Streats, 6 July 2004

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  • 10 1 Streats Tuesday, july 6, 2004 E-mail; streats@sph.com„sg mita <p> 196/03/2004
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  • Article, Illustration
    701 1  -  Retirees such as PSAs Subramaniam inspire others by taking the plunge into private enterprise Choong Choon Yee SOMETIMES entrepreneurship begins after reaching retirement age. And sometimes big opportunities follow. This was the case for Mr MMJ Subramaniam. At an age when many others would be taking it
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    • 171 1 Str i 4 JULY 6, 2CV;: E-mail: streats@sph .com.sg mita <p) 196/03/2004 fepreneurs er status i caotain v SGX snub does not deter Tan Sze Wee from pursuing interest in biotech company Creditor’s objections upheld, so actress Jacelyn Tay remains 'g\ on bankrupt list n Skipper The© Zagorakis is the
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  • Morning Rush
    • 386 2  -  NUS student’s father ailing since she Ur r >v" was 7 By Sarah Ng GRADUATION day will be an occasion tinged with sadness for National University of Singapore (NUS) student Reginia Loh. It will be a reminder of the absence of her father,
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    • 301 3 Supporters giving Iraqi rebels millions earned from smuggling oil, arms: report -AFP Baghdad Low-level violence continued to plague Iraq yesterday, a week after the country regained sovereignty, as the interim government was readying a limited amnesty for those who have supported the resistance. The unrelenting insurgency
      -AFP; Reuters  -  301 words
    • 349 4  -  Indonesians in S pore will be the first to know who is leading By Pradeep Rajan NORMALLY a late riser, Singaporebased Indonesian finance executive Sujatmi will be up earlier than usual today. That is because she hopes to be up by the
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    • 196 4 Wire services JAKARTA Indonesia’s election chief ordered a nationwide recount of ballot papers in yesterday’s presidential election after millions of them inadvertently became invalid. Telexes had been sent out across the country to inform electoral officials that ballots which are technically invalid must be
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    • 88 4 -AFP JAKARTA Front-runner Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cast his ballot yesterday in Indonesia’s first direct presidential election and warned of the threat of violence if the contest goes to a second-round runoff. The ex-general, who had 43.5 per cent support in a survey published last week, needs
      -AFP  -  88 words
    • 376 6  -  Creditor Kim Eng succeeds in stopping actress’ discharge By_ Lee Choo Kiong ACTRESS Jacelyn Tay, declared a bankrupt in 2000, will remain so for another two years. This followed action at the High Court last week by a creditor, stock brokerage Ong and Company,
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    • 430 6  -  On the cusp of starting her career, Teong Su Kwangfound out she had lupus. Yet she soldiered on, touching the lives of children Streats jfl jf ri lrj I By_ Christopher Lim SHE was in her 20s and had just graduated from the National
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    • 219 6  -  By_ Sarah Ng AS National Day Parade creative director Glen Goei watched the three Chinook helicopters fly over the National Stadium, with one of them bearing the national flag suspended under it, he shook his head and muttered: “Too fast, too fast.” He was referring
      Ashlelgh Sim  -  219 words
    • 95 6 Three pairs tickets to the NDP preview on July 31 are up for grabs this week. Simply answer this question: What is the theme of this year’s National Day Parade? Call Audiotext at 1900-911-0005 by midnight tonight and follow the steps to key
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    • 136 8 BUZZSTOP GIRLS stole the show in science awards handed out by the Institute of Physics, Singapore (IPS) yesterday. Boys have in the past dominated the awards given by IPS, which seeks to promote the study of physics here, but yesterday girls bagged
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    • 45 8  -  Text and picture by Ashieigh Sim Jaime Gilley of the US Air Force Band of the Asia-Pacific performing at Jurong Library yesterday. He is part of the seven-member band on a goodwill tour of Singapore. Text and picture by Ashieigh Sim
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    • 143 8 Scheme to cost govt s3m Janice Wong THE Singapore Land Authority (SLA) will continue to give rental relief rebates of 10 per cent plus 10 per cent to its eligible tenants. This means they are getting an additional 10 per cent rebate for their monthly rent
      – Janice Wong  -  143 words
    • 157 8 CNB shifts attention to ‘party drugs’ THE Central Narcotics Bureau will shift its focus from street operations to nightclub raids in a bid to crack down on increasingly popular “party drugs”. Raids on nightspots in the first half of this year numbered 23, compared to only
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    • 145 8 US study makes key finding Reuters A BRAIN enzyme known to be involved in mood disorders may be in short supply in the brains of teenage suicide victims, US researchers said yesterday. Whether the lack of the enzyme, protein kinase C (PKC), was a cause
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    • 90 8 AFP SINGAPORE Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong will receive India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding during a three-day visit there, an official said yesterday. Mr Goh is due to arrive in New Delhi on Thursday. He will be the first foreign head of
      – AFP  -  90 words
    • 91 8 SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew has discontinued a libel suit against former president Devan Nair after doctors diagnosed Mr Nair as suffering from the early stages of dementia, The Straits Times reports today. A Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail, also a defendant in the suit,
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    • 109 8 THE estate of a woman who died of breast cancer is suing the late diet guru Robert Atkins for negligent advice that resulted in her death. Ms Carol Rubick died of breast cancer last January after receiving five years of “alternative” treatments at the Atkins Center
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    • 72 8 DEGREES from reputed British educational institutions are available for a price, London’s Guardian newspaper reported yesterday. The Guardian said that a British website is offering fake degrees, GCSEs and A-levels that appear to be from genuine academic institutions. The forged qualifications range from medical and
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  • Financial
    • 529 10  -  Business partners aim to make public toilet seat-cover dispensers catch on here By Choong Choon Yee USING the public toilet can sometimes be a balancing act or even callisthenics. With the disgusting state of some loos, sitting on the throne is not as
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    • 317 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom, which is being forced by the Government to lower prices on some services, may see rivals such as AT&T Corp gain from the ruling. The country’s dominant operator on most phone services lost an appeal on an earlier ruling that
      – Bloomberg  -  317 words
    • 133 10 MEDIA group Singapore Press Holdings has launched a competition to honour the best in print advertisements and raise awareness of creativity in the advertising industry. The SPH Ink Awards will be an annual, year-long competition that culminates in an industry-wide gala prize presentation ceremony. Said Mr
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    • 104 10 Bloomberg SEOUL Temasek Holdings has increased its stake in South Korea’s Hana Bank, displacing Allianz of Germany as the biggest shareholder. Angelica Investments, a Temasek subsidiary, held a combined 5.48 per cent stake in Hana along with two affiliates as of July 2, the Seoul-based South Korean
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    • 89 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Capita Land said yesterday that it would build 600 housing units on a newly acquired residential plot worth U 5525.7 million (5543.7 million) in China’s southern Guangzhou city. The development will expand Capita Land’s focus from Shanghai and Beijing to Guangdong, a wealthy province bordering
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    • 526 11  -  Tan Sze Wee’s Rockeby biomed Corp was rejected for a Sesdaq listing in 2002. But that didn’t faze the doctor CEO. Last year his company got on the ASX w By_ Janice Wong BEING spumed by the Singapore Exchange in *OO2 was the lowest point
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    • 317 12 Dragmaker opens $209 R&D centre, plans to expand manufacturing in S’pore Wire services SINGAPORE Novartis AG, the world’s fifth-largest seller of prescription drugs, is looking to expand production in Singapore under a strategy to grow internally rather than by large takeovers. “Overwhelmingly, growth will come organically,”
      – Wire services; Bloomberg  -  317 words
    • 234 12 -AP SINGAPORE The head of Swissbased drug giant Novartis says it’s a “headache” to comply with new US corporate rules enacted in Washington in the wake of high-profile accounting scandals that shook investor confidence. Chief executive Daniel Vasella said that the new rules are onerous
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    • 274 12 Bloomberg HONG KONG Credit Suisse Group’s top China banker Wei Christianson is quitting the bank, the second senior executive to leave following the departure of co-chief executive John Mack. Ms Christianson, who was made chairman of Credit Suisse Group’s investment banking unit in China in
      – Bloomberg  -  274 words
    • 170 12 -AFP TEHERAN Iran’s car producers are fast heading to annual production levels of one million units and are hoping to emerge as a top regional supplier, industry officials said. “The various car constructors will this year produce one million cars, which still
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    • 27 12 STI: 1,862.75 23.42 •AS AT JUL 5 US$: 551.713 553.139 EURO: 552.109 Ss: 63.44 YEN Ss: RM2.218 Ss: HK54.552 Ss: 23.78 BAHT Ss: 5,329 RUPIAH
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    • 470 14 Oppenheimer scion now MD of South African operations -AFP JOHANNESBURG The great-grandson of the man who shaped the world’s most powerful diamond company has taken one step closer to the throne by becoming the managing director of De Beers’ operations in South Africa.
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  • Comment
    • 719 15  -  By LEE CHOO KIONG I HEARD over the radio the other day that some 23,300 abandoned pets and stray animals were rounded up in Singapore last year but only 9 per cent were adopted. This means that for every 10 strays rounded
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  • Vocal
    • 289 16 WE wish to clarify certain issues and possible misperceptions that could arise from the article, “Convent girls confess” (Streats, July 1). Coming from an Infant Jesus (IJ) school ourselves, we feel compelled to refute certain comments that cast us all in a bad
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    • 214 16 I REFER to the letters by Benny Tan (“Be patient using escalator”, Streats, June 30) and Cecilia Shepherdson (“Use the stairs to overtake”, Streats, July 1). Contrary to what Mr Tan said, there is space to pass someone on an escalator without bumping into
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    • 268 16 I DISAGREE with Minister of State for Education and Community Development and Sports Chan Soo Sen, who thinks that a solution to the problem of mainland Chinese prostitutes coming here is to dampen demand among Singaporean men. He was quoted as saying, “Ultimately, it
      The New Paper  -  268 words
    • 162 16 MS Jennifer R Dodd’s warning “Don’t fall for the widespread spam lottery scam” (Streats, July 2) about scams originating mainly from Nigeria comes rather late in the day. I have filed away more than 20 of these “invitations”, received over a period of more
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    • 70 16 MY young son was bursting to relieve himself when I took him to a women’s public toilet in a shopping mall recently, but there were six women ahead of us. My son was making it plain that his need was urgent, but not one of
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    • 85 16 HA'/:- YOUR SAY E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre, 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
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  • Global
    • 363 18 Widely available materials could be used, say experts AP KUALA LUMPUR A 1 Qaeda-linked terrorist groups such as Jemaah Islamiah (JI) may try to launch biological or chemical attacks against US allies and secular Muslim governments in Asia using widely available materials,
      – AP  -  363 words
    • 257 18 -AFP MANILA The Philippine education system is facing a crisis. And this is best dramatised by the foetid, brown floodwaters that invade the gates of the biggest public high school in the Philippines capital the Ramon Magsaysay High School, named after the Philippines’ most popular president.
      -AFP; AFP  -  257 words
    • 269 18 -AFP TAIPEI A leading Taiwan entrepreneur yesterday urged local businessmen investing in China not to advocate the island’s independence to keep their mainland interests intact. Mr Kao Chin-yen, chief of food giant Uni-President, also called on the governments of Taiwan and China to end 50
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    • 309 19 Lawyers, programmers claim patents too broadly defined, threaten innovation NEW YORK Ten patents have been identified by a coalition of lawyers, researchers and software experts as being overly broad and threatening to stifle innovation, reported the New York Times yesterday. The coalition, formed by
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    • 179 19 Reuters BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told fruit growers last year that free trade with China would open up a giant market with insatiable demand. Nine months later, fruit trader Bantoon Jiraratanakul is still waiting to see the benefits. He had hoped to
      – Reuters  -  179 words
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  • Medical
    • 320 20 LONDON Fears are growing in the UK that a pill that lets users remain awake for long periods may be abused. The fears were sparked after Britain’s medicines and healthcare products regulatory agency decided to loosen the restrictions on who can be prescribed
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    • 164 20 Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES It’s an unlikely place to even think about exercising, crammed into an airplane seat barely big enough to hold a human, a magazine and a bottle of water. Yet one airline is promoting its seats as perfect places to
      – Los Angeles Times  -  164 words
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    • 360 20 USQ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND Leader in Distance Learning in Australia j 7 always knew that I wanted to work with children but never realized that I could find a suitable course that could help me make a career out of it until I heard about USQ's psychology programme. Ms.
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  • EasyStreats
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      528 21 Three NS buddies with a passion for drawing tell ZUBAIDAH NAZEERjust howfar theyve come in a mere three years I iKlig ETpicture. YOU could say that national service was the best thing that happened to the three directors of animation company Scrawl Studios. It wasn’t the shared suffering
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    • 262 21 SPIDER-MAN 2 has soared off the record books in Singapore. The sequel took in an amazing $2.5 million in its opening weekend here, blasting previous record-holder, 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which earned $1.6 million in its three-day opening weekend. The movie, which opened
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    • 461 22  -  In transit By JANICE WONG WHOEVER says money can’t buy happiness or heal a broken heart has never been to Tiffany Co or splurged on a French manicure. A month after my break-up with a boyfriend in April, I bought a Tiffany open heart ring
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    • Article, Illustration
      402 23  -  By. 'Amy Van FOR those seeking low-fat, healthy dining, Le Meriden Hotel is offering a mushroom promotion from today till July 9. Executive chef Robin Sing says that he likes using mushrooms because of their nutritional value and because there are so many varieties to choose from. For
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    • 125 23 FROM today till Saturday, Town Restaurant is featuring a Hong Kong Food Festival promotion with a la carte and set menus for lunch and dinner. Diners will be able to savour creations prepared by guest chef Frankie Yim from Island Pacific Hotel, Hong Kong. Dishes
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    • 370 26 FORMER One Nation leader Pauline Hanson demanded to be present for the photo shoot when her daughter Lee decided to strip down to her bikini for men’s magazine, Ralph. “I said I want to be there,” she told Channel 9, adding that she ruled out
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    • 248 26  -  By Liza Lin SINGAPOREANS can get a first-hand taste of each other’s cultures in a festival showcasing cultural activities such as weddings, dances, operas and film. The highlight of this event will be the enactment of traditional Chinese, Indian, Malay and Christian weddings by Greenridge Primary School
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    • 117 27 THE heat is on in Alaska. But cool, humid weather on Sunday helped slow the advance of a fire that caused the evacuation of hundreds of homes and businesses in Alaska’s interior. The fire, started on June 13 by lightning, is considered 15 per I cent
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        46 27 7.30 pm, Channel i In this premiering episode, Melody Chen plays Wendy, who has just hit 30. Deciding it’s time she got hitched, she trys all sorts of things in her frantic search for Mr Right. A comic look at singlehood, romance, babies and marriage.
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      • 30 27 10pm, Central Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) and his equally neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall (Diana Keaton) are portrayed in this Oscar-winning film.
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    • Happenin’
      • Article, Illustration
        57 27 SHADOWHOUSES Friday Saturday, 3pm/Bpm Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel Tickets at $32, $22 (students) from Sistic Shadowhouses, an evocative dance-theatre requiem to wars against terror, returns to Singapore. Presented by The Arts Fission Company and choreographed by artistic director Angela Liong, this critically acclaimed restaged production includes a brand new
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      • 56 27 ASIAN CUISINE AND WINE PAIRING Wednesday, 7pTn -9pm Cafe at-Sunrice Fort Canning Park Cost: $95 per person Savour at-Sunrice’s eclectic pan-Asian menu which is paired off with excellent wines under the stars at Fort Canning Park. Match fresh herbs and spices to different wines as you learn the
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    • 315 23 California State University, Hayward You’ve Outlined Your Dream Career j The challenge of juggling a career and advanced full-time studies brings out the best one can be. The faculty was certainly knowledgeable in their respective areas of expertise. They all had a diverse background and wealth of experience in both
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    • 25 27 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191-Please check with organisers for latest status of events.
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 472 27 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20 -FEB 18 Change your strategy, change your attitude and you just might change the outcome. Sounds crazy, but it just might work. Run your plan by some trusted friends and allies. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 You were right after all. The
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  • Sports
    • UEFA Euro 2004 PORTUGAL
      • 438 29 Zagorakis leads from the front in Greece’s ultimate sporting triumph U PORTUGAL o GREECE i Wire services LISBON The best known Greek abroad used to be Theo Kojak, the fictional lollipop-sucking bald chief of detectives in a New York precinct in the TV drama. On Sunday, Greece captain
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      • 250 29 Wire services ATHENS Greeks woke up hoarse and bleary eyed yesterday after all-night parties celebrating their Euro 2004 victory, with the country’s prime minister urging them to continue the mood through to the Olympic Games. The 57th-minute winner by Angelos Charisteas was a header, but for
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      • 144 30 AFP LISBON Five members of the winning Greek team were included in the squad of the best players of Euro 2004 chosen by Uefa yesterday. Goalkeeper Antonios Nikopolidis, defenders Traianos Dellas and Georgios Seitaridis, captain Theodoros Zagorakis and Angelos Charisteas were all named in the
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      • 292 30 Loss aside, Portuguese players proud of achievement pg dTi ##s if n OFFFF FINAL m milk m lb# mJfI JPH Mam %J 'InnEE wS JL -AFP LISBON Despite the tears shed after the heart-wrenching loss, Portuguese players walked out of the Luz Stadium with their heads held
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    • 295 31 AFP CHARLEROI, Belgium For Lance Armstrong, the first stage proper of the Tour de France must have been a relative bore. The American five-time winner emerged unscathed from a calamitous 202.5 km ride from Liege to here. Veteran sprinter Jaan Kirsipuu (left), of the
      – AFP; AFP  -  295 words
    • 439 31  -  Guangzhou-based F&B company’s team keen to play in Singapore By Tan Kim Han SUNRAY Cave Group, a Chinese company with football clubs in China and Hong Kong, are keen to play in Singapore’s S-League. The Guangzhou-based food and beverage company have already got a team in the
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    • 91 31 FOOTBALL -AFP LIMA Brazil has all but admitted that it will only go through the motions in the Copa America, which kicks off here today. Said coach Carlos Alberto Parreira: “The Copa America is simply a fixture in the calendar. If Brazil wins or loses the Copa America,
      -AFP  -  91 words
    • GOLF
      • 110 31 -AFP LEMONT, Illinois Tiger Woods failed to defend his title at the Western Open, shooting an even-par 71 on Sunday that left him tied for seventh on 279. But he said he’s getting comfortable with his new driver heading into the British Open. “I’m hitting out of my
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      • 89 31 -AFP SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts American Meg Mallon won her second US Women’s Open title, shooting a 6-under-par 65 en route to the best final round in history by an Open champ. It lifted her to 10-under 274. Sweden’s Annika Sorenstam (67) birdied the final two holes to finish
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