Streats, 26 September 2000
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Title Section22 2000-09-26 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY 26 September 2000 Another quality publication of off* Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/200022 words
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morning rush
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Article36 2000-09-26 1 THE PUB has found sanitary pipes above water tanks in 49 out of 1,000 buildings. Such a pipe caused water contamination at BukitTimah Plaza last month. PUB stopped approving such layouts 20 years ago.36 words
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Article42 2000-09-26 1 TO cyber-chat with SM Lee on Sept 29 (spm-6pm), register at straitstimes.asial. com.sg now. You can send your early questions to stlocal@sph.com.sg or fax *****31. SM Lee will take questions on his new book, his life and career.42 words
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Article39 2000-09-26 1 REMEMBER Adam’s Rib? Well, veteran artist Adam Lee of The Straits Times is the one who’s doing the laughing: He’s won the best editorial cartoon award in the Courage World Cartoon Contest for the second year running.39 words
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Article, Illustration450 2000-09-26 1 STUDENTS, your school project for today is the news, because the news today is about school projects. To help you understand today’s news quickly and easily, Project Streats is here to help. That’s especially so if you are reading the paper in Presbyterian HighPic: Charles Ng - 450 words
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Streatsmart local
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Article, Illustration273 2000-09-26 2 Stephanie Goh - by- Stephanie Goh AS of yesterday 500 students from Presbyterian High School, are assured of getting their copy of Streats every weekday morning. All thanks to their teachers, who asked for Singapore’s first commuter paper to be delivered to the school. The school’s aim is toPic: Charles Ng - 273 words
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Article, Illustration315 2000-09-26 3 EMPLOYERS prefer to hire younger workers, statistics say. Not so at the Central Provident Fund Board. In a bid to correct perceptions that employers only want young guns, the CPF Board is employing older workers. Older workers have been recruited for recent projects such asPic: ST - 315 words
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173 2000-09-26 3 The penalty: Death for those trafficking in more than 15g of heroin HE was hardly at home, preferring to operate from his relatives’ homes instead, using them as temporary hideouts to repackage heroin before distributing it. The drug trafficker thought that he could avoid173 words
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215 2000-09-26 3 A 15-YEAR-OLD girl who took part in torturing a teenager in an Ang Mo Kio flat over 17 days, had the appeal against her five-and-a-half-year jail term dismissed yesterday. Her lawyer, Mr Ismail Hamid, had urged the court to call for a pre-sentence report on the215 words
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Article, Illustration215 2000-09-26 4 The two men arrested confessed to three of the four cases of cheating committed in dementi THE two male Indonesians who perfectly matched the descriptions given by their victims had just arrived from Batam when they were nabbed. A search produced a greencoloured stone in the walletPic: Wanbao - 215 words
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Article, Illustration155 2000-09-26 4 FOR four hours last Saturday, a security guard single-handedly carted 91 computer components down from a seventh storey office to the ground floor, then hailed a Maxicab as his getaway car. The theft happened at two of the common offices of the National University ofPic: Wanbao - 155 words
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Article119 2000-09-26 4 onekindact Dorlyn Li, 17, student: It was raining heavily one day and I could not get a cab. A couple who managed to get a cab saw that I was standing in the rain trying to hail a cab. They asked the taxi-driver to make a119 words
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Article209 2000-09-26 4 AFTER stealing perfume from a shop on the second floor of a shopping centre, two youths decided to fill their stomachs at a fast-food outlet on the first floor. As they gobbled down their grub, they were spotted by the shop assistant and arrested by the209 words
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Article137 2000-09-26 4 Shin Min A COUPLE was attacked by 10 men outside a shopping centre along Kim Seng Road on Sunday night. At about 9.30 pm that night, the couple was waiting for a lift in the shopping centre together with two other girls. The girls entered the– Shin Min - 137 words
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Article66 2000-09-26 4 Shin Min AROUND 30 shops in Katong were affected by a black-out on Sunday afternoon. At about 1.30 pm, the electricity supply to the shops along East Coast Road was cut off. The shop-owners had to resort to lighting candles and using torches to go– Shin Min - 66 words
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Article94 2000-09-26 4 Lianhe Wanbao A 37-YEAR-OLD woman fell to her death from a unit at Block 733, Yishun Avenue 5 early on Sunday morning. At 5.21 am, police arrived to find a woman lying face-up at the bottom of the block. She was pronounced dead at 5.41 am– Lianhe Wanbao - 94 words
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Article193 2000-09-26 4 A CISCO guard who shot himself in the chest while on duty at a bank in Bukit Merah Central on Sept 17 last year was of unsound mind then, a district court heard yesterday. The court was told that Mr Lee Thian Hock, 47, who survived193 words
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Article, Illustration32 2000-09-26 5 Pic: STPic: ST - 32 words
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222 2000-09-26 5 THE Baby Bonus may be good news, but parents say they need more than money. They want evening and night childcare. Childcare centres usually close between 5 and 7.30 pm and are of little use to people who often work overtime or just go out222 words
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Article46 2000-09-26 5 Thinking of applying for HDB's Rent and Purchase scheme? Then take note that the monthly household income ceiling for the scheme has been raised from 1,500 to $2,000 and the minimum household size reduced from four to three. For more details, ca *****-8068.46 words
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Article70 2000-09-26 5 This week is the Mediation Week 2000. If you have registered for free mediation services, don't forget to turn up for your session at the Singapore Mediation Centre, City Hall Building. Wanna know more about medition? The Mediation Awareness Seminar is on at Marine Parade Community Club on Thursday,70 words
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Article65 2000-09-26 5 Grab a quick bite at lunchtime today and head down to ORTV Pte Ltd at 61 Tras Road k (MRT Station: Tanjong H Pagar). You'll be treated to a movie featuring L a true story about a j Singaporean couple H a gentle woman married to an65 words
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94 2000-09-26 5 SKIP your way to a healthy heart. So goes one of the slogans of this year’s World Heart Day, whose focus was on getting physical. President SR Nathan launched the National Heart Week and World Heart Day activities at the World94 words
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Article, Illustration92 2000-09-26 5 Are you wishing those cloudy skies will clear up and clear out? Well, I am! But no such luck yet. Not only are today's skies partly cloudy, there will also be showers with thunder in the late morning and early afternoon. Temperature will go up toPic: Charles Ng - 92 words
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Article179 2000-09-26 6 winy Japanese consumers feel that in its current form, the Internet may be fine for scholars and business people, but not for them. We leamt this from studying the behaviour of Japanese ladies. They say the Internet is too slow, too complicated. You have to use a179 words
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Article, Illustration638 2000-09-26 6 LAST week, a grimy, concrete signal box building at a Birmingham railway station was the subject of a public debate, not on whether to conserve it, but how to do it. Described as a grimy eyesore by many Birmingham locals, it638 words
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Streatsmart regional
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199 2000-09-26 9 -AFP 36,330 people have fled their homes in five Jolo towns JOLO, Philippines Food and medicine were running low yesterday as tens of thousands of people swamped government shelters, fleeing a military assault against Muslim rebels. In the first official post-assault media-AFP - 199 words
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176 2000-09-26 9 Reuters CANBERRA A shark killed a surfer off South Australia yesterday. This is the second fatal attack ♦off the remote coastline in two days. A 17-year-old local youth was attacked while surfing about 50m off Black Point, skm north of Elliston, at– Reuters : - 176 words
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Article110 2000-09-26 9 knowornot The clarity and colour of ocean water is greatly influenced by its water temperature, according to knowwhat.com. Cold waters are richer in essential gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide. This supports ample growth of small plants called phytoplankton and small animal life called110 words
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Article213 2000-09-26 9 -AFP It wants to make population control a permanent policy BEIJING China marked the 20th anniversay of its one-child policy by promising to strengthen the fight to keep its vast population under control. An editorial in the Communist Party’s mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, said the-AFP - 213 words
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116 2000-09-26 9 -AFP Xiamen vice-mayor LiuChengye has also resigned BEIJING The chief judge of the court where China’s biggest smuggling trial is being heard has suddenly resigned. A spokeswoman for the Xiamen People’s Congress said Chen Bingfa resigned because he had been promoted, but she declined-AFP - 116 words
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Article73 2000-09-26 9 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia has warned proJakarta militia gangs in West Timor to hand over their weapons or police and soldiers will take them by force. “There is a last chance for three days (from Monday),” Chief Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told reporters in Jakarta. “After that,– Reuters - 73 words
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Article97 2000-09-26 9 AP JAKARTA Senior security offficers here have admitted that two of the 25 suspects arrested for a spate of bombings that have terrorised the Indonesian capital recently are members of the armed forces. Indonesia’s new police chief, General Bimantaro, quoted in The Jakarta Post, said two– AP - 97 words
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Article80 2000-09-26 9 -AFP PORT MORESBY Papua New Guinea’s parliament was under heavy police guard and forced to adjourn yesterday amid rumours that disgruntled soldiers planned to besiege the building. A weekend of violent clashes between PNG’s security forces began when police shot and killed a soldier who was-AFP - 80 words
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Article76 2000-09-26 9 -AFP HONGKONG The Hongkong government yesterday launched its first utility share offer, putting on the market underground rail operator, MTRC. The partial sell-off of shares in the firm started with long queues of would-be investors forming outside banks for the two million applications available. The Ming-AFP - 76 words
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263 2000-09-26 10 Reuters, AFP Even a runoff election, given the scale of the electoral manipulations, is a victory, says Kostunica BELGRADE Opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica predicted “certain” victory for himself in the Yugoslav presidential election against the incumbent, Slobodan Milosevic. Mr Kostunica, seen as a moderate– Reuters, AFP - 263 words
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153 2000-09-26 10 -AFP NEW DELHI Thirty-eight lower caste Hindu children were expelled from a school in northern India for demanding the right to drink water from the same source as their higher caste classmates. The Pioneer newspaper said the incident occurred last month in a government-run school in-AFP - 153 words
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208 2000-09-26 10 -AFP PARIS Disposable nappies may explain the rising incidence of male infertility and testicular cancer, according to research published yesterday. Doctors at the University of Kiel in Germany say plastic-lined nappies cause heat to build up around the testes, possibly hampering their development at a-AFP - 208 words
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Article45 2000-09-26 10 gofigure. survey of 4,000 chidren aged five to seven in Kiel (July) What percentage of sausage-loving German children are overweight? Twenty-two per cent. At this rate, Germany might replace America as an obese nation, where 22 per cent of adults are overweight– survey of 4,000 chidren aged five to seven in Kiel (July) - 45 words
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Article84 2000-09-26 10 PARIS By trimming its president’s term, France has started down the path towards further reform of the “republican monarchy” that has long set it off from its neighbours. In Sunday’s lacklustre referendum, 73.2 per cent of those who voted approved the proposal to shorten the presidential term84 words
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Article81 2000-09-26 10 -AFP PARIS Renault is recalling 25,000 Kangoo vehicles worldwide to replace 15,000 Michelin Kleber tyres, the company said yesterday. Renault stressed that no problems with the tyres had been reported by customers and that the recall was a precaution. Quality controls at Michelin, which makes Kleber tyres,-AFP - 81 words
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Article98 2000-09-26 10 Xinhua COLOMBO, Sri Lanka The Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society has agreed to supply corneas for the benefit of blind patients in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, at the request of the latter’s ambassador in Sri Lanka. R. Athukorale, president of the– Xinhua - 98 words
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Article103 2000-09-26 10 -AP WASHINGTON Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House, off-limits to cars since 1995 due to security worries, would be reopened with a pair of low pedestrian bridges, according to a new design. Supporters of the plan, reported in yesterday’s The Washington Post, say-AP - 103 words
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Article58 2000-09-26 10 -AP MOSCOW Russia successfully launched a military satellite yesterday from the Baikonur launch pad in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, officials said. A Zenit-2 booster rocket lifted the Kosmosseries satellite into space at 6.10 pm Singapore time, and the satellite entered its designated orbit shortly afterwards,-AP - 58 words
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Article, Illustration149 2000-09-26 11 A QUEEN needs to have staff in waiting. And that’s how Heavenly Queen Sammi Cheng is playing the game by keeping her record company waiting. Warner Music wants to extend her contract. But the popular Hongkong singer-actress is in no hurry to do so. The Cantopop Queen has149 words
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Article, Illustration155 2000-09-26 11 MENTION Karen Mok and many would remember that red-hot kiss she shared with Richie Ren during her recent Hongkong concert. That sparked off a ‘thrash Karen Mok’ session on the Internet. Karen fanned the flames further when she was a guest-star at Heavenly King Andy Lau’s recent concert.Pic: Appljpipp - 155 words
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144 2000-09-26 11 HOW does this sound to you? A CD that plays over an hour’s worth of lawnmower noise. Think of it was a weapon you can use on noisy neighbours. A man in Wellington, New Zealand has produced a CD of 64 minutes of lawnmower144 words
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Article, Illustration198 2000-09-26 11 PERU'S shady spychief has fled to Panama. The bad news is, President Alberto Fujimori’s government has to explain how the former top aide eluded arrest and prosecution over a bribery scandal at home. The good news is, Vladimiro Montesinos’ escape could resolve for Mr Fujimori the question ofPic: AFP - 198 words
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Article, Illustration682 2000-09-26 12 The wat er's safe, but is it healthy? Three recent cases of water contamination at Bukit Timah Plaza; Changi Airport's Passenger Terminal One and Chuan Park have jolted us out of our smug presumption that water on tap is always safe to drink. Now, if you've been driven to wonderingPic: Francis Lee^ - 682 words
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Article, Illustration322 2000-09-26 13 Lawrence Chau - Lawrence Chau spills the beans on the ngeow... (nasty and the nice... speaking by Lawrence Chau rrs been a blast watching the stars strut their stuff at the recent Emmys and Latin Grammy Awards here in Los Angeles. While smiling pretty and making acceptance speeches may help in the image322 words
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easyStreats pick & choose
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Article, Illustration279 2000-09-26 14 Lawrence Chau - persoifmy speaKinq by Lawrence Chau BOY GEORGE The irrepressible Boy George is surprise, surprise one hairy chap. I know, I saw his arms up close while interviewing him when Culture Club came to town last year. He also admitted to having a hairy back in his autobiography.279 words
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easyStreats tv
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Article, Illustration479 2000-09-26 15 Yvonne Kwok - “fcy Y\/nnnp Kwnk by Yvonne Kwok AFTER watching snippets of the Sydney Olympic Games, I realised two things. The first is that it is still the biggest spectacle for the human eye since the infamous Roman gladiator games. The second is that a certain OlympicPics: Reuters] - 479 words
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Article, Illustration86 2000-09-26 15 B.3Opm,TCS 5 With a name like that, you know Mtk you've just got to wwf watch this new V >Y “dramedy” pro- I' i< 1; duced by Mediacorp Studios. The show Bgpjß stars the muchtalked about new hunk, Jimmy T, who will sizzle up the screen along side86 words
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67 2000-09-26 15 9pm, Arts Central You’ve seen Whoopi Goldberg monkeying around with the chimps. Now you can catch Robin Williams frolicking with the dolphins. When asked why the aquatic mammals held such a fascination for him, Williams replied in his inimitable style: because they’re playful,67 words
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Article, Illustration78 2000-09-26 15 10pm, TCSS Buffy is iljß back! And H she’s ready to I kick butt in a w new season M that sees her in f a different environment, college, and minus a few regulars. Cordelia and Angel are pretty busy with their own spin-off, Angel, but78 words
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Article, Illustration68 2000-09-26 15 7pm, TCS 8 Taiwanese writer, Qiong Yao, is bent on con- j quering the whole A Mandarin-speaking mj:). world with her mm unbearably perky fS heroine, Xiaoyanzi. i|JJ Will Yongqi and the B jj commoner 1H turned-princess live tb happily ever after? Matters are not so certain68 words
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Article62 2000-09-26 15 6.30 pm, EUREKA(SCV 34) Angelmouse is a full-fledged angel who’s cheeky and mischievous, with many attributes of a small child. Each episode has two stories the first one sees the loveable cherub completing a mission sent from above, while in the second, he battles to hang on to his62 words
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Article, Illustration325 2000-09-26 17 Guess his job, win a Swatch! Name: Matthew Oh M Age: 25 m Gets on MRT at: Yishun m Gets off at: Buona Vista lam... A simple man with simple needs. I like to make people laugh because I think laughter makes the world go round. IPitt: Charles Ng - 325 words
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Article, Illustration275 2000-09-26 18 Violetta Wong - by Violetta Wong IT'S always nice to be the first to get something good. Just ask Mr Gerard Tan Kim Min. From yesterday until Sunday, Mr gets to be chauffeured in a i taxi to and from work free, i The reason? He’s the firstPics: Francis Lee - 275 words
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easyStreats sports
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Article, Illustration88 2000-09-26 22 AP SYDNEY Venus Williams (left) clinched at least a silver in women’s tennis and extended her winning streak to 31 matches by beating Monica Seles 6-1,4-6, 6-3 in an all-American semi-final yesterday. The second-seeded Williams’ opponent will be No. 10 Elena Dementieva, who beat unseeded home– AP - 88 words
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Article71 2000-09-26 22 -AFP SYDNEY An Uzbek Olympic track and field coach pleaded guilty yesterday to trying to smuggle performance-enhancing Human Growth Hormone into Australia ahead of the Sydney Olympics and was fined Aslo,ooo (559,559) in a Sydney court. Prosecutors told Sutherland Magistrates’ Court that customs officers found 15 vials-AFP - 71 words
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Article, Illustration71 2000-09-26 22 -AP SYDNEY Hicham El Guerrouj, (left) the Moroccan who holds the world record and has not been beaten in the 1,500 m since the end of 1997, edged Spain’s Jose Antonio Redolat by nine hundredths of a second to win his first-round heat in 3:38.575ec yesterday.-AP - 71 words
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Article78 2000-09-26 22 Reuters SYDNEY China’s Liu Xuan won the gold medal in the Olympic gymnastic beam event yesterday, ending Russia’s domination of the women’s apparatus finals. Liu turned in a near-flawless performance that earned a winning mark of 9.825, pushing Russians off the top of podium into silver– Reuters - 78 words
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Article63 2000-09-26 22 -AFP SYDNEY Spain s Gervasio Deferr won the men’s Olympic gymnastics vault gold medal yesterday as the big title favourites faltered. Russian Alexei Bondarenko, stumbling slightly on his first landing, was second and Poland’s Leszek Blanik took the bronze medal. Deferr drew a big cheer from the-AFP - 63 words
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Article, Illustration457 2000-09-26 22 CJ Hunter tested positive for nandrolone at the Bislett Games in 4 Oslo in July AR Reuters SYDNEY American shot put world champion CJ Hunter, husband of Olympic gold medallist Marion Jones, tested positive for a banned substance, international track officials confirmed yesterday. Istvan Gyulai,– AR Reuters; Pic: Reuters - 457 words
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Article, Illustration227 2000-09-26 22 -AP INDIANAPOLIS Michael Schumacher overwhelmed the field in the inaugural Formula One race at Indianapolis, winning the US Grand Prix on Sunday and taking the lead for the world championship. Not even a spin five laps from the end could keep the German from running away-AP; Pic: AFP - 227 words
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148 2000-09-26 22 -AP LONDON Former England international Paul Gascoigne, trying to save his career, played a key role in Everton’s 1-1 draw against Leicester in the Premier League match. He launched the equalising goal, with a long, arching shot that was palmed out by goalkeeper Tim Flowers-AP - 148 words
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Article, Illustration310 2000-09-26 23 -AFP She becomes first Aborigine to win Olympic gold in an individual event SYDNEY Cathy Freeman became the darling of Australia here yesterday when she took the Olympic 400 m title. Cheered on by more than 100,000 partisan fans packed into the custom-built Stadium Australia, the 27-year-old became-AFP; Pic: Reuters - 310 words
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Article305 2000-09-26 23 GS B T USA 23 14 21 58 China 21 14 13 48 Russia 14 14 11 43 Australia 12 20 16 39 France 12 13 6 31 Italy 11 6 11 28 Romania 10 4 5 19 Holland 7 5 3 15 Britain 6 8 5 19305 words
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256 2000-09-26 23 -AFP SYDNEY Michael Johnson turned from greatness into a living legend when he became the only man to successfully defend his Olympic 400 m title here yesterday. The 33-year-old, already one of the greatest athletes in the sport’s history thanks to his 400m-200m double-AFP - 256 words
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Article101 2000-09-26 23 Reuters SYDNEY Athletes at the Sydney Olympics are snapping up free condoms at a rate of knots. Some 25,000 have been handed out since the Olympic village opened on Sept 2, two weeks before the start of the Games. “The safe sex concept is alive and well– Reuters - 101 words
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Article125 2000-09-26 23 -AP SYDNEY Asia’s top field hockey powers India and Pakistan must win their matches today to advance to the semi-finals, with India having an edge over its neighbour and rival. India, eight-time Olympic gold medal winner, has seven points and plays Poland, already eliminated in Group-AP - 125 words
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Article87 2000-09-26 23 Reuters SYDNEY The sporting world’s top court ruled yesterday that Bulgarian weightlifter Alan Tzagaev could take part in the Olympics and that a ban on the entire Bulgarian weightlifting team lacked a legal basis. A Bulgarian team spokeswoman said Tzagaev would take part in the men’s 105– Reuters - 87 words
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Miscellaneous472 2000-09-26 14 [tjv.il V. Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 You win by giving the other person what he or she wants. This is beyond surrender or escape. A willingness to negotiate builds a stable, mutually satisfying future. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 18 >1 N You may not have as many friends472 words
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Miscellaneous1844 2000-09-26 16 MyEl Bugis UA Bugis Junction 337-9655 Shaft R(A) 11.15 am, 1.45 pm, 4.15, 6.45, 9 The Cell R(A) 11am, 1.30 pm, 4, 6.30, 9.15 Autumn in New York 11.30 am, 2pm, 4.30, 7, 9.30 UA Beach Road 391-2550 Shaft R(A) 2.45 pm, 5, 7.15, 9.30 The Art of War 1.451,844 words
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Miscellaneous409 2000-09-26 19 easy *l* I The story so far... Jia Yuzhen is a 69-year-old renowned antique dealer. He buys an andent 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 an anti-ageing agent? Or, has409 words
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Miscellaneous227 2000-09-26 20 TUESDAY g 26 September 2000 The stews® far... Van lantian disrupted an uneventful day at Tai %an by driving the horse carnage into a spice shop. The workers, stormed by the sight of Van towering over them., did not even try to stop him as he loaded vats of sokes227 words
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Miscellaneous78 2000-09-26 23 TV times: Day 11 6 AM: Today at the Games 7 AM: Diving men semi-fmats (live) 9 AM: Gymnastics 11.30 AM: Synchronised swimming duet final (live) 1PM: Lunch update 1.30 PM: Beach volleyball men’s final. 3 PM: Tennis (live) 3.30 PM: Weightlifting (live) 6 PM: Boxing quarter-finals (live) 7.30 PM:78 words
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