The New Paper, 8 March 2002

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  • 7 1 the new paper FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2002
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    • 64 1 ASTHMA-WOMAN'S FIGHT TO KEEP DRIVING -Mi I WHY I tookIDn jsn, gets licence back TRAFFIC POLI<ft Picture/ MOHD ISHAK 2 Bizarre accident death Left to bleed to death in smashed windscreen Bye-Bye MacRitchie Schools' Cross-country Championship looks for another venue Page 8 Picture/ MOHD ISHAK Singsporc PrGSS Holdings Website: newpaper.asial
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    • 96 2 FAMILIES of the Hindu activists who burned to death after the train they were on was attacked last month (left), will get 200,000 rupees each ($7,464) in compensation. But the Muslim families of victims of the recent riots in India will get 100,000 rupees each.
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    • 459 2 MAS, AIRASIA ORDERED TO MOVE FROM SUBANG TO KLIA THE reason: To help make the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA > a hub. For shifting the operations of the two airlines Malaysia Airlines and Air Asia alone is expected to increase passenger load at the
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    • 984 4  -  ASTHMA-WOMAN'S FIGHT TO GET LICENCE BACK Friends told her she didn't stand a chance Her application was first thrown out, and she was told she had to pay legal costs for the Traffic Police She appeals... By Low Ching Ling
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    • 218 5 LAST November, Mr Hanam told the High Court that the Traffic Police's decision to revoke Ms Kang's licence was unreasonable as she had not been given a hearing. Senior State Counsel Jeffrey Chan, who argued the Traffic Police's case, said the action was justified under Section 37(6)
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    • 292 6 IT'S flexible and cheap. That's what attracts drivers to NTUC Income's car-sharing scheme. Started in 1997, the cooperative has 17 pick-up points and 65 vehicles. More than 2,000 people, mostly HDB residents, are on the road with the scheme. In fact, it's so popular
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    • 223 6 WALL Street stocks ended lower yesterday after an early surge, as investors worried about possible interest rate hikes after more positive comments from US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, He said yesterday that the US economy is rebounding from recession, following better-than-expected data on worker productivity and unemployment.
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    • 75 6 MS Chng Seok Tin, 55, became the first artist to receive the Woman of the Year Award, held at the Fullerton Hotel last night. The accomplished printmaker and sculptor debunked the misconception that artists need sight when she was presented with the award. Ms Chng, who has only
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    • 71 6 A NEW biomedical centre will be set up here this year. It will focus on tissue and stem-cell research, with the aim of finding treatment for various diseases. When it becomes fully operational, the Institute of Bioengineering will be home to about 250 research scientists and engineers. Such
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    • 80 6 MORE Singaporeans are taking to the gym, track and field than was the case five years ago. But the rate of doing so is slowing, and this is fastest among the 20- and 30-somethings. A Singapore Sports Council survey last year showed that as teens, seven out of
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    • 73 6 ABOUT 40 children born here every year have serious hearing problems. But a cochlear implant can help. This electronic device bypasses the damaged parts of the inner ear to stimulate remaining nerve fibres, allowing a person to hear. Some 15 children a year for three years will
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    • 77 6 THE forthcoming football season could be a lucrative one. Come May, you can bet on the World Cup as well as the English Premier League (EPL). Singapore Pools estimates that it will be handling $200 million worth of bets during the month of the World Cup from
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    • 65 6 MALAYSIA'S New Economic Policy (NEP), implemented in 1970, might be abandoned, said Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Wednesday. The policy has yet to achieve its target of redressing the wealth imbalance among the races, and has made Malay entrepreneurs almost totally dependent on the government. However, any
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    • 79 7 My mother was very angry and told me not to tell anyone. And if they asked, just say I passed my exams. Tan Zhong Hao, a 12-year-old Bukit View Primary School student, on his mother's reaction when he was first streamed into EM3. He identifies with the characters in
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    • 267 7 ON THE RACK A FEW Saturdays ago, a group of students scrambled into seats at Brother Rice High School in suburban Detroit, US, to take the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) college entrance exam. When they sat down, some of their feet didn't touch the
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    • 58 7 The Straits Times: Greenspan surprise: US recovery underway The Business Times: US recovery well underway: Greenspan Lianhe Zaobao: Indonesia's parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung detained Berita Harian: Israeli attacks on refugee camp continue NewsRadio 93.8FM: Assurance that those who make the grade will have a university place Streats: Sharon
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    • 65 7 International Herald Tribune: Materials at hand for a "dirty bomb" Asian Wall Street Journal: Tokyo officials take stock of yen's sudden strength New Straits Times: Price list a must at motor workshops BBC news: US President George Bush is sending special envoy Anthony Zinni back to the Middle
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      50 7 PICTURE THIS This is the cat that got just a little too much cream. In the arms of owner, 10-year-old Zara Seastrunk, Simba weighs a whopping 15.4 kg. When a US newspaper ran a report about plump cats, she wrote in describing her pudgy pet. Picture/ Ap
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    • 595 8  -  SCHOOLS' NATIONAL CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS By Santokh Singh LAST Wednesday's cross-country championships will be the last one at Macßitchie Reservoir. The Ministry of Education has decided to pull the plug on the venue for the annual meet, which is into its 44th year. With the
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    • 144 8 IT may be time to move on, but they will miss Macßitchie. Singapore Polytechnic's director for the School of Business, Mr V Maheantharan, won the A Division individual title at Macßitchie in 1974. "The place has fond memories for me," he said, although he accepted the need for
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    • 776 10  -  Bintan boy, 6, couldn't see, walk or speak Thanks to S'pore volunteer group and doctor, he now 'laughs and eats like a horse' Reports/ Kelvin Ha and Michael Lee EVER since he was a toddler, Suryadi Putra had
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    • 219 10 DIENCEPHALIC syndrome is a very rare neurological disorder that usually affects infants. Dr Keith Goh said of the 20 brain tumour operations performed on children at KK Hospital in one year, about one case involves this disorder. But by some coincidence, he had
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    • 84 11 THE Yishun Methodist Mission was able to get financial support for Suryadi from both Singaporeans and Indonesians. KK Hospital waived 15 per cent from the total bill. The remaining $30,958.39 was paid for from donations collected by the church. When Suryadi and his father were in Singapore for
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    • 134 13 THE NEW PAPERS nday. March 8. 2002 The magic didn't end at midnight. Cinderella and all your favorite characters are back in an all-new movie about the power of hope, friendship and believing in who you are. With four irresistible, original songs and a new twist on the classic, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-800.
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    • 446 14  -  Just trying the drug once can ruin your life forever By J Joycelyn Wong TINY, black and with a name that sounds harmless enough. Known as Black Sesame, these round pills even bear a striking resemblance to Po Chai pills a type of Chinese medicine used
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    • 450 17  -  HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE By Michael Lee ARE Singaporeans over-sensitive about hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD)? Mr Daniel Wang Nan Chee, commissioner for public health at the Environment Ministry (ENV), thinks they are. "When we take preventive measures and nothing happens, people say
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    • 208 17 HER daughter is not infected with HFMD, but she is not taking any chances. The five-year-old is in the same kindergarten class at Tampines North Education Centre as one of the four children reported to have come down with it. The girl has
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  • 451 20  -  Overstayer robbed women in shopping centre's toilets SINGAPORE By, Andre Yeo HE knew where his female victims would be most vulnerable. In women's toilets. So, for a month, he staked out the female toilets at a shopping centre, armed with knives and a chopper.
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    • 658 22 In Singapore, there are about 30 people who belong to a special group the deaf-blind. For them, communication with the world is nearly impossible. One family tells IRENE KEW how it copes SHE spends most of her days sitting alone on the couch, smiling and
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    • 168 23 WHEN vision loss is coupled with other disabilities, the task of learning becomes all the more complex. This is why the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) started their Multiple Handicapped Programme in August 2000. Said welfare officer Mrs Lakshmi V Jayashree,
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  • 266 25 CHINA PROTESTS AGAINST PRIVATE MEETING WORLD AP. China has long decried military relations between the US and Taiwan, but it is a private conference to take place in Florida next week that has Chinese officials jumping. Taiwanese Defence Minister Tang Yiau-ming will make a trip to
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  • 182 27 WORLD AP. MICROSOFT said yesterday that it would be offering free repairs for customers whose new Xbox video-game machines (left) scratched their game discs. The 34,800 yen ($500) Xbox made a much-publicised debut in Japan on Feb 21, challenging video-game kings Sony and Nintendo. But
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  • 315 29 WORLD Sometimes jokes just aren't funny even if they appear in the hallowed New York Times. And, if they have anything to do with Sept 11, then beware the ire of all American people particularly the families of the victims. The New
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    • 235 31 CHINA and Taiwan are taking their old rivalry to new heights. The two countries are locked in a contest to erect the world's tallest building. Unsettling, given that just six months ago on Sept 11, the collapse of the world's fourth largest buildings
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    • 337 32 Woman in tears after vehicle she lived in towed away AP. THEY removed her battered and rusty car, which she has been living in for 20 years. They said they would provide her with an apartment. But neighbours said she was unlikely to
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    • 113 32 Wire services. THE car belonging to Mr Helios Jermini, president of Swiss soccer club FC Lugano, being pulled out of the Lugano lake yesterday. The 63-year-old was found drowned in his car two days after being reported missing. Mr Jermini had told friends
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    • 387 33 Man hit by car, crashes headfirst through windshield, legs broken He begs for help, driver says sorry but leaves him to die in garage Reuters. THE homeless man's body was found in Cobb Park, Texas, on Oct 27 last year. He seemed like
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  • 376 35 WORLD LOOKS like slow and steady does win the race. One baby tortoise managed to travel 1,930 km can a hare beat that? It didn't exactly crawl all the way though. It flew from Tunisia to Britain on a
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  • 354 37 New $3.4 m scanner installed to prevent containers' use as terror weapon MALAYSIA Malaysia has taken the first step to beef up security in seaborne cargo. Port Klang's North Port has begun scanning shipping containers. It is doing this with a new RM7 million (553.36
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    • 79 38 MOVING cattle herds from watering hole to watering hole usually keeps the Masaai warriors fully occupied. But this young man from the arid plains of Africa takes time off to attend school. He is earnestly copying from a blackboard in this village school about 150 km
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    • 440 38 WHAT RULING MEANS SHOULD banks have paid customers in US dollars, causing them to incur a loss because of exchange rate differences? That was one of the questions. The appeals court has ruled that the bank was justified in doing so given the political
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  • 377 39 OOSPINA ROBERT] COMMENT slice of life PEOPLE have been putting their secret thoughts down for ages. All those ancient scribblings on cave walls must have been men writing diaries and journals. According to one site on the Internet, there are different sorts of
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      483 40 Showtime&Lifestyle Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that more men in the US are wearing women's pantyhose, often for medical reasons. Can this trend take off in Singapore? JEANMARIE TAN gets one intrepid volunteer in Singapore to take up the challenge IT'S not news that some
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    • 296 40 ACCORDING to a recent Wall Street Journal report, more and more men are beginning to wear pantyhose. About 85 per cent of women's hosiery sales on lingerie website Shapings.com reportedly go to males. The reasons are varied panty hose, unlike thermal underwear, provides
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    • 368 41  -  By Wendy Teo OR was he? His record company claims it doesn't know. The hotel isn't saying. And the Heavenly King himself is godlike and far away. Jacky Cheung is kicking off his World Tour 2002 in Sydney today. But was he lying low here earlier
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    • 692 42  -  By Tan Dawn Wei HE'S no celebrity daredevil like Evil Knievel. But Mr Matthew Lim has seen his fair share of gravity-defying leaps on his motorcross bike. And while he hasn't broken quite as many bones as Knievel, the dirt-biking enthusiast has chalked up some
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      449 43 SHOW INFO WHAT: Bond Live in Singapore WHEN: March 18, Bpm WHERE: Suntec City, Hall 602 TICKETS: $101, $81, $61, $41 available from Sistic outlets. Call 348-5555 or log on to http://www. sistic. com.sg Haylie Ecker, of neo-classical band Bond, is in love with India. She talks to
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    • 411 44  -  QUEEN OFTHE DAMNED By Jeanmarie Tan RATING:// Damns one to eternal boredom STARS: Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend STORY: Bored with hanging around in a crypt for centuries, the vampire Lestat (Townsend) decides to re-invent himself as a famous rock star. After becoming an
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    • 326 45  -  NOVOCAINE By Denise Chong RATING: Gently mental STARS: Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern STORY: Frank (Martin), a prosperous dentist, has a comfy and boring daily drill. He pokes around the mouths of dental patients by day, and smooches his perfect dental hygienist fiancee
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    • 363 46  -  CROSSROADS By Jeanmarie Tan RATING: A bumpy ride STARS: Britney Spears, Anson Mount, Taryn Manning, Zoe Saldana STORY: After graduating from high school, Lucy (Spears) and her now splintered childhood friends (Manning, Saldana) go on a cross-country trip to find Lucy's runaway mum (Kim Cattrall).
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    • 299 47 PRIME-TIME TV WATCH IT SEEMS like only yesterday that good-guy soccer star Ethan Zohn bagged the USsl million (sl.Bm) booty and title of Survivor: Africa winner. Swift on its heels is Survivor: Marquesas (pronounced mar-kay-sis) which debuted last week. Can you feel the excitement in
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    • 151 42 daisy "Feel Good, Look Good with Daisy." > y Mr Lim. women nders, too, have been on the rise, i But it's not all guts and glory either. and so have working professionals like "There's a lot of discipline involved. teachers, lecturers and doctors. You need to prepare your bike
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    • 215 47 Highlights The Gourmet Hunt Central, 10.30pm Find out the difference between the Teochew guo tiau and the Cantonese hor fun, the finer points of cooking "wet" and "dry" guo tiao, and how factories produce these flat noodles. See No Evil Hear No Evil Channel i, 10pm Two buddies, one deaf
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    • 256 62 Gold Bullet (Race 6 No. 6) Gold Bullet loves the Kranji fibresand track, having notched all his four wins on this surface. Would have made it win No. 5 last start had he not been unlucky to go down by a neck to Always Mine over
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    • 239 62 YESTERDAY'S workouts, on the fibresand track rated good, by horses engaged tonight: RACE 1: Intimidator (J Geroudis) sprinted smartly over 600 m in 39.7. Nalo Star was allotted pace work. Slow work: Cafe Capers, Emperor's Award, South China, looking well, Alcazar, fitter, Sky Lottery, Victory Patch, El Cid,
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    • 144 62 RESULTS of three barrier trials conducted over I.ooom on the fibresand track at Kranji yesterday. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Don't Surrender (A Beitia) 2 Dark City (J Saimee) 3 Mysticism (V Sivan) 4 Salvo Zone (T Ong). Unofficial margins and time: 1.3, (lmin 02.745 ec). TRIAL
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    • 1198 63 TONIGHT'S KRANJI (FIBRESAND TRACK) RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD LOOK NO FURTHER: Trainer Don Baertschiger (left) and jockey Eddie Wilkinson have a neat chance to take out Race 2 with twice impressive trial winner Gamest. No. Last 6 runa Horac Wt Rating Jocfcey Barrier (Age/origin/aex. trainer-owner) 1 -6475- LUCKY BID
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    • 142 63 AP. SEATTLE SLEW, the 1977 Triple Crown winner, returned to Three Chimneys Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, last Wednesday and was resting after weekend neck surgery. The 28-year-old thoroughbred (equivalent to a 196-year-old human) is the only living Triple Crown winner and is the oldest
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    • 616 65 DIAMOND BOSS wrapped up his preparations for the Class 5 Div 2 1,600 m event on Sunday with a stylish workout yesterday. Taken out by jockey Yin Tai Leong, the four-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Distinctly North sprinted keeniy over the final 600 m to clock 41sec.
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    • 334 65  -  By Danny Khoo STAR Malaysian galloper After Me Please is set to join trainer Laurie Laxon's yard at Kranji soon. The 2002 Tunku Gold Cup winner, who is undergoing quarantine, is expected to arrive in a week's time. The lure of better
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    • 773 67  -  S-LEAGUE 2002: SPOTLIGHT ON STADIUM SECURITY By Ernest Luis NOT a water bottle thrown at the pitch. Not even used packet drinks. Last night, at the Jurong East Stadium, the crowd was well-behaved as 2,734 fans watched the Jurong Cobras carve out a hard-fought 1-0
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    • 542 68  -  S-LEAGUE SHOWDOWN OF THE WEEK; JURONG 1 WOODLANDS 0 By Wang Meng Meng ONE by one, numerous fans streaming into the Jurong East Stadium last night were turned away. The fans, armed with tickets to watch the clash between the Jurong Cobras and the Woodlands Rams, were
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        533 70 FINAL, TOMORROW Wire services. HOLLAND, reigning Olympic gold medalist, conceded yesterday that Australia was a superior side and deserved to advance to the final of the field hockey World Cup. A display of pacy, free-flowing hockey took Australia to a 4-1 win over holder Holland in Kuala
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      • 253 70 AP. COACH Bernhard Peters said yesterday he hopes his excellent strike-force will clinch Germany's first field hockey World Cup title. "We've overcome the semi-final jinx through brilliant teamwork. "And now I hope the strikers will reproduce this form in the final," Peters said
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      • 269 71 AFP. XIA Xuanze, the top-seeded former All-England champion, failed in his bid to win the title back. He lost in the third round last night after missing four match points in an extraordinary upset. The Chinese star led by two games and by
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      • 190 71 AP. INDIA'S Pullela Gopichand may be reported to the disciplinary committee of the International Badminton Federation for failing to appear for an interview after losing his All-England title on Wednesday. Gopichand broke down in tears after his defeat to Malaysia's Muhammad Hafiz Hashim and felt he was
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      • 245 71 Chinese coach England's hope Xinhua. FOR some time now English women shuttlers had been finding it difficult to win in their own continent Europe. A Chinese coach has brought about a transformation in their fortunes. Luo Yun, a former singles player from China's star-studded women's national team, arrived in England
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      • 205 71 Reuters. WHEN is a football shirt not a shirt but a vest? That was the tricky question that briefly vexed Fifa's World Cup Organising Committee yesterday. A request from Cameroon that it be allowed to use the same sleeveless shirts each
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    • 738 74 TOMORROW SATURDAY SHOWDOWN: INTER-MILAN v JUVENTUS AFP. IT'S the showdown of the season in Italy tomorrow night when top of the table Inter-Milan takes on closest challenger Juventus. They're two well-matched sides but the difference is that Inter has the hottest
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      • 440 75 YOU probably thought that he couldn't get any better, but Brazil star Rivaldo has been secretly studying the silky skills... of David Beckham. Barcelona superstar Rivaldo is judged by many to be the finest footballer on the planet. But it's Beckham's videos he
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      • 221 75 Reuters. RIVALDO will delay his decision about staying at Barcelona until the end of the season. The 29-year-old's current deal is up at the end of next season and speculation is once again starting to mount about a possible move to Italy. Rivaldo said he
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        635 76 HE'S on a hot goal-scoring streak. His Gunners too are on a high winning run. Dennis Bergkamp, Arsenal's Dutch striker, reckons it is now or never for his club if it is to break Manchester United's grip on English football. The man who has found his striking
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      • 436 77 Boss's return sparked Murphy's double LIVERPOOL'S 3-0 destruction of title rival Newcastle this week was sparked by an inspirational battle cry from recovering boss Gerard Houllier. Houllier flew back from his sick bed in France to tell his players before the game that they
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      • 214 77 FA CUP SIXTH ROUND: NEWCASTLE v ARSENAL TREBLE-chasing Arsenal has vowed it is going all-out to win the FA Cup. There have been suggestions that Arsenal was ready to concentrate solely on the Premiership and the Champions League. And that manager Arsene
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      • 60 77 POOL PROBLEM LIVERPOOL has confirmed that Michael Owen is almost definitely out of its Champions League clash in Barcelona next week after tweaking his hamstring against Newcastle. Caretaker boss Phil Thompson said: "He will be out for a week to 10 days, he's very doubtful for Barcelona but
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        526 78 THE war cry is out: Chelsea wants Tottenham Hotspur's blood. The Blues wants to make Tottenham pay for "gloating" and going over the top in its celebrations after its two-legged League Cup semi-final win over Chelsea, reported planetfootball. Now they want to make a point when they travel to
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      • 295 78 FA CUP SIXTH ROUND: MIDDLESBROUGH v EVERTON DAVID Ginola is hoping his Everton team-mates can lift the spirit in the camp this weekend by reaching the FA Cup semi-finals. But the flamboyant Frenchman has admitted he would swap an FA Cup winner's medal for a guaranteed
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