Streats, 22 September 2001

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  • 19 1 STREATS Treats for SATURDAY 22 September 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 585 1 US or them: Bush Muslims or US: Taleban Wire services ALINE is being drawn by Afghan militants seeking to unite the Muslim world and the US seeking to establish clear alliances. And it stretches from the parched sands of Kabul to the opulent halls of Capitol Hill. Choose
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  • 243 1  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH SMS messages cynical and satirical have been flying quick and fast over cellphones ever since the terrorist attack on the US last week. But at least one Singaporean saw no humour in the messages. And Mr Joseph Quek, 34,
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  • WAR
    • ... Where
      • 64 2 Suspected terrorists who carried out planeattacks in New York and Washington. WTC (North Tower) FATAL FOUR: (Clockwise from above left) Satam alSuqami, Waleed M al-Shehri, Wail al-Shehri, Mohammed Atta Crashed in Pennsylvania AWESOME THREESOME: (From left) Ahmen al-Haznawi, Ahmed al-Nami, Ziad Jarrahi WTC (S. Tower) I TWO
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      • 84 2 The global economic outlook worsened y terday as shares plumetted on growing ft of a prolonged US-led war. Pafi stricken investors took little no. and dumped equities. European shares fi nearly 7 per cent and funds poured into S y Q nc, cash and bonds safe havens in
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      • 74 3 For the first time in the history of the Internet, popular search engines report that "sex" dropped off their lists of top 10 search terms in the days following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. "Popular search terms last week turned almost exclusively to
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      • Seek and hide
        • 355 2 Wire services TORKHAM, Pakistan Tension is mounting on the jagged mountain peaks that border Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yesterday, a report by USA Today said US Special Operations Forces have begun moving into countries bordering Afghanistan to begin a covert mission to capture or kill indicted terrorist Osama
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        • 189 2 -AFP KABUL The US has an ally in Afghanistan the main anti-Taleban Northern Alliance and is pressing it for strategic information. The Alliance, which controls about 5 per cent of Afghanistan, said it had turned over intelligence to the US. Alliance officials have described the recent
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        • 576 3 AFP ISLAMABAD The hunt for America’s most wanted man Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden could prove a wild goose chase. With US pressure mounting on Afghanistan, which is sheltering him, the prime suspect of the Sept 11 attacks on New York and Washington is
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    • ... When
      • 85 4 -AFP The non-stop coverage of terror attacks has left a hole in the US TV networks' pockets. From Sept 11, all the main networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox put regular programming on hold and cancelled advertising. CBS was one of the first to drop out of
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      • COLD WAR II?
        • 384 4 US must strike now to avoid bitter winter Long-drawn war could lead to political chill -AFP Afghanistan has some of the harshest terrain in the world. It will be much worse in winter THE US is facing a second cold war. In the first, it battled against
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        • 174 4 THE aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the US have seen Arabic and Islamic words being used in news reports. The Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis) clarified what some of these words mean. The explanations within brackets (not supplied by Muis) refer to their Afghanistan context.
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        • 349 4 -AFP GEORGE W Bush has warned the countries of the world: You are either for us or for terrorism. Arab leaders have scrambled to back the US they don’t want to left out in the cold. But yesterday, the Arab League sounded a
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        • between the lines
          • 112 5 Mome have said that this is also, finally, the end of the old cold war and the birth of a new one. Our military, for example, will now properly refocus itself around this new threat. Yes, but in another sense, the cold war is
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          • 101 5 recasting US-China relations, Mr (George W) Bush will have to correct the implications of what his administration has done to protray China as the successor to the Soviet Union as the chief global adversary of America. For too long we have been told that China is
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      • 45 5 Reuters The Japanese Finance Ministry yesterday said it had restricted transactions involving Afghan accounts. Payments to accounts in Afghanistan and to "Taliban- related people" outside Afghanistan needed its permission. Financial transactions such as deposits or loans would also require its permission. Reuters
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 298 6  -  by ADAM HASHIDY THE terrorist attack on the US has made the relationship between China, Japan and America even more critical, said the Minister of State for Defence and Information and the Arts, Mr David Lim. He noted this
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    • 100 6 BEFORE gaily -coloured paper and plastic lanterns, there were lanterns made of milk tins with holes punched in them. The nostalgia of the time is brought back in a display at the Kreta Ayer CC. And this was brought into sharp relief last night at the
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    • 61 6 Our weather girl says Step carefully as you leave the office because it may be wet and slippery from the thundery showers all around the M country. Temperatures will range M between 25°C and 32°C, with high tide reaching 2.8 m at 2.03 pm. September's weather girl Streats reader Eliza
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    • Just a minute
      • 55 6 There's a memorial service tomorrow at the National Stadium for the thousands who died in the attacks in the US on Sept 11. The American 0 invites everyone to attend. The stadium's west entrance will be open from 4.30 pm and people should be seated by 5.30 pm. The
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      • 52 6 The Health Promotion Board's health-screening programme Check Your Health is for people aged 50 and above. For $5, check for diabetes, hypertension and high blood cholesterol. It's on tomorrow 8.30am-2pm atJoo Seng Community Club and at the void decks ofßlk 641 and 81k 644 Ang Mo Kio
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    • news scan
      • 150 7 RESIDENTS in Aljunied GRC will find it easier to get their odd jobs done with Premas Family Care Services. A joint project between maintenance company Premas International and Aljunied Town Council, it offers services such as cleaning, replacing light bulbs, repairing leaking pipes and setting up
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      • 83 7 AN ACCIDENT involving a private bus, a van and a taxi occurred at Clementi Avenue 6 near the junction of Commonwealth Avenue West yesterday at 11.26 am. The SCDF Fast Response Paramedic arrived at the scene within two minutes and found the van driver trapped in
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      • 53 7 A FIRE broke out at the centralised rubbish collecting centre at Blk 84, Bedok North Street 4 at 12.35 pm yesterday. SCDF arrived at the scene within five minutes and put out the fire in 15 minutes. No one was hurt. The cause of the fire
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    • 66 7 onekindact Mekavathanan My young son became trapped inside our parked car near Toa Payoh market on Sept 15 at about 11am. Thank you to ail the kind people who helped my family and I get him out if you wish to highlight a kind act, no matter how
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    • 292 7 IF Singapore’s economy worsens because of the US attack, the Government will set up a package of measures to pull it through. “We are tracking the state of the economy and working out what needs to be done at
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    • 104 7 THERE are no links in Singapore to Osama bin Laden, said BG Lee, who is also chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Neither is there any evidence of illegal money laundering here by Osama and his supporters. “Our banks have to observe certain restrictions, in
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    • 153 7  -  Winston Chong A 15-YEAR-OLD school dropout was arrested on Thursday in connection with six cases of motorcycles set ablaze in Ang Mo Kio. The police believe that apart from the 20 motorcycles destroyed, he and his friend, Huang Rongtai, 20, are also responsible for the
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    • 421 8  -  by I KHUSHWANT SINGH EVEN before the dust could settle on New York’s World Trade Center, distasteful SMS messages about the Sept 11 terrorist attack began doing the rounds. While many were stunned by the tragic loss of lives,
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    • 199 8 Deepa Vijiyasingam MR Ahmad Mahmid, 40, was superstitious, making him vulnerable to a conman who turned out to be someone he thought was his friend. Mr Ahmad, a surveyor, asked Ibrahim Ahmad, 44, if he knew a cure for his wife, who was sick with flu
      – Deepa Vijiyasingam  -  199 words
    • 227 8  -  by I DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM A 41-YEAR-OLD unemployed man attacked and threatened to kill his wife because she wanted to divorce him. At 5.30 am on July 20, Madam Suriati Massod, 27, approached her husband, Tasrip B Malal (right), in their bedroom and told him
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    • 287 8 SEVERAL Muslim couples have been forced to postpone their divorces because the economic recession and property slump have resulted in a drop in the value of their HDB flats, the Berita Harian reported yesterday. While there are no official figures to support it, six
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    • 27 8 m Only We turn the spotlight on recession-proof meals. Find out where you can get $1 chicken rice, laksa, carrot cake and mee rebus. They're tasty too
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 308 9 -AP HK private eyes handle more cases following new China law that compensates wronged spouses HONGKONG David Cheung’s business has been booming. He runs a detective firm that specialises in hunting down Hongkong’s philandering husbands, many of whom have married second wives
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    • 136 9 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Elderly Muslim men who marry young virgins but are unable to satisfy their brides’ sexual demands were accused of “torture” by a leading Malaysian cleric yesterday. Nik Aziz Nik Mat, spiritual leader of the Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS), said that aged
      -AFP  -  136 words
    • 312 9 DILI East Timor has named its first all-Timorese democratic cabinet. It will be headed by Mari Alkatiri, leader of the Fretilin party, which won 55 of 88 seats in last month’s election, CNN reported. Acting Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta retains his position in the
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    • 120 9 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang party (KMT) has expelled the island’s former president and exparty chief Lee Teng-hui for “viciously damaging” the KMT by supporting a rival group. The KMT’s disciplinary committee announced the ex- pulsion after the party had failed in its last-ditch
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 221 10 Reuters NEW DELHI The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the convicted chief minister of Tamil Nadu state, Jayaram Jayalalithaa, will be kicked out of office. The popular former movie star led the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra
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    • 131 10 -AFP COLOMBO-Two Sri Lankan pilots have landed in hot water after flying remotecontrolled model planes near the country’s rebel-hit international airport. The air force detained the father and son duo, who both held private pilot’s licences, on Wednesday and handed them over to the
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    • 46 10 PASSION FASHION: Wear your message, don't just say it, is the idea presented by Ghost, the designer of this dress embroidered with 'Peace and Love'being modelled during the London Fashion Week show in the city's Natural History Museum on Wednesday Pic: Reuters Pic: Reuters
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  • easy STREATS
    • 550 11  -  by YVONNE KWOK HE'S been called a “maverick producer” and “the last singular idiosyncratic producer” by members of the theatre world. For his services to British theatre, he was knighted in 1996. Last year, the Sunday Times of London listed him as one of Britain’s 200 richest
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    • Article, Illustration
      202 11 NEW York and London. These are the places to go if a local theatre enthusiast wants to make it big worldwide, according to Mackintosh. “People can write anywhere, but usually the problem with home-grown productions, particularly in musical theatre, which is so collaborative, is that the people who
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    • 255 12 WHILE the Americans were still reeling from last Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, northern Taiwan was hit by tropical storm Nari. The typhoon has caused blackouts in more than 820,000 homes and killed at least 57 people in mudslides and flash floods. Asian artistes also found their
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    • 104 12 HEROES, baddies, comical characters, tragic roles. You name it, Hongkong heartthrob Louis Koo played it, and with no problems protraying the characters. His most challenging role to date, Louis claims, is the character in the movie, Jue Shi Hao Bra (La Brassiere), reported Hongkong’s The Sun yesterday. The
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    • channel scan
      • Must-see TV...
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          37 12 Saturday, 4.30 pm, Channel U j This romantic I J Korean comedy isL9 about two sisters and» their love life. out for Korean beauty Kim Hee Sun and the handsome Mr Q, Kim Min Jong.
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        • 54 12 Saturday, 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) Johnny Depp is an astronaut who blacks in space and noth- ing about him is the |k same after that. His wife jlTheron) disI covers that he II has been W taken over by something evil. y Then she discovers she’s pregnant.
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        • 47 12 Saturday, 11 pm, Channel 8 Gigi Leung is a girl^^^ from a wealthy family and Daniel a boy from a public housing estate. The i two fall in love, to I the disapproval ofl her mother, who' sends her when she fails an exam.
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          29 12 Sunday, 7.30 pm, TV i Works Nadya visits the zenI inspired home of /designer Liang, who’s made his three-bed- room Toa Payoh flat into a serene abode.
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        • Article, Illustration
          43 12 Sunday, 10pm, Central Debut of a magazine on the arts in Singapore. This first episode talks to 10-year-old Ethan, who plays Tam, the love child of Miss Saigon’s Kim and Chris in Jk Miss Saigon. Also, bodyi painting, orl mehendi. I
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    • 450 13  -  Taiwanese stuntman-actor Ko Shou Liang may have recovered from lymphoma, but he'll dice with life next year when he attempts to leap over the Petronas Twin Towers by YVONNE KWOK HE “flew” over the Great Wall of China on a motorcycle in 1992. He repeated the
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    • 152 13 J| CHANNELU actress IjiLynn Poh may not be Tpa daredevil stuntypwoman, but that f doesn’t mean she can’t F get hurt. At yesterday’s press con- Terence, Lynn sported several nasty looking wounds on her right hand, between the thumb and forefinger and on her little finger,
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    • 192 13 I WAS in love with Stephen Chow. So said Hongkong comedienne Sandra Ng in her new book on slimming, k According to Sandra, \she developed feelings 1 for Stephen as they used to act as a couple fin their shows many years ago. However, she
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    • 595 14 Reuters LOS ANGELES America’s celebrity magazines have set aside what suddenly seems a frivolous obsession with movie stars and pop singers in favour of the nation’s new heroes the rescuers, victims and survivors of the worst attack in US history. Gone is the frenzy over divorced
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    • 337 14 THE stars have come out to pay tribute to America’s real heroes in an unprecedented show of unity among the Big Four TV networks in the US. The latest line-up of celebrities taking part in the two-hour America: A Tribute to Heroes include Mariah Carey, Wyclef Jean, Malcolm
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    • Article, Illustration
      303 15  -  by DIANA SĔR PERHAPS they are running out of ideas to adorn themselves. Recently we noticed that the two hunks from Lady Warriors of the Vang Family, Singaporean Darren Lim and Taiwanese Andrew Lien, are sporting the same look of neatly trimmed moustache and short goatee. You might
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 479 17  -  by' TAN KIM HAN WHERE did England stars Gary Lineker and Emile Heskey pick up their football skills? Why, Leicester City’s youth academy, of course! And that’s where local coach Donald Wan (above) will be for two years. He leaves on Wednesday, During the long
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      • 369 17  -  by TAN KIM HAN rNTUC Income S-LEAGUE Marine Castle 1 Tampines Rovers 2 J HE has guided Tampines Rovers to a respectable sixth position after a poor start. But coach Jita Singh (right) is unlikely to be calling the shots next season. According to
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      • 588 18 LONDON Arsenal against Bolton Wanderers a month into the season cannot exactly be a table-topping clash. But the promoted club’s refusal to play its allotted role of automatic relegation fodder means it travels to Highbury today in pole position.
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      • 84 18 LONDON Liverpool managC".- -&gt; G been forced to settle for cameo vDaily Express: “They are part V are winning as a squad.” fierce for the two strikers’ Emile Heskey keeping out Litmanen. here. We need four strikers and he is the fourth.
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      • 423 19 UEFA CUP ~Maritimo 1 Leeds 0 MADEIRA, Portugal Leeds manager David O’Leary admitted that his side needed a “kick up the back-side” after its shock 0-1 first leg defeat by Maritimo. O’Leary was clearly furious with
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      • 256 19 Wire services LONDON Eidur Gudjohnsen was the hero for Chelsea as it was the only English club to emerge winner in the Uefa Cup first leg matches on Thursday. The Blues beat Bulgarian champion Levski Sofia 3-0, while Aston Villa lost 2-3 to Croatian upstart
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      • 122 19 Reuters INTER Milan celebrated a 3-0 win over Romania’s Bresov, and had the added bonus of a return to competitive action of Ronaldo (right). The Brazil international, whose last appearance was in the Italian Cup final on April 12 last year when he ruptured knee ligaments which required
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      • SOCCER
        • 113 19 LONDON England and Arsenal defender Sol Campbell insisted yesterday that he is still hoping to be fit for the crunch World Cup qualifier against Greece on Oct 6. Campbell injured his hamstring in training on Tuesday, and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger predicted an enforced lay-off of about
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        • 65 19 COME to Home United’s next two home S-League matches and you could win for yourself return air tickets to Melbourne. All you have to do is to predict the outcome of the two Home matches against Geylang United on Oct 13 and against Singapore Armed Forces
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      • 65 19 NETBALL SINGAPORE netball captain Gaby Hochbaum and her national team-mates will be among 2,000 participants for tomorrow’s Great Singapore Buddy Walk, starting at the Youth Park, Somerset Road, at Bam. Registration fee for the event, organised by Down Syndrome Association (Singapore), is $2O. The Buddy
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      • 590 20  -  by Lim Han Ming QUESTIONS, questions, questions. Ever since world champion Jesmine Ho returned from the 21st South-east Asia Games, she and her team-mates have been bombarded with questions about their abysmal perform- ances. They all want to know what
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    • 69 12 WinaWatch Every week photographers from Streats will wander all over Singapore to catch you reading the paper. The reader's picture will be published each Saturday. And if it is your picture, you will win a limited edition Streats watch. But you must call 1-800-844-5566 and give us your name, l/C
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 471 16 1 If it's yowWmday today, you share it with j Andrea Bocelli S Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20- FEB 18 Your social mood translates easily into professional situations. Harness the crowd’s excitement. This week, you have a shot at road testing a good idea
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 76 19 Inthelivingroom SOCCER: NTUC Income S-League: Tanjong Pagar United v Geylang United (City TV, 7pm). Asian World Cup qualifier: Thailand v Iraq (Star Sports Ch24,7.30pm). EPL: Preview Show (9pm). Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur (9.50 pm) ESPN Ch 23; Arsenal v Bolton Wanderers (Star Sports Ch24,9.50pm). Spanish League: Real Madrid v Espanyol
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