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  • 67 1 Week&uC RHW MICA (P) 207/09/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 October 9 10, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you VMCH£ RHW MICA (P) 207/09/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 October 9-10, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking OCTOBER 9 10, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF Saturday, OctOber 9,
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  • 329 2 KUALA LUMPUR In a surprise move, Malaysian state-owned investment firm Khazanah Nasional has replaced Iskandar Investment Berhad (IIB) president and CEO Arlida Ariff before her contract was set to end in December. While speculation had been rife that Ms Arlida’s three-year contract would not be renewed,
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  • 505 2 Imprisoned Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize likely to anger Chinese government AGENCIES OSLO Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, 54, won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights” a prize likely to enrage the Chinese government.
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  • THE BIG STORY
    • 1100 4  -  Fewer Singapore parents encourage their children to be independent VENESSA LEE venessa@mediacorp.com.sg REPORTING BY NG HUIWEN, MICHELLE KWARA, JACLYNYING AND ERIKA FOO ONE child is left unsupervised in a public space. Another is accompanied by a parent at all times, outside school. Both
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    • 439 5  -  VENESSA LEE A heightened appreciation of fear might kick in with the arrival of your firstborn, possibly when you first watch him sleep. You’re checking that his little chest heaves as it should, signalling that Everything Is All Right. Full-blown, however, parental anxiety
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    • 361 5 AP parent?After SHANGHAI The authorities in Shanghai, China’s largest city, have ordered that families be allowed to buy only one home each, as part of a series of moves aimed at cooling surging property prices. “One family in Shanghai, whether local or
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  • NEWS
    • 244 6 HOYEEN NIE, BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE The next five years will see more funds going into the biomedical sciences sector $3.7 billion which will be channelled into research that can lead to healthcare solutions. But the increased funding will come with
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    • 128 6 Want to experience an evening of nostalgia? Head down to the City Hall this weekend and watch the 1957 film Moon Over Malaya along with other Asian films inside the grand City Hall Chambers. Used as a meeting room by officials to discuss Singapore’s development during the
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    • 257 6 MUSTAFA SHAFAWI SINGAPORE Twenty-six charging stations will be set up for Singapore’s Electric Vehicle (EV) test bed programme which runs from this year to 2012 making the Republic the first location outside Germany to test out the charging infrastructure developed
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    • 472 8  -  ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even as places such as the United Kingdom and Hong Kong have either amalgamated their polytechnics with other universities or converted them to full universities, the ones in Singapore continue to thrive because of the continued demand from students and employers, Education
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    • 325 8  -  ESTHER NG esther_ng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Media Development Authority (MDA) reiterated on Friday that it was “fully committed to protecting the rights of intellectual property rights owners” a day after the Cable Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) criticised its cross-carriage framework for
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    • 158 8 DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will continue to support counterpiracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden, after its second task group returned to Singapore on Friday following a three-month stint there. A third task group, comprising a landing ship tank
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    • 207 8 ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE Malaysian automaker Proton is recalling about 400 cars in Singapore because of irregularities with their clock springs. The recall affects Satria Neo and Gen2 1.6 litre auto models made between 2004 and 2008. Mr Charlie Leong, service manager
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    • 200 10  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A 42-year-old marketing manager who assaulted police officers while he was drunk has successfully appealed for his jail term to be cut. Ning Xianglin, a permanent resident, had kicked an officer in the
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    • 208 10 Suspected syndicate leader arrested SINGAPORE The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has made its largest heroin bust since 2008. CNB officers seized 4.68 kg of heroin with a street value of $702,000 in an operation on Thursday morning. The suspected leader of a local
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    • 124 10  - MBS SUPERVISOR CHARGED WITH HELPING PUNTER CHEAT 10 years and fined. SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB A head supervisor at the Marina Bay Sands casino has been charged with helping a punter to cheat. Keith Yong Kee Hwei, 24, who was in charge of a money wheel, allegedly manipulated the game at around
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    • 136 10  - BOOKMAKER AT RWS CASINO JAILED AND FINED SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB An Indonesian was jailed for two weeks and fined $20,000 for acting as a bookmaker at the exclusive Maxims Club at the Resorts World Sentosa (RWS). The club is only open to select RWS and Genting casino members. Salesman Tjong Loi
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  • VOICES
    • 342 12  -  Flat buyers urged to plan, exercise financial prudence Letter from Chan-Wong Jee Choo, Llily (Mrs) Deputy Director (Policy and Property), Housing Development Board I REFER to the letter by Mr Leong Sze Hian, “No choice but take bank loans” (Sept 23). Mr Leong said that more flat
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    • 129 12 AposTherapy, a non-surgical and drug-free treatment for knee and lower back pain, is now available in the AposTherapy Centre at Camden Medical Centre. The treatment significantly reduces pain and improves joint function for people suffering from osteoarthritis and other conditions. It is based on the
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    • 96 12  -  LETTER FROM JOYCE KOH About two weeks ago, my sister and her group of friends gathered at the East Coast Park to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. They lit candles on a park table but their guileless fun cost them a fine of $500 by two officers
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    • 105 12  -  LETTER FROM SERI RAHAYU MOHD SHAIKH AVP, SERVICE QUALITY, HSBC I refer to the letter by Mr Mohamed Rafiq Hamjah, “Hard to spot home loan changes” (Oct 6). We would like to thank Mr Mohamed Rafiq for his feedback. We have been in touch with
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  • 2273 16  -  COMMENT&ANALYSIS Confronted by a stuttering recovery, countries are seeking to boost their exporting appeal, stoking fears of a currency war with China and the US as the main combatants ALAN BEATTIE ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JOSHUA CHAFFIN, (C) 2010THE FINANCIALTIMES If the world is
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  • WORLD
    • 113 18 Prosecutors were searching for the former editor-in-chief of Playboy Indonesia, Erwin Arnada, on Friday after he failed to show up to begin a two-year jail sentence for publishing pictures of scantily clothed women. The Supreme Court said in August that it found Arnada guilty
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    • 477 18 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AGENCIES COPIAPO Before the 33 trapped Chilean miners can begin their passage to the outside world, still more people will join them below to make their journey as smooth as it can be. The Schramm T-130 drill, known as Plan B,
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    • 122 18 AGENCIES President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser, General James Jones, 66, is resigning and will be replaced by his deputy, MrTom Donilon, a senior official said on Friday. Gen Jones’ departure adds to the turnover of Obama advisers as the President heads into the
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    • 102 18 AP A top North Korean official confirmed on Friday that President Kim Jong Il’s youngest son, Jong Eun, will succeed him as leader of the reclusive communist nation. In the first public confirmation, Mr Yang Hyong Sop, a top official in
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    • 166 19 AP NEW DELHI Interpol notified its members on Thursday that India has issued arrest warrants for five Pakistani citizens, including two army officers, for alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, according to Mr R K Gaur, a spokesman
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    • 497 19 THE NEWYORKTIMES JAKARTA Indonesia has sent its military to fight local militants for the first time in nearly a decade to send them a “strong message” as they shift from suicide bombings to armed attacks on the government, the country’s anti-terrorism chief said on
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    • 207 20 AGENCIES BUDAPEST Thousands of Hungarians affected by a massive wave of toxic sludge will never return home after the country’s Prime Minister said that their villages should be “written off” as it was “impossible for people to live here”. Mr Viktor Orban spoke as he visited
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    • Article, Illustration
      53 20 The start of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster separating from the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Friday. The Russian rocket is carrying US astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka
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    • 308 20 THE GUARDIAN WASHINGTON A report delivered to the United States Senate on Thursday said American money was making its way into Taliban pockets via private security companies. Much of the report focussed on the multi-million-dollar BritishArmor Group’s contract to provide security at
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    • 96 20 BLOOMBERG Israel has signalled that a compromise may be reached in a dispute over settlement construction in the West Bank that threatens to derail United States-brokered peace talks. Incentives offered by the Obama administration to Israel may allow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to push
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    • 738 21  - Hanoi Celebrating a thousand years COMMENTARY RICHARD HARTUNG The writer is a consultant who has lived in Singapore since 1992. On Oct 10, Hanoi celebrates its 1,000th birthday. For city that old, it’s looking pretty young. Walk around the centre of Hanoi and you’ll see new buildings going up everywhere.
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    • 85 21 Base jumper Daniel Witchalls of London falling to the ground after leaping off the 420-m-tall Kuala LumpurTower on Thursday at the KL Tower International Base Jump 2010. More than 120 professional base jumpers from 22 countries took part in the event, which started in 1999. Base stands
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    • 119 21 REUTERS A bomb attack inside a mosque killed the Governor of Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province and 15 others as they attended Friday prayers, the local police chief said. The attack on Governor Mohammed Omar happened in neighbouring Takhar province, where his house is situated.
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    • 140 21 REUTERS No Philippine officials will face criminal charges over their handling of a deadly bus hijacking despite the recommendations of an inquiry panel, a leaked report by a presidential legal team showed on Friday. The report, to be released on Monday, could
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  • 959 22  -  COMMENTARY SCIENCE STEPHEN C STEARNS The writer is professor of ecology and evolutionaiy biology at Yale University. Many public-policy decisions are based on implicit assumptions about “human nature”, and it is currently popular to speculate about how evolution might have shaped human behaviour and psychology. But
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  • BUSINESS
    • 427 24 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The United States economy unexpectedly shed jobs in September for a fourth straight month as gains in the private sector failed to offset big cuts in government workers, raising expectations of further Federal Reserve action to spur the recovery. Non-farm payrolls dropped
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    • 119 24 AGENCIES Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s Cabinet on Friday endorsed a ¥5.1 trillion ($81 billion) stimulus plan for Japan to safeguard an economic recovery and help local governments and small businesses cope with the surging yen. About ¥3.1 trillion will go towards assisting regional economies and
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    • 113 24 AGENCIES China sold a record amount of Japanese debt in August, snapping seven straight months of purchases. It cut Japanese debt holdings by a net ¥2.02 trillion ($32.2 billion), Japan’s Ministry of Finance said on Friday, the biggest monthly sale in data going back to 2005.
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    • 343 24 AGENCIES WASHINGTON Japan said it would continue to intervene in the foreign exchange markets to curb a strong yen, as G7 and International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials gathered on Friday to discuss escalating tensions over currency policies. “We are approaching a G7 meeting but, regardless
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    • 154 25 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Global Logistic Properties (GLP), a real estate unit of sovereign-wealth fund Government of Singapore Investment Corp, has priced its initial public offering at $1.96 per share in a listing that could raise up to $3.9 billion, people
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    • 240 25  -  TRAVISTEO travisteo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singaporeans are the fourth-richest in the world and second in the AsiaPacific region in terms of average personal wealth per adult, according to a report released by the Credit Suisse Research Institute on Friday. The inaugural Global Wealth Report said the average
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    • 234 25 CHRIS HOWELLS SINGAPORE Glenville, an apartment block off Upper Serangoon Road, has been sold to Urban Lofts in a collective sale for $39.5 million. The sale price works out to about $740 per sq ft per plot ratio, including a development charge
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  • SPORTS
    • 587 26 Liverpool city council oppose prospective new owners’ plan to redevelop Anfield THE GUARDIAN ANFIELD New England Sports Ventures, the company bidding for control of Liverpool, is on a collision course with the city’s council over plans to redevelop Anfield. Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton has
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    • 313 26 AGENCIES LONDON Manchester United made a fullyear loss of £83.6 million ($173.6 million) due to managing the cost of debt, they said on Friday, giving more ammunition to the many critics of the Premier League club’s American owners. The club, third in the
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    • 524 27  -  COMMENTARY McLaren ace needs to temper his all-out style to be champion AN DECOTTA ian @mediacorp. com. sg The writer is senior Ft correspondent with MediaCorp NewsHub. Everyone loves a fighter, nothing is more heart-stopping than a fearless race driver operating on the limit overtaking another car,
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    • 73 27 DERRYN WONG, WEEKEND TODAY CAR WRITER 1 SEBASTIAN VETTEL 2 MARK WEBBER 3 FERNANDO ALONSO Red Bull had the pace throughout practice, while Vettel can afford to take more risks than Webber. Don’t discount Alonso though, or the McLarens, who are going into full attack mode. TAN TENG LIP,
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    • 682 28  -  After numerous highs and one truly low moment, Sports Council CEO resigns to join private sector LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE His time in office is widely regarded as a golden era in Singapore sports. The women’s table tennis team ended a 48-year
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    • 460 28  - He didn’t care much for publicity and that’s a good thing COMMENTARY LEONARDTHOMAS leonard@mediacorp. com. sg The writer is executive sports editor at MediaCorp NewsHub. The sports scene in the country has been transformed in the six-and-a-half years Oon Jin Teik has been CEO of the Singapore Sports Council (SSC).
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    • 492 29 ‘Communication blunder’ sees Pearson stripped of Games 100m gold AGENCIES NEW DELHI Embattled Commonwealth Games officials conceded a “major communication blunder” was to blame for Thursday night’s athletics farce as they continue to grapple with snags at the halfway point of the Delhi event on
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    • 485 29 AGENCIES NEW DELHI Come on back in, the water’s clean, urged Commonwealth Games Federation president Mike Fennell on Friday. The pools at the Dr S P Mukherjee aquatics complex were originally thought to have caused a dozen or more cases
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    • 527 30  -  Chef-de-mission Pennefather praises Team Singapore for taking challenges in their stride SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg NEW DELHI It may not be the practice at major multi-sport Games, but Team Singapore will send their athletes home as soon as possible once their commitments at the 19th
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    • 306 30 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE The New Delhi Commonwealth Games is proving to be a happy hunting ground for the Republic’s gymnasts, with Lim Heem Wei (picture) clinching Singapore’s first silver medal in the women’s beam final at the Indira Gandhi Stadium on Friday.
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    • 154 30 SportsZone says goodbye to the National Stadium and looks ahead to the new Sports Hub. Over the next four years, a new 55,000-seater stadium, an indoor arena, a watersports centre and an aquatics arena will take shape on the site at
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    • 412 31  -  Singapore women blanket Indian team and look in great form for a clean sweep SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg NEW DELHI “They are in ominous form.” Those five words were uttered by a fellow Singaporean working at the Yamuna Sports Complex, in reference to the Republic’s table tennis
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    • 225 31 SHAMIR OSMAN IN NEW DELHI The 19th Commonwealth Games in New Delhi could well be the moment the Singapore men’s table tennis team often dwellign in the shadow of their female counterparts begin to create their own waves. CoachYuan Chuan Ning picked Nigeria as a side
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    • 346 31 AP NEW DELHI Malaysia’s world champion Nicol David (picture) defeated Jenny Duncalf of England 11-3,11-5,11 -7 to win her first gold medal in the Commonwealth Games squash competition on Friday. David earned a stroke on matchpoint against her English opponent and raised her arms in
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  • COLUMN
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      777 34  -  POSTSCRIPT A long and winding road from fashion victim to art lover Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the arts correspondent at TODAY. SEEING as my job entails spending lots of time looking at paintings, I should somewhat be an authority on colours. Unfortunately, having meaningful conversations
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      798 35  -  THE FAIRERTEXT How to tell what your woman’s thinking by looking at the colour of her face Georgina Chang georginac@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the senior creative director of 987FM and Lush 99.SFM. I AM an open book, so my boyfriends have always known exactly when I’m happy, sad,
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    • 226 35 Learn How You will learn to: \-J Identify And Seize Opportunities J Transform Your 'MINDSET'to 'HEARTSET V Use Mental Rehearsal To Design The Business You Have Always Wanted J Apply Reverse Goal Setting To Achieve 100% Certainty In Your Businesses •J Speed Up Business Growth And Increase Profits Start Grow
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  • FOOD
    • 650 36  -  A kaleidoscope of foods might just get everyone to sit down at the table as a family Don Mendoza donm@mediacorp.com.sg IT’S never easy getting the family gathered at the dining table, even on a Sunday. Sure, throwing out all electronic distractions like Blackberries, iPads and Playstations
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    • 290 37 •The general rule of thumb, said executive chef Gan Swee Lai of Gordon Grill, Goodwood Park Hotel, is to use colours to complement or contrast against the main ingredient in a dish.The easiest way is to use vegetables because they come
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    • 213 37 BITE-SIZED DON MENDOZA PROBABLY best known for appropriating from popular culture, Andy Warhol remains an icon of 20th century art. His most famous works include the Campbell’s Soup Can, and both the Marilyn and Elvis series, which are also some of the best examples of the
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    • 451 38  -  Adding colour to your meal is good for your health Don Mendoza donm@mediacorp.com.sg PINK may be the colour of health. But the path to a healthier and possibly longer life is paved with a myriad of shades: Red, green and even blue. (And white, if you consider
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    • 458 39  -  It’s okay to like more than just your steak pink RAISING Appetites with Don Mendoza donm@mediacorp.com.sg I DO not appreciate that I am no longer the minority here.Yes, I wear pink. And proudly so. Always have. Let’s even put aside the faded raspberry striped
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  • 891 71  -  By KATRIN BENNHOLD NYT PARIS europe’s southern fringe, indebted and uncompetitive, has long been the euro zone’s weak link. But besides a sunny climate and shaky economic fundamentals, it also shares a long-entrenched machismo that is costing it dearly. Sexism, of course, is not the
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    • 599 72  -  TOM BRADY NYT Facebook’s global march to dominance (500 million users and counting) in online social networks is undisputed. “The Social Network,” the film based on its founding at Harvard University in 2003, appears to be on its way to becoming a cultural touchstone as well.
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    • 827 73  -  By ELISABETH BUMILLER NYT MARJA, Afghanistan They expected tea, not firefights. But the three female Marines and their patrol were shot at late on a recent day, when a burst of Kalashnikov rifle fire came from a nearby compound. The group jumped to the
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    • 633 74  -  By SCOTT SAYARE NYT BONDY, France Residents here say the French authorities have written off Bondy and neighborhoods like it, treating their inhabitants as delinquents and ignoring their potential. This, residents note, is not the approach taken by the United States Department of
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    • 802 74 INTELLIGENCE/ERHARD STACKL NYT Vienna Across Europe, parties of the New Right with their anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic slogans seem to have become unstoppable, led by a new generation of right-wing demagogues. They are sharp dressers who deftly use online social networks, not dim-witted mob orators in steamy beer
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    • 775 75  -  By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN NYT LUVUNGI, Democratic Republic of Congo Four armed men barged into Anna Mburano’s hut, slapped the children and threw them down. They flipped Mrs. Mburano on her back, she said, and raped her, repeatedly. It did
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    • 654 75  -  By DEBORAH SONTAG NYT CORAIL-CESSELESSE, Haiti It was after midnight in a remote annex of this isolated tent camp on a windswept gravel plain. Marjorie Saint Hilaire’s three boys were asleep, but her mind was racing. The camp leader had proposed
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    • 631 76  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By JoHN MArkloff NYT In June, a Belarus-based computer security firm identified a new computer malware program, Stuxnet, which was repeatedly crashing the computers of one of its clients. In August, a German security researcher suggested that the program’s real target might be
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    • 674 77  -  By ROBERT F. WORTH NYT Nawara Mahfoud contributed reporting. DAMASCUS, Syria Nihad Alaeddin was once one of the great sirens of Syrian cinema. Working under the stage name Igraa, or Seduction, she embodied the openness and liberalism that reigned in the Arab world
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    • 798 80  -  By JOHN MARKOFF NYT SACRAMENTO, California—Mobile robots have for years been used by military and law enforcement agencies to disarm bombs and carry out other dangerous missions. This summer, such systems helped seal a BP well deep below the surface of the
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    • 711 81  -  By CAROL KAESUK YOON NYT With its wild chorus of howls and yips, the coyote has long ignited the imagination. In many American Indian mythologies, it is celebrated as the Trickster, a figure by turns godlike, idiotic and astoundingly sexually perverse. In the Navajo tradition
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    • 587 83  -  KAKUBEN LALABHAI PARMAR By GUY TREBAY NYT Kakuben Lalabhai Parmar traveled a vast distance to sell her embroideries in New York. This was not just a matter of mileage, although certainly it was a long haul from Madhutra, a rural village in the western Indian state
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    • 568 83  -  LARRY HARLOW By LARRY ROHTER NYT For more than 40 years, Larry Harlow has been affectionately known in the Latin music world as “El Judío Maravilloso” (“the marvelous Jew”), a pianist, songwriter, producer and arranger with an unerring
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    • 653 84  -  By MICHAEL CIEPLY NYT LOS ANGELES In the glory days of the 1990s, Ben Affleck and his friend Matt Damon, a couple of struggling actors, startled Hollywood by writing brilliantly conceived roles for themselves into a screenplay called “Good Will Hunting,” and
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