Streats, 11 September 2000

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets MONDAY 11 September 2000 Another quality publication of ggjg Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
    • 48 1 IF you live in Cheng San GRC, you will have your own web page, from which you can download information, consult a doctor online, interract with neighbours and even carry out some transactions. Yesterday, Communications and Information Technology Minister Yeo Cheow Tong previewed the site.
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    • 59 1 ABOUT 460 lonely and poor elderly citizens living in estates such as Ang Mo Kio, Redhill and Bedok will have better food, more outings, and enjoy more activities on Sunday mornings, under a new project started by the Singapore Airlines Club Sunday Programme. It was launched yesterday
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  • 440 1 LATE again? Almost fell off the bus again? Fed up by delays again? Here’s some news to perk up your Monday morning: Your ride to work will soon be faster, safer and (hopefully)
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    • 28 1 Andre Lien: Mama’s bo turns bade PAGE 13 Michelle Goh: Why must MeePok Man's new bunny have to strip? 14 Wmm s > LimKaySil Demands apology Char 1 rWitW;
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  • Streatsmart pictorial
    • 48 2 He hasn't shaved for 20 years. And it shows. Shibshankar Bharati, an astrologer, shows off his 195-cm beard in Calcutta. Bharati claims to have the longest beard in the world and has applied to be listed in the Guiness Book of World Records. Pic: AFP
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    • 28 2 Strc t& HOTLINE 1800-844-5566 FAX 745 1022 E-MAIL streats@sph.com.sg ADDRESS 82 Genting Lane, News Centre, Level 2 *****67) you to work for a month in a Mercedes Cab!
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 349 3 They will be used to prove hair-growth drug WANTED: Twins, with sparse peaks. Purpose: To help in the fight against baldness. Who wants you? US pharmaceutical giant Merck Sharp Dohme. It wants to show the effectiveness of a drug Finasteride. Clinical trials have shown that the drug
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    • 120 3 A SINGAPOREAN was arrested at Penang International Airport on Saturday for possession of the drug Ecstasy. At around 7.30 am, the 44-year-old man caught the attention of customs officers at the airport when he behaved suspiciously during a customs check, reported Shin Min Daily News
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    • Interchange
      • 146 3 Background: The New Paper reported last Tuesday that the organiser of the Singapore Auto Salon show hired mainly Japanese models because he had more faith in them than Japore Japanese are better Norman Lim, organiser of the show LOCAL models lack the stamina
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    • 275 4 Girlfriend molested in Geylang hotel A 19-YEAR-OLD full-time National Serviceman was arrested yesterday for molesting his female friend and using an imitation gun to threaten her in a hotel room. The teenager allegedly met the friend, an 18-year-old polytechnic student, at a Geylang hotel
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    • 173 4 BURGLARS broke into a school at the end of a one-week break. They stole three laptop computers worth $7,000 each and $1,600 cash from North View Secondary School. The cash included money collected from a charity walkathon. A school attendant, who opened
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    • 223 4 A new road because of a persistent MP WHENEVER DR Michael Lim saw Minister Yeo Cheow Tong, he asked: “Minister, where’s the road?” And when the general manager of Singapore Bus Services picked up a telephone call from MP Dr Michael Lim, the beleagured GM was known to mutter that
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    • news scan
      • 183 4 THE disabled must be graded on their employability so many can get jobs. So says Mr Edmund Wan, polio victim and Spastic Children’s Association of Singapore (SCAS) executive director. “When employers think of disabled people, they think of one who sits in a wheelchair and looks
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      • 93 4 A FIRE broke out at a factory unit at Kallang Ave on Saturday at about 10.25 am. Workers saw thick smoke coming out of the third floor unit of a factory and immediatedly notified the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and the police. The SCDF sent
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    • 191 4 TIMES may have been hard recently but pawnshops saw a roaring business with a turnover of $l.l billion last year. Perhaps it is because of the hard times when Singaporeans who needed quick cash made a total of 2.5 million transactions at
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    • 336 5 THE Tengs wanted to kill two birds with one stone when they made a big dragon-shaped lantern for Zhong Qiu Jie the Mid-Autumn Festival. They wanted to take part in a lantern-making competition near their home on Lorong Ah Soo in Hougang, and teach
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    • 78 5 Our weather girl says Hi! Hope you have your umbrella handy today. Showers are expected in the late morning and early afternoon over northern, southern and eastern areas. It will be slightly hazy and partly cloudy, with temperatures J going up to 32 degrees Celsius. The first high tide will
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    • Just a minute
      • 47 5 If you are working and have an education level less than Sec 4, you can upgrade your skills through bite-size training modules and obtain certificates issued by the National Skills Council. The Natonal Skills Recognition System is managed by the Productivity Standards Board (PSB).
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      • 43 5 The results for the monthly tender for vehicle entitlements (COEs) are out: $36,684 for 1,600 cc cars and below; $37,001 for bigger cars, k 19,850 for goods vehicles and buses; $1,302 for I motorcycles, and $37,506 i for open category of cars.
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      • 75 5 Gear up for tomorrow's Mooncake Festival tonight head down to the Chinese Garden at Yuan Ching Road for the New Millennium Lantern i Show/Guizhou Dong k Minority Show. On I from 9am to 10pm, H you will get to HI admire beautiful |j lanterns from the Chinese
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 136 6 Mi bought it was in bad taste for (US vice-presidential candidate Joseph) Lieberman to go on and on about religion. But I thought it downright smug of him to suggest that God somehow favours America above all nations. The United States is a fortunate and exceptional nation
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    • 545 6 OVER the weekend, I was one of thousands of people flocking to Orchard Road like pilgrims to our shopping mecca. And the temples of our times: Takashimaya, Wisma, Tangs. After two hours of label-wor-shipping, my hands were full but my spirit parched. To
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • news scan
      • 136 7 AP BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Fearing that skyrocketing oil costs could sink growth on both sides of the Pacific, finance ministers from the 21 biggest Asia-Pacific economies urged the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to stabilise prices. The head of one delegation said that oil prices
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      • 109 7 -AFP JAKARTA The UN’s refugee agency will not resume operations in West Timor following the murder of three of its foreign aid workers until the security situation there dramatically improves, a senior agency official said. “To start working again in West Timor, we will need to
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      • 118 7 -AFP BANGKOK A senior Buddhist monk, Phra Khru Viboon Pattanakit, has been placed under investigation in Thailand for his collection of pricey classic cars. The abbot, has a garage allegedly filled with more than 60 classic vehicles, mostly Mercedes Benz, which may have been purchased with
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      • 98 7 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwanese women who are overcome with guilt after having had abortions can go to an Internet site that allows them to mourn, pray and even play with what many Chinese believe to be the “foetus spirit.” The Toto Yingling Temple website (toto.com.tw), opened in July
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    • 240 7 Second election under Chinese rule HONGKONG Police quashed a protest by activists calling for the resignation of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa as Hongkong voted in its second elections under Chinese rule. Officers swiftly moved in to break up a group of five demonstrators from
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    • 101 7 -AFP SEOUL North Korea’s foreign minister Paek Nam-Sun was to head for the United Nations in New York amid signs the communist state’s anger towards the United States over body searches on another delegation is easing. He was to leave Pyongyang a day after his ministry publicly
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    • 100 7 knowornot April Fool's Day didn't start out as a joke. It is said to have originated in the 16th century, when people celebrated New Year's Day on April 1. Back then, the Western world didn't use the calendar that we use now. They used the Julian calendar,
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    • 130 7 KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned Malays that they are slipping behind the rest of the world in information technology skills. “There are (Malays) who are very far behind in this field,” Dr Mahathir was quoted as saying by the Sunday Star and
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    • 135 8 To lower your risk of Heart Disease, eat 2 servings of fruit and 2 servings of vegetables every day. When was the last time you had the recommended daily serving of fibre? If you find it difficult to keep track of your fibre intake, don't despair. Rely on this simple
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 266 9 Reuters Bid to reduce high fuel prices VIENNA Opec ministers yesterday negotiated an oil supply increase aimed to reduce high fuel prices. Opec is to lift output for a third time this year amid claims high fuel bills are stoking inflation and threatening growth. Saudi Arabia
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    • 238 9 Reuters MOSCOW One of Russia’s most influential TV shows was pulled from the air on Saturday, the latest volley in a battle for Russia’s air-waves that has pitted the Kremlin against once mighty media bosses. Konstantin Ernst, director of ORT television, said in a statement
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    • 257 9 -AFP The Russian diplomat reportedly worked for the Russian military's Main Intelligence Administration TOKYO Russian naval attache Captain Victor Bogatenkov is reported to have fled Japan as investigations continue into the leaking of secret Japanese naval documents. Lieutenant Commander Shigehiro Hagisaki, a member of the Japanese
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    • 41 9 gofigure How many messages do British workers receive in a day? British workers get an average of 191 messages a day. They are finding it difficult to concentrate on their work. report commissioned by a UK management company (Jun).
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    • news scan
      • 95 9 Reuters VIENNA Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider hit out at the leaders of France and Germany on Saturday after a report by three EU “wise men” called for sanctions against the Austrian government to be lifted. Euro Commission President Romano Prodi said the report’s advice could not
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      • 91 9 -AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka’s military commanders are facing flak over their latest anti-rebel drive that cost the lives of 360, but gained little militarily, officials said yesterday. Political leaders raised questions about responsibility for the debacle last week when thousands of troops tried to win back ground
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      • 99 9 -AFP DHAKA At least 50 Bangladeshis have died and over 3,000 infected in an outbreak of dengue fever, a Bangladeshi health ministry official said yesterday. “Health Minister Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim said 50 people have died (in the last three months) and another 3,050 were affected
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      • 107 9 -AFP COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho White supremacist Richard Butler said on Saturday he would hold a parade next month to show he won’t be driven out of Idaho, despite a civil court loss that could bankrupt his group. Butler, 82, applied on Friday for a permit for a
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      • 129 9 Reuters.. VENICE The Circle, a dark Iranian movie about the oppression of women, won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. The film tells the story of eight women in Iran who are not allowed to smoke in public,
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 185 10 BRITAIN'S Labour government may be riding high in the polls but furious rows erupt in private between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. Since Labour’s landslide election win in 1997, the two have i fallen out in spectacular fashion over the Bank
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    • 105 10 GWYNETH Paltrow, directed by her father in the dark comedy Duets, said her biggest chal- a lenge while making the film was trying to be a “grown-up” as her father struggled with j throat cancer. Ĕ The film began shooting only three weeks after Paltrow Senior who
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    • 115 10 Reuters A 45-YEAR-OLD German hiker survived nine days alone on an Alpine glacier after breaking his leg in a fall. Kurt Visel, reported to be an experienced hiker, began his walk at the base of the Giovaretto glacier in Italy’s Val Martello on Aug 30 and
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    • 203 10 IT'S a crime that would have intrigued Sherlock Holmes himself a well-respected author stole the idea for a hugely successful book from his friend and then murdered him. But in a twist that might have baffled even Holmes, the suspect in this mystery is
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    • 186 11  -  By Yvonne Kwok HIS TWO Frankie Foo numbers, a solo with Moses Lim on stage and a duet with Irene Ang’s Rosie, were energetic, hilarious and inspired. But Lim Kay Siu was not a happy man. Clearly worked up after the show was over, Kay
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    • 121 11 Aaron Kwok has been injured while filming. But not to worry. The Heavenly King only sustained some bruises on his hands and legs. However, the Formula 3 race car which he was driving fared a lot worse. It ended up with its front and rear tyres
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    • 126 11 FORMER US Sen George McGovern believes an international Programme that provides meals at school is a good way to fight World hunger. Of the 800 million hungry people worldwide, 300 Million are school-age children, and 130 million of them are not in school, Mr McGovern said Friday at
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  • easy STREATS
    • 566 13  -  by 'Yvonne Kwok ANDREW LIEN, more popularly known as Lian Kai, is one bad boy. When he eyes you down the barrel of a gun, it’s easy to believe that he’s a ruthless gangster/cult leader/corrupt cop, all roles he has played with panache.
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    • easyStreats tv
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        • Today's must-see TV...
          • 79 14 Bam, TCS 5 What a relief! The Emmys this year will not be dominated by David E.Kelly, whose golden boy status is wearing more than a trifle thin. New blood comes in the form of The West Wing and The Sopranos, both of
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          • Article, Illustration
            76 14 10.30 pm, HBO (SCV 60) i Catch two of Holly-wood’s golden stars, Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson, in this movie about mar- riage and infidelity. 1 Streep plays a New York food writer who falls in love with Nicholson’s columnist and marries him, despite her reservations about the matrimonial
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          • 69 14 10pm, Arts Central The tuxedoed one returns to his birthplace of I Modena, Italy, to host this I fundraising concert for a children’s charity in Liberia. W Like last week’s episode, f this concert boasts a stellar who’s who guest list: Boyzone, V Mariah Carey, Gloria
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          • 68 14 7.30 pm, TCS 5 Strangely enough (or maybe not so), the programme before this is called Show Me the Funny, which is a play on Jerry Maguire’s famous line “show me the money”. This Oscar-nominated movie stars Tom Cruise as a cocky sports agent who loses all but
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          • Article, Illustration
            61 14 9pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) i Rich a r d I Dreyfuss and Emilio I Estevez star in this 1 film about two cops who are given the task of staking out the home of an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend, but who become romantically entangled with her instead. Lots of
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      • 542 14  -  by Diana Ser IT HAS been five years since actress Michelle Goh lent her curves and sexy pout as Bunny in the movie Mee Pok Man. But she still gets emotional
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    • easyStreats treats
      • 298 15  -  maie two shoes by Wileen Chang OVER the past week, dirty hawker centres have been in the news. And also how the most delicious food can be found at the dirtiest hawker centres. Well, this food centre off Margaret Drive
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    • Streats Life
      • 283 17 Guess her job, win a Swatch! Name: Candace Loy Age: 19 Gets on: Bus at Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange and MRT at Newton or Clementi Gets off at: Wherever I’m headed for. lam... The terror that flaps at night. Who am I? Just switch on the
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    • easyStreats soccer
      • 723 22 Legen<T\ Manchester United leicMtw-City ..ilk, Newcastle United Liverpool jXricW't Arsenal LeedslJnited Everton Tcll^nj^m HotsDur Coventry Citv c FC Chelsea Manchester Citv Muldlesbrouqh rasggts 0 Aston Villa Bradford Citv Charlton Athletic Ipswich Town Sunderland Derby Countv Southampton West Ham United PLAYED 5 5 5 5 5 4
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      • 185 22 Liverpool 3, Man City 2 Liverpool eked out an uneasy 3-2 home win over Manchester City on Saturday. The Reds looked to have the points sewn up after goals by Michael Owen and Hamann gave them a two goal lead. But shades of slacN defending appeared
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 316 23 -Reuters There were anxious moments when sparks from fireworks ignited a grass fire that sent smoke billowing into the sky SYDNEY A jubilant Sydney yesterday declared: “We’re ready” after an Olympic dress rehearsal went off almost without a hitch. Transport and security systems sailed through their first
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      • 216 23 AP Tennis is a Wiliams' and a woman's World right now and not oven the world's Powerful 'man can argue with that NEW YORK Venus Williams’ wait until dark on Saturday was worth her first Open title, her second straight Grand Slam victory, her 26th consecutive
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      • 206 23 AP NEW YORK His hair is thinner and his trophy case fuller, but Pete Sampras is no less driven to win Grand Slam championships than he was 10 years ago. On Saturday, his 7-6 (7), 6-4, 7-6 (5) victory over 19-year-old Lleyton Hewitt of
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      • Olympic scan
        • 79 23 SYDNEY -North and South Korea will march together for the first time at an Olympic opening ceremony at the Sydney Games next Friday, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch said yesterday. In his opening speech at the 111th lOC session, he said the two
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        • 106 23 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Ethiopia) Olympic 10,000 m champion and distance legend Haile Gebrselassie (right) ended days of speculation over his title defence when he left here on Saturday night with most of the 37-strong Ethopian squad. The presence of the world record holder over 5,000 m and 10,000
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        • 99 23 -AFP SYDNEY Security guards at Olympic Park are taking no chances regardless of whether you’re a chef or waiter carrying tools of the trade. Waiters at Saturday night’s opening ceremony dress rehearsal had their corkscrews confiscated as weapons, as did chefs carrying their own knives. “The
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        • 63 23 -AFP BRISBANE Peter Gade Christensen (left) believes he is psychologically armoured to win the mind games against his Asian rivals and keep the men’s singles badminton gold medal in Denmark. Compatriot Poul-Erik Hoyer won the gold medal in Atlanta, he’s 35 now, and world No. 2 Christensen
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        • 90 23 -Reuters SYDNEY Star Wars have left town for the Olympics. For the only show around right now is the Millennium Games, the greatest sporting spectacle on earth and a magnet for up to one million visitors to Sydney. A flood of stars from Nicole Kidman to
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    • 12 15 Fast to eat, Good to look FMB Stre ts Every weekday morning
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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    • 300 17 YOU take the spotlight every weekday, as the face among the commuters that s captures our photographer's eye. Today; our StreatStar is Candace Loy. What's her line of work? Guess and 1 T Call 1900-911-0005 by midnight today. Three correct callers will each win a Swatch. Each call will be
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 491 18 >1» ftl w*v mm mmmn it Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 With the possible exception of other Aquarians, none can track you on your erratic course. You invented this game, and you’re familiar with all the rules. Just the same, log your progress if you hope to repeat
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 452 19 MONDAY p 11 September 2000 world ;i# [There The story so far... Jia Yuzhen is a 69-year-old renowned antique dealer. He buys an ancient screen for US$3 million. A year later, jet black hair sprouts on his previously bald head, and he looks 30 years younger... Has Jia Yuzhen discovered
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    • 315 24 MONDAY Q 11 September 2000 mmWm t&kwr £|6s Jungle i lat CenOrepoimt 2 -17 September 2000 W' we Discover the wonders of Centrepoint’s ‘Magical Jungle’. Kids can lose themselves in the maze of the jungle, climb a tree house and jump for jungle joy as they have themselves an ape
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