM SUM I at the GARDEN SEAFOOD, j Renowned for its delicious Tim Sum, Garden Seafood restaurant offers you I traditional steaming hot favourites from I quaint carted trolleys. With over fifty dishes like Siew Mai
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 38 12 Generally fair and warm, occasionally windy. X air sunrise 7:05 om a,r sunset 7:17 pm cen al ,r moonrise 7:08 pen p* moonset 6:39 om east Fair minimum 26 °C maximum 33 second tidr. 2.7 m: 11:03 pm
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  • Article, Illustration
    419 13  -  C N^O WIFE So who is she? We tried spotting William's mysterious wife among the relative* In the fli il few roeSy but couldn't. Yesterday morning, The New Paper team tried looking her up in an Upper East Coast apartment That was In response to a tip-off from
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  • 547 15  -  Gamblers turn dog-fighting into blood sport n^3 BY Cortlan Bennett THE dogs have been fighting an hour and a half. Neither has made a sound. Not a growl. Not a whimper. Their coats are congealed with blood. Exposed ribs heave with sweat. Gargoyle heads reveal
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  • NEWS
    • 549 18  -  [Read on for per sad story By Marion Lloyd IN NEW DELHI SHE was small. So small, in fact, that social worker Indira Rana thought the girl was the daughter of one of the
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    • 173 18 MORE than 400 women 20 per cent of all female inmates in Nepal are serving sentences under the anti-abortion law. It bans abortions except when a woman's life is at risk because of her pregnancy. Under the law, abortion is punishable by a maximum
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    • 678 19 How maths professor trains his children to become geniuses Prodigy Sufiah Yuso/is in the spotlight again, after having made news three years ago for getting accepted by Oxford University at only 13. This time, she ran away from her college alleging abuse at home. UN GAM PONNAMPALAM
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    • 371 19 A GENIUS flipping burgers at a McDonald's outlet? That's exactly what Mr Yusofs eldest son Isaac, 19, is doing. His "genius" status is not to be questioned he sat for his O levels when he was eight. He took his A levels at 15, and was a brilliant
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    • 328 20  -  FAKE CREDIT CARD SCAM By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY EXPENSIVE watches, mobile phones, computers, DVD players, jewellery, cigarettes and alcohol. Then some lap dancing at entertainment joints, night clubbing and meals at expensive Chinese restaurants. Two Singaporeans, Benny Yuen Yew Meng, 32,
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    • 143 20 HAVEaCMneee dinner at a big restaurant Pay for tt in style wtth your credit card. Bat, that simple habit was how the credit card scam seems to have origin stod Polci said they tracked the scam to restaurants in Sydney which had many casual Moat of them ware
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    • 567 21 Say cops to woman drug dealer! AFP HARDCORE drug dealer Songsamorn Nakponkam didn't want to go to jail. But, she was facing a long stint in a Bangkok prison for dealing in drugs. So, she came up with a plan that would keep her free.
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  • 554 23  -  [cookie Children and parents never seem to agree on what good food is. Pete and Pepe marvel at how many battles are fought over lunch and dinner as children refuse to eat the nutritious meals set before them. Cookie Jar brings you
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  • 759 24  -  I CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET-C 0 N S C I 0 U S _r p J a By Carol Leone carol@sph.com.s^ HOW do you use ordinary things in an extraordinary way? Mrs Devagi Shanmugam, 45, has been a food consultant for over 20
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  • 547 24  -  SingleColum^ by Adele Ong I HAVE received three marriage proposals to date. I accepted none of them in the end. Proposal One was done properly, with a platinum ring on my finger, and the rest of it. He was a good man, but we eventually parted
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  • 891 25  -  "m' s 4B s F i »Y LING AM PONNAMPALAM OU are looking at the «r granddaddy of breakdance and I hip hop. And maybe even the surrogate mother of therapy! litis is Capoeira and it can "free you". Or at least it did Reduan Alias,
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 873 26 D v D Britney Spears and Joey Don't Be a Cry Baby I LIU! Mdntyre in Concert W Drama, (Ch 55), 8 pm Disney Channel (Ch 33), 12 pm In this new Japanese drama serial, In this one-hour concert, teen pop 16-year-old orphan Ayumi goes to live Two Days in
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  • 904 27  -  SoSlieMe SUZANNE walker writes a fortnightly column L by Suzanne Walker "YOU would think that with all the millions he stole, it never occurred to him to visit a dentist to fix that overbite," my colleague commented loudly last week
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  • SeenHeard
    • 61 28 THE MOVIE Chow Yun Fat plays a retired swordsman who is forced to make a comeback to avenge his master's murder in this Mandarin martial arts flick. Michelle Yeoh is his love interest in a relationship that never bears fruit. Stars: Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh
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    • 432 28  -  by MICHELLE CHOH BOY, am I glad I wasn't a girl living back in those days. Sure, some things have remained the same. To have filial love towards your parents. To have values of morality and honour. To be basically, a decent human being.
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    • 86 29 jen (Zhang Ziyi) to Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat), in a seduded dark cave: "Do you wmnt me or do you want the sword** Li (grabbing her): "You have been drugged!*' Sir Te (Lung Sihung) to Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), when discussing Li: "When it comes
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    • 420 29  -  Edited by Michelle Choh michchoh@sph.com.sg by LINGAM PONNAMPALAM ONCE, they were warriors. Flying through trees and jumping on roofs. Using everything from sabre to staff. Channeling their chi in manners that would make Streetfighter Ken crawl under a rock with his fireball. Zhang Ziyi's character,
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    • 575 32 Tune in, c Decibels chill out €1 Riding with the King BB King It Eric Clapton (Reprise) TWO guitar legends come together in their first studio effort trading licks and sharing the vocals on what is largely a BB King album five of the 12 tracks here were originally done
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    • Article, Illustration
      275 32  -  flchard AshrJBIi with Jessica Leow SO cool, even Oasis wrote a song (Cast No Shadow) about him. 0i, Richard Ashcroft, ex-fnmtmantx*? of The Verve, goes solo, and does a wonderful job of recreating the colossal star quality mixed with glimpses of intimacy that mmld the turbulent band one of
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    • 218 29 Collectables SHOWING his friend around his home, Jennings started to point out all of the collectibles he and his wife had acquired over their long years of marriage. "The day before I die, I'd like to sell every piece we've got just to see how much it's all worth," he
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 382 30 CALL: 873-3333 Cable l_™_ movies laughs 10pm Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town In Hallthe Judfle P in Taiwan, travels to Hongkong to find lO P m Stephen Chow ph/s a,udgev^ her prince charming after finding a glass cannot command fron.the bottle with a romantic message in
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 465 31 jtp spot to earn a draw against Uruguay in Highlight of the Week jeers as its boys left the field Can Brazil B. silence the fans with a win over Paraguay? Repeat telecast at 7pm. Football Channel CH| VH thurs Mission Wild: Borneo's Orang 9pm Utans *]Ap thurs Cricket: south
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  • 762 33  -  Mb ■■fc What's the point? i siNQAPORE B laziest u »o» ist tmmm' by Sylvia Toh Paik Choo pakehcx3@sph.com.sg HALLMARK has a greeting card for people like me, and I have bought several of the same to send to myself periodically. It says
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  • Inaflash
    • 31 34 The box says "CRAWL", but two-year-old Whidi Gilang Satria just wants to sleep never mind what mum may say about the Great Singapore Sale... Picture/ Drew Fritz
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    • 379 34  -  NEW COLUMNIST: By MICHELLE CHOH ART Fazil is a renaissance man. Or at least as close to one as you're going to get in Singapore. And no, I'm not talking about the arty-farty type who would bring on the yawns in a second! But an artist with
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  • 868 35  -  plolumnl A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN BY S.NOAPORE'S ARTY MAT 0 C KE R by Art Fazil WOMEN life's greatest mystery. More precisely, women and shopping. There is something bewitchingly mysterious about the combination of these two that men can never ever fathom. All the years of
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  • 1002 36  -  JvenueT jet set ao Edited by Crispina Robert CHINA, as rich in history and culture as it is, was never a dream destination of mine. So, my friends and colleagues were surprised to hear that I was going to spend my June holiday in China.
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 147 38 I'VE a girlfriend whom I love very much. Before we met, she had other boyfriends. She slept with them. Early on in our relationship, she urged me to have sex with her. But I turned her down because I believe that we should engage
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    • 154 38 Last week's letter: Confused Virgo is 17 and a single mother with a four-month-old baby. Recently, she got to know a guy, B. It seems that he likes her and would like to marry her when she's older. Bis 19 and has a stable job. He will
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    • 407 38 Readers' advice: YOU seem to be jumping into relationships very quickly. This is dangerous. I know life is hard for a single .mum. Perhaps you want somebody to share this burden and also to take care of you. But hey,
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    • 529 39 I'M 28. My ex, K, is 25. K left me for another guy about six months ago. We were together for about a year. I was devastated. I buried myself in work to forget her. Some months later,
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    • 304 39 I AM 24, a woman trapped in a man's body. I have not gone for my sex-change operation. I plan to do it by this year. I have a boyfriend who loves me. We have been together for about a year and four months now.
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
      • 188 39 I REFER to the letter, Q published in your column on May 7, Help, I like exposing myself. I am an 18-year-old boy and I have a similar concern. I like to exercise while stripped to the waist. Is this
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      • 317 39 I AM a 14-year-old boy Qwho has pimples all over the face. I am desperate to get rid of them, but nothing has worked so far. I have had pimples or acne for almost three years and it is just getting worse. I think
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    • 44 38 CAN YOU HELP? If you think you can help with some useful advice, write or fax to Aggie by Wednesday. The best letter will be published next week. The writer of the best reply will receive a special @T-shirt and a New Paper cap.
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    • 60 39 callus If you need advice on matters of the heart or sex issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5 Or fax: 737-5375, e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg (please mark Aggie) or call 1900-912-0007 (calls cost 30 cents a minute). (You can use a pen name,
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  • Page 41 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 43 Miscellaneous
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    • 46 44 \'iinii" i batteries dMSSMk Simon Ang It's fun to stay up all night. Or finding excuses to be late for work. But watching the recently concluded Euro 2000 with your friends may not be as fun, as Spiderman finds out... 1^ —IIin■ ■—jr II-- .I.i■'.'' J
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  • RACING
    • 460 45  -  Sprint sensation equals 1,200 m record time on way to bagging Lion City Cup By Danny Khoo HE WAS touted as a good thing in the Lion City Cup at Kranji yesterday. At even money, he was the hottest favourite to start in the $300,000 feature
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    • 1319 46 GOING: GOOD MIDYEAR REPORT: Watch out for Tan Thean Loon's review of the half-time tally on the Malayan Racing Association circuit's championship standings in tomorrow's two-page special. RAY OF JOY: Raymond and Elsie Tan leading in Sir Benton, who was ridden by Azhar
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    • 1447 47 RACE I: ORIENTAL PRIDE was slow to begin. Shortly after the start, WORLD OF LAW steadied off the heels of AUSSIE LOBSTER, who ran about. At about the 800 m, GOLDEN NORRIS was inconvenienced and had to steady when racing tight on the inside
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    • 442 48 YESTERDAY'S PERTH RESULTS Going: Good 5 ARIZONA JACK 52 (54-14) Michael Ryan (1) 1 1 CAPTAIN SWISH 54 (14-6) Troy Turner (6) 2 3 SKY'S WILL 54 (36-8) Denny Miller (10) 3 Also ran: HEED THE TOLL John Claite. UNCLE RUGG Jason Brown, JUST TOD Daniel Staeck, KIMCESS Aiana Sanson,
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  • SPORTS
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      375 49 GOING FOR OLYMPIC GAMES No 5 AFP. JACKIE Joyner-Kersee may yet rewrite the ending to her remarkable athletics career. The three-time Olympic gold-medallist survived some shaky moments to advance to the long jump final at the US Olympic Athletics Trials. Thus staying on course to make a fifth
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    • 192 49 Reuters. A MOTIVATED Maurice Greene looked like a man who could break his 100-me-tre world record. He and fellow sprint star Marion Jones breezed through preliminary races at the US Olympic trials. Jones also joined Jackie Joyner-Kersee in advancing to today's long jump final. But US
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    • 491 49 LA Times. I BELIEVED I wanted to see Jackie Joyner-Kersee compete again, just like I believed I wanted to see Orel Hershiser pitch again for the Dodgers. In retrospect, I was wrong on both counts. I don't necessarily blame myself. To have believed otherwise would have
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    • 971 50 ...let me enjoy my sporting week in peace, please, And don't call me THOSE WONDERFUL MEMORIES FROM WIMBLEDON 2000 Wl ...FIFA'S SCAPEGOAT? THE sporting week has flown past at a pace that takes the breath away, and even as the rains mocked our English summer,
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    • 99 50 SOME Italians came shopping in Manchester last week, offering £120,000 ($320,000) per week to the most talented player at Old Trafford. David Beckham? No chance. Inter-Milan did not bid for the Spice Boy. It wanted Paul Scholes, the quiet one. Scholes lives, by choice, in the long shadow
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    • 311 50 PAVIS CUP TENNIS AUSTRALIA has reached its second successive Davis Cup final. It won an epic doubles match against Brazil yesterday to open up an unbeatable 3-0 lead in its World Group semi-final. Sandon Stolle and Mark Woodforde sealed the tie for Australia when they beat
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    • Article, Illustration
      259 51 I'll dress sexy for Sydney DENISE Lewis has a new weapon in her battle for Olympic gold. It's sexy, comfortable and she "feels good" in it, according to Online Mirror. Denise, one of Britain's best medal hopes, stole the show as Adidas hit back in its kit war
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    • 147 51 It's not going to be a flesh parade at Sydney. On the contrary, it looks like a fresh parade. "Covering" seems to be the order as two of the world's leading kit makers, Adidas and Nike, battle it out to clothe the athletes for the forthcoming Olympics.
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    • 77 52 BALESTIER Central squandered a golden opportunity to break its winless streak in front of its home fans against Sembawang Rangers at Toa Payoh Stadium. Balestier took an eighth minute lead through young striker Dennis Lim, only to see Thawatchai Ongtrakul reply for the Stallions two
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    • 134 52 THE WSA Sport's Goal Rush continues! The phone-in S-League score prediction game reopens its phoneiines today. To take part, call The New Paper Infoline 1900-914-0801 and register your predictions for this week's six matches: I JmtNig v Tampines Rovers Home United v SAF FC BalesMer Central
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    • 82 52 LAST year's S-League Golden Boot Award winner Mirko Grabovac (above) just can't stop scoring. The Croatian's hat-trick against Jurong FC in the Warriors' 4-1 win all but virtually sealed the league title for the defending champion and brought his tally this year to 16 goals.
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