Today, 24 July 2011

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    12 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY July 24, 2011 www.todayonline.com MICA(P) 199/02/2011
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      799 1 STANCHART’S REGIONAL CEO: HIS SINGAPORE LOVE AFFAIR the st regis perspectives 6 THE TESLA ROADSTER HAS ELECTRIFYING PACE AND GRACE the finer life 8 LIVING AMONG THEPOORTO GIVEAWAY HIS FORTUNE sunday special 4 TABITHAWANG LAMENTS DISAPPEARING FOOD STALLS speakeasy 10 SHE LEFT SCHOOL AT 16 TO BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR face
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    Lock icon A breath of hope
    1347 2  -  As Singapore ages, more patients will need to be cared for beyond the hospital walls, whether at home or in the community. Here’s how one acute hospital is gearing up for this sea-change in sundayspecial phylicia lee todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg We are sitting by a small garden, peaceful
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    TTSH fund helps thousands
    108 3 SET up in 1995, Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s Community Charity Fund raises money for the underprivileged sick to be cared for in the hospital and in the community. More than 2,000 patients benefit each year, with financial support for their medical treatment, homecare services, mobility aids
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    Lock icon The not-so-secret millionaire
    2116 4  -  Bobby Sager has spent the last decade living among the world’s poorest people and giving them his fortune. And not even the odd kidnap attempt will stop him sundayspecial adam higginbotham todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg THE DAILY TELEGRAPH It was a little more than 10 years ago when Mr Bobby
    THE DAILY TELEGRAPH; PHOTOS COURTESY THE SAGER FAMILY FOUNDATION  -  2,116 words
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    Healing power of free market
    231 5 EACH year, the Sager Family Roadshow has set up new projects in a growing number of countries, and continues to return to those places where it has “incubated” schemes since handed over to the local authorities. Using his contacts from an international network of company
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    Lock icon His Singapore love affair
    1127 7 Nine months into life as a new citizen here, Standard Chartered’s regional CEO Ray Ferguson tells Nicholas Fang why he and his bank have zeroed their sights on the Republic’s potential the perspectives When Ray Ferguson bustles into the quiet corner of The St Regis Hotel’s
    PHOTOS BY JASON HO  -  1,127 words
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    Lock icon Electrifying pace and grace
    948 8  -  The world’s first electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster, has speed, style and even a conscience thefinerlife paul gilfeather principal correspondent todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg IF I close my eyes, I could be soaring silently through the sky in a jet plane. In actual fact, I’m only sitting about
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    Lock icon Fear is contagious
    928 9  -  I panic each time HFMD strikes at my son’s childcare parenttoparent nancy ang todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Nancy Ang is a producer and mother of five kids, aged between 21 months and 18 years. “Say aaahhhh. Show me your palms.” It’s a drill all parents with toddlers and pre-schoolers are
    ART BY YEN YOK  -  928 words
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      140 9 A charming concert for the family THE VOVN& J OA *>o THE WONDER BOY MOZART AND HIS SISTER NANNERL ON A MUSICAL JOURNEY x YOUNG SOLOISTS International Competition Winners Tiffany Tan, Violin Jonathan Chua, Piano Nikolai Song, Flute 11 years old 12 years old 8 years old FEATURING THE ASIAN
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      69 10 if \jV o. o ARIE for hair cut at Kimotie salon save 4o% wash styling (worth SA5) ON HAIR CUT WASH STYLING tu Jiy > Save 34% TWO TO GO! Save up to 34% on Bangkok hotel stays at Pratunam City Inn and Pofhumwan Princess Hotel with return tickets on
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    Lock icon And another bites the dust
    732 10  -  I’ve learnt not to get too attached, but the hole in my heart still gets bigger every time a favourite hole-in-the-wall shuts its doors speakeasy tabitha wang wang todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Tabitha Wang lives in Hong Kong but her heart is really in Singapore. “Did you know,”
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      172 11 Enjoy 0.1% commission when you trade Singapore Shares 5 The Great CMC MARKETS Sale Trade with us and enjoy free award-winning trader education. Register today to attend our preview seminar. New to CFDs? Find out how you can find trading opportunities in currencies. 26 July 2011,7 8.30pm. Register now. S$15.
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    Lock icon A businesswoman at 16
    659 11  -  faceinthecrowd phylicia lee Four years ago, while her peers were concerned with getting into university, Tammy Tay made a move that some might consider entrepreneurial, and others, plain foolhardy. Then 16, she dropped out of school to pursue her boutique business. She had started up her
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon OBAMA RESTARTS DEBT TALKS WITH REPUBLICANS
      126 12 AP United States President Barack Obama and congressional leaders are scrambling to find a way forward on a debt deal after House Speaker John Boehner threw negotiations into crisis by walking out on them on Friday. A visibly frustrated Mr Obama called Mr Boehner
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      Lock icon CHINA ‘EXECUTES 14 BILLIONAIRES IN EIGHT YEARS’
      114 12 BLOOMBERG China executed 14 people with assets of at least 1 billion yuan (S$187 million) during the past eight years as the government expanded its fight against corruption, according to the New Culture News newspaper. The dead include Yuan Baojing, a former stockbroker
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      Lock icon What drove him to this?
      393 12 AGENCIES STOCKHOLM The 32-year-old Norwegian suspected of massacring scores of young people at a summer camp and setting off a bomb in downtown Oslo is a mystery to investigators: A right-winger with anti-Muslim views but no known links to hard-core extremists. Blond-haired and blue-eyed Anders
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      S’PORE CONDEMNS BOMBING AND SHOOTING IN NORWAY
      198 12 Singapore has strongly condemned the bombing in Oslo and shooting on the island of Utoya on Friday. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in a statement that Singapore conveys its deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the government
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      Lock icon Norway camp 'turned into hell'
      382 13 AGENCIES SUNDVOLLEN (Norway) The man in the police uniform shouted for the campers to come closer. When they did, he killed them, according to survivors of the shooting rampage at an island youth camp north-west of Oslo. The police said the man armed with at
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      PM assures public transport users
      263 13  -  S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has weighed in on the current debate on public transport fare review and said that, from time to time, fare increases cannot be helped. But he assured Singaporeans that the Public Transport Council (PTC) will look
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      Lock icon US CALLS FOR MORE CLARITY ON SOUTH CHINA SEA CLAIMS
      155 13 AGENCIES The United States yesterday called on rival claimants in the disputed South China Sea to back up their claims with legal evidence a challenge to China’s declaration of sovereignty over vast stretches of the region. Secretary of State Hillary
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      Lock icon GAN AT MANE EVENT
      44 13 Mr Gan Kim Yong, Minister for Health, shaving the head of Jatin A Khemlani, a 15-year-old childhood cancer survivor, at the Children’s Cancer Foundation Hair for Hope Main Event held at VivoCity. PHOTO BY SYAFIQAH HAMID PHOTO BY SYAFIQAH HAMID
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      'S'pore's Jakarta embassy secure'
      213 13  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL NUSA DUA (Indonesia) Singapore’s Foreign Minister K Shanmugam said security at the Singapore Embassy in Jakarta has not been stepped up in the wake of reports that it was a terrorist target. Speaking on the sidelines of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Bali,
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      Lock icon CHINA BULLET TRAIN CARS DERAIL AND FALL FROM BRIDGE
      132 13 AGENCIES At least 11 people were killed and 89 hurt yesterday when a Chinese bullet train lost power after being struck by lightning and was hit from behind by another train, knocking two of its carriages off a bridge, state media
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      KEEP EVOLVING TO MEET CHANGING DEMANDS: DPM TEO TO PSC
      192 13  -  S RAMESH Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has urged the Public Service Commission (PSC) to continue to evolve to meet the demands of a new globalised economy. Speaking at the presentation of PSC scholarships to 72 students yesterday, he
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      MALAYSIA RANKED 'MOST PEACEFUL' IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
      103 13 Malaysia has been ranked the most peaceful country in South-east Asia and the 19th safest out of 153 countries in the world in the annual Global Peace Index, reported Bernama news agency. Sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace said that Malaysia overtook Singapore
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Lions, Tigers serve up an 8-goal feast
      717 14  -  Singapore recover from a shocking start but Malaysian fightback promises another cracker Asian Zone World Cup qualifiers Singapore vs Malaysia SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In Singapore, the tickets were sold out in a mere six hours. About 1,000 die-hard Malaysian fans made their
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      Lock icon Prepare for the Ultras
      672 16  -  Advantage Lions, but Avramovic and Co will know the job is hardly done COMMENTARY LEONARD THOMAS leonard @mediacorp. com. sg The writer is sports editor at Today. The Malaysian Ultras deliberately stopped their buses hundreds of metres from the Jalan Besar Stadium and marched in as
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      Tigers trail 5-3 but all is not lost for them
      410 16  -  IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For most of the match, he was the man who orchestrated Malaysia’s forays into the Singapore half, but after 60 minutes, with the Tigers trailing 4-1, Safiq Rahim did his team no favours. The Malaysian
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      Lock icon Fans wary of wounded Tigers
      601 17  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As Bahraini referee Nawaf Shukralla was about to blow for half-time, a scuffle broke out in the gallery between a section of the visiting Malaysian supporters and security personnel. One Malaysian fan was sent to hospital after falling awkwardly in the
      PHOTOS BY SYAFIQAH HAMID  -  601 words
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      Gold rush in Suphanburi
      416 18  -  PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SUPHANBURI A hatful of gold medals, many personal bests and a good win in football highlighted the Singapore Sports School’s (SSP’s) performance on a busy day at the 14th Thai Sports School Games. The football under-14 boys delivered a second straight win with
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      Lock icon Drogba or Torres?
      574 18 One of them will be kicking his heels in Villas-Boas’ THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Didier Drogba believes he is in direct competition with Fernando Torres for a place in the Chelsea team. Manager Andre Villas-Boas, Drogba claimed, is unlikely to play them both together as a partnership.
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      Lock icon It's surely Uruguay's Copa to lose
      992 19 But underdogs Paraguay may just snatch the title if their lucky streak continues AGENCIES BUENOS AIRES One fact illustrates the nature of this bewildering Copa America: Paraguay enter tomorrow morning’s (Singapore time) clash against Uruguay as the first team to reach the final without
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      Lock icon F1 cars may get new safety features to prevent head injuries
      230 20 REUTERS NUERBURGRING Formula 1 teams are considering covering the cockpit of cars to protect their drivers following Felipe Massa’s freak accident in Hungary two years ago. Renault technical director James Allison, the head of the Formula 1 Teams’ Association
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      Lock icon McLaren divide the Bulls
      389 20 Webber takes pole position once again REUTERS NUERBURGRING Red Bull’s Mark Webber will start today’s German Formula 1 Grand Prix on pole position with McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton alongside after a superb qualifying lap. Champions Red Bull have now seized pole for the last 11 races, 10
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      145 18 GY CAPSULE mill] G Low Energy? Fuel it with. Herbal Extract Suppln^^ In Hafbvl Health buppla/nani (rofWlatl iPTy jjj >fe yp Often feeling fatigue after work? Looking ways to boost your energy? Try the Energy Capsule, a natural health supplement which is specially made to restore and improve your energy.
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      57 20 MADE IN Whether it’s iced lemon tea, chicken rice or films, home made is always better. 3 National Day Specials llllllllllllllllllllllllll Pulau Hantu 24 July My Magic 14 Aug Liang Po Po The Movie 31 July The Tree 21 Aug One Leg Kicking 7 Aug I Not Stupid 28 Aug
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      1202 21 SUNDAY TV THE SCORPION KING II: RISE OF A WARRIOR (PREMIERE) Channel 5, 7pm (TV Premiere) In Ancient Akkad, Mathayus grows up the proud son of Ashur, a captain in the military corps of Black Scorpions. When the traitor Sargon seizes the throne and demands proof of loyalty, Mathuyas refuses
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      1788 22 TV LISTINGS CHANNEL CHANNEL CHANNEL MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 6.00AM Just For Laughs Gags 6.30 Prime Time Morning 9.30 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.30 The Doctors 11.30 Films Stars Asia NOON Under One Roof IV 12.30PM Moulmein High III 1.00 Triple Nine II 2.00 Meteor 3.00 The
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      1815 23 3.00PM Anjaraipetti II 3.30 Sathy Leelavathi 4.00 Take It Easy Vazhkai II 4.30 Saalaram 5.00 Indian Beat 5.30 Mythilli 6.00 Primary Six (Debut) 6.30 Gokulathil Seethai 7.00 Vaira Nenjum 7.30 Ethiroli 8.00 Nijangal 8.30 Tamil Seithi 9.00 Thulluvatho Elamei 9.30 Uncle Taxi IV 10.00 Oru Kaithiyin Diary 10.30 Star 11.00
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      41 24 Killer Week NEW SHOWS THAT WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY! MON 10:00PM Mini Series 8:30PM THU 8:40PM 10:00PM xinmsn.com/5 'm N wv k -t Local Reality Bay MALAYSIA VS SINGAPORE (LIVE) (20l4FIFS*World Cup Qualifier) t Violence ERIES /MediaCorp ;ome lome to
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  • ARTS & STYLES
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      Lock icon Using Cricket to Tell a Tale of Change
      719 16  -  By BAZ DREISINGER Sljc Jfau Jlork Suites “Fire in Babylon,” which recently premiered to rave reviews in London, is a documentary about the West Indies cricket team that beat England and Australia and went undefeated in world play for 15 years during
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      Lock icon Nothing Says Yesterday Like the Hits of Today
      662 16  -  ESSAY SIMON REYNOLDS el)c Jfau J|ork Suites Once pop music was something by which you could tell the decade, or even the year. But listening to the radio now is disorienting, if you’re searching for a sound that screams “It’s 2011!” Take
      el)c Jfau J|ork Suites; CHAD BATKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  662 words
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      Lock icon Sexy Scent or Notes of Cat Urine? It Depends on the Nose
      496 15  -  By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM Sljc JfrUf JJork elmcii Eau Flirt is billed by its maker as “the world’s first perfume clinically proven to make men flirt.” Inspired by a study conducted by the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research
      Sljc JfrUf JJork elmcii; EVAN SUNG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  496 words
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      Lock icon A Wonder in Glass Burnishes Beijing
      795 15  -  Architecture NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF el)c?sVut JJork elmcs BEIJING Aside from the new World Trade Center, it’s hard to think of a more contentious architectural project in the last few years than the CCT V building, the headquarters of China Central Television here. After Rem Koolhaas,
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Tasks Easy for People But Hard for Robots
      1094 14  -  By JOHN MARKOFF el)c Jfctu Jlork euncs MENLO PARK, California A robot that would fold laundry, cook or wash dishes? That, say researchers, would be a more impressive feat of artificial intelligence than the celebrated victory this year of an I.B.M. robot
      el)c Jfctu Jlork euncs; Source: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, Marco Cusumano-Towner, Jinna Lei and Pieter Abbeel, University of California, Berkeley; THE NEW YORK TIMES; PHOTOS COURTESY OF U.C. BERKELEY  -  1,094 words
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      Lock icon In Malaria Fight, Poison Pill for Mosquitoes
      427 14  -  By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. el)c iNVtu Jlork euncs Scientists have proposed an intriguing new way to fight malaria: turning people into human time bombs for mosquitoes. A cheap deworming pill used in Africa for 25 years against river blindness was recently shown
      el)c iNVtu Jlork euncs; VANESSA VICK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  427 words
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      Lock icon Roots of Disease Vary Across the Continents
      677 13  -  By NICHOLAS WADE Sljc Jfau JJork Simcs A new survey of the human genome shows that common diseases are likely to have a different set of genetic roots in Africans, East Asians and Europeans. The finding may represent yet another serious complication in
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      Lock icon Habitat for Migrating Monarch at Risk
      793 13  -  By ANDREW POLLACK Sljc iNVUt Jlork Simcs Farms in America’s heartland were once commonly marred by milkweed. Now, fields are planted with genetically modified corn and soybeans resistant to the herbicide Roundup, allowing farmers to spray the chemical to eradicate weeds, including milkweed. A
      Sljc iNVUt Jlork Simcs; JANET JARMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  793 words
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
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      Lock icon From the Papandreou Dynasty, Largess and Debt
      787 12  -  By LANDON THOMAS Jr. SJljeJJettr Jlork Euncs ATHENS At the foundation here named for his father, Nick Papandreou pondered the task confronting his brother George: dismantling the Greek welfare state largely erected by their father, Andreas Papandreou. “This is his moment,” Nick Papandreou,
      SJljeJJettr Jlork Euncs; ANDREA G. PAPANDREOU FOUNDATION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  787 words
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      Lock icon Weeping From the Next Cubicle: Emotions Settle In on the Job
      647 12  -  essay ANNE KREAMER Sljc JfcUt Jlork Elmcs When I graduated from college in 1977, the world was still neatly divided into two spheres: work and everything else. Work was supposed to be a hyperrational realm of logic, filled with
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      Lock icon Dangers Cloud Emerging Markets
      620 11  -  essay STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF SljcJsVUf JJork Etmcs It doesn’t hurt to be known as the Google of Russia: Shares of Yandex, the search engine company, shot up more than 55 percent in their Nasdaq market debut in May. The stock’s rise illustrates investors’ appetite for emerging-market
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      Lock icon Shale Oil Alters Energy Equation
      839 11  -  By CLIFFORD KRAUSS SljciNVUf JJork Etmcs Just east of Argentina’s Andean foothills, an oil field called the Vaca Muerta “dead cow” in English has come to life. In May, the Argentine oil company YPF announced that it had found 150 million barrels of oil in
      SljciNVUf JJork Etmcs; MICHAEL STRAVATO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  839 words
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  • WORLD TRENDS
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      Lock icon Harlem Becoming a Taste Acquired
      703 10  -  By GUY TREBAY el)c 'ScW JJork Simcs On any Friday night at Red Rooster, the crowd is likely to encompass not only elements of New York’s “gorgeous mosaic” but also David Dinkins, the former mayor who coined the phrase. There, at the 76-seat restaurant, the
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      Lock icon In Faraway Port of Call, The Flavors of Home
      591 10  -  By SAM DOLNICK el)c $c\v JEjork Simcs When cruise ships dock at Red Hook, Brooklyn, their passengers pile into taxis and shuttle buses. But many of their housekeepers, waiters, bartenders and engine mechanics head for a former bait and tackle shop
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      Lock icon Post-Soviet Protests Become Performance
      685 8  -  By ELLEN BARRY 5Jl)c JCclu Jlork ®ime$ MINSK, Belarus At the time appointed for the July 13 antigovernment protest here in the nation’s capital, scores of burly officers were waiting in Yakub Kolas Square. Their job was to prevent it from happening. But it was difficult
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      Lock icon Hello, You Gorgeous Fruit Fly
      611 7  -  LENS KEVIN DELANEY El)c Jfctu Jlork eimc‘1 The intangible mysteries of what make a person attractive are best left for poets and pop songs. But scientists have their own theories. Although when it comes love and to love and attraction, even they can be as
      El)c Jfctu Jlork eimc‘1; SHIHO FUKADA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  611 words
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      Lock icon America’s Friends, Marooned and at Risk in Iraq
      764 6  -  By TIM ARANGO EIk iNVtu Jlork Suites BAGHDAD Terrorism fears in the United States are all but halting visas for Iraqis, even those who risked their lives aiding the American war effort, making them vulnerable ahead of the planned American military withdrawal.
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      Lock icon Digital Eye Scans Help Fight Two Wars
      600 6  -  By THOM SHANKER el)c -N'ctu Jlork Suites WASHINGTON When the Taliban dug an elaborate tunnel system beneath the largest prison in southern Afghanistan this spring, they set off a scramble to catch 475 escapees. One thing made it easier. Just a month before
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      Lock icon Free Care Rescues Poor African Mothers
      797 4  -  By ADAM NOSSITER Eln'iNVut jlork Shucs WATERLOO, Sierra Leone The word was out: it was no longer necessary to give birth at home and risk losing a baby or dying. Hadiatou Kamara, 18, waited in the crowd. She had already lost a baby boy
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      Lock icon For Some Officials in India, the Webcam Is an Antidote to Corruption
      497 4  -  By VIKAS BAJAJ EljcJfcUt jlork Shucs THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India Little Brother is watching you. That is the premise for the webcam a top government official here has installed in his office, as an anticorruption experiment. Goingson in his chamber
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      Lock icon A Housing Boom, If You Are a Bird
      549 3  -  sukadana journal By JEFFERY DelVISCIO el)c JJetu Jlork Elmcs SUKADANA, Indonesia —Sukadana, a small coastal city in western Borneo, is in the midst of a building boom. But the new houses are not for people. They are giant birdhouses playing an all-day
      el)c JJetu Jlork Elmcs; JEFFERY DelVISCIO/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  549 words
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      Lock icon Musicians in China Test Limits
      695 3  -  By JONATHAN KAIMAN ANDREW JACOBS el)c JCctw Jlork Elmcs BEIJING They have toured Europe, played alongside marquee names like the band Coldplay and earned plaudits in the international press. But here in China, the growing popularity of the Mongolian rock band Hanggai has not exactly
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      Lock icon Protesting Foreclosures Goes Door to Door
      529 2  -  By SUZANNE DALEY el)c JCcUt JJork Ehucs MADRID When the police arrived recently to evict María José del Coto Maeso, 53, they found the street in front of her ground-floor apartment crowded with protesters, and they retreated. “It was a day that for many
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