Streats, 23 September 2002

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  • 12 1 Streats MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • 385 1  -  By I Zubcddah, Nazeer, Wendy Tan, Gary Lira, Chua Kong Ho Yong Hui Mien THE danger from Jemaah Islamiah (JI) is not over yet, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan warned yesterday. Speaking at a community event, he didn’t rule out further arrests and emphasised the need
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  • 157 1 THE unwelcome spotlight on the Malay/Muslim community brought on by the JI arrests has sparked fears of job discrimination. Said Madam Raudah Samad, 38, a secretary: “I’m worried that employers might reject a job application because the appliant is a Muslim who wears a tudung or
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  • 196 1 NON-MUSLIM Singaporeans received a word of gratitude from Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim yesterday for their “positive reaction” to the news of the JI arrests. He suggested a two-pronged approach to tackling the JI problem: Continue efforts at building trust and social cohesion through active
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  • 137 1 YOUR water supply is as safe as can be, thanks to security measures already in place since the Sept 11 attacks in the US last year. Environment Minister Lim Swee Say gave this reassurance on Saturday at the Prophet Muhammad Birthday Memorial Scholarship Fund presentation. The
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  • STREATS local
    • 252 2 THE Government is to subsidise the medical bills of needy elderly patients who need doctors or nurses to treat them at home. Starting next month, a subsidy of up to 75 per cent will be offered.
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    • 87 2 PRIVATE hospitals should spearhead any drive to attract foreign patients here, Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday. His comments were in response to an Economic Review Committee panel’s recommendation that foreigners be wooed here to use healthcare services. Stressing that public-sector hospitals would concentrate
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    • Article, Illustration
      42 2 About 7,000 people raised more than $300,000 for cancer research and the Singapore Cancer Society during the Terry Fox Run at Sentosa yesterday. Runners could take a 4km or B.Bkm route. Many stayed on fora concert after the run
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    • 219 2  -  By Yvonne Kwok WOMEN in business. Women in film. Women in charity. For the first time in the Asia-Pacific region, a multi-activity showcase for women of excellence will be held in Singapore. Women Inspire 2002 will run from Nov 27 to Dec 1 and aims to
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    • 140 2 ONE KIND ACT K Radhakrishnan MY wife and I had a happy experience recently after a taxi ride from Excelsior Hotel to Amber Gardens, at about 9.30 pm. After the taxi drove off, we realised that my wife had left her handbag in it.
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    • 304 3  -  Non-Muslims maybe included, says Yaacob Ibrahim By_ Wendy Tan DR YAACOB IBRAHIM, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, looks one step closer to achieving his long-term vision of establishing a Malay/Muslim community of excellence. In this vision, Singapore Malay/Muslims would embrace modernity and development while drawing strength
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    • 180 3  -  By Gary Lim A TEENAGER was battered and bloodied in a fight, police said. Nine students aged from 13 to 15 watched on Friday as their 14-year-old friend battered another 14-year-old at an open field in Jalan Raya. The beaten boy suffered facial injuries.
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    • 120 3  -  Gary Lim THE highly decomposed body of a middle-aged Chinese man was found'on Saturday morning in a cargo container which served as a make-shift dwelling. The container, measuring about 5m by 2m, was located in bushes at Jalan Asas, near Upper Bukit Timah Road. A
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    • 167 3 THE police are recruiting senior citizens to help fight crime. They will not pack guns or batons, but will deal out something that could be as good advice. The “neighbourhood ambassadors” 31 of them picked by the police will give other old people
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    • 255 4  -  Where S’poreans can pick up business skills Deepa Vijiyasingam COOPERATIVES could be a hotbed for producing future Singapore entrepreneurs because they provide an environment where people can pick up business skills and hone their acumen. Senior Minister of State (Transport and Information, Communications and the Arts)
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    • 477 4  - ‘Bo chap’ bosses... and one who wasn’t Zubaidah Nazeer They must change their attitude or get left behind BOSSES, if you want to engage your staff, the onus is on you to act now. Otherwise, said Mr Peter Block, who spoke at a conference last week on creating great places
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  • STREATS financial
    • 527 6  -  US stocks still too expensive, says growing camp of pessimists Analysis By ROBERT DDETERICH Bloomberg NEW YORK US stocks, already headed to losses this year, are likely to keep falling next year as well, a leading analyst has said. If the prediction is true, it
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    • 166 6 -AFP SYDNEY After watching the US accounting scandals and protesting that “it can’t happen here”, Australia is moving to clean up the country’s corporate culture. The measures go beyond what even some of the government’s staunchest critics expected, including making company directors
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    • 24 6 *AS AT SEPTEMBER 20 US$: 551.776 552.760 EURO: 551.750 ss: 69.17 YEN Ss: RM2.139 Ss: HK54.391 Ss: 24.35 BAHT Ss: 5,081 RUPIAH
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    • 563 6 The stock recommendation is the average of all the recommendations submitted by analysts following the stock. There is a total of 29 brokers submitting recommendations but not every stock is followed by ail the 29 brokers. Their recommendations are placed on a 1 to 5 points scale and
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  • STREATS medical
    • 143 8 QMy six-year-old daughter’s nails turn dark purple when she’s cold. Should she see a doctor? A When the hands and feet get cold, blood circulation slows. The decreased blood flow helps conserve body heat. But the arms and legs still require oxygen supplied by the blood. The blood
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    • 301 8 Reuters LONDON A new British study seems to back concerns that treatment taken by women to relieve menopause symptoms increases the risk of breast cancer and stroke. A review of four major studies into the effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
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    • 178 8 Reuters BALTIMORE Women with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection who smoke have a much higher cervical cancer risk than infected women who don’t smoke, according to a report last week in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. There are more
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    • 187 8 LONDON A British team has come up with a “Star Trekstyle” device which measures vital health signs without touching the skin, BBC Online reported on Friday. Researchers at Loughborough University, near Leicester, think the device could be used to measure blood flow, monitor the heart
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 213 11 AS if it was not shocking enough to learn months ago of some insane people’s plans to damage the peace and sanctity of safe Singapore, now we are told of more arrests and more such plans. This shows that this group is not small
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    • 105 11 THE oil companies are fast to raise petrol pump prices, citing rising oil prices as a reason, but are too slow to cut them when oil prices reverse. I think it’s time to take away these companies’ rights to operate petrol stations or fix pump
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    • 89 11 FURTHER to “Off-peak usage rethink means tax rethink” (Streats, Sept 20), a letter by the Land Transport Authority’s Han Liang Yuan. If tax concessions must be reviewed so that off-peak car owners can use their cars before 3pm on Saturdays without buying a
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    • 201 11 I REFER to “Bring private schools in line” (Streats, Sept 20), a letter by Mr Toh Lye Huat. We agree that quality standards must be maintained by private schools. Sometime in April this year, we discovered that our partnering Australian university had misrepresented important facts to us
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    • 320 11 IN “HDB must tighten its belt to avoid axe” (A Business Times article reproduced in Streats, Sept 18), the writer, Lee Han Shih, states that the Housing Development Board’s wage bill grew to $533.8 million in financial year 2001/2002, although staff strength was reduced
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    • 72 11 Have Your Say E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be deemed that
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  • STREATS regional
    • 253 13 Asean, partners discuss enhancing energy security AP OSAKA East and South-east Asian nations yesterday agreed to explore the idea of stockpiling oil to cushion against supply disruptions. Ministers of Asean, Japan, South Korea and China held their first-ever talks on regional oil security on the
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    • 101 13 ap OSAKA The European Union backed the United States yesterday in the dispute over high oil prices, saying Washington’s talk of waging war in Iraq was not to blame for the recent increase. “To blame the Americans over the price of the oil
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    • 103 13 Reuters OSAKA Powerful energy watchdog the International Energy Agency will not order the release of emergency oil reserves if a war on Iraq stops only Iraqi exports. “No, I don’t think so, no, because we have had such an erratic performance in output
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    • 170 13 -AFP BEIJING More than 200 people fell ill in two separate food poisoning outbreaks in China just a week after 38 died from eating food laced with rat poison, state media said yesterday. In southern China’s Guangdong province, 106 residents from Longshi
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    • Article, Illustration
      32 13 Women who certainly will not need any help popping champagne corks to celebrate a win competed for the World’s Strongest Woman 2002 title in Kuala Lumpur at the weekend A
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    • 159 13 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia yesterday asked the US to provide evidence to support a warning about travelling to Jogjakarta. The US embassy on Friday cautioned Americans and other Westerners to be vigilant against attacks in the Central Java town. Indonesian Vice-President Hamzah
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    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
      • 61 13 -AFP A LEADER of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and 117 of his men have surrendered, the Philippine army said yesterday. MILF commander Amer Pangandaman “voluntarily” gave up himself and his men along with 98 assorted firearms and explosives to the army’s 29th Infantry
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      • 86 13 -AFP THE death toll from a blast at a fireworks factory in central Java rose to 16 with many of the victims women workers, hospital staff said yesterday. Eighteen people were also injured in Saturday’s explosion at the storeroom of a house-factory in Kalibakung, 320 km
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      • 58 13 Reuters MALAYSIA will send a mission to Indonesia to determine the cause of forest fires, Bemama reported yesterday. A team of experts will visit Kalimantan next week following a meeting between Malaysian Environment Minister Law Hieng Ding and his Indonesian counterpart Nabiel Makarim at this month’s
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  • STREATS global
    • 306 14 Israeli siege prompts widespread protests Reuters RAMALLAH Israeli forces cut off water, telephones and power to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s devastated headquarters yesterday, tightening a siege that is intended to isolate him, but which has prompted widespread protests in his support. Israeli troops shot dead four
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    • 166 14 Reuters MISHAWAKA, Indiana A woman caught on videotape beating her four-year-old daughter in a shopping centre parking lot surrendered to police on Saturday with the child. Madelyne Gorman Toogood, 25, was charged with felony battery in the attack on her daughter, Martha, said police
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    • 142 14 -AFP JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said that Mr Yasser Arafat is “finished”, in his latest jab at the Palestinian leader, the Maariv newspaper reported yesterday. Mr Sharon made his comments during a phone conversation with Palestinian parliament speaker Ahmed Qorei on Saturday,
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    • 275 14 Wire services BERLIN Germans voted yesterday in a closely fought general election. The results are crucial to reviving Europe’s sluggish lead economy, its role in any Iraq war and a developing crisis in relations with the US. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s emphatic stand against threatening war to
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    • 109 14 -AFP DUBAI Cellphones fitted with cameras may be the latest rage, but a 25-year-old from the United Arab Emirates found it to be a very expensive hobby after a court fined him U 551,360 (552,421) for invasion of privacy. The Gulf News said yesterday that
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
      • 50 14 AP RUSSIAN officials said yesterday that an avalanche in the Caucasus may have killed 150 people. Earlier, officials said 17 villagers whose houses had been destroyed were considered dead, even though their bodies had not been found. Ninety-four people were reported missing by relatives, officials said. ap
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      • 48 14 AUSTRALIA’S Southern Cross University is to set up a College of Surfing, the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday. Diploma students on a one-year course will take 25 hours of surfing each term and be taught the meaning of words such as “grommet”, “drop-in”, “shark biscuits” and “goofy feet”.
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      • 42 14 -AFP FIFTEEN people have been killed in Kashmir, two days ahead of the second round of voting for the state assembly, Indian police said yesterday. Among those killed were 10 Muslim rebels shot dead in clashes with police. afp
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    • FLASHPOINT IRAQ
      • 247 16 BAGHDAD Iraq’s deputy prime minister has said that Baghdad will not accept any new resolutions from the United Nations about weapons inspectors in the country. According to a report in The Times yesterday, Mr Tariq Aziz told British correspondents at an interview in Baghdad: “We
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      • 243 16 -AFP UNITED NATIONS -A timetable by chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix for returning to Iraq has added urgency to US efforts to drive a tough new resolution through the Security Council, which will go into overdrive this week. The US is likely to submit
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      • 180 16 WASHINGTON As the Bush administration moves towards a possible attack on Iraq, a consensus has begun to emerge among Pentagon war planners that the US should conduct a narrowly focused but extremely intense attack that will be radically different from the 1991 Gulf War, reported
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      • 105 16 Reuters NEW YORK The White House has been told by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that his government plans to retaliate if Iraq attacks Israel, the New York Times reported yesterday. Mr Sharon’s statement, quoted by sources, represented a reversal in Israeli thinking since
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  • easy STREATS
    • 370 18  -  Foodie two-shoes Bj WILEEN CHANG For adventurous crab-crazy gourmands you don’t have to stick to just chilli, pepper or butter sauce. Food outlets are coming up with new ways to serve Singapore’s favourite seafood HOW many ways can you cook crab? Singaporeans who continue to swear
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    • TIDBITS
      • 134 18 Old Racecourse Seafood Restaurant 200 Turf Club Road #O3-06, Turf City Tel: 6875 0298 STIR-ffied Australian snow crab with black pepper and French goose liver sauce. That’s a new recipe from Old Racecourse Seafood Restaurant, part of the seafood hypermart under the Unique Seafood umbrella. The Australian
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      • 89 18 Hai Tien Lo The Pan Pacific, 7 Raffles Boulevard Tel: 6826 8338 INSTEAD of sipping on champagne while you feast on seafood, Hai Tien Lo chefs are cooking it in the bubbly. A firm favourite is steamed crab claws with egg white and champagne sauce ($18). The
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    • 161 18 Reuters ROME A film in two ancient tongues with no subtitles hardly sounds like the recipe for a hit movie, but Mel Gibson thinks language should be no barrier. The Austrlian actor, a devout Catholic, is set to make his directorial debut with a
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    • 116 18 MOSCOW Pop star Lance Bass is back at Russia’s cosmonaut centre and will start a new training session today. However, he is still excluded from the crew of a rocket heading to the international space station next month. Yuri Nikiforov, general director of Atlas Airspace,
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    • 75 18 NICOLE Kidman’s next role could be nose-wrinkling and spell-casting. According to E!Online, the Australian actress, is in talks to appear as the charming housewifely witch Samantha, in a film version of the 1960 s TV series Bewitched. There are also reports that the producers’ top choice
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    • 132 20 HERE’S a particularly bright “never quit” tale to start your working week. When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2,000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said: “I
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    • Just a minute
      • 138 20 Can’t beat the pirates, join ’em. Beijaya HVN (S) Pte Ltd is offering two recent movies on VCD at pirate prices $12.90 each. The VCDs and they are originals, too A Beautiful Mind and Scorpion King are being sold at the bigger VCD retail shops. If you
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    • Happenin'
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        175 20 TANYA CHUA University Cultural Centre, NUS Oct 11, 730pm Ticket information at www.musicmovement.com.sg Local songbird Tanya Chua will perform tracks from her third English album Jupiter, which is available at HMV and Borders. For every CD purchase from Sept 30 to Oct 11, shoppers will receive a pair of
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      • 50 20 CHILDREN’S DAY FIESTA 2002 Turf City Sept 27-Octl lpm-10.30pm Tickets $l6 Ride the Wild Octopus, bumper cars or the gravitydefying trampoline bungee. During the five-day fiesta, there will be lots activities to keep you occupied. Also, there are prizes to be won in many exciting contests, along with giveaways.
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        69 20 BOEING BOEING Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel Oct 1-20, 3pm and Bpm Tickets $2l, $26, $36, $46 at Sistic This two-hour play directed by Glen Goei is about Bernard, a swinging yuppie bachelor, who juggles with three flight attendant girlfriends. He relies on his faithful housemaid Imelda to change the
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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      • 30 21 6pm, Channel i Watch this show and stay on the cutting edge with what’s new with mobile phones. Cue Gizmos looks at the latest mobile phones and mobile messaging.
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      • 61 21 10pm, Channel i In this 1993 film, a utility worker is given a second chance at first love when he falls back in love with his ex-wife. Gus dreams of re-doing his neighbourhood bowling alley, and tries to marry his wife off so he can stop paying*
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      • 47 21 7pm, Channel 5 An aging billionaire and a fashion photographer having an affair with the rich man’s wife must struggle against the elements including a man-eating bear after their plane goes down in the Alaskan wild. Stars Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin and Elle Macpherson.
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      • 29 21 12am, Channel i Can’t sleep? Watch highlights of games in which grown men kick a ball around a field and other grown-ups roar in the stands.
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      • 42 21 10.30 pm, Channel 5 Missed the first telecast this morning? This one’s a repeat. Meanwhile, winners of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards were announced at the Shrine Auditorium on Sept 14, honouring TV’s top talent behind the camera.
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      • 244 21 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO Movie directors, have asked a federal court to stop companies re-editing their films into “family” versions, saying this violates artistic freedom and copyright law. The Directors Guild of America, the union representing Hollywood directors, said it asked the court last Friday
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    • Article, Illustration
      115 21 EMMA SHAPPLIN Ettema SHE is French, but sings in Italian. Romantic, mysterious and passionate are the words to describe this 12-track album, which includes her hit 1998 album Carmine Meo. This soprano crossed over to the dance world when her recording of Spente Le Stelle was given a
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    • 304 22 Los Angeles Times GO on and pack up most of those gypsy-style clothes in your wardrobe the bohemian look seems to be over. According to Joseph Teklits, an analyst with Wachovia Securities, hippie chic style, with its soft, flouncing skirts and scooped neck blouses with
      – Los Angeles Times  -  304 words

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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 441 20 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Begin your week with power and a plan. Being overly dramatic serves your purposes well. The people who think you’re serious will do just about anything you ask. There’s no reason not to take advantage of the situation. FEB 19-MAR
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  • STREATS sports
    • 556 24  -  Outgoing SSC chief optimistic about Singapore’s Asiad chances Adam Hashidy SAILING, table tennis, bodybuilding, bowling and swimming have the potential to prise open Aladdin’s cave at the Asian Games. That is the view of outgoing Singapore Sports Council chairman Ng Ser Miang, who will step down
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    • 356 24 -afp BEIJING China will be gunning for four of the seven gold medals at the Asian Games badminton tournament, but will be severely tested at what is going to be a world-class event. “We hope that we can bag three or four of the seven
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    • 468 25  -  Chai, who competed in three disciplines, is role model for athletes By \Adam Hashidy SHE took part in six South-east Asia Games, but did hot win a single gold. Yet her name cropped up repeatedly in Ng Ser Miang’s farewell interview with Streats. The outgoing chairman
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    • 193 25 EILEEN Chai, 24, made her name in three different sports gymnastics, athletics and diving. In a career punctuated with injuries, she was always known for her indomitable spirit. The multi-talented athlete made six South-east Asia (SEA) Games appearances, the first of which was as a gymnast
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    • 405 25 Wire services BLACKBURN Leeds United missed the chance to go second in the English Premier League yesterday when it was deservedly beaten 0-1 by Blackburn Rovers. The game was decided in the 24th minute when Garry Flitcroft turned in a Keith Gillespie cross. It came
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    • 583 26 Arsenal survives goalkeeper’s third blunder in three months Wire services LONDON Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger absolved David Seaman of blame after his latest goalkeeping mishap, as he hailed Nwankwo Kanu for his character in securing Arsenal a last-gasp winner against 10-man Bolton Wanderers. Kanu’s dramatic injury-time intervention
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    • 231 26 Arsenal 2 (Henry 26, Kanu 90) Bolton 1 (Farrelly 47) Liverpool 2 (Baros 56, Riise 90) West Brom 0 k Manchester United 1 (van Nistelrooy 63-pen) Tottenham 0 k Middlesbrough 1 (Queudrue 29) Birmingham 0 k Newcastle 2 (Bellamy 2, Shearer 39) Sunderland 0 k Southampton 0 Charlton
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    • 170 26 Reuters LONDON Arsene Wenger can foresee the day he leads out an Arsenal team to play a European club match against Real Madrid in a stadium in the Far East. With clubs looking at ways of generating new income, the Arsenal manager believes Europe’s top
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    • 540 27 Newcastle goalkeeper blunders but recovers just in time Wire services NEWCASTLE Newcastle goalkeeper Shay Given almost did a Peter Enckelman against Sunderland on Saturday. Aston Villa’s Enckelman conceded an own goal in its 0-3 loss to Birmingham last week, after he let a simple throw-in
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    • 246 27 -afp MADRID Africa’s male athletes celebrated an unprecented fourth success in the athletics World Cup here on Saturday, while controversial Russian runner Olga Yegorova inspired her country to its first women’s crown with only her second win in nine races. Europe had fought a titanic duel
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        • 92 27 Reuters MADRID Barcelona beat Espanyol 2-0 at the Nou Camp on Saturday, while Real Madrid eased to a 4-1 victory at home to Osasuna. Barca struggled early on against its city rival, but second-half goals from Patrick Kluivert and Luis Enrique clinched the derby win. With two wins
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        • 72 27 -AFP ROME Alessandro Del Piero and Filippo Inzaghi were both on target for the second successive weekend on Saturday as champion Juventus and AC Milan kept up their perfect starts to the new Italian championship. Del Piero scored both goals in his side’s 2-0 win at newly-promoted Empoli
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      • 73 27 GOLF AP TAIPEI Malaysian golfer Danny Chia shot a four-under-par 68 yesterday to win the NTS 10.4 million (*****,150) Acer Taiwan Open. Chia, who was seven strokes behind overnight leader Taiwan’s Hsieh Yu-shu at the start of the day, claimed a two-stroke victory with a total
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