Streats, 10 October 2000

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY 10 October 2000 Another quality publication of gj|Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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    Lock icon Oil shocks under control
    570 1 FACT: Oil prices have gone up sharply from USIO ($l7) a barrel in January last year to US$37 last month. IMPACT: It won’t be as severe as the previous oil shocks. So don’t panic. Yet. Although the price of your ride to work may go up
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  • parliament moments
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      Lock icon Madrasahs' target
      48 1 MADRASAHS that fail to meet the minimum PSLE benchmark standards within the given timeframe of eight years will not be allowed to continue to take in full-time students. The education of students in Madrasahs cannot be compromised, said Senior Minister of State for Education Aline Wong.
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      Lock icon Waste water case
      44 1 THE ATTORNEY General’s Chambers is reviewing the Bukit Timah water contamination case to see if the managing agent of Sherwood Tower Condo is to be held responsible for the incident where waste water leaked into the water tank in the building.
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      Lock icon Tax-free allowances
      59 1 PEOPLE'S Action Party MPs drawing monthly allowances pegged to private sector benchmarks will lose their seats if they are in politics just to earn the money. So said Parliamentary Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office Chan Soo Sen in response to complaints by Opposition MP J B Jeyaretnam
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      Lock icon Compulsory education, parents and punishment
      164 2 LEARNING yven with the introduction of compulsory education parents will still be responsible for ensuring their children attend school regularly. The family and community should play an active role in convincing and helping parents send their children to school before the state steps in to
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      Lock icon Medishield to keep pace
      104 2 LIFE THE Ministry of Health is reviewing Medishield’s maximum coverage age and will raise it, if necessary, to keep pace with a longer life expectancy Health Minister Lim Hng Khiang (right) said although the maximum coverage age for Medishield, a catastrophic illness insurance scheme, is 75,
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      Lock icon Oil shock will be cushioned
      224 2 LIVING WHY isn’t Singapore feeling the effects of the oil price surge? Will your pocket hurt from the hikes? “The oil shocks in 1974 and 1980 triggered global slowdowns,” said Trade and Industry Minister BG (NS) George Yeo (right). “However, the economic impact of the
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Transit passenger jumps six metres
      232 3 AN Australian transit passenger jumped 6m onto the apron service road at Changi Airport Terminal One yesterday morning. He suffered serious head injuries and is in critical condition at Changi General Hospital. The one-hour drama unfolded at 9.22 am when the 32-year-old climbed over a
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      Lock icon Aircons: BCA issues summons
      82 3 NINETEEN households have been issued summons by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) for failing to change the wooden brackets supporting their airconditioners to stainless-steel ones. Another 2,000 more summons are expected to be issued. A ruling last October made the change mandatory at the end
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      Lock icon People power for business
      132 3 ASIAN firms must invest in human capital to succeed in the new economy, Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang said yesterday. Opening a conference for Asian employers at the Pan Pacific Hotel he said that by 2012, twothirds of the world’s under-35s would be Asians an immense
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        Lock icon Rider hits bus, dies
        104 3 A 33-YEAR-OLD man died on Sunday after the motorcycle he was riding collided with a bus at the junction of First Lok Yang Road and Lok Yang Way. Mr Tan Tong Moi was riding along Lok Yang Way towards Pioneer Road North at about 7am when
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        Lock icon Man attacked with poles
        116 3 A 30-YEAR-OLD man suffered serious head injuries after 10 men armed with wooden poles attacked him near the Indoor Stadium in Kallang. The victim was waiting alone for a taxi in the early hours of Sunday when he was attacked. His assailants fled when his cry
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        Lock icon Engineer drowns
        87 3 A YOUNG Taiwanese engineer drowned after he fell from a cargo ship which stopped at Pasir Panjang Port for refuelling in the early hours of Sunday. Mr Huang Cunfu, 24, lost his balance and fell into the sea when he stepped onto a wobbly platform at the end
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      Lock icon Climber falls off cliff-face, dies
      380 4 A REGULAR weekend rockclimbing outing for a 23-year-old technician turned out to be his last when he fell from a near vertical cliff face at Dairy Farm Quarry on Sunday. Around noon, some weekenders strolling on the mountainbike trail about 200 m away heard a
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      127 4 onekindact Kelvin Yap, 12, student: For a few weeks now, my classmate Nur Fadzilah has come to be known as the 'Streats Delivery Girl'. She comes to school by MRT or bus. Every morning when she passes by the station, she picks up 20 copies of
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      Lock icon Skiing death: Swimmers unfazed
      145 4 THE grisly death of a man hit by ski boat propeller blades hasn’t put off those who swim in the Kallang River. The section of the river near Merdeka Bridge is designated for water-skiing only. Despite the swimming ban, Kallang River is popular with foreign workers
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      Lock icon Effort on to dean up oil spill
      133 4 A CLEAN-UP operation is underway to mop up patches of debris-laden oil from the Natuna Sea oil spill which have drifted into the waters in the Eastern Anchorage, Keppel Harbour and the sea south-west of Singapore. A total of 34 anti-pollution vessels were
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      Lock icon Don't venture out alone
      149 4 ROCK climbers should not be alone when they are on outdoor rock-climbing excursions. This advice comes from Dr Shani Tan, 41, who had been the expedition doctor for the Singapore team that conquered Mount Everest in 1998. ’’You need to be connected to another person by
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      Lock icon Guests not helping at 'green' hotels
      153 5 SINGAPORE hotels going green are finding it tough because their guests are not as keen. Even if it only means not changing bath towels daily. A Hilton Hotel spokesman said: “They expect service, so they want their towels washed every day.” Ms Christina Tan,
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      Lock icon 'I'll make curry out of you'
      273 5 HE threatened to make curry out of her and to strip her naked at her office when she refused to go home with him. Noodle stall owner, Toh Ah Seng, 53, and Madam Lim Geok Siew, 52, have been divorced for four years. Madam
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      72 5 Our weather girl says Today's going to be yet another wet day. So keep those umbrellas handy. You can expect showers with thunder in the late morning and early afternoon affecting most areas. The temperature will go up to 32 degrees Celsius. High tide will reach 2.6 m at 9.41
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From this week...
        80 5 The electronic road pricing rates (ERP) have been adjusted again. You will pay less to enter the Restricted Zone (free from 7.30 am to Bam, except gantry at Nicoll Highway) and use Kallang Road (free from 7.30 am to Bam) during peak travel times, but more to
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        Lock icon Remember...
        34 5 Those of you who take Express SOS, don't forget that it has been renumbered Express 518. Its route has also been changed to operate between Pasir Ris and Marina Centre via Orchard Road.
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        67 5 If you want to trans- form your work attitude and customer f relations by putting a smile on everyone's face, check out Biz@the Courtyard, The National Library, today at 7pm. Find out from Dr James Y Lin, chairman and CEO of Quality Lifeskills Quantum International, how humour
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    Lock icon Give me death, give me martyrdom
    220 6 betweenthelines JyOhammmed Rayyan, 12, was ready when the Israeli soldiers fired, the bullets whizzing and cracking in unnerving waves overhead, forcing dozens of people to sprawl motionless on the ground and crouch behind sand piles. He had scrawled his name and phone number on
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    Lock icon Without regrets
    710 6 A MAIM was killed in Kallang River last Saturday, in totally unexpected circumstances. It got me by my jugular. I assure you I am no fan of gore or the macabre. I cringed when I read how the propeller blades of a ski-boat opened a gash in his
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  • Streatsmart regional
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        Lock icon West Papua town tense
        132 7 -AP JAKARTA Thousands of frightened people took shelter at a Roman Catholic mission and police and army barracks yesterday after up to 40 people were killed in clashes in the remote West Papua town of Wamena, church officials said. On Friday and Saturday, mobs of tribesmen
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        Lock icon Malaysians may be freed
        101 7 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR The three Malaysians being held by Abu Sayyaf bandits in the southern Philippines are expected to be freed within days, the Malaysian envoy to Manila said yesterday. Mohammad Arshad Hussein said the embassy had received reports from the Philippine military that the three
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        Lock icon Gay Canadian arrested
        98 7 -AP BANGKOK Thai police arrested a Canadian man in a raid on a guesthouse in Bangkok where he was found in bed with a 15year old Thai boy. George Mcßurnie, 62, was arrested on Sunday by immigration officers in a swoop on a guest house suspected of
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        Lock icon Four killed in Moresby
        103 7 -AP PORT MORESBY One man was blown up by a grenade and three others hacked to death in a night of violence in the Papua New Guinea capital, police said yesterday. The first man was killed late on Friday when a grenade exploded outside his house
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      Lock icon Estrada faces senate probe
      257 7 -AP MANILA, Philippines A Philippine Senate committee began hearings yesterday into potentially explosive charges by a governor that President Joseph Estrada regularly received payoffs from illegal gambling operations. The accusations are the most serious yet against Mr Estrada, who assumed the presidency in 1998, and have
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      Lock icon Japanese teens spend too much time indoors
      293 9 Teenage boys and girls have slowed down in terms of running ability TOKYO Fat, slow and lazy is no way to go through life, Japan’s Education Ministry told the nation’s youth on their HealthSports Day holiday yesterday. The fitness and athletic ability of
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      Lock icon Naked wrestler runs amok in hotel
      152 9 -AFP SYDNEY A professional wrestler’s big weekend ended with the dazed and confused grappler escorted from a Brisbane hotel wearing nothing but handcuffs. Juvented Guerrera, who was touring Australia with his US-based World Championship Wrestling (WCW) colleagues, would be sent home after appearing before
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      Lock icon Shark gives police a hand
      76 9 knowornot. In 1935, a shark caught in the Sydney Harbour was placed in an aquarium, where it vomited a tattooed human arm two weeks later. The owner of the arm had not been killed by the shark, but murdered, chopped into pieces and thrown into
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      Lock icon Gus Dur replaces army, navy chiefs
      190 9 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday officially replaced Army Chief General Tyasno Sudarto and Navy Chief Admiral Ahmad Sucipto with their respective deputies. In a brief ceremony presided over by Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri at the Negara Palace, General Endriartono Sutarto was installed
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      Lock icon China bans visits by HK Catholics
      215 9 -AFR The two groups were planning to visitchurches andshrinesin neighbouring Guangdong province HONGKONG China has called off a planned visit by Hongkong Catholic groups to the mainland after the Vatican’s canonisation of 120 Chinese missionary martyrs. “I can confirm that two Catholic groups from
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Annan, Ivanov seek to end Mideast violence
      302 10 -AR Reuters Diplomacy intensifies as violence mars Yom Kippur JERUSALEM Diplomatic efforts broadened as fighting in Israeli-ruled territories marred Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan and Russia’s Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov were travelling to the region
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      Lock icon Bush 'bloopers' attacked
      146 10 Reuters SARASOTA, Florida Democrat Al Gore’s campaign attacked Republican George W. Bush yesterday for “bloopers”, Gore camp officials said. The Democratic website has a video of Mr Bush’s tongued-tied sayings, camp officials said. Democratic “truth” squads are due to go to key battlegrounds. One Gore campaign official
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      Lock icon More minority undergrads
      57 10 gofigure. Educational Testing Service report How many undergraduates will there be in the US 15 years from now? An estimated 16 million. By 2015, the numbers of black, Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander undergraduates will increase from 29 per cent in 1995 to make up 37 per cent
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      Lock icon Good signs, big problems for new Yugo President
      201 10 -AFP 4 BELGRADE Basking in support from abroad, new Yugoslav President Kostunica spent his first day in office on Sunday struggling to prevent the country’s further disintegration and tackling the economic crisis inherited from his predecessor Slobodan Milosevic. The national currency soared
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        Lock icon Nail found in girl's neck
        109 10 Reuters ISTANBUL Doctors preparing to remove the tonsils of a seven-year old Turkish girl who had suffered throat pain most of her life discovered a large nail in her neck. Pre-operative X-rays showed, the girl, a resident of the north western Turkish city of Eskisehir,
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        Lock icon Now, military tourism
        110 10 Reuters DESNA MILITARY BASE, Ukraine In what it says is a first in the former Soviet Union, Ukraine’s armed forces are throwing open 11 military training grounds and three air bases to tourists. Fee-paying tourists can fire AK-47 assault rifles, drive T-72 tanks and fly MiG-29 fighter
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        Lock icon Five hacked to death
        112 10 Reuters GUWAHATI, India Five people were hacked to death by a middle-aged man during a religious ceremony in northeast India. The attacker who appeared to be mentally disturbed, was later beaten to death by a crowd in Margherita in the northeastern state of Assam, said police.
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        Lock icon Jayalalitha jailed
        140 10 AP NEW DELHI Popular politician and former movie star Jayaram Jayalalitha was convicted yesterday and sentenced to three years in prison for corrupt land sale deals while she was chief minister of Tamil Nadu. It was the second conviction for Ms Jayalalitha. In seven other cases, her colleagues
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Shu Qi: showering her way to the bank
      162 11 IF you thought showering and shampooing are mundane activities, think again. For the likes of Shu Qi and Karen Mok, they're a way of getting rich. At NT$B million (*****,000) a shower for sex siren Shu Qi and NT$5 million (S$280,000) a
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      Lock icon Harry Potter goes to China
      201 11 ap SHANGHAI Harry Potter has arrived in China, riding the biggest print run for a Work of fiction there since the Communist p arty came to power in 1949. The People’s Literature Publishing House printed 600,000 copies of the first three books in J.K. Rowling's
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      Lock icon Zoe & Cynthia vie for Best Actress
      106 11 Zoe Cynthia vie for Best Actress All eyes will be on Zoe Tay and Cynthia Koh at this year's Asian Television Awards, j Both have been nominated for the Best Apfl*Ar>rt l• z-J <-> f /■> L /-M- A/NVM actress award: Zoe for her convincing por-' tnayal of a goodie-two-shoes
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      Lock icon Autograph for speeding
      96 11 BEING beautiful and famous has its advantages. Especially when you have been caught speeding. My Fair Princess’ leading women, Vicky Zhao Wei and Ruby Lin Xinru, drove away without a fine after they were stopped for speeding in Shanghai. >* The policeman was so excited about asking
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      Lock icon HYPE OR FAT HOPE?
      670 12 Would you believe it if everyone keeps saying you are the most beautiful woman in the world? Stephanie Marrian did, and almost paid for it with her life IT'S EASY to believe thanks to ego and something called hype. And, thanks to the head-swelling craft of
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      Lock icon Does Chow believe the hype?
      13 13  -  speaking by Lawrence Chau r riMfc f* ■*a
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      Lock icon The truth behind the hype
      500 14  -  speaking by Lawrence Chau HAVING met a slew of showbiz movers and shakers over the years, I was asked to pen my thoughts on whether I thought the stars actually believe buzz spewed about them by the press. The brief was rather strange, considering that
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      Lock icon All grown-up
      467 16  -  Should Growing Up be allowed to die gracefully?} fewytubby by Yvonne Kwok WATCHING Growing Up on Sunday night was a little like watching fine wine age into vinegar The excellent performances were still intact. If anything, stalwarts like Andrew Seow as Gary Tay and Lim Kay Tong as
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon ALTERASIANS
          63 16 11pm, Central Margaret is a career woman who cannot get along with her mother-in-law, Madam Wong. After a misunderstanding one night, Margaret drives the old lady out of the house, but not before Madam Wong curses her. Thereafter, things take a worse turn for Margaret. This is based on
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          Lock icon PHUA CHU KANG PTE LTD
          59 16 Bpm, TCS 5 Frankie Foo returns! Once again, the villain of the piece tries to woo Rosie away from Chu Kang, and A also teaches Ĕ Aloysius self- I defence so that wT the teenager may 1| defend himself 1 from a bully Meanwhile, Chu
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          Lock icon MY FAIR PRINCESS II
          68 16 7pm, TCS 8 Ziwei learns that the k Emperor has asked Ik Erkang to marry both Qing-er and her. *5l She is angry with I Erkang for keeping y the truth from her yjr Relations between them become more strained Wr when Jinsuo reveals that she
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          Lock icon CAPE FEAR
          79 16 7pm, HBO (SCV 60) In this excellent thriller directed by Martin A Scorsese, Robert De Jj Niro plays Max Cady, a convicted rapist jailed 14 years for brutally W raping a woman he k picked up in a bar. When 1 he realises that his lawyer, Sam Bowden
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          Lock icon THIS IS SPINAL TAP
          66 16 4.15 pm, Cinemax (SCV 59) A Rob Reiner cult classic, this “documentary” follows the exploits of one of rock's loudest and baddest bands, Spinal Tap the twist being that the band does not exist. A generous sprinkling of faux English accents and bizarre anecdotes (one of
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      Lock icon Excuse me, when will you be a real husband?
      268 18  -  Gerald Chew recently portrayed a dutifulf, loving husband in an NTUC commercial by by Deepa Vijiyasingam r This is a daily feature in which we ask the most pertinent (or impertinent) question of the day A WIDE variety of choices is
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          Lock icon Ex-swimmer bankrupt
          94 22 -AFP PERTH Former Australian Olympic swimming star and media commentator Neil Brooks was declared bankrupt by the Federal Court yesterday. The ruling came after his failure to pay a A 514,941.64 (5514,492)) debt to the Western Australian bank, Bank West. The court was told Brooks, 38, a member
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          Lock icon Gosper quits IOC race
          73 22 Reuters SYDNEY International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Kevan Gosper said yesterday that he had withdrawn from the race to replace retiring president Juan Antonio Samaranch. “I go in a race if I think I can win. And I’ve certainly thought up until recently I could,” Mr
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          Lock icon Thorpe sets heart on 'Friends'
          88 22 Reuters SYDNEY Australian swimmer lan Thorpe (left) 17, who won three Olympic gold medals in Sydney, is about to head off to New York with ambitions to star in the hit US sitcom “Friends”. Australian model Elle Macpherson, who has appeared in a cameo role
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          Lock icon Ullrich to miss world meet
          64 22 -AFP BERLIN Jan Ullrich, (right) will miss the world cycling champn onship in Plouay, France next: week after a fall during Sunday’s; Paris-Tours classic, Deutsche Telekom spoke-sman Olaf Ludwig said. The Olympic road race champion, currently ranked number two in the world, suffered a five
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          Lock icon Schumacher street
          57 22 -AFP KERPEN, Germany Michael Schumacher’s road to Formula One glory is to be immortalised in his home town Kerpen, which plans to name a street after him, the town’s mayor announced. The street to carry his name leads to Kerpen’s Karting track, owned by his father Rolf, where
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          Lock icon Perkins calls it quits
          110 23 -AFP BRISBANE Kieren Perkins, (right) denied a third successive 1500 m swimming gold medal at Sydney by fellow Australian Grant Hackett, called it quits yesterday. “I haven’t officially announced my retirement, but this is it,” the 28-year-old said at a ticker-tape parade for Australian Olympic stars
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          Lock icon Daum won't take drug test
          93 23 AP LEVERKUSEN, Germany Christoph Daum, designated to take over the German national soccer team, said he will not take a hair analysis test to dispel rumours he uses cocaine. Daum also said he plans to hold a press conference to refute the charges of prostitute
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          Lock icon Hingis' fourth Porsche
          106 23 -AFP FILDERSTADT, Germany Top seed Martina Hingis (left) made short work of Belgian Kim Clijsters 6-0, 6-3 to win the Filderstadt Grand Prix and add another Porsche to the three she has collected in past wins here. Hingis looked like she was in a rush to take
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          Lock icon Man U accused of graft
          84 23 AP LONDON The English Football League is to look into allegations that Manchester United offered Oxford United money to fix the venue of a league cup match in 1983, the Sunday Mirror reported. Jim Smith, now coach of Derby County, alleges in a book to
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          Lock icon King shops for $34m
          67 23 -AFP LAGOS, Nigeria Top American boxing promoter Don King has said he would need at least US$2O million (Ss34 million) to stage a world title fight in Nigeria. “In 1974, President Mobutu Sese Seko put together eleven and a half million dollars for the ‘Rumble in
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        Lock icon This Brawn has brains
        305 22 -AFP SUZUKA, Japan Michael Schumacher made a point of thanking Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn after winning the Formula One title. Briton Brawn deserved the praise. It was his quick thinking which again enabled Schumacher and Ferrari to regain the initiative and win a race that
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        Lock icon Argentina wins hard-fought derby
        165 22 Reuters BUENOS AIRES Argentina beat old rival Uruguay 2-1 in a passionate World Cup qualifier on Sunday. First half goals by Marcelo Gallardo and Gabriel Batistuta put Argentina in the driving seat in the River Plate derby. Federico Magallanes set up a nail-biting second half by
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        Lock icon Brazil snatches confidence-boosting victory
        221 22 AP MARACAIBO, Venezuela Brazil, under caretaker manager Candinho, enjoyed a confidence boosting 6-0 rout of whipping boys Venezuela in a 2002 World Cup qualifier on Sunday. Vasco da Gama striker Romario was largely to thank for the win, scoring three goals in the first half and
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        Lock icon Beckham, Gerrard out
        333 23 Reuters England faces more problems ahead of its key match against Finland tomorrow LONDON England will take on Finland in a World Cup qualifier tomorrow without influential midfielder David Beckham, caretaker coach Howard Wilkinson said. Wilkinson, who has stepped in as coach after Kevin Keegan quit following
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        Lock icon 'I don't want your money'
        238 23 -AFP BARCELONA, Spain Barcelona’s world player of the year Rivaldo has hit back at pressure from his club and its fans by offering to tear up his lucrative new contract and walk out, Spanish sports daily Marca reported on its web-site on Sunday. Rivaldo aired
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