[MyAppleMenu] Jan 24, 2010

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**** Apple Rumor Check: The MacBook Air 'Delay' <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10440087-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20>
Brooke Crothers, CNET News

A theory goes that a new MacBook Air has been delayed due to an Intel chip shipment snafu. So, what's going on?



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**** The Book Club With Just One Member <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/weekinreview/24rich.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Motoko Rich, New York Times

The collective literary experience certainly has its benefits. Reading with a group can feed your passion for a book, or help you understand it better. Social reading may even persuade you that you liked something you thought you didn’t.

There is a different class of reader, though. They feel that their relationship with a book, its characters and the author is too intimate to share. “The pursuit of reading,” Virginia Woolf wrote, “is carried on by private people.”

**** Eat Drink Actor Director <http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article01221001.aspx>
Paula Marantz Cohen, The Smart Set

Eating and cooking are big in cinema today. What took so long?



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**** 'Too Little' Education Budget <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_481283.html>
Kor Kian Beng, Straits Times

The government's budget for education is 'too little' in the eyes of opposition Reform Party secretary-general Kenneth Jeyaretnam. He wants education spending to go up to at least 5 per cent of Singapore's gross domestic product (GDP), matching spending levels in the United States and United Kingdom.

**** FAS Steps In Over Impasse <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_481435.html>
Wang Meng Meng, Straits Times

The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has stepped in to help resolve the impasse over the 2010 World Cup broadcasts by asking rights holder Fifa for a speedy resolution to the deadlock. FAS spokesman Eric Ong told The Sunday Times yesterday: 'We have approached Fifa on the World Cup broadcast rights issue and are currently awaiting its response.

**** Should Ambulance Paramedics Save Drink-driver Accident Victims? <http://mathialee.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/should-ambulance-paramedics-save-drink-driver-accident-victims/>
Mathia Lee ~ Plans and Preoccupations

Because who are we to judge? Who are we to pronounce the death sentence on someone?  Like the ambulance paramedic, it is not our place to judge and to punish. We help because we can, because we ought to, because they need it.  At least I think, that’s our role as human beings.

**** Does It Matter... Singapore? <http://blogs.channelnewsasia.com/sujadi-siswo/2008/08/05/does-it-mattersingapore/>
Sujadi’s Blog

**** Spicing Up The Lion City <http://www.ttgasia.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15431&Itemid=158>
Karen Yue, TTG

A look at what Singapore's long-awaited and game-changing IRs have to offer.

**** Fans Will Pay $50 <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_481456.html>
Wang Meng Meng, Straits Times

With Fifa demanding $40 million, not $100 million, for the football World Cup broadcast rights, Singaporeans do not see the need to pay an arm and a leg in subscription fees to watch the matches.

**** Elections Not So Soon Yet <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_481503.html>
Zakir Hussain, Straits Times

Singaporeans should also not start getting excited about a general election as the government was still focused on the economy, senior minister Goh Chok Tong told reporters at a Marine Parade constituency event on Sunday.

**** Dorm Site To Be Arts Studios <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_481555.html>
Straits Times

Arts studios and sports facilities will replace three buildings at the site of the controversial Serangoon Gardens workers' dormitory. The blocks were originally meant as a buffer zone between the dormitory and the Serangoon Gardens residential areas to assuage residents' concerns about the workers dwelling there.

**** Is MM Lee Kuan Yew Adding Value To Singapore? <http://singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-mm-lee-kuan-yew-adding-value-to.html>
Singapore Recalcitrant

Does the PAP leadership sincerely believe that leaving the constituents at Tanjong Pagar to decide is the right course to resolve this matter?

**** Disaster Relief - The S'pore Way <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_481592.html>
Sudesh Maniar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Straits Times

The amount or type of humanitarian assistance given by the Singapore Government is not intended to match the scale of a disaster. In the case of massive disasters in countries beyond our own region, our contributions often cannot be more than a show of moral support and a gesture of sympathy to the affected country.

The support from Singapore for Haiti need not be demonstrated just by the Government. Singaporeans who want to make a contribution can do so through the Red Cross and other groups, and indeed many have. The Singaporeans who have gone to Haiti on relief missions amply demonstrate their compassion for the victims of the earthquake.