The New Paper, 17 September 2000

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  • NEWS
    • 331 2 THE son of a police officer died yesterday morning after being stabbed a few hours earlier in a fight near Orchard Road. Jaswant Singh, 21, was found near Vibes, a club along Orange Grove Road. Police received a call at 2am about the fight
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    • 550 2 None aboard plane hurt A MAN with a knife hijacked a Qatar Airways plane on Thursday flying from Doha to Amman with 144 people aboard and ordered it flown to Saudi Arabia, where he surrendered. Passengers were told about the trouble shortly before the plane
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  • NEWS
    • 525 4  -  By Chang May Choon SHE beat pop divas Chang Huey-mei, Faye Wong and Sandy Lam. And she's second only to Heavenly Queen Sammi Cheng. In the Most Popular Female Artiste category in the Singapore Hit Awards held yesterday, that is. Who? Fann Wong (left)!
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    • 96 4 Best New Artiste: Jolin Tsai Best Album Production: David Tao'sl'mOK Startiub Most Promising Local Artiste: Stefanie Sun Best Local Lyrics: Li Feihui's Xin Ru Dao Ge Best Local Music Composition: Tanya Chua's Remember Best Selling SPVA Album: Faye Wong's Only Love Strangers Best Group: Power Station Most Charismatic
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    • 372 5  -  By Sheela Narayanan COME on, give us a smile. No such luck with eight-year-old Ernest Tan. He was too fascinated with trying to get his picture taken. Ernest was using a Silicon Illusions web camera, installed on a personal computer. His on-screen image looked similar to
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    • 155 5 SOME of other exhibits you can catch at Maniafest 2000: Explore a pyramid, or the body's DNA system, with Silicon Illusion's Interactive Virtual Tours. Take along your MP3 player and download your favourite songs at the Soundbuzz.com. Test your IQ with brainteasers by
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  • EXPAT
    • 573 7  -  BY Ng Wan Ching SHE was crowned for her beauty in the Miss Singapore/World 1999 contest. They should have crowned Miss Audrey Quek for her brains, too. From winning last year's battle of the beauties, she has moved on to organising this year's competition. But with a
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    • 51 7 iWBfiM Swffiipore/ World and the current queen. I needed somebody to come in to organise it in a different angle. Mrs Deanne Koo, who has been organising the contest for the past 12 years or so. This is the first time one of the queens is doing
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  • NEWS
    • 994 9 Squatters are not rare in Manila. But in a cemetery? The North Cemetery, in Laloma, Quezon City, one of Manila's two big Catholic graveyards, is home to thousands. Ignoring theirgoosebumps, our team look beyond the graves to find life teeming there AS
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    • 998 10 OIL PRICE SCARE A three-letter word—oil—has become a major issue for the world. Prices soared recently to US$35 ($59.50) a barrel, sparking a range of worries on what that could do to world economies, especially in
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    • 1033 11  -  by Gloria Chandy YOU probably pass one every day and hardly give it a glance. You may never have stepped into one or taken part in the various activities it has to offer. However, our evolution from Third World country to First World metropolis is aptly
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    • 128 11 nK IBM. There were about 30 community centres in Singapore that had been set up by the Social Welfare Department or the Singapore Improvement Trust. lMfc Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew opens Minto Road CC. 1983:50 CCs receives the first communal TV sets. IttSe 180 CCs already in existence.
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    • 78 11 DECADES of Passion is the People's Association 40th anniversary exhibition, now on at the Singapore History Museum till Nov 30. It showcases the PA's achievements over the past four decades in a display of old photographs, posters and high-tech effects. CC life always been an integral
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    • 123 10 HOW OIL PRICES MOVE 1. Getting the oil oat is the first step where oil begins to gather value. 2. It reaches the port through pipes, by ship or by truck. Labour costs, maintenance and freight add to the price. 3. Refining the oil costs US50 cents-US$3 a barrel. Removing
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  • @A GLANCE
    • 353 12 Singapore judiciary's online mediation a world first SINGAPORE'S judiciary is the first in the world to launch an online mediation facility. It will allow commercial and Internet-related disputes to be settled via cyberspace. There is no need for the parties to go to
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    • 75 12 immj: The Singapore Art Awards 2000 exhibition showcases the creativity of some of Singapore's best contemporary artists. Five Juror's Choices will represent Singapore in the Asean final of the annual Art Awards sponsored by Philip Morris in November. VaMwAßTrium@MlTa > Mita Building, 140 Hill Street. IfeMe 9anrvBpm
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    • 202 12 INFOCUS THE Malay community must look towards gearing up for the new knowledge-based economy. It is an urgent task because the community has a high proportion of lowly-skilled workers. This call came from Acting Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Speaking at a tea reception
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 84 12 KEEP children under the age of five away from swimming pods. The Singapore Sports Council gave this advice following reports of a breakout of hand, foot and mouth disease among ypung children. This is because the disease can be spread through water. Notices will be displayed
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      • 78 12 CHINESE police have rescued more than 100,000 kidnapped women and children over a six-month period. In a nationwide crackdown on human trafficking beginning in April, officers found about 110,000 women and 13,000 children who had been abducted from their homes, the China Daily said, citing the
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      • 101 12 INSTEAD of paying $42 in rent every month, some tenants of two-room Housing Board flats in Ang Mo Kio can now pay aa little as $11 more and get to own their homes. This is based on a maximum 30-year loan offered under a new
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      • 66 12 GREGORY Fong (right) is only eight years old. Yet he has passed his O-level exam in information technology, after only nine months of part-time study. The son of a Singapore couple, Gregory took his course at the private Ryde College outside London. It has a
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      • 89 13 SINGAPORE will be home to the World Organisation of Family Doctors from May next year. Dr Alfred Loh, a founding partner of the Raffles Medical Group, hasbeen glwmn by the group to be its next chief executive officer. The group has 200,000 family doctors as members.
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      • 92 13 x K' i* r >i/ 'fV«V:*V'*• i V THE might of firepower coupled with the trtrrngth "Thnr*— Not only did the air forces of Singapore and Indonesia drop practice bombe on target, their troops also gave out food packages and rendered free medical treatment in
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      • 84 13 PRESIDENT Joseph Estrada of the Philippines is struggling not only to keep his country from disintegrating. He is also struggling to keep his marriage together. After weeks of rumours, he finally admitted in a radio interview on Friday that his 41-year marriage is in trouble. He
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      • 101 13 A SINGAPORE couple agreed to install bugs in their home phones because they suspected that their maid was having an affair and wanted to listen in on her calls. Instead, it was through the burned phone that the husband accidentally found out that his wife was seeing
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    • 48 13 WHOOSH: Senior Minis tor Lee Kuan Yew d lowing out the candles on hie Nrttefer yesterday as his wife looks on. The day atso marked the leunchof hie new book. From Third World to first telling the Singapore story from *****° the Picture/ Ap
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    • 47 12 Slightly hazy. Showers in the late morning and early afternoon mainly over northern, western central Singapore. north Thunderstorms sunrise 6:56 om west Thunderstorms sunset 7*03 pm MMriaZZZ 9:56 pm minimum. 25 t Urst tide 3.0 m: 12:48 am maximum 33 I second fide.. 2.8 m: 1:05 pm
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  • THE WEEK
    • 169 15  -  Guest editor HANEY HADAD MTV Presenter I'M a cynic when it comes to finding love on the Internet chat lines. I wish I could count the times Pve"" heard someone say of their cyberlover: "I don't care what he looks like, I'm
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    • 172 15 It's just the degree of desperation that varies with the individual. This desperate need for affection might cause infatuation to be mistaken for love. The physical aside, you have also to connect mentally, emotionally and spiritually as well. Well, online communication makes it easy to make
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    • 330 15 Ally Mc Beal's endless quest for love the cute and ridiculous things she does to get noticed stems out of her fear of being alone. Alone. What a terrible word this is!! I know I have acted out of fear heaps of times and
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  • EXPAT
    • 804 16  -  By Chandreyee Das IN SAN FRANCISCO EARLY one day, at 2am, some friends and I decided to walk back to the National University of Singapore (NUS) from Holland Village. A stray cat that I stopped to pet decided to follow me to my room
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    • Article, Illustration
      442 16 WHEN the taxi took my wifeflu I to the airport, I was s£a. Though we were heading to a new adventure in my homeland, Britain, we were leaving my adopted home for the past two years, Toa Payoh. I dont claim to know it well. But there were
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    • 141 16 Gus, Expst Page editer EXPATS have a knack for sniffing out the most exciting eating and drinking places that locals may miss. I know. I've seen expats chilling out at places where even locals have trouble finding. Often, I wonder how they come to know of these places
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  • NEWS
    • 591 18  - Cheap Viagra Sked X Frustration By Shanoo Maharaj REPORTING FROM CALCUTTA YOU walk into the pharmacy in India and ask: "Can I have a packet of 'Indian Viagra', please?" Yes of course, the attendant replies. Do you have a prescription? "Yes." Is it signed? "Yes." Do you have a copy?
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    • 220 18 THEY want nicer noses. They want better breasts. They won't tolerate facial scars and unwanted hair. They are the new Indian upper middle class and they're spending good money to change the way they look. And Dr D C Srivastava, one of India's
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    • 327 19 Wire Services. Liverpool builder Craig Phillips has won Channel 4's surveillance game show, Big Brother. That made him £70,000 ($171,500) richer. And then he gave it all away to a teenager who needs a life-sav-ing operation. The 28-year-old builder accepted his prize
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    • 67 19 BIG Brother has gripped Britons since July, and the vote to choose the winner was the biggest phone poll in British television history. 7.7 million viewers jammed the lines. Ten contestants entered the Big Brother house on July 12, and their movements were monitored by a battery of
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    • 272 19 ABU SAYYAF REBELS SEEK TO END MILITARY OFFENSIVE Source: AFP ABU Sayyaf Muslim extremists under attack from Philippine government troops said they were willing to resume talks for their 22 hostages if the military stopped its sflnanTt, An Abu Sayyaf leader, Galib
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    • 149 20 CASH-STRAPPED South African police officers have been moonlighting in the most unusual ways. But they have gone too far and their boss has banned a slew of unsavoury practices, reports Cape Times. National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi has outlawed all "sex work", from working
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    • 466 21 A JURY heard a young boy's harrowing emergency call for help as he witnessed his father stab his mother to death. The 11-year-old dialled 999 on his mother's mobile phone as his father, 47, attacked her with a large
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    • 279 21 JURORS were warned before the tape was played that it contained harrowing passages and screams in the background. Hello? Operator Where's your Mum? B*e She's dead. Hurry up (cries). OpMhr There's somebody on their way. Don't worry sweetheart Bqc How long will they be? Operator They'll be
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  • NEWS
    • 394 24 SPONSORSHIP UPROAR AT THE SYDNEY OLYMPICS Visitors to Olympic Paris in Sydney are searched and made to empty their big! They are asked if they are carrying any "knives, weapons or cans of Pepsi" Those who refuse to give up their cans
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    • 450 25 WHY HE GOT INTO THE SPACE BUSINESS -igmTlr.p For one thing, it leads towards faWllmant tit ipy rli{l<Bi«w< dream. Sure, I am not going to be an astronaut (cbucklee), but at least I am sendinsr oeoole into snaoe "r" Secondly, what mj colleagues and I are
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    • 844 26  -  By Arthur J Pais CHUUNJEEV Kathuria cant forget the day 22 years ago when he thought his most exciting dream had died. A doctor had confirmed that his vision was defective. His mother, who is also a doctor, knew Chirinjeev
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    • 405 27 Yes, we constantly hear people complaining of how there is too much violence on TV, or that watching too much of it can dull our brains. But is that being unfair? Here's a tongue-in-cheek look at why TV might not be so bad
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    • 38 28 i ——7 1 Tl* New Paper On Sunday September 7,2000 C+ I O ®!b' Q{ :•-4. Wft' lj J[ JL, BL #^a C Jl J IK mCHIP: ggfe 5 47 ■SINGLE: m V siva UR WEEKEND MAGAZINE SECTION
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  • 788 29  -  CookieJar THE PLACE TO DIP FOR TIPS By Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg AMERICAN style guru Martha Stewart has coached a generation of homemakers on the graces of refined living and cooking. The Martha Stewart brand name is used to drive TV, publishing, merchandising and the
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  • 483 31 Tune in, c Decibels, ■ji chill out fl L Songs 1993-1998 Moby (Warner) YOU never know what to expect from a Moby album. You suspect he takes supreme delight in playing the guessing game with you. Swerving from hard-hitting house beats to moody ambient pieces to haunting, surrealistic vocals, Moby
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  • 155 31  -  Rave -~1 THINK fidkagrnrosic, the poetic variety, and the name thai likely pops fto mind is Bob Dylan. 1 Never mind the running joke with fcylan that Mb songs sound best when I But nerhansthe only legitimate 1 ..iZtZjL. ■contender to .Dylans title of
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  • 581 32  -  Just my luck with guys... Single Column by Janice Wong wonghlj@sph.com.sg BEFORE we begin, in the interest of public health, please be advised that the following is a piece of personal revelation, not sterile journalistic research. If another Ally Mcßeal-ish female is going to drive you
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  • Feature
    • Article, Illustration
      657 33 Mr Gary Kremen, a San Francisco entrepreneur, believes that someone pulled a quick one on him v -"it*!. > Source: Wired News. THERE'S only one word in the whole world that everyone understands sex. So says Mr Stephen Cohen, the 50-year-old proprietor of one of the most visited websites
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    • 220 33 AT the heart of the property dispute is whether domains are more like a plot of land (obviously, property) or a phone number, which is considered a designation for a service and not property. If domains are property, they can be stolen "converted" in legalese just like a
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  • SeenHeard SHARP
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      49 34 THE MOVIE Highly gifted scientist Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) develops a serum that induces invisibility. When he tries it on himself, he has unimaginable power that suffocates his sense of morality and results in a frightening conclusion. Stars Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin and William Devane
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    • 346 34 SHEELA NARAYANAN ANOTHER movie that does not deliver what the trailer promises. Hollow, man, Hollow Man. Kevin Bacon is brilliant scientist Sebastian Caine, who uses some of the Pentagon's money to unlock the secret of going invisible. Together with his sidekicks, played by Elisabeth Shue
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    • 43 35 Invisible Sebastian (to himself before he attacks his neighbour): "Don't even think about." Seconds later "Who'i gonna know* 'T fSSßlfci* J Sebastian to Linda: "If® amazing t you can do when you don't Np*» look at yourself in tho nAror anymore."
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    • 344 35  -  UNGAH PONNAMPALAM Edited by Michelle Choh michchoh@spKccmsg MUCH has been made of the quality of this movie's special effects. And justifiably so. Right from the slick title credits, the computer graphics are quite astounding. The processes showing the gorilla going invisible and then reappearing, apart
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    • 173 35 Roger Ebert in his online review. Hollow Man deserves a niche in Fame~. Now, we get a scientist who becomes invisible, and all he can become Is a mad slasher. Does Paul Verhoeven, who dlracted Hollow Han, have such a low opinion of his audience that he thinks
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    • 229 35 Why the bride wears white A little girl attending a wedding for the first time whispered to her mother "Why is the bride dressed in whiter "Because white is the colour of happiness, and today is the happiest day of her life," her mother explained, trying •to keep it simple.
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 411 36 "I CALL: $73-3333 C I mH 24-hour subscription sales hotline Rvmvifis Psycho i 9pm The Bates motel is there. And so is the today Kiss Totodo Goodbye eerie house on the hit But no, this isn't 9pm Kevin Gower finds out that his father is the 1960 Hitchcock dassic of
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 517 37 Highlight of the Week I S P orts wed UEFA Chunptena Lm|u« Dynamo 2.30 am Kytvvs Manchester United (UVE) w The Red Devils face a treacherous opponent away at Kyhr The reigning today we regard these mavericks as Uw-ainian champkm, whose squad heroes. The young planet hunters and t J
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  • 809 38  -  Vermel |ET set. *<» Backpackers beware! Guide books can help, but sometimes they overwhelm and over-prepare you. This week's writer travels to Italy and finds out there's a better way your own Edited fay Crispins Robert crispina@sph.com.sg PHOTO PUKNAUST JOYCE LIM AFTER my friend and I
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  • 610 40  -  [ColumnJ by R Chandran HAVE you been upset with the traffic jams caused by broken-down vehicles along our expressways? Especially when you have chosen a taxi ride over the MRT in the hope of arriving at your destination sooner? Have you at those moments wished
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  • 514 41  -  Chin I We 1 CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE •UD6ET-C 0 N S C I 0 U S A spider was quietly spinning his web beside Grandmother Nokomis one day. When Nokomis'grandson came in, he stomped to the spider, picked up his shoe and
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 244 42 IT has been almost two months since my I Vi-year-old relationship with my girlfriend ended. It was because I had lost my temper with her. I was concerned for her but I now realise that I used the wrong approach. I was also too possessive. Now,
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    • 113 42 Last week's letter: In Blue's problem is affecting her studies. It concerns her former boyfriend, who left her recently. She said they had a food relationship. They agreed on most things and there was no quarrel or misunderstanding. He told her he felt happy when he
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    • 129 42 Readers' advice: BOTH of you have to sit down and talk thingß out. You are feeling unsure of him and he is not being true to himself. You mention that you believe he still likes you. Then he shouldn't be avoiding you without good reason. Talk to
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    • 249 42 I THINK you left out a few main points in your letter, but I believe it has something to do with both of you; something deeper in meaning. First of all, do the two of you communicate well? Have you expressed your feelings towards
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    • 329 43 I'M an expatriate and since my arrival here, IVe been in three relationship* within six months. Should I stop socialising with the women here as they have the naive concept that just because I date them, I'm going to marry them in the near future?
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    • 508 43 I'M facing a crisis now and don't know what to do. I'm engaged to a foreign girl, A. We have been apart for six months and contact each other by phone only. I have a dose friend, B, who is a girl. We always find
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
      • 233 43 I HAVE two matters on my Qmktd. Rrst, I recently had sex with my boyfriend. Not Just once, but twice. So is it twice as dangerous? Second, I'm worried about my period. It comes regularly. It used to come in "liquid" form. Now it comes
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      • 104 43 IS It safe to use a condom Q which is past Its expiry date? What might happen? Will it harm a woman's body? Suppose a condom expired five months ago. Is there an increased risk of pregnancy? Let's start with your first A question.
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    • 44 43 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 *****9. Or fax: 737-5375, e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg (please martc Aggie) or call 1900-*****07 (calls cost 30 cents a minute).
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  • 374 44 r—m Kelvin Chan It 1 DaddyCool r A COMIC TAKE ON BABYHOOD Raelynn just turned one the other week. How time flies when you're having fun. Seemed like just yesterday she was a cherubic bundle of joy in my arms, now, she's
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  • 763 45  -  A lllllltlllt COLUMN ST 111 C A.P «I( l ■»f| S FUN by Siva Choy EVERY time the Olympic Games comes around, the story of how it all began in ancient Greece is revived. Somebody will go to Greece, to the very spot the original
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  • Page 46 Miscellaneous
    • 820 46 yr— Turn Ik I Cape Fear Body Perfect Alfred Hitchcock Presents: I 1 BVB HBO (Ch 60), Bpm Discovery Channel (Ch 12), World's Oldest Movie/Very S A psychopathic escaped convict exacts 2pm Careful Rape thA revenge by going after the family of a From ultrasound liposuction to full body Central,
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  • Page 47 Miscellaneous
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    • 1263 50 11 SPEEDY TREASURE 53 (52-13) ....JSaknee (8) 7 6 1 (478) 2 SON OF JOGGER 59 (23-7) J>NBtofc (3) 1 1 2 (452) 8 KM MIGHTY 54.5 (21-7) ASptlwl (4) 5 4 3 (502) 7 GOOO BENEFIT 54.5 (12-7) VSIvan (1)
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    • 349 51  -  Champ Saimee's early hat-trick... By Lionel Lee KIM ANGEL showed more class than many had expected. The Kimmui Stable-owned galloper was considered a good thing in the inaugural running of the $180,000 Paititi Gold Trophy for Class 1 horses at Kraqji yesterday. And she certainly did
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    • 207 51 8 TRIBUNE'SFUQHT52.5(33-10) MffKnuctey (1) 1 2 CHESTNUT DREAM 55 (26-9) Paul King (10) 2 6 SCHMEICHEL 53 (13-6) Jtark SMtk* (9) 3 Winning trakwnLen Morton. Margins: Nk, nk, 1 V«. Tkne: Imin 11.2 sec. Forecast $54. Titror (267. Courss Scratchings: Kontiki Bazza and Chanitii. 3
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    • 209 52 FROM KL STEWARDS' ROOM JOCKEY Kevin Forrester's one-year ban is to stay. The Australian's appeal against the sentence over his riding and handling of UNIVERSAL STAR in Race 5 at Kuala Lumpur on July 1, was heard by the racing stewards of the Selangor Turf Club.
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    • 1289 52 RACE 1: Jockey E Wilkinson, the rider of TOP HERO, and apprentice YF Leong, the rider of EL Ql, were warned for cantering their horses to the start on the inside, as opposed to the outside rail, as required. At the start.
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    • 288 53  -  By Danny Khoo W HATS IN A NAME? Everything, if you should ask Penang trainer Bonny Ng. His charge Olympic Flag, who had been frustrated four times previously, finally found his winning turn yesterday a day after the Sydney Olympic Games started. It was Olympic Flag's
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    • 1148 53 YESTERDAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE RESULTS Going: Good 14 Q0MNEMLLER51.5C&5(*****) JCwwon (14) 1 1 1 (463) 4 ABJAR D*GREAT56(32-10) IMfadbl (3) 9 6 2 (442) 13 HEROICOOO52(152-40) OChM (15) 6 5 3 (450) 2 BOOMNQCfTY56c 54.5(36-11) HOMMM (7) 2 2 4 (433) 10 LE SPORT 52.5 c 50 (44-15) TMCHmIi (6)
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    • 401 54 PICK OF THE DAY I This John Sargenttrained galloper has been knocking on the door in recent starts. The Kingdom Bay four-year-old is drawn a little wide this afternoon. But the able of jockey Azhar Ismail should take care of that. All Azhar needs to do
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    • 1117 54 RACE 1: Trainer J Murray was fined RMIOO ($45) for presenting REINSTATED late for pre-race blood collec tion. Trainer N Landers was fined RMIOO for failing to produce the declared colours on STAR VICTORIA. Trainer B Ng was fined RM2OO for declaring
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    • 1465 55 TODAY’S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD —Going forecast: Good Ha LMtiru— How HI WNMa Mm BanNr tfaatatMrtaiHIum mmiiI 1 *****0 VAMUJN $7 (59) I Aaahar 6 (7ag B Ng-Fragfanoe) 2 -***** QOOD LEXUS 56 (57) GSMnner 5 (5nzg Kefly-Laxus) 3 *****2 TAW 56 (57) KKLoh 3 (4ag LohOwner) 4 *****6 PLATOON
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    • 1216 56 Ma Hwt MM RMNi 1 DIAMOND KING 134 (22) DWhyte 12 (YOWong) 2 SUPER FORTUNE 134 (22) CHTse 13 (D Cruz) 3 COLLEGE KD 133 (21) SDye 7 (G Lane) 4 TRULY DELIGHTED 132 (20) FCoetzee 4 (TK Ng) 5 CASH FORTUNE 131 (19)
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    387 57 GOING TOPLESS SCORING A GOALi SPORTS RYAN Giggs is very angry over the issue of going topless in a football celebration. I mean taking off the jersey after scoring a goal. The Manchester United's star Welsh striker feels it is ludicrous" to penalise, with a yellow card,
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  • SYNEY 2000 THE NO 1 MAN AT THE GAMES
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      714 58 Never mind the scandals. International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch is guaranteed the five-star treatment in Sydney JUAN Antonio Samaranch is a bit like 1970s beige despised one minute, flavour of the month the next. When he brought the International Olympic Committee to its knees by
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      403 59  -  POSTCARD FROM THE OLYMPIC STADIUM PETER SIOW In Sydney Georgia was on my mind last night. And I don't just mean the country. I mean their women, too. They looked absolutely dazzling and delightful at the Olympic Games opening ceremony the day before. They were dressed in chocolate
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      415 60 A FIRST FOR EAST TUMOR Weightlifter Martinho de Araujo made history yesterday by becoming the first East Timorese to compete as an independent athlete. De Araujo, one of four East Timorese competitors in Sydney, lifted 90kg with his second attempt in the clearvandjerk for a total score of 157.5
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    • 229 60  -  By Peter Siow REPORTING FROM SYDNEY CHARLES Austin has been going through an emotional roller-coaster. First, the American high jumper was told that his fiercest rival Javier Sotomayor was banned for two years for drug abuse. That meant Austin, the defending Olympic high jump champion, would
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      554 61 (does a Tiger Woods —then says he wasn't feeling 'all that fresh') LAN Thorpe, the Tiger Woods of swimming, roared to victory in the 400 m freestyle yesterday. And like Woods, he didn't just win. The man nicknamed Thorpedo" blasted the field to bits. There were acres of space
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    • 422 61 Wire services. FOR warm-ups, an Olympic record. Then, the Thorpedo" dived in for real and gained two world records, two gold medals and the adulation of all Aussies. It was certainly one nrmgw»fl| hour for Ian Thorpe. Australia's shark-skinned prodigy with the oversized
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  • SPORTS
    • 359 62 i TIGER BEER SINGAPORE CUP; Rrst-leg (Semi-final) Blshan Stadium Yazid Sawal 10th, Ernest Tapai 47th, Haris Sumri 67th, Aleksander Duric 90th Main sponsor Super coffeemix Equipment sponsor Diadora ByLim Han Ming IT was never going to be easy for Woodlands Wellington. The Rams (Woodlands' nickname) were
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    • 142 62 CNMA PttTfcH—ferCMaa •■■■ins* SMeagFC httMsscaa4 rmmi* «m MwCht LIM HAN MOING THIS was the question oil the lips of every Home United fan when Dutch coach Robert Alberts was conspicuously missing from the bench last night. Club manager Noordin Rahman explained: "Robert went back to
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      856 63 CHELSEA BOSS GUNS DOWN ANOTHER COACH THE sacking of Gianluca Vialli after five games of the English season looks like panic. In fact, it is the ruthless act of a chairman who has now discarded eight managers in 18 years since paying £1 ($2.60) to buy Chelsea, a club
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    • 103 63 AMID pomp and ceremony, Juan Antonio Samaranch, who I refuse to address as His Excellency, looked smug at Friday's opening of the Sydney Games. This man has presided over the deterioration of Olympic ideals the self-help corruption of his lOC buddies and the growth in athletics drug abuse.
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    • 41 62 saf e HOME UNITED MATCH VS I WOODLANDS STADIUM bishan DATE 16/9/2000 •FULL-TIE MATCH 4-2 RESULTS InckidH kn|ury Mm but nol«tHlworpwMllyWiooM)ut». I SCOBE RESULTS I IX2 HOMEUNFTED 1/2 OPAL HOME UNITED I TOTAL 6 GOALS PQ fowrdn Community *WpO9o »nd Benefit
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  • 382 64 THEY look like the beet of friends. Just like role models of the Red Devils. But dont be deceived by this photo (left). Manchester United's leading strikers Andy Cole (right) and Teddy Sheringham are far from being the best of buddies. Their off-pitch feud is
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  • 654 64  -  TODAY Chelsea v Leicester City Manchester City vBoro West Ham v Liverpool COMMENT BMVMTCO THAT must be the question on many Premiership managers' lips. Everton tried and tried in the Premiership match last night in front of its home fans. But without any success. It
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  • 144 64 LATEST FORMER Argentinian soccer legend Diego Maradona made a miraculous escape in a head-on crash in Cuba last night. "It was God's will that nothing mors ssrious happsnsd bscauss it could have boon much worss ha said aftar ha cama off with bruisas on hia ankla and knaa.
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  • 426 64 ARSENAL 2 COVENTRY CfTY 1 Silvain Wiltord, replacing Thierry Henry, beat the Coventry offside trap to put Arsenal ahead with his first goal for the club. Arsenal had all the play but needed a second goal from London-born youth team product Paulo Vernazza, also his first match for
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  • 56 64 6: Michael Owen (Liverpool) 5: Francis Jeffers (Everton), Marians Pahars (Southampton) 4: Thierry Henry (Arsenal), Branko Strupar (Derby County), Malcolm Christie (Derby County) 3: Paulo Wanchope (Manchester City), Andy Hunt (Charlton Athletic), Alan Smith (Leeds), Andy Cole (Manchester United), David Beckham (Manchester United), Alen Boksic (Middlesbrough), Jonatan Johansson
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  • 119 64 Arsenal 2 Sytvain Wiltord 24 Paulo Vernazza 72 Coventry City 1 Mustapha Hadji 80 Half-time: 1-0 Crowd: 37,094 Aston Villa 2 Gareth Southgate 5 Dion Dublin 75 penalty Bradford City 0 Half-time: 1-0 Crowd: 27,849 Charlton Athletic 1 Jonatan Johansson 39 Tottenham 0 Half-time: 1-0 Crowd: 20,043 Everton
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    • 150 65 McMahon cant figure 1 I out what his mum realty won. 1 ■■Is it a big circular chocolate bo can take 1 a bite out of? Or is it something he can uee as 1 Switzerland ruined the Australian party j yesterday after the
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      353 66 JOSCELIN v FINISHES 1 LAST IN j I PET EVENT 1 SINGAPOREANS IN THE OLYMPICS SHE walked away when reporters approached her for comments. But that did not surprise anyone as Joscelin Yao (right) has tha habit of becoming a raclusa whanavar sha falls to dallvar tha goods.
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    • 81 66 B my country, in my town, is simply incredible/ Australian lan Thor P e (right). For warmups, an Olympic record. Then VI he dived in for real —two world records, two gold Hjflr JJ medals and the adulation of all Australians, all in the space of one magical hour Pages
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