Streats, 4 August 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATUROAY 4 August 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 634 1 THE people of Thailand and those in this troubled region breathed a sigh of relief yesterday. Billionaire Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was cleared of corruption charges that threatened to force him out of office and cause another political earthquake in the region.
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  • morning rush
    • 104 1 US investment bank JP Morgan has forecast a contraction in the Singapore economy for the remainder of the year. It forecast at 6.3 per cent contraction in GDP for the third quarter and 1.5 per cent fall for the fourth quarter. The
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    • 102 1 THE Adam Road Hawker Centre is one of the first group of 19 food centres to be upgraded under a 10-year multi-mil-lion dollar plan to spruce up every centre islandwide. Built in 1974, the Adam Road Hawker Centre has 32 stalls and 69 tables. The
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 61 1 US' MU c Rekased: TV Works stun from exclusive contracts They were slated as the new faces on TV's longer have their place in your living room, newest station, TV Works. They have been freed of their retainers Now, Junita Simon, Sebastian Tan, to do their thing anywhere they please.
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 311 2 TWO companies are making their employees go on leave next week. Hitachi Cable Pte Ltd and lIVI Singapore Pte Ltd have been affected by the economic downturn, and are taking the step to save
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    • 159 2 PHASE 2C of the Primary 1 registration exercise ended on Thursday afternoon with 37 schools holding ballots to fill their vacancies. Rosyth School at Serangoon North Avenue 4 emerged as the most popular, with 332 children living within a Ikm radius vying for 143 vacancies available
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    • 208 2  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER A TRADESMAN flew into a tantrum, swore and kicked a door when a doctor refused to give him a medical certificate. Eddie Lim, 43, sought treatment at Bukit Merah Polyclinic on Feb 14 last year after he injured himself in a fall
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    • 76 2 morningsmile. THE physical training instructor was drilling a platoon of soldiers. "I want every man to lie on his back, put his legs in the air and move them as though he were riding a bicycle,"he explained. "Now begin!" Lots of puffing and panting and sweating, and then
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    • 350 3  -  by SARAH NG WHEN burning joss sticks, make sure you do it in a well-ventilated area. The Environment Ministry (ENV) told Streats that incense smoke does not Pose a health risk if joss sticks are burnt m airy spaces. “If
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    • 147 3 THIS medicine may cause drowsiness. Do not drive or operate machinery. This familiar medical notice may need to also warn against cooking, because a fire broke out after an elderly woman dozed off and forgot about her boiling soup. The 63-year-old woman, who had been
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    • 83 3 Our weather girl says Hooray! The weekend is finally here. If you are planning to hit Orchard Road for some shopping, take a raincoat You'll need it to keep yourself dry from the thundery showers over most areas in the morning. Temperatures will range between 24°C and 31X, with the
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    • Just a minute
      • 136 3 Students who want to improve their chances in the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) will be able to pick up useful tips at talks organised by the National Library Board and conducted by Mr David Jordan, High Q Education Centre's programmes manager. The SAT will form 25 per cent
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      • 45 3 For a fun-filled day with activities for the whole family, why not go down to The Istana for the On-The-Spot Drawing competition for your kids. It's free and in three categories for kids aged 4-9, 10-16, and 17 and above. Registration starts at Bam.
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    • 534 5  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER SHE responded to an emergency and in the chaos that followed, she mistakenly injected a two-day old baby with the Wrong medicine and he died. Yesterday, nurse Kanagaratnam Nanmalar, also known as Sister Malar, 51, was
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    • 125 5  -  by SONNYPHUA TWO men, believed to be loansharks, were held by the police on Thursday for harassing a pasar malam hawker they had allegedly lent money to. The 38-year-old hawker had gone to the police on Wednesday saying the two were badgering him to pay
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    • 77 5 onekindact Grateful I WOULD like to thank some people who helped my boyfriend and I when we had an accident at Napier Road on July 11. One person helped us to call an ambulance, one gave first aid and another, a journalist, offered help. If you
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    • 334 5  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM IT was a serious traffic safety concern in June 1994 when the Registry of Vehicles said that it “prohibits the installation of any lights on a vehicle which could distract and endanger other motorists”. Seven years on, we are about to see LED
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 453 6 ON the eve of National Day, there will be an all-night party at Sentosa. The event is called Nation and its organisers bill it as a National Pride Party. They also say it will be a historymaking event the biggest gay
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    • 184 6 betweenthelines tfor the past dozen years, scholars of international politics have pondered a puzzle why is no one ganging up against the United States? ...for more than a decade the United States has been the world's sole superpower and far from countering it, most
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 276 7 -AP MANILA Muslim extremists beheaded at least four people among a group they took hostage from a village on the southern Philippines island of Basilan, officials said yesterday. There were discrepancies in the official reports of
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    • Article, Illustration
      49 7 Japanese Crown Prince Haruhito and Crown Princess Masako waving to wellwishers as they prepare to board a train in Tokyo to bead for a holiday in the north °f the country. The couple are expecting their first baby later this year after eight years of Carriage PicAP
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    • 114 7 JAKARTA Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday formally reappointed General Suroyo Bimantoro as national police chief. The general’s sacking was an action that helped precipitate the ouster of former head of state Abdurrahman Wahid. Mr Abdurrahman dismissed Gen Bimantoro on July 1 and
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    • 212 7 -AFP Delay blamed on careful selection procedure JAKARTA Indonesia’s foot-drag-ging on selecting a new cabinet will end on Thursday, Vice-President Hamzah Haz said yesterday. The new ministers will be sworn in on Friday, more than two weeks after President Megawati Sukarnoputri took office, Mr Hamzah
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    • Japan hits the highs
      • 205 7 -AP TOKYO Life expectancy for Japanese already the world’s longest-living people rose to a new record high last year. The Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry said women lived for an average of 84.62 years and men 77.64 years last year. The figures for 1999 were 83.99 and
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      • 119 7 Reuters TOKYO Crime soared to a record high in Japan in the first half of this year, the National Police Agency said yesterday. The number of crimes between January and June leapt 15.9 per cent from the corresponding period of last year to 1,288,381. It was only
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    • 300 8 TWO sets of parents are fighting over a 13-year-old girl who claims to have been kidnapped from her home in Malaysia and taken to Indonesia seven years ago. A Malay couple from Sabah came forward last month claiming that
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    • 328 8 Plan is to get members arrested to make Malaysia look like a police state, says PM KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that the Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) was flouting the ban on political rallies to make the government
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    • 192 8 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s human rights commission has called for greater freedom of expression, including setting up “Speakers’ Comers” and relaxing controls on rallies. The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia released a 32page report on “Freedom of Assembly” as police enforced a ban on
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    • weird world
      • 91 8 -AP A BOTCHED bank robbery in Florida on Tuesday turned into a free-for-all when thousands of dollars in cash went flying. About a dozen people scooped up the money, which was thrown into the street by two men who had just robbed a bank. Witnesses said those
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      • 82 8 A BUSINESSMAN travelled from Yorkshire to US to see the girl he had met through an Internet chatroom and found that “she” was a man. The 26-year-old thought he had discovered Sally whom he thought could end his loneliness after a failed long-term love affair, reported the
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      • 109 8 ONE in five New Zealand men draws a blank when it comes to remembering what he did while boozing the night before. About one in 10 women suffer the same problem, according to a drug statistics report quoted on the stuff.co.nz website. The report released by the
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      • 75 8 ITALIAN men who have plastic surgery are more likely to have their bottom operated on than their face. A survey of hundreds of Italian men who recently had cosmetic surgery showed that while 33 per cent had facelifts, 36 per cent went under the knife to have
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      • 67 8 WOMEN who dye their hair red are more likely to cheat on their partners, said a survey of Italian women by hair treatment producer Dermoline. Copper-red hair makes women feel more confident and willing to cheat, it says. The News2ooo website reports other degrees of red are
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 300 9 LONDON Scientists are developing a swizzle-stick to dip in drinks to detect date rape drugs, The Guardian reports. Britain’s Department of Trade and Industry, whose crime prevention panel came up with the idea, believes the device could curb what is
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    • 172 9 -AFP Police suspect dissident Irish terrorists LONDON -A car bomb exploded yesterday morning near a London underground station. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alan Fry, head of the Metropolitan Police’s anti-ter-rorist branch, said he believed dissident Irish republicans were responsible for the blast in Ealing
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    • 188 9 Reuters 'He e-mailed hubby love messages' CHARLOTTE, North Carolina A woman has filed an alienation-of-affection lawsuit against a man she alleged entered into a homosexual relationship with her husband, ending their 11-year marriage, according to the lawsuit. Ms Billie Jean Bonner filed suit in Charlotte,
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    • 173 9 Two-thirds of women 'don't focus on task at hand' LONDON Sex is the last thing on most women’s minds when they make love, a new survey shows. A no-holds-barred poll found their thoughts turn to DIY, shopping, work, holidays and, sometimes, another man, the
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    • 74 9 HUSSEIN'S HELP: Couples from the Iraqi youth federation parade during a mass wedding organised by Uday Hussein, the son of president Saddam Hussein (in portrait on wall at right), yesterday. The mass wedding was to mark tenth anniversary of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the hardships brought on
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    • 121 9 DELHI Doctors in the Indian city of Varanasi have finally discovered the reason for a surge in the popularity of the free condoms they have been dishing out for family planning. Weavers in the city, also known for its silk industry, have been using the
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 383 10 Wire services BANGKOK Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has survived yet another storm. Should you be surprised? Maybe not. He is, after all, one ofThailand’s great political survivors. In and out of politics for most of the last decade, Dr Thaksin served as Foreign Minister and twice
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    • 70 10 HELP ME GET A DEGREE: Seventeen-year-old Sabitha Monis was born without arms. But she sure knows how to make a statement with her foot. The brainy Bangalore teenager, who has just topped the 10th-grade exams (equivalent to O levels), now wants to get a degree.
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    • 169 10 Reuters LONDON His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew and Lord of the Isles. Phew! Talk about a mouthful. Well, guess what? All those titles refer to the same
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    • 178 10 -AFP Not enough information for disciplinary action; says university chief HONGKONG US scholar Li Shaomin has been allowed to continue with his teaching job despite a spying conviction. Hongkong City University officials made the decision in a meeting yesterday. Mr Norman Leung, chairman of
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  • easy STREATS
    • 389 11  -  More TV Works artistes have their retainers cancelled by b y Yvonne Kwok FOUR more TV Works artistes have been freed of their exclusive contracts a week after the station revealed that model-host Wendy Jacobs would no longer be exclusive to the channel or paid a retainer’s
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    • 284 12  -  by DIANA SER THIS family reunion did not take place over a sumptuous steamboat dinner. It was also six months too soon for Chinese New Year. But 88-year-old Mr Low Kim Chan didn’t mind. He has not seen his daughter, Madam Cai, in 68 years. And
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    • 315 12  -  by YVONNE KWOK WHICH is the heaviest element found in nature? That’s the question that cost Mr A T Chong $32,000 on Thursday’s edition of Channel s’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Mr Chong chose “plutonium”. Wrong, said show host Mark van Cuylenburg.The
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    • 162 12 IS Takashi Sorimachi k having a baby or not? The paparazzi l were on hand to greet him when he f arrived in Hong- W kong on Thursday f to promote his new movie, Full Time Killer, in which he stars alongside Andy Lau. The
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    • 298 13 ELIZABETH Taylor has found love again with a man 21 years her junior. The screen goddess, 69, has fallen for Jurassic Park star Jeff Goldblum, 48. The couple have been spotted on several cosy dinner dates and are
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    • 269 13 RUSSELL Crowe is a sellout in New York and a hit in Los Angeles, but not too vain to support his home town pub. His rock and roll band Thirty Odd Foot Of Grunts begin a sellout US tour next week. But the Oscar-winning actor
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    • channel scan
      • Must-see TV...
        • 50 13 Saturday, 7pm, Channel U The grand finale is finally here and the contest- ants will go through a few rounds to test their acting, dance and martial arts. Who will be the Most Popular New Star and who will win the Most Potential New Star? Jeanette Aw
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        • 56 13 Sunday, 7.30 pm, Channel U In this final episode, the dreams of the people are fulfilled with the help of the dream challengers. Old Mr Liu at last gets to return to China to see his family, and Lee Kai Ling gets to go on a cruise with
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        • 74 13 Saturday, 11 pm, Channel 8 A young conscript deserts and hides on a magic mountain where he goes on a quest through a fantastic world to find the two celestial swords which, when brought together, form the only weapon powerful enough to defeat the
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        • 66 13 Sunday, 9pm, STAR Movies (SCV 58) Star Wars fans will be kept up this month watching all four Star Wars movies, beginning tonight with the one that started it all. The Rebels, including Skywalker and flying ace Wedge Antilles attack the Empire’s ominous
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    • 157 14 IF some of the backdrops to Yuki Hsu’s upcoming music video look familiar, it might be because they are. The singer is here to shoot a promotional film for the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and scenes of local attractions will be used in her
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 435 16 soccernet.com LONDON Europeans Fabrizio Ravanelli and Edwin van der Sar have urged David Beckham (left) to forget the lure of foreign fields and sign on the dotted line for Manchester United without delay. Derby’s 32-year-old Italian striker
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      • 424 17 Kansas Comet' says he is tired Can Greene streak like lightning? WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2001 -AFP D MONTON Olympic 100 champion Maurice r eene says he may not go full throttle. The reason: He is finding it ar d to raise the level of his P e rformances this year
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      • 247 17 -AP EDMONTON -The longest journey begins with a single step. I And the step world marathon record-holder, Khalid Khannouchi (left) took last May, when he became a US citizen, was the start of his most emotional journey. Feeling unappreciated by athletic officials in his native I
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      • 105 17 -AFP SPRINT queen Marion Jones says gold medals and not world records are her target at the World Athletics Championships. “I’m here to win gold,” said Jones. “After that, what happens happens.” Jones denied she would feel unfulfilled if she failed to beat Florence Griffith-Joyner’s
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      • 61 17 -AFP BRITAIN'S Olympic champion Denise Lewis could be out of the heptathlon event. “It is only 50-50 whether she will be able to compete on Saturday,” said Charles van Commenee, the Dutchman who coached Lewis to the Sydney Olympic gold last year. He said Lewis had
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      • 119 17 .-AFP SIERRA Leone teenager Gibril Pato Bangura will achieve a remarkable ambition when he competes in the 100 m. Just two years ago both his parents were slaughtered by the rebels in the country’s vicious civil war. The 16-year-old has been looked after by a trust
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      • 69 17 -Xinhua THE International Association of Athletics Federations (lAAF) has changed race walking rules. Under the new rules, the chief walking judge can disqualify a walker for infringing the rules, regardless of whether the competitor has previous warnings. However, when an event takes place exclusively on road,
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      • 215 18 NJUC income S-teague Marine Castle 2 SAFFC 7 IT was Englishman Trevor Morgan’s first taste of the S-League. And the 44-year-old Marine Castle coach certainly did not like the bitter concoction forced down his throat by the Warriors of Singapore Armed Forces FC yesterday. The
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      • 458 18  -  by TAN KIM HAN r NTUC Income S-League L Jurong FC 2 Sembawang 1 1 THEY may not be among the big boys. They may not have rich sponsors pouring in money as if it was running out of fashion. But Jurong
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      • 387 19  -  by LIM HAN MING FOR years, they have lived in the shadow of their world-class female counterparts. But as the 21st South-east Asia Games draws closer, the spotlight has shifted once more to the five-member national men’s table tennis
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      • 233 19  -  by UM HAN MING HOW timely. The return of the Singapore Open, the country’s most prestigious badminton tournament, will bolster its shuttlers’ preparations for next month’s South-east Games in Kuala Lumpur. After a year’s absence, it will now be known as the Yonex-Sunrise
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      • 94 19 •HOCKEY -AP KUALA LUMPUR South Korea and Pakistan played a 22 draw at the 11th Sultan Azlan Cup hockey tournament yesterday. The Koreans opened the scoring in the 7th minute through a reverse stick hit by Yoo Moon Ki. Pakistan equalised two minutes after
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      • 71 19 •soccer -AP LONDON Dutch international Boudewijn Zenden joined Chelsea yesterday in a £7.5 million ($l9 million) transfer from Barcelona. The 24-year-old winger signed a four-year contract with the Premier League club. He became the second Barcelona player to join Chelsea in the off-season, joining Frenchman Emmanuel
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      • 89 19 •TENNIS BERLIN After being involved in sex-scandals, three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker will make a brief return to competitive tennis next week. He is partnering current Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic in a doubles event at the ATP tournament in Cincinatti. Tournament director Bruce Flory said that he
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    • 147 14 Movie ickets! V" m Hi mmjii saresaa as Receive o pair of "Tears of the Black Tiger" *movie tickets with every $lOO spent at Lemongrass NTUCDowntown East. Get them now! While stocks last only Tickets are not exchangeable for cash CATHAY NTUC-Downtown East 1 Pasir Ris Close #Ol-41 NTUC Lifestyle
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 473 14 Your Daily Horoscope aquarius JAN 20-FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com GIIII MAY 21 JUN 21 You're quick, brilliant and three steps ahead of the game. Use your immunity and your imagination to open a fresh set of doors. Whether or not they understand you, your public applauds every
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    • 155 16 I z m rv 71 If you missed the treats at the recent Streats party, don't miss a chance to get some now. Spot the differences between these two pictures of the party and be a winner. Everyday, 10 winners will each win a limited edition watch! m D There
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 47 19 GOLF: European PGA Tour: Volvo Scandinavian Masters, Day 3 (Super Sports Ch22,Bpm). SOCCER: NTUC Income S-League: Home United v Geyfang United (City TV, 7pm). TENNIS: Masters Series, Montreal: Men's q-ftnals (ESPN Ch23,7am). DELAYED TELECAST GOLF: PGA Tour: The International Presented by QWEST, 2nd rd (Star Sports Cb24,lpm).
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