The New Paper, 29 January 2002

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1 59 The New Paper
  • 7 1 the new paper TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2002
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  • NEWS
    • 257 2 More new orders may mean recession could be bottoming out: NUS study SMILE, the gloom enveloping the business arena may drift away by mid-year. That's the message from the latest business activity survey by the National University of Singapore's Centre for Business Research and Development
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    • 161 2 ON a year-on-year basis, manufacturing output in Singapore was down 22.1 per cent in December. Bat that has not set alarm bells ringing because economists feel that the manufacturing industry is on the way to recovery. The 22.1 per cent decline is based on
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    • 265 2 THIS is the stuff fairy tales are made of. "She has made my life wonderful and my world beautiful," Tengku Adbul Rahman Sultan Ahmad Shah, one of the sons of the sultan of Pahang, said of his Singaporean bride-to-be Julita Aishah Abdul Latif.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 551 4 Yesterday, a 27-year-old cargo hand was sentenced to 20 years' jail for raping a 14-year-old and attempting to rape another 14-year-old. FRAEMONE WEE puts together a profile of a rapist with two faces HE could hardly believe the man he read about in the evening papers was
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    • 481 4 SHE was sexually abused that morning, but Sally (not her real name), 15, the first of See Toh Chan Giap's victims, just put on her uniform and went to school like any other day. She didn't tell anyone about
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    • Article, Illustration
      594 5 inquired about his first victim's menstrual cycle. Details on them were kept in a secret address book he knew their addresses, phone numbers, schools, and even their favourite haunts. He threatened his first victim with photographs of her gambling with friends at a void deck in Ang Mo
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    • 400 5  -  CHILD PSYCHIATRISTS SAY By Low Chung Ling ALWAYS take what strangers tell you with a pinch of salt. And don't hesitate to confide in your parents, teachers or friends. That's what child psychiatrists told The New Paper. Said Dr Sharon Chan of Gleneagles Medical
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 314 6 Going for a mammogram could save your life. That's the message of the new national breastscreening programme. And women are listening. Just two weeks into the drive, 4,000 women have made appointments for screens and 500 have had their mammograms. The Health Promotion Board
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    • 70 6 PICTURE THIS Some 20,000 devotees took part in the annual Thaipusam procession yesterday. That was 5,000 more kavadibearers (like this one, right), milk-pot carriers and supporters than there were last year The Hindu procession was a riot of colour, winding 4km from Serangoon Road to Tank Road.
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    • 129 6 MALAYSIAN militant Yazid Sufaat has been identified by US intelligence sources as a significant player in the Jemaah Islamiyah group that was tied to terrorist Osama bin Laden, reported Newsweek. Businessman and former army captain Yazid was detained by the Malaysian authorities last month. The magazine said
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    • 70 6 FROM April, all bidding for certificates of entitlement (COEs) will be done through the open bidding system. According to the Land Transport Authority, the new system promises greater transparency and better access to real-time information. Bids can be made for three days, starting at 9 am on the
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    • 64 6 MALAYSIAN Airlines is moving its international flights and listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange into a new company, in a move to cut debt. The airline will continue to operate its domestic flights, while the new company will be a subsidiary. This essentially means that the international
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    • 72 6 GOOD news for stallholders at the annual Kreta Ayer Chinese New Year bazaar: Rents are down from $900 in previous years to $750 this year. The organising committee said it wanted to give stallholders some relief from the recession. The bazaar at Pagoda, Smith and Temple streets will
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    • 71 6 TEACHERS are the ones studying this time. And they're learning how to make the life sciences simple and fun for students. The first group of 25 teachers is attending a three-day workshop on teaching the concepts of genetics at the National Institute of Education. Hundreds of primary
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    • 65 7 Like it or not, Indonesian workers are cheap and even if prohibited, many would stillfindjobs in Malaysia. Jlndonesia's Manpower and Transmigration Minister Jacob Nuwa Wea, saying Malaysia's decision to expel his country's workers will result in more illegal Indonesian workers going to Malaysia. He said the policy would cause
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    • 218 7 THE US stock market saw a small gain yesterday, but doubts about economic recovery held a rally back. Dealers are waiting for predictions from the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee, to come after a two-day meeting which starts today. The Dow Jones closed up 25.67 at 9,865.75, recovering
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    • 259 7 OH THE RACK WHILE most of Nike, the athletic-gear marketer that makes US$9 billion (sl6b) a year, is experiencing single<Jigit growth, one of its businesses is enjoying gigantic leaps in sales. That's the golf division, which markets balls, shoes, bags, and clothing. Tiger Woods often
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    • 72 7 The Straits Times: KL militant "played key role" The Business Times: Malaysia Airlines to spin off international operations Lianhe Zaobao: Open bidding for all COEs from April Berita Harian: COE: Only open bidding system from April NewsRadio 93.8FM: Malaysia says ties with Singapore will not be damaged by
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    • 37 7 International Herald Tribune: Six Arabs die in hospital shootout in Kandahar New Straits Times: Landslide kills 16 in Sarawak BBC news: Hundreds drown in Nigeria as they flee from explosions in an army ammunition depot
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 952 8  -  Then accusations and counter-accusations fly in court SMS THREATS COURT CASE By Tanya Fong IN a case believed to be the first of its kind in Singapore, a man has taken someone to court for sending him anonymous threats via SMS on his mobile phone. The
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    • 258 8 IS SMS a new way of cyber-bullying? In April last year, a disgruntled ex-employee of a company in Singapore sent several SMS messages to his ex-boss to harass him. Narish Kumar Mehta had got Mr Nicholas Hugh Bertram's confidential mobile number from his
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 457 10  - The cost s of building friendships: $16,000 By Wee Li En THE college spirit counts so much in Yishun Junior College, (YJC) it is willing to pay $16,000 for a three-hour team-building workshop. Just to make its newcomers get buddy-buddy. At the workshop last Wednesday, students not only had to
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    • 164 10 A THREE-HOUR team-bulding workshop for $16,000? Rather stiff for any company, let alone schools. Yet, the clients of High Achievers Training Consultancy (HATC) keep coming back. HATC now has a presence in about 100 schools in Singapore. Fairfield Methodist Secondary School, for example,
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  • 75 12 SINGAPORE IN The New Paper on Jan 24. we asked readers to guess how many members there are in Christian hard-rock band P.O.D. (left). The answer is four. Twenty correct entries were picked to win the Grammy-nominated band's latest album. Satellite. All CDs are courtesy of Warner
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 680 14 Hard-core drug addiction can be tough to get rid of, as one family and counsellors tell MICHAEL LEE HIS past was as hazy as his life of drug-abuse. His family vaguely knew he was married and a father but found out more only
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    • 247 15 WHAT caused Mr Ng Jin Shen to jump to his death? His 32 years of drug abuse may have finally taken their toll on him. The Ng family seems convinced the drugs did something to his brain. Dr Lionel Lim, a
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    • 727 16 Last February, The New Paper told the story of a toddler who battled Prader Willi Syndrome, a genetic disorder. IRENE KEW gets in touch with a group of mothers who want to form a support group for such children SHE was one helpless
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    • 360 17 Recent figures from the Ministry of Manpower show that just overBo,ooo people are jobless. One retraining programme has been set up to help more workers through the tough times ahead. SHEELA NARAYANAN reports GOING through a separation is hard enough. Try doing that
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    • 166 17 THE Worker's Assistance Programme (WAP) is a Sinda project to help retrenched workers upgrade their skills. And Sinda has raised the stake this year. About $250,000 has been committed to retrain 700 retrenched workers this year. That's $150,000 more than when WAP was launched in 1999.
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  • WORLD
    • 259 18 THE ovens of many Hongkong restaurants are going cold. Up to 1,000 restaurants are expected to close down after the Chinese New Year, reported Hongkong's iMail. The reason: The economic slump and a fall in demand for wedding banquets.
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    • 226 19 Reuters. SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) is one of several international carriers to have expressed interest in linking up with a new Belgian airline and setting up a Brussels-based European hub. "On paper, such a solution seems logical," said Mr Emmanuel Van Innis, spokesman for Air
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    • 357 20 INVESTIGATION NO 1: US INVESTMENT BANK FRAUD AP. FRANK Gruttadauria has been missing since Jan 11. And he reported told the authorities, in a letter, that lax supervision made it possible to misappropriate money over a 15-year period as
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    • 195 20 I INVESTIGATION NO 2: TICKET-TOUTING Wire Services. MANCHESTER United has removed security chief Ned Kelly from his duties yesterday following newspaper allegations about his conduct. "Ned Kelly has been removed from all operational activities on behalf of Manchester United pending the outcome of an internal
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    • 282 21 HE apparently woke up after a drinking session in a moving garbage truck, dodging blades that were grinding refuse to a pulp. Mr Taras Shugayev, 25, called Moscow's rescue services at 911 repeatedly for 23 minutes on his cell phone, pleading and crying
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    • 207 21 Mr Shugayev: I am being turned and twisted here, but I am still alive. Please call the traffic police. (The call breaks off. A minute later, a different operator answers the second call and asks again where he is.) Mr Shugayev: How am I supposed
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    • 101 21 YOUR contact lens cleansing solution may not be giving you the protection you need. Austrian scientists have found that the harmful bug, Acanthamoeba, is an important cause of eye infection in contact lens users. These infections can lead to keratitis which can cause blindness. Soft
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    • 458 22 Deadly blasts erupt in Nigerian military base Wire services. THEY ran into the canal to escape from the fiery explosions behind them only to meet death in the deep waters. Yesterday, as onlookers wept and wailed, rescuers retrieved the bodies of more than
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    • 164 23 AP. THE plane was heading from Quito, the capital of Ecuador, to the city of Tulcan. On board were 92 people, including seven children. Of that number, nine were crew members. But it never made it to Tulcan. The Boeing 727-100, belonging to Ecuador's Tame
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    • 183 24 Reuters. NO, we aren't kidding. It's something Victorinox, the maker of the pocket tool popular with campers, is trying out. And the new product may look like the one on the left missing its blade but with the addition of a clock,
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  • 505 25 slice of life CRISFINA REDENT COMMENT A RECENT column written by a mother looking for a pre-school for her son got me thinking about the choices Singaporeans make and how they do it. A working mother, she wanted her two-year-old son to
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  • 775 26 Showtime&Lifestyle H Jill Neubronner vanished from our TV screens for almost a year, but she'll be hogging the camera once again—at CNN, no less. JEANMARIE TAN reports A CHIRPY but tired Jill Neubronner said, when she got on the line from Hongkong: "I thought people would have
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  • 246 27 WITH more than 50 artistes and 7,000 guests expected, the MTV Asia Awards may just be one of the biggest shows to come this year. Just check out the guest list at the event to be held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Feb 2. You
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous

  • HEY!
    • 94 28 BRAD Pitt and his wife, Jennifer Aniston (right), recently stopped at a grocery store in a tiny Californian town after getting lost. The jittery shop assistant kept muttering: "I can't believe Brad Pitt is in my store!" Pitt merely shrugged and said, before
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    • 75 28 KATE Winslet (right) was so desperate to relieve herself that she used the men's bathroom backstage at the Golden Globe Awards. All because the queue for the ladies' was too long. Blame it on drinking too much water before her presentation of the film clip for
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    • 142 29 NEVER mind if Russell Crowe (left) has openly pecked Australian soap star Danielle Spencer (far left). He's carrying a torch for his co-star in A Beautiful Mind, Jennifer Connelly (inset). He couldn't stop looking at Connelly, who sat across his table at the Golden Globes bash
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    • 132 29 SEAN Penn (with wife Robin Wright and daughter Dylan Francis Penn), who has a guest spot in the sitcom, Friends, has been spending afternoons with co-star Courteney Cox Arquette near the sitcom's studio. Sometimes, he'd stroll in the parking lot with her or visit her trailer while her
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    • 492 28  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck THE glitter turned to dust for Mariah Carey. But all is not lost. With patience and a minor miracle, Carey should be able to survive the humiliation of being publicly dumped by Virgin Records. There is already light
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      441 30 BEHIND every glamorous J-pop hunk lies a not-so-glamorous side. Here, we look at some of their unflattering Achilles heels: LAZY TAKESHI Suave Takeshi Kaneshiro is known to be an elusive guy. But truth is, he's just lazy, grumbled some Japanese reporters. Sure, he's got the X-factor, but the
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    • 234 30 J-POP queen Ayumi Hamasaki has never stepped out of Japan to promote her music or grace a music function. She even declined an interview with prestigious Time magazine last year because she was busy with her concert tour y within Japan, of course.
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    • 341 31  -  PRIME-TIME TV WATCH IT WENDTTEO WATCHING New Dragon's Inn is like watching an amateurish skit. The kind where the plot is just fluff, the actors ham it up and go all out to tickle the audience. But it doesn't leave an impression A 11 on
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  • 534 49 TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN SPORTS Tennis umpires memorise 'international' swear sheet NOPE, you still can't swear in tennis. Not in English, or Czech, or German, or Russian, or any other language. Sure, you may get away with it, if the umpire is not familiar with your language.
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      • 405 51 Reuters. MODEST Togo, who has never progressed beyond the first round of the African Nations Cup, believes it can break its duck today by beating mighty Cameroon. Togo, Ivory Coast and Democratic Republic of Congo all go into today's closing Group C matches with a
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      • 160 51 CAMEROON'S 1-0 win over DR Congo in the first match of Group C wasn't up to much but the shirts the players wore certainly were. The players sported a revolutionary new sleeveless design specially designed by kit-makers Puma for play in desert
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      • 492 52 Wire Services NIGERIA 1 LIBERIA 0 NIGERIA sent George Weah into an unhappy retirement early this morning with a 1-0 win over Liberia to march into the quarter-finals of the African Nations Cup as Group A winner. The Nigerians were by far the better side throughout an
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      • 191 52 CONCACAF GOLD CUP TWO Cuban soccer players have gone missing from the Gold Cup soccer tournament and may have defected to the United States. Strikers Rey Angel Martinez, 20, and Alberto Delgado, 22, were reported missing last Thursday night when team officials
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      • 330 52 MALI 2 ALGERIA 0 AFP. HOST Mali scored twice within seven minutes to defeat Algeria 2-0 and clinch a place in the African Nations Cup quarter-finals. Mamadou Bagayoko struck after 18 minutes before a 60,000 crowd crammed into the March 26
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      556 53  -  RESULTS: SATURDAY: Charlton 1 Walsall 2 Chelsea 1 West Ham 1 Everton 4 Leyton Orient 1 Middlesbrough 2 Man U 0 Millwall 0 Blackburn 1 Preston 2 Sheffield United 1 Rotherham 2 Crewe 4 West Bromwich 1 Leicester 0 YorkO Fulham 2 SUNDAY: Arsenal 1 Liverpool 0 Cheltenham
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    • 600 54  -  How did it become the official Liverpool song? ONE OF SOCCER'S GREAT MYSTERIES... INTERVIEW BRIAN MILLER IT has always irked me. We all know that You'll Never Walk Alone is Liverpool's property. It is sung at every Liverpool match. I've always liked the song and many
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    • 289 54 GERRY Marsden is a Liverpudlian through and through and a Liverpool fan. He watched the Liverpool side of the eighties dominate at home and abroad and is desperate to see the current side triumph this season. He said: "I would love to see Gerard Houllier's side
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    • 11 55 YOURSAY CARRAGHER I SENDING-OFF... I
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      475 55 YOUR SAY: REF RIGHT, BUT TOUGH VERDICT ON CARRAGHER AS a Liverpool fan, I felt the sending-off was a little harsh but to think that the coin might hit a innocent kid in the stands, human moral rules over interest in one's heart. The referee had a very,
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    • 582 55 LIVERPOOL fans, I understand you love your club. But your lack of objectivity alarms me. We received 22 e-mails yesterday from readers giving their opinion on whether referee Mike Riley was right in sending off Jamie Carragher for his coin-throwing incident at Highbury on
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    • 363 56  -  S-LEAGUE 2002 KICKOFF: FEB 20 By Wang Meng Meng TELEVISED coverage of the S-League will go on. That's the assurance from Football Association of Singapore (FAS) director of marketing and communications Winston Lee. Broadcaster MediaCorp had been beaming selected matches
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    • 430 56 ...MORE ON THE COIN-THROWING FRACAS IT'S been sticking out like a sore thumb. Recent incidents of crowd trouble pose a serious threat to player safety, according to Professional Footballers' Association chief Gordon Taylor. He told the BBC Online that Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher brought the problem
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    • 149 56 PLEASE don't make Jamie Carragher a scapegoat. Liverpool caretaker-manager Phil Thomson has appealed to the authorities to view the coin-throwing incident in its perspective. "More and more we're seeing missiles thrown at the players and it's a shame that a Liverpool player has taken the brunt
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    • 206 57 TONIGHT'S SOCCER ACTION BOLTON v MANCHESTER UNITED DIEGO Forlan (above) could make his Manchester United debut tonight against Bolton just one week after he signed for the club. The Uruguayan will play some part in the proceedings but will probably be on
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    • 433 57 Wire Services. Manchester United is taking no chances for tonight's match against Bolton Wanderers. Its Welsh winger Ryan Giggs is set to start after a bout of flu which forced him to be a substitute for last Saturday's shock FA Cup
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    • 300 57 BOLTON striker Michael Ricketts (above) goes head to head with Ruud van Nistelrooy tonight with team-mates calling for him to play for England. Bolton midfielder Gudni Bergsson claims Ricketts' brilliant form should earn him a call from England boss Sven Goran Eriksson,
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    • 381 58 TEAM UPDATES Wire services. BOLTON WANDERERS v MAN UNITED BOLTON'S long sequence of draws is worrying manager Sam Allardyce but he would probably settle for a point against the champion. For Bolton, Simon Charlton has recovered from a calf injury, but Paul Warhurst joins ankle
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    • 573 58 CHELSEA v LEEDS UNITED Chelsea really needs to win this critical match at Stamford Bridge if it wants to stay in the championship hunt. Good news comes in the form of former Leeds striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (left). He has fully recovered from a hip knock suffered
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    • 195 58 J&J Reuters. LIVERPOOL is keen on signing Portuguese international defender Abel Xavier. News of the impending transfer came as a shock at Merseyside because Xavier is from rival-city club Everton. The 29-year-old defender will be out of contract at Goodison Park in the summer and
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    • 205 59 KOBE Bryant gave a team jersey to US President George Bush (left) yesterday. Bush went up on tiptoes to bring himself somewhere near eye level with the Los Angeles Lakers' star. "We can use him." the 2.01-metre-tall Bryantjoked afterwards. "We can use another shootingguard." Bush had
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    • 177 59 AP. FOOTBALL legend Pele (right, negotiating an advertising deal to convince Brazilian men of the benefits of the virility drug Viagra, sources close to both parties said yesterday. Pele's fame, plus his robust health and high-profile private life, mean that pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc, the world's largest
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    • 329 59 Manchester united is in a fix. Unless it offloads Dwight Yorke (left) to Middlesbrough it cannot sign Paolo Di Canio from West Ham. The Champions League transfer deadline is on Thursday and United manager Sir Alex Ferguson wants to land Di Canio before that, reported
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