The New Paper, 3 December 2000

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    6 1 the new paper DECEMBER 3, 2000
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      72 1 Slngapom Pr—Hotdtng* e-mail: tnp«sph.com.#g w u "'tV-CV V V on Sunday TRAGEDY LAST RIGHT http://newpap«r.asia1 .com.sg MITA (P))19/03/2000 3 > ,< r 1 8 "*****1******9" > 3 Zouk Out party-goers swim out to sea an<1 run into difficulties. Ulan, 22, dies in hospital. girls treated for shock. v ,i- v
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Teen wins 3Q Challenge
      175 2  -  By Eugene Anthony HE may not say much, but he topped his class in his final exams and also emerged tops in The New Paper on Sunday's 11th and Challenge for the year. Mohd Faizbin Ramli (above), 15, a St Joseph's Institution Secondary 3 student, won
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      Lock icon Zouk Out tragdy
      449 2  -  By Lingam Ponnampalam and Ng Wan Ching THERE were No Swimming signs out there. But a group of party-goers at last nighfs Zouk Out beach party in Sentosa still ventured out into the sea. At about 8.30pm, they swam out to a floating platform, about 15m out
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      Lock icon POLICE SAY
      112 2 GIVING details of the Sentosa party death, a police spokesman said: "The victim had swum* out with a group of friends to a platform. After they got there, they decided to swim back to shore. When his friends got back to shore, they discovered that he wasn't with
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      Lock icon THE PARTY GOES ON...
      299 3  -  By Serene Foo ATZCHJKOUT IT was dubbed the "biggest outdoor event of the year". And, boy, you could literally smell the trail leading to it. Even before entering the fenced-up arena of Zouk Out, we could smell the alcohol breath of some of the red-faced party-goers
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      Lock icon Did you tag along with mama to this market?
      889 4  -  by Gloria Chandy IT was not the nicest place to shop. But then, there wasn't your friendly neighbourhood NTUC Fair Price or Seven Eleven store around every corner in those days. Tekka Market the original Tekka rustles up fond memories to
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      Lock icon As it was then, so shall it always be — popular Tekka
      152 5 As it was then, so shall it always be popular Tekka aa^h^ is always er Hewas a salMmMm at Bflx Bdoit Stow for 10 years. He nertjiaf&ed his unde at the old Tefcka jufariket, where JKigr mui a spicestalLHe baa "^flfTlT l frT¥ W VffM* meS^^aight he owns, is same
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      Lock icon Somethings just never change
      483 5 The more things change, the more they remain the same. It's a dictum that certainly holds true for some of the original stallholders of Tekka Market, an 85-year-old establishment that might have been demolished, relocated and renamed briefly, but never been totally wiped out in spirit
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  • EXPAT
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      Lock icon My ... hic... hic... weekend football team
      1004 6  - My hic... hic... weekend football team EMM Any player wishing to join Real Ale Madrid cm contact Paddy at *****732 By Tony Ougan FORGET the S-League. Or even the English Premier League. The football action here is the Sun Sports league, and the team to watch is Real Ale Madrid.
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      Lock icon Why we started this team
      349 7 REAL Ale Madrid may be predominantly made up of expats, but it is the brainchild of a Singaporean. When Mr Ronald Leong started the team with an expat, a Briton who has returned home, they did not plan on an expat team. All they wanted
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      54 7 llmVv U 9 f those who want to read previous I features, log onto TheExpatPageonttie J newpaper. asial.com.sg> and click <Expat>. L/lfS©u are always welcome tt§e-maii!ni| t%rite toGus, the Expat Page editor, at: The New Paper Expat Page 82 Genting Lane J<fews Centre SkßB I ahipw. V- i :'y®poo-733-446Si', mSm
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    Lock icon BEHIND BARS
    416 8 Eat, drink and be I merry... a I—, JsLl _Hl 1«BQ THE big poster that stretched three storeys high caught my eye. I was standing on a street in Taipei and here was com-pere-singer Jacky Wu, staring down at me, with that typical wide grin of his. Holding
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    Lock icon Grandpa slashed to death while shielding 10-year-old boy
    1005 9  -  By Seto Nu-wen IN GEMENCHEH, NEGRI SEMBILAN LITTLE Abdul Qayum Nordin's one wish was to see his Abah's herd of cows. Every school holiday, he would visit his grandparents in their village in Gemencheh. And badger his grandfather to take him to
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    Lock icon Six arrested... Six more surrendered
    184 9 THE police have detained 10 people. Six suspects were arrested 24 hours after the bodies were discovered. Four of them were remanded on court orders to help with investigations. The others have been released. One of the suspects, a 22-year-old, was arrested while receiving treatment
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    Lock icon Murder spot: Now a place of fear
    283 9 THE spot in Nam Bee estate where the killings took place has become a place of fear. Mr Mohd Zain's family refused to take us there. Said Madam Mazwiah: "We are afraid there are more cattle rustlers there who will attack us." The
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      Lock icon How to get rid of JUNK
      815 10  -  Is your house a junkyard, with two of everything? You can toss it all out, and even get some money for yourflotsam and jetsam. The New Paper on Sunday combed the alleys and backlanes to bring you this report on where you can deposit
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      Lock icon TOWN COUNCILS
      175 11 i~!"" 1,1 "—r- 1 1 ".-'.'..w ;v; -v.*:;. IF you find the thought of lugging a balky, unwanted item all the way to some car park in a backlane just for a few 5 dollars unappealing, relax, i You can still clear out yourjunk from But you will
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      196 11 DO you have items which are usable •-f: snd in good condition j^ouv have no use? Then the SalvationfcArmy is theplace to« tak^ t K JM-I# v; There have been recent reports of people complaining that the Salvation Is! Army has befome too choosy-and 2 about items donated
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      Lock icon Power off for this energy guzzler
      562 12 77*2 Go EzEE team convinced reporter MMY CHIEW, a self-confessed electricity guzzler, to spend a day with as little electricity as possible 9.30mh I wake up to a bright and cheery Sunday morning. Yes, I switch off the air-con. Nothing much planned, so it
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  • FREE SPEECH BROUGHT TO YOU BY
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      Lock icon 'Let me sing any song I like'
      544 13 Free Speech is a series of interviews with personalities held at H2O Zone.This week's guest— Singapore-lover and acclaimed jazz vocalist Carol Kidd. LINGAM PONNAMPALAM catches a few minutes to exchange notes with the singer over the phone CAROL Kidd is bubbling over on
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      Lock icon KIDD'S PERFORMANCES
      62 13 Carol Kidd will be 'j: H20 Zone on Dec 10 at 9.30pm as part of the Jazzcraze HIO Zone K spomoredby StarHub.i|S] be abiding aeonogig at University Cultural Centre, NUS, at 8 pm, on Dei 11. It is organised by Philip Morris and The Centre for the Arts®
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    Lock icon Sentosa goes Thai...
    347 14 [new*] It Sawasdee Ka! (Hello) Kob-kun ka! (Thank you) Yes, it's time to brush up your Thai if you want some fun at Sentosa. Come next week, you can mingle with nimble Thai boxers, or party with the upbeat Sawasdee Band from Bangkok. You see, Dec 10
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      98 14 Teppanyaki Japanese Buffet Buffet l3S.©d" V. (weekdays only) *ir* public holi^^y Salmon Assorted Sashimi i# Unagi Hand Roll Assorted Sushi y ■/f 1 Tempura Jpirf Hot Dishes (includes Tempura, Grilled Fish, ajm Oden, Salmon, Zaru Soba, Deepfhed Chicken, rr* 1 Cl M Chawan Mushi many others) Teppanyaki V jgi (Prawns,
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      134 14 i i I I the first 80 readers will each receive a free Sentosa Diamond I I a Mega Saver $85. The dcketirwludes admissiCMi to I a Bus A, Cor E. Plus entry to #»ese attractions: Fisherman's Kelong, Simon J§S||ijt I Cabaret or Fantasy Island, images ofiSingapore.Meriion, Fort Siloso, Adventure
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    Lock icon The 'hidden' message
    654 15  -  Guest Editor SUNNY WEE Director, Gavin Anderson Company ONE of my favourite Saturday-night pastimes is browsing through the endless rows of magazines at Borders. But recently, as I was about to pry into a tightly wrapped magazine, my thoughts turned to the little storm caused by a
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  • @ A GLANCE
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      Lock icon Aids deaths: 24-hour rule lifted
      316 16 People who die from Aids no longer need to be buried or cremated within 24 hours of death. Since last month, bereaved families have had up to three days to hold a proper funeral, a change activists had lobbied for. An Action for Aids (AFA)
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      Lock icon Beware the 'kissing disease'
      297 16 [|NIOCUS3 PASSION can make you sick and not just at heart Those kisses you exchange with your beloved may be hotbeds of germs. And you can land yourself in bed for weeks with the "kissing disease", reported The Sunday Times. One Singaporean undergraduate studying in California
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        Lock icon Talks on toxic matters
        79 17 INTERNATIONAL experts are meeting in Singapore to focus on protection against toxic substances. They will share their knowledge at a symposium that starts tomorrow. Oil the agenda will be topics such as food poisoning, viral outbreaks, chemical spills and even chemical attacks by terrorists. The Second
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        Lock icon Building collapses: 200 buried
        82 17 ABOUT 200 people were buried alive when a shopping centre in southern China's Guangdong province collapsed, officials from Dongguan city said yesterday. Hongkong press reports said at least 10 people were killed and 40 injured in the tragedy. An official at the Houjie Township fire station
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        Lock icon New setbacks for Gore
        101 17 US Vice-President A 1 Gore has been hit by two new setbacks in the presidential race. The Florida Supreme Court has refused to order a new poll in the county which used the confusing "butterfly ballots" which had the names of presidential candidates lined up in
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        Lock icon More money for eye centre
        94 17 THE Singapore National Eye Centre has been given the go-ahead for the second phase of its extension, costing $50 million. Professor Arthur Lim, the centre's founding medical director, added that a $20-million research grant will be pumped into it over the next five years. This
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        Lock icon No Danish or German beef
        80 17 TWO more European countries have joined the list of countries whose beef cannot be imported into Singapore. Beef from Denmark was banned in March and German beef last month, said the Agri-food and Veterinary Authority (AVA). This brings to eight the number of countries that
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        Lock icon More rainy days ahead
        82 17 EXPECT above-average rainfall this month, with moderate north-east monsoons over the next two weeks. There will be periods of moderate to heavy rain with windy conditions on two to three days, and scattered showers and thunder mainly in the afternoon and early evening on seven to
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        Lock icon Free food for the elderly
        92 17 MORE than 400 needy senior citizens living in the Redhill Close and Kim Tian Place estates will each get about $7 worth of free food each week. The food-distribution programme, costing $150,000 a year, is run by the Taryong Pagar Community Development Council, the Apex
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        Lock icon Another HK bomb blast
        99 17 A BOMB exploded in a major Hongkong shopping hub early yesterday. Two policemen who heard the explosion in the bustling Tsim Sha Tsui area shortly before dawn found a home-made device which had exploded in a telephone kiosk. No one was injured in the blast. Hongkong
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      117 17 WAYAN& Wow Wayang! Season 1: Madam White Snake. This first season of a brand new series by the National Arts Council brings you the opera, Madam White Snake, performed by the Chinese Theatre Circle. It is being held at the vacant land next to the BedOk MRT
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      Lock icon Globewatch
      301 17 v J gaBeS These gases are produced when fossil fuels ate burnt, and much of the world's energy, required to run life as we know it now, comes from that. As economies boom and development accelerates, power stations, factories and vehicles pump out more and more of these unwanted
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      48 17 Showers with thunder over many areas in the late afternoon and early evening. north Thunderstorms sunrjse 6;53 am sunset 6:56 pm 2 "wonrtse- 12:34 pm i moonset.... 12:07 am east Thunderstorms first tide... 2.4 m: 4:11 am minimum 24 °C maximum 32 °C second tide... 2.6 m: 2:46pm
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    172 18 62-year-old finds 1,000 shares he'd forgotten about... and is $7 million richer n ?^j AP. IT was a surprise... but a pleasant one. A 62-year-old Boston salesman who asked not to be named had bought 3,000 shares of a high-flying computer stock, EMC Corp, in 1987. He said
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      141 18 u (iaanaagiat .> v I.r ~v I 1 I All over the world, most people are aware of the social problems brought about by unplanned pregnancies and the dangers of AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections. One of the recommended methods of prevention is to use condoms. DUREX condoms are widely
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      213 19 Connecting U to the world of sports \jJ I ®t? It's Christmas time, it's Christmas cheer I' 3 §g| I Just round the corner is the tHappy 9{ezv 'year, [M Utere's so much to choose from, choices galore, I|| v 'Who says you can't Buy Christmas gifts IJI from a
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Oops, she did it again!
      246 20 The Christina Aguilera-Britney Spears rivalry continues... THEY'RE at it again! Each trying to outdo the other to get the attention of adolescent males. And it's not justwith their music that they're competing for attention. They're shedding more and more clothes too. Yes, we're talking about
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      Lock icon Nursing their woes, UK care-givers leave
      357 21 THEY feel uncared-for, so they're leaving. More than 5,000 nurses and midwives in the UK applied to pursue their careers abroad last year. This is the highest number for 10 years, reports The Express in a report. The nurses prefer to work in countries
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      Lock icon Stop! This is not Disney's idea of goodwill to man
      472 22 SWEATSHOPS IN CHINA AFP. THE price you pay for a Disney toy to give your child this Christmas may be more than a week's salary for a worker in a Disney factory in China. Millions of Disney toys given to
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      Lock icon 36 die as train rams into derailed train
      298 23 AFP. THE silence of the icy winter morning in the northern Indian state of Punjab was broken by the grating sound of metal meeting metal. That was when people in the small village of Patharsi realised that a train crash had occurred
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      Lock icon Royal tale of poisoning, corpses... and a 'sex machine'
      946 24 THAILAND is being intrigued with a re-al-life, fatal soap opera and years of who-dun-it intrigue. The mystery involves a double poisoning, the corpses of two princes, a palace stuffed with valuables, an alleged "sex machine" and a group of rival wives.
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      Lock icon The man who sends people packing: Much hated.... Much loved
      834 26 Some have described him as the "rudest and most frightening" man they've ever met But Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man, is alive today—because his helicopter pilot has donated a kidney to him. Despite his nastiness, most of his staff have
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      Lock icon Jailed teen let out early to become star
      577 27 WHAT next? A record company in the UK is to spend £500,000 ($1.25 million) to make a Criminal a star. To promote a song she wrote while she was in prison. And to help her launch the single, the teenager, jailed for
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      Lock icon Step on the sugar...
      292 28 ...Melbourne bus runs on sugarcane fuel STEP on the sugar, babe, and watch it go. Thousands of commuters in Melbourne travelled on Australia's first sugarcane-powered buses on Friday. What a gas! It's a lot cleaner, in fact, less polluting than petrol or diesel. But, don't pour
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      167 21 IISOD 91S 45E1 1 fl CALL UNE FOR VOCE ANALYSIS I I When you say these three little words to our Voice Line, you'll I m get a fascinating voice analysis of your personality, job I I VRHRMHp compatibility and which musical instrument matches your I vioce. AH by just
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      249 22 Hot Hot Offors! Check out our buffet spread of La Germania cooking appliances the No.l brand of kitchen appliances from Italy. Take your pick from our latest range of gas hobs and cooker hoods to our conventional electric ovens to grand gourmet multifunction ones...all going at amazing prices! So hurry
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    682 30  -  Part II of a two-part series [Cookielarl J I THE PLACE TO DIP FOR TIPS By Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg MORE vitamin talk this week. As most of you already know, these substances are vital to keep your body running smoothly. Individual vitamins have specific
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      424 32 i lla MM I [Jp I CALL: 873-3333 IA I QQQBBI 24-hour subscription sales hotline MM movies sat Dont Look Back Or You'll Be I Opm Sorry Hei Ma stays with her daughter and today Simply Irresistible her son-in-law. However, she is not 9 pm Amanda Shelton is the owner/chef
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      618 33 dtr f' Highlight of the Week sport* AJ Women's WorM Cup of GoH 2000, 11.30 am Final Day (LIVE) Don't miss Australian representative j. and Work) No I KarrieWebbasshe Hide Seek take on the likes of Laura Davies, 6pm This December, viewers go around the Julilnkster, Annika Sorenstam and world
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  • Feature
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      Lock icon FOREVER YOUNG?
      646 34 'I WOVLD HAVE BEEIT DEAD YEARS AGO* Some Singaporeans are turning to growth hormone replacement therapies to help put that spring back into their steps. Whafs it all about? NG WAN CHING reports BtMBl Y his own diagnosis, DrC L says he should be dead. The reality today,
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      Lock icon MINISTRY OF HEALTH SAYS:
      115 34 On medicinal products containing HGH: These are controlled under the Medicines Act and Poisons Act, and need to be registered with Ministry of Health (MOH). So far, MOH has only registered products containing HGH in injectable form, and these are for the treatment of conditions associated
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      Lock icon What? Me 58?!
      524 35 ...From previous page Instead of blowing on the lunglfn as directed, PAIK CHOO blows hwown trumpet of how advanced she is for her age DID you ever sit next to a classmate who would shout out the answer before the teacher had completed the question? (Of course
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      Lock icon A short history
      163 35 July 1990: Daniel Rudman published in the New England Journal of Medicine a study that the diminished secretion of growth hormone from the brain is responsible mainly for the chronological decrease of lean muscle mass, the expansion of adipose tissue mass (fat), and the thinning of the
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    Lock icon Just because I'm single...
    521 36  -  [singleColumnl by Norhayati Abdul Aziz yati@sph.com.sg POOR thing. That was the reaction from a guy who found out several days ago that I'm still single. Luckily for me, my single girlfriend, who like me is in her 30s, defended me in my absence by saying: "Why
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      Lock icon 102 DALMATIANS
      68 37 THE MOVIE A reformed Cruella De VII (Glenn Close) is released from prison. After her release, she buys a pet shelter to provide a home for stray dogs. The shelter, however, becomes the perfect trap to get her hands on the 102 dalmatians she needs to make herself
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      Lock icon Cute-ness and romance make for a perfect holiday movie
      292 37  -  ■>y EUGENE ANTHONY THIS is adorable especially if you love dogs. in a cinema From start to finish, tfyere were squeals, of delight. > Work on the spotted dalmatians and tiggf* cute-ness, thnw in a bit of romance, stir tip the
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      Lock icon FREEZE FRAME:
      33 38 Cruella, bent on talcing revenge on f j jean RerreLe Pelt, relishing over his we are going to make them pay!" part, the skinning." Alonzo: "How muchf" Cruella' "Not the strangling?"
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      Lock icon What a dull-matian!
      335 38  -  Edited by Eugene Anthony nirvana@sph.com.sg »y YEOH WEE TECK WOULD a dog owner love a movie about 102 dalmatians, a few other breeds of dogs and a macaw who thinks it's a dog? Let me put it this way: My puppy, Lazy, eats anything offered to him.
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      249 39 I AM a 15-year-old boy. I have known a girl for the past two years. She is a year younger than I am. This year, she has had two boyfriends. Each relationship did not last more than five months. One of them
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      216 39 Last week's letter: MISERY is a secondary schoolgirl. During a training session in February, she spotted a guy, A, who is a year older. She saw him looking at her. At first, she was not interested. But, as days passed, she found herself beginning to like
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      108 39 Readers' advice: HE is interested in you, from what you have observed of his behaviour. Considering that he's shy, his asking you if what M said was true (your liking him) means that he feels strongly for you. Similarly, you seem to be just as smitten with him,
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      191 39 FROM the way you described him, I think he likes you. He behaves like an "Ah Beng" because he wants to act "macho" in front of you to try and impress you. What he means when he tells you he is a straightforward kind
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      298 40 FM 19 and my boyfriend, J, is six years older. We have been together for nine months. He is kind and caring, always guiding me along the right path. However, in February this year, I betrayed him. I met this gorgeous guy, B, and had
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      559 40 MY boyfriend wants to break off with me after about a year together. Up to a week before the suggested the break-up, I didn't suspect that anything was wrong. I am 24 and he is 27 and of mixed parentage. He has an Indian
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        368 40 I'Ma 19-year-old male with Q several questions. First, I want to bring up the matter of frequent erections, which are so uncomfortable. Wearing "firm" underwear—to prevent an erection from being obvious causes pain and even "messes up" one's underwear occasionally. Surely, there must be a more satisfactory solution?
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        120 40 I AM a 26-year-okl male. Q Normally, I take care to remove the white formation that often forms on the top of my penis cap. I rub the spot each day with my fingers to keep my body dean. However, in the past month, I have noticed that
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        556 41 U Almost Famous Soundtrack Various (Universal) WHAT better way to kick off a soundtrack for a movie about a touring American band than with Simon and Garfunkel's brilliant road-trip song America? If this album is a hit it's easy to understand why, as it combines
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      69 40 CALLUS If you need advice on matters of the heart or sex issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, News Centre, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore *****7. Or fax: 737-5375, e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg (please mark: Aggie) or call 1900-*****07 (calls cost 30 cents a minute). (You can use a pen name, but
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    518 42  -  SoSueMe I SUZANNE WALKER WRITES F C by Suzanne Walker ON Wednesday night, I spent an evening filming Upfront with Najip. My thoughts, however, were for a friend who Was performing at the Substation's Fat Frog restaurant. Najip was a blast. When it
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    289 45 J subject is not? Raelynn has been under the weather for the last three weeks, and the household has been in Code Red ever since. We've visited the kind paediatrician no less than four times during this spell, because what started as a fever turned
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    934 47  -  Column I MUSICIAN ART FAZIL SOUNDS OFF by Art Fazil MAN always wishes for the unattainable. Give us the earth and well want the moon; give us the moon, and well want the whole sky. We dont miss things when they're near we
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      416 52  -  BY THE SKIM OF THE TEETH Duo hog limelight with four winners By Danny Khoo VISITING English jockey Darryll Holland (below) and Singapore trainer Charles Leek stole the thunder on the resumption of racing after a one- month break at Kranji last night. The
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      269 53  -  By Danny Khoo SEVEN wins and a second from just eight starts. That is the proud record of the Malcolm Thwaitestrained Trillion Win, who put his brilliant speed to deadly effect once again at Kranji last night. Backed down to
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      1208 53 5 SUPERIOR EFFECT 58 (13-6) D Holland (5) 1 1 1 (461) 13 TOWN LOVER 53.5 c 54.5 (421 -62) Flovine (10) 4 6 2 (497) 8 DUAL WONDER 55.5 c 54 (294-48) *TOnfl (9) 8 10 3 (428) 6 SECRET
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      994 54 RACE 1: SAVRASKA was scratched when found to be lame near-fore. He must pass a vet exam. THE DRAGON became restless in the barriers, broke through the gate, dislodged jockey C Carmody and thereafter, galloped the course i and was withdrawn. TH^DRilfiCHfi
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      1692 55 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD Going forecast: Good kl I —A m*»«*A lAJft 0^^fcl*»4* I n aL QMOIM —E i^l^Aa iJwOflww wl twong JOCWT %g PWnBT (AtfMWitfWl^uWntr'OWIltn 1 4-213- SECRET WIN 57 (61) BWoodworth 6 (5ag F Nathan-Owner) 2 *****7 SHOULD BE RIGHT 56.5 (60) SSam 13 (5nzg Kelly-Privilege) 3
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      525 56 Rarely disappoints but win tally b still set at zero. Was shouted the winner last start until United Prince lunged at the post to nose Mm out. Has improved leaps and bounds since spotting blinkers in his last two runs.
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      44 56 JB RACIER; Should Be tie Mermaid, Collie MasPlatoon ■ftACE 2: Purple Rudi, Bonus, Big One, King RACE 3: Victory Whip, jColour Of Life, Valentine's Day, Bronze Tycoon, Makarpura Wings, Dragon t». Rfver Raider, 'Wnrlr v(Mta, Businesslfuccess, PwpleJsle, Yellow Bee, Ifajptlßcat, Big Deal, Gtppsland.
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      570 56 Wo. U«t6runt How* Wl Bating Joctey Bwriw (Awfertatnftn. Wmmwwr) 1 0065-7 HERO FHOM SHAOUN 57 (60) PVellalkannu 5 (5nzg Comer-Sunrtse) 2 433-1 SILVER KING 57 (60) G Skinner 6 (4ag Sargent-Stanley Ho) 3 *****3 WILD LIAR 56.5 (59) DSprlggs 11 (5nzg Velu-Sargent) 4 940-01 MEYER
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      392 57 g GOING: |i GOOD TO 1 TREBLE rSTAR: south African jockey -Dot*)** 'ZWmnywft* successful on Magic Win (Race 1), Indian Road .(Race 6) and Joint Peace (Race 7). Salisbury Handicap 10 MAGIC WIN 121 (50-15) DWhyte (11) 1 12 IIOfCY STAR .FCoetZM (12) 2
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      275 57 GOING: FIRM v qS DOUBIS s™-.. Casstdf W&ptUrBS TWO of the five ft... If, mr F8C98 ,|i fji, I. M t—ywitn oemng m Singapore. He •cores on Ebony Magic (Race 3) and J Umrum (Race 7). 4SKJ% 1 EBONY MACHC 56.5 (21-7) Jim CassMy (1)
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    489 58  - Ahmad Indra: Please take a BREAK FLOPS AT TIGER CUP: NOW WHAT? COMMENT PETER SIOW SO, after 23 months as national coach, the party's finally over for Vincent Subramaniam. He will be sitting out the last dance as Danish coach Jan Poulsen takes the floor. Yes, the average shelf-life of
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      1085 59 STORY: GARYLIM FACTFILE ii. i ..i.i netgnr I.Bom Weight: 65kg Birthday: Dec ***** Club: Marine Castle Position: Midfielder and striker Favourite Club: Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool Favourite Player Hasnim Haron and Darren Anderton Hobbies: Listening to music, sleeping, church activities FIRST, we had
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      270 60 Reuters. V't QHARFFI? itw)iiv.Ri>}ii«i hi m' oußAiubnr ADQur-xvamm scored all of Vancouver's points in the fourth quarter 20 but then he and fefe.; Grizzlies went scoreless m overtime as the Indiana Pacers beat them for the 10th straight time yesterday, 86-76. In Los Angeles, Kobe Bryant scored
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      649 61  - Beauty, Bumps Blemishes About this time last year, BRIAN MILLER was at The Mines Resort covering the men's World Cup golf championship. He thought it was great. Then, over the fast week, he has been on assignment at the Women's World Cup and, boy, has he noticed the differences in
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      618 62  -  By Brian Miller REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR Americans Juli Inkster and Meg Mallon must have been whistling a happy tune when they trooped into the clubhouse after yesterday's second round of the Women's World Cup Golf championships. For one thing, the rain which played havoc with their
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      100 62 131: SWEDEN (67,64) Annika Sorenstam and Charlotta Sorenstam 134; AUSTRALIA (68,66) Karrie Webb and Rachel Hetherington 138: COLOMBIA (72,66) Marisa Baena and Cristina Baena; PERU (72,66) Jenny Lidback and Aicia Dibos 139: UNITED STATES (73, 66) Juli Inkster and Meg Mallon; JAPAN (72,67) Hiromi Kobayashi and Yuri Fudo 141:
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      512 63 SALUTE W FROM SIR ALEX Paul Scholes, 40th Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, 85th THE salute came from the heart. A From one Scotman to another. Sir Alex Ferguson believes that Tottenham Hotspur will go on to greater heights under his countryman George Graham given sufficient time. "When you have
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      655 64 Little passion shown against formidable Red Devils ITS really hard to believe that these are the same 11 Tottenham Hotspur players who trounced Leicester and beat Liverpool in the past two weeks. No, those ll.players out there at Old Trafford last night must have been clones of the
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      238 64 Venables: I'll help Robson for free to be top boss TERRY Venables has refused Middlesbrough's millions. But he will help Bryan Robson through his crisis for free. The former England manager sent his regrets to the Premiership struggler when it became clear he could
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      108 64 ARSENAL 1 Patrick Vieira 85 SOUTHAMPTON 0 Crowd: 38,036 ASTON VILLA 1 Dion Dublin 4 NEWCASTLE 1 Norbert Solano 80 Crowd: 34,255 BRADFORD 2 Stan Collymore 80 Peter Beagrie 83 COVENTRY 1 John Aloisi 64 Crawd: 15,523 IPSWICHO DERBY COUNTY 1 RoryDelap2B Crowd: 22,003 LEICESTER 3 Robbie Savage
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      75 64 11: Mark Viduka (Leeds) 10: Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Chelsea), Teddy Sheringham (Man U), Emile Heskey (Liverpool) 9: Thierry Heniy (Arsenal), Marcus Stewart (Ipswich) 7: Michael Owen (Liverpool), David Beckham (Man U), Paolo di Canio (West Ham) Marians Pahars (Southampton), Alan Smith (Leeds), Andy Cole (Man U), Jonatan Johansson
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      173 65 WHAT'S the king of gougfu doing with a basketball? Sure, he can jump as high as Vince Carter. But, aha, can he dunk? Well, maybe not. But the NBA still loves Jackie Chan (right), reports PMDEEP PAUL And it's using the movie star's appeal to spread its wings
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