The New Paper, 6 August 2006

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    • 1481 2  -  1 Abandoned at birth, .he's passed around in Indon village J. Adopted by S'pore parents, he's now passed on to friend Fate of LITTLE A boy yp DawnChia dawnchia@ sph.com.sg THIS little boy was abandoned at birth. Ben (not his real name) was being passed
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    • 604 3  -  Fate of LITTLE BOY Jft FT BEN'S FOSTER PARENT DawnChia dawnchia® sph.com.sg ASKING a friend to stand in as a parent raises many questions. The first of which is: Is the child being dumped on someone else for convenience sake? For example, if
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    • 340 3 STABILITY and consistency. That's what children should find at home. For some kids, though, life is a nomadic existence of moving from one family to another. Ms Carol Balhetchet, director of Youth Services with the Singapore Children's Society, has met three such
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    • Article, Illustration
      667 4  -  'One-eyed dragon' accomplice SPARED GALLOWS CelineLim cellsf9sph.com.sg HE narrowly escaped the gallows. Yet he remained a man of few words. "I have nothing to say," said Lim Choon Chwee (right), 38, in HokJrien when the court translator told him the good news. For the past five months,
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    • 425 4  -  TehJenLee jenlee@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREAN Jason Yeo is one lucky man. He not only sang for actress Sharon Stone and gave her roses, he was also kissed on both cheeks by the sexy Basic Instinct star. Mr Yeo, 24, a Harvard University undergraduate,
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    • 609 5  -  GETAI COMPERE ARRESTED FOR DRUG ABUSE JoyceLim joycel@sph.com.sg GETAI heartthrob Chen Jin Lang's death shocked the getai circuit when he died on the first day of the Hungry Ghost Festival. Now another piece of news has sent shock waves
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    • 406 6 Popular star arrested in frontof getai audience after show HIS drinks could have been spiked, said Mr Peter Loh. The getai organiser has known Cheng for eight years, and he has seen how Cheng leaves his drinks unattended backstage. Said Mr Loh: "Many getai performers leave their
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    • 92 6 ON Thursday, CNB officers arrested 124 suspected drug offenders aged between 21 and 55, in a 24-hour islandwide Operation Dragnet. In the entire operation, about 89g of ketamine, 3.2g of Ice, 5 Ecstasy tablets and 121 Erimin-5 tablets, with a street value of over S$6,290, were seized. Of
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    • 723 7  -  KorKianBeng kianbengOsph.com.ag IN the day, they're ordinary schoolgirls studying for their O levels. But come night, these pair of 16-year-old cousins turn into getai stars, dishing out nifty dance steps in their sexy costumes as they belt out Mandarin pop songs. Egena Foo and Apple Ong call
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      63 8 TOMORROW Meet the man who's an undertaker by day andagetai organiser by night Glriish fun: (Clockwise from top left) The GT Girls doing their school work before getai time; Singing and dancing the night away; Egena Foo touches up her makeup before a show; Going through their
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    • 1034 9  -  HARD-UP smokers and CIGARETTE TOUTS STOP HEAVY TRAFFIC FOR SMUGGLED CIGARETTES Report and pictures ZaihanMohamedYusof zaihan@sph.com.sg M DRIVERS, if you're travelling in Yew Tee, look out. If you're not careful, you may just become a victim of the latest road menace in the neighbourhood. Or
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    • 183 10 Store customs cigarettes teaava$Q a pack? Think agata. H yea are eaagbt with a packet of cigarettes, for which eo duly has beee u aai la AMg Pili J OH CM M THMv #£UU. Frew laMary takm thli yaar,1>2 paapla ware caught aad flaed
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    • 884 11  -  Flashy gym equipment abound in the heartlands DesmondNg desmondn@sph .com. sg SOME of the best things in life are free if you look hard enough. And they're right under your nose and by your door-step. With fancy names such as Step Glider, Ski Glider, Waist
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    • 541 13  -  Pictures report by Stefen Chow in CAMBODIA PKEAK-KDEY, 13, was born in an impoverished family in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia. Her father died, leaving the mother to take care of her and her six siblings. When she was not at school, Pkeak-kdey helped
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    • 682 14  -  Despite missing some leg muscles, he's EstherAuYong estheray@sph.com.sg WHAT would you do if you lost a part of your thigh muscle? Well, sales engineer Timothy Leong started running. And on 1 Oct, the 32-year-old will attempt what has been labelled as the "toughest mountain
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    • 39 2 In OUR SUNDAY: Tales of adoption Class 95's Rod Monteiro Celebrity couple and Suria channel VP Fahmi Andrea De Cruz and Rais say adoption made Pierre Png think about their dreams come true adoption all the time page 34
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    • 10 2 FOSTER PARENT: HE CALLS ME 'DADDY'AND HIS FATHER 'PAPA' page4
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    • 65 2 quirks David Turner gets a taste of the power of S'pore women at the door of his new bride J v KF Seetoh introduces four of S'pore's best 40 r m W m. OUR space Birthdays, babies or just the hot dude you've been dying to meet. Send us your
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    • 957 16  -  Weighs 10kg, is 60cm tall A hug could break her fragile bones TayShi’an shian@ i sph.com.sg J FOR more than 30 years, she hid in her home, too ashamed to face the outside world. Ms Lim Geok Yee, 33, was
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    • 345 16 0ESPITE eafferlaf far 33 years aad iesieg fear slbUags to the same ceadttfoe, aatthor Ms Um Seek Yee aor her parents katw what she eafftrt from. Whee she was born, all the doctors told her paroats was that bar coadltloa wmmm ImiMaaMklm OOA 0 LM Mcuraoie, irs lidi
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    • 890 17 FORMER GUCCI EXECS NEW CAUSE SHE was once head of worldwide licensing at Italian fashion giant Gucci. But Beijing native Li Quan gave that all up for a catwalk of a different kind to start a foundation devoted to saving the South China tiger
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    • 722 19 Stars say goodbye to wrinkles ...With a little help from this swab New customised cream made using DNA analysis claims to banish wrinkles forever EXTREME makeovers involving painful surgery, injections and laser treatments used to be the only way to erase the effects of
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    • 218 20 DERMAGENETICS is not the only beauty company that is using DNA technology to combat ageing sldn. Suracell, also based in New Jersey, offers a "personal genetic health programme" that claims to identify deficiencies and damage in clients'DNA and matches them with products to promote cell
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    • 303 20  -  NgWanChing wanchingOsph.corn.sg DOES it really work? Doctors we spoke to agree that that it is true genes control the way in which die body metabolises substances. Hence, it is not inconceivable that genes control the way in which the body metabolises the ingredients that go
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    • 446 21 Police shoot two in sabah haven POLICE in Kota Kinabalu mounted a large-scale raid on an island off the city's coast on Friday after a pre-dawn clash on a walkway between two stilt-houses left a drug suspect dead and three policemen with serious slash wounds.
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    • 169 21 PULAU Gaya is a haven for criminals and illegal immigrants, reported the New Straits Times. It is also believed to be a transit centre for drugs cigarettes and liquor smuggling. At least 25 people have been arrested there this year alone for drug-related crimes. Refugees from
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    • 362 22 Cross-dressing robber has the makeup, wig and skirt but.. HIS attention to detail as a cross-dressing bank robber was meticulous. Nino Leo Lanu, 32, got away with almost A$25,000 ($30,100) from a Melbourne bank earlier this year—while wearing wig and women's clothes, and more..
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    • 374 23 Shoplifting ruse Distract staff Sneak goods past cashier Return four hours later and repeat theft THEIR strategy was that of any highly-organised shoplifting gang: Get two members to distract sales staff while two others sneak the merchandise past the cashiers and pass it to accomplices
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    • 316 23 INDIAN COURT TO COCA-COLA: COCA-COLA has been ordered to reveal its secret formula for the first time in 120 years. India's Supreme Court ordered the US soft drinks maker, along with its rival PepsiCo, to supply details of the chemical composition and ingredients of their products
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    • 507 24 US sculptor honours golf star Michellei Wie with statue W SHE carved a name for herself in golfing folklore by competing on the men's tour. Now, Michelle Wie, 16, from Hawaii,is being honoured with a 2.43m wooden sculpture. It's carved by a Milford sculptor, Mr Heiner
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    • 988 26 Dad, you’re abusing gran Once, she gave $315 m to charity. Now, she sleeps on a filthy sofa is uncared for, alleges grandson AP. AS ONE of New York's most beloved tai tais, Mrs Brooke Astor could often be seen at the glitziest galas dressed in the most immaculate I
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    • 199 26 BORN in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1902, Mrs Brooke Astor was the daughter of a high-ranking Marine Corps officer. After a childhood spent in countries such as China, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Mrs Astor married for the first time at
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    • 477 27 FIERY SCOTTISH MP ACCUSED OF ORGIES WINS SUIT MORE than 20 witnesses face perjury charges after a Scottish MP won a libel case against British newspaper that claimed he had taken part in drug-fuelled orgies. Political officials, an ex-prostitute and two self-described mistresses are
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      • 45 28 Killing children is wrong. Period. A'war on terror" cannot be won by a democraticallyelected government acting like a terrorist organisation. War is too serious a business to be left to the generals. Avi Shlaim, an Oxford University professore, in The International Herald Tribune
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      • 88 28 THE Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at the Nanyang Technological University will be renamed the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies. The autonomous school under NTU will be officially inaugurated on 1 Jan next year, DPM S Jayakumar announced yesterday. Mr Rajaratnam, who died on
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      • 37 28 Designers said budgets for showflats have increased by about 50 pet cent over the past ftve to 10 years. City Developments Ltd (CDD appears to hove topped the list, <Whing out some
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      • 72 28 AT least 46 people have died over the past four days from torrential rains lashing the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Most were killed in landslides and building collapses. Tens of thousands have been marooned as downpours inundated the region's largest airport and damaged
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      • 161 28 te CYlfHIWIINni CBWMLW1UKIT1PUUI IF you are grappling with video game addiction, help is on the way. A $100,000,1,000 sq ft facility was opened in Buldt Merah yesterday. Called PianetCRuSH (Cyberspace Risks and where you seek help) Cyber Wellness Centre, it is promoted by
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      • 108 28 MORE than 100 Indonesian "jihadis" paraded in West Kalimantan yesterday as their leader vowed they would head abroad to attack Jewish interests in countries that support Israel. The turnout of 160 black-hooded men from the hardline Asian Muslim Youth Movement was much lower that the 3,000 that
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      • 180 28 SCIENTISTS have discovered a part of the brain that is stimulated by making a wager, a finding that could help in understanding gambling addiction and some mental disorders. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology asked subjects to choose two cards from a deck and place
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      • 54 28 A NEW play set and staged in a bathroom has become a surprise hit in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. The play, entitled Thorough Search, is staged in a bathroom at the Renaissance Theatre. Only 30 people can fit inside the bathroom and they have to remain standing
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    • 710 29  -  Not bone of my bones, nor flesh of my flesh, but this child is... Adopting a child is the latest Hollywood trend. But if s much more than that, say adoptive dads Rod Monteiro and Fahmi Rais JeanmarieTan jeanm@sph.com.sg CALL it the seven-year glitch. That's
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    • 661 29 HE was an only child. So when he was orphaned at 23 years old, Mr Fahmi Rais, channel vice-president of Suria, was suddenly hit with the realisation that he didn't have siblings to help him In life. Mr Fahmi, now 39, told The New Paper
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    • 880 30  -  Andrea de Cruz: JeanmarieTaa jeanm@sph .com. sg CELEBRITY couple Andrea De Cruz and Pierre Png were looking forward to 2007. Next year would be the five-year mark when Andrea could get the all-clear from her doctors since her liver failed in 2002. Andrea, 32, has
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    • 683 32  -  SivaChoy f Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg SOME people just love seeing themselves in photographs. I know one guy whose living room showcase is stacked with bulging albums of faded photos tracing his life's journey as... (a) a fat, bald bewildered baby; (b) an undernourished, pimply
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    • 583 32  -  IvyOng-Weed Columnist tnp9sph.com.sg THEY say you can never change a man. But you can sculpt him a little. I've been steadily chiseling away at Tubby Hubby's (TH) tummy, one spare tyre at a time, for the past two years. Don't get
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    • 631 34  -  DavidTurner Columnist tn p@sph.com.sg THIS week marks a special anniversary not just for Singapore but also for me. A year ago last night, I was racing around Chinatown's fruit stalls searching as though my life depended on it for the key to happiness: Longans. Yes, it
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    • 158 34 bitchaboutcomer If an e-mail is sent in cyberspace and no one is around, does die message get out? Of course not, but many senders believe otherwise. In a world where e-mail has become indispensable, many have come to equate the act of sending an e-mail with
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    • 835 35  -  KFSeetch Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg I WAS a little taken aback when someone asked why Makansutra had recently accorded 12 hawkers the tide of this year's Singapore Street Food Masters, in conjunction with this year's Singapore Food Festival. I thought for a while, then realised: It just needs
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    • 217 36 i f f t f v A i M i J 'I VIn conjunction with The New Paper Be Yourself Day, we are inviting students from all schools to take part in this fun-to-the-max contest of self-expression. Open up your heart and express yourself fully in whatever way you want
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      724 37  -  Relieve tension headaches with touch UNDER PRESSURE? Dr JosephGusn Columnist tnp9sph.com.sg A POUNDING pain in your head? Feel as if your head is going to burst? Mary frequently felt like this when work stress overwhelmed her. Taking over-the-counter medication did little to help. The medication caused stomach upsets
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    • 625 38  -  She's afraid men will one day stop looking at her JoyceLim Joyce l@s ph. com. sg SHE reads the encyclopaedia during her free time. One day, she found the word "bootylicious" in the encyclopaedia and said that it best describes her—shapely and voluptuous, especially with reference
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    • 105 39 our sunoflv SUNDAY l»ISOCIAL Here's a whole new way of getting heard. Getting married? Or just getting older? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? We want to know all about it Send your pictures and messages to~. tnpfbmm@sphxom.sg Hey Had a |l I /t Keepin m T^ touch!!!
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    • 96 39 n Announcements Happy Birthday Singapore. We juz can't wait to ask Papa to drive and park our car by the roadside juz to catch the fireworks. Frea Sisters Uyma Istiliila Mi Nalml Batrisyia MM ffm ■BSSHHI You are always daddy's mummy's sunshine. We LOVE U. From Daddy Mummy HI HHBHIIS£9I
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    • 33 39 Dear Lily, Happy Birthday on 2nd August 2006. May all wishes come true... Yue Lao Yue Mei. Best Wishes, Sister A k V I* 111 By ■H IK m A 4; j 'I
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    • 130 41 ET: Extra Terrestrial 20th Anniversary, 7pm, Channel 5 Channel 5 I US PGA Tour Highlights 2006 Inside The PGA Tour '06/World's'Craziest Videos Sunday-Afternoon Movie: Big Kahuna Planet's Funniest Animals/My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss JAG IX/Joan Of Arcadia Veronica Mars ET: The Extra terrestrial 20th Anniversary (Movie) News 5 Tonight Las
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  • sun sports
    • 363 42  -  Quick Fire and Pago Kid have decent daims KRANJI PREVIEW TanThean Loon loon@sph.com.sg UICK FIRE certainly I I appeals as a lively long shot in Race 7 at Kranji thisaftemoon. For one, the Mohd Yusof-trained eight-year-old is back in form. At his
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    • 69 42 ARIES (Race 6 No. 3) This Desmond Koh-trained galloper caught the eye in his initial two outings—a sweet debut second over 1,200m in soft going on 25 Jun was followed by a creditable third over 1,400m on a yielding track on 15 JuL Those two runs have sharpened
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    • 297 44  -  KRANJI ROUND-UP MarcTan marc@sph.com.sg THE buzz around Kranji yesterday centred around trainer Laurie Laxon's nomination of greenhorn apprentice Farick Tan on crack sprinter Why Be in Race 9. As it turned out, the 25-year-old rookie did not let the golden opportunity to land
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    • 504 44 1 Race 1 Fishers Circle 1400m 1 2 DCVMMK 56.5 (41-7) 4 P*Y WJE 56.5 (40-8) ....H Stnrarf J Hill (2) 1 (3) 2 1 VBMD57 (11-6) J WMtinfl (7) 3 Trainer FH Maynard. Margbii: 2 y«, 1,2. Haw: 1 min 24.58sec. Ferecast
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    • 356 44 GOING: YIELDING (RACE 1), GOOD (RACES 2-11)♦ Race 1 Maiden -1200m 9 MAMCUI 54.5 (100-22) J Powell (2) 2 1 1 (438) 3 ■DALM 58.5 (16-7) R Stewart (3) 8 8 2 (496) Hd 1 PJRA MM 59 c 56(11-6) ...*HK Cheng (8) 7 7
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    • 1756 45 |Race 3 Class 4 1800m I 7 TOTWUl 54 (49-18) R Stewitt (10) 2 2 1 (478) 5 2 JUST AMAait 56 (79-22) mniWT FMSBfi (?R-8) .A t#K»r1 .IVanter fl 4 3 2 5 5 3 (485 1 4631
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    • 370 45 RACE 1: MAKE U HAPPY (cut near-fore) was withdrawn. RACE 7: PRINCE DELAGO (A Spiteri) was nnable to secure a clear run from the top of the straight. He then had to be checked near the 100 m when racing to the inside of DIAMOND SOLICITOR and GEMINI.
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    • 723 46 Reuters. THE heat is on for the United States Ryder Cup hopefuls with just three nerve-jangling tournaments remaining before the 12-man team are decided. After this month's PGA Championship at Medinah in Illinois, the top 10 in the Cup standings will automatically qualify to take on Europe
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    • 307 46 AFP. UNITED States Ryder Cup captain Tom Lehman says Americans care as much about the team golf showdown as their European rivals and that part of their foes' passion romwfromtop^g squad two yeare ago at Oakland Hills and the Americans will try to reclaim
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    • 880 47 OLD Mad about golf THIS past week in the world of golf, it has once again been proven that this is indeed a game for life. And, if you look at the last week, it was good for young an old alike. I say this
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    • 379 48 WOMEN'S BRITISH OPEN AFP Michelle Wie stole the spotlight for the wrong reasons on Friday when she was given a two-stroke penalty and fell 10 shots behind second-round leader Juli Inkster at the Women's British Open. Wie believed she had matched Inkster's even-par 72 round
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