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Invisible braces make teeth realignment comfortable

HealthFeb 21, 2013

Incognito, the latest development in lingual aligners, allows patients to straighten their teeth with minimum discomfort. Unlike conventional braces, aligners are fitted on the back of the patient’s teeth, which makes them virtually invisible from the outside. For this reason, lingual aligners are favored by those who do not want their appearance to be altered by a visible metal device attached to their teeth.For Incognito, doctors use computer aided design and manufacturing to make a 3-D image
Russell’s fiction more than literary platter

BooksFeb 21, 2013

What a conversation it was.The Book of Job. Hippos. The road life. The writer’s life (which, more and more these days, is the road life). Philly. Iowa. Rutgers. Bryn Mawr. Florida. Kafka. Dorothy Day. George Saunders (more on him later). Sharing an apartment with your sister. A bumper-car arcade of ideas and language.Such is an hour of talk with writer Karen Russell, sitting around her apartment near the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Sparkling notion-eruptions and prismed, faceted phrases. Her 201
Ghostly doings with Harry Hole

BooksFeb 21, 2013

PhantomBy Jo Nesbø(Knopf)I once suggested that some Nordic crime novels are Jackie Collins or Harold Robbins with enough mildly leftist musing thrown in to make readers feel intellectually respectable. One reply to that comment put it this way:“It’s why I think ‘Downton Abbey’ does so well in this country, too. It’s basically an absurdly trashy soap opera, a notch or two down from the magnificent ‘Days of Our Lives,’ but because it’s on PBS and they’re speaking with English accents, it’s somehow
Novel explores the human heart

BooksFeb 21, 2013

The One I Left BehindBy Jennifer McMahon (Wm. Morrow)Jennifer McMahon’s novels share a common link ― expert plotting complemented with a real feel for the complicated nature of relationships, feelings and what motivates a person’s actions.The Vermont-based author continues that high standard in her fifth novel. “The One I Left Behind” works well as a mesmerizing psychological thriller, as a look at how childhood trauma can forever scar an adult and as a testament to the power that the past and h
‘Nature, people, farm, shelter, sex’ rule Guthrie’s posthumous novel

BooksFeb 21, 2013

Nora Guthrie had put off reading her late father Woody Guthrie’s recently unearthed novel, “House of Earth,” even after she’d agreed for it to be published. Having devoted much of 2012 to preparing events and projects surrounding the centennial of the singer-songwriter-artist’s birth, she said, she wanted to read the book at her leisure, when it wouldn’t feel like “work.”So it wasn’t until last fall that she started in on the manuscript’s pages and soon reached the lengthy, graphic sex scene in
Changing cityscape: Giving old buildings a new look

CultureFeb 21, 2013

Low-rise commercial buildings remodeled with stylish designs
Museum shows Seoul’s old face, warts and all

CultureFeb 21, 2013

Seoul must be one of the most dynamic cities in the world with its nooks and crannies changing every day. “Whenever I come to Seoul, I am surprised by how much it has changed. You don’t see the same shops, buildings and sometimes, the hills, roads and streams anymore,” said Kim Jong-nye, a U.S. resident who visits Korea every two or three years.A report on the changing face of Seoul was released by the Seoul Museum of History earlier this week, highlighting the everyday lives of ordinary people
‘Twilight’ author Meyer plots another trilogy

CultureFeb 21, 2013

MIAMI (AP) ― Stephenie Meyer’s “The Host’’ doesn’t have much in common with her Twilight series, except maybe the potential for a franchise.Meyer is working on a sequel to the 2008 novel she began writing as an escape from the editing of “Eclipse,’’ the third book in the Twilight vampire saga. And now that it too has reached the big screen, she’s got more books in mind.“Once you’ve created characters that have life to them, unless you kill them all, you know where their stories go. You’re always
‘Pistorius detective faces charges’

PeopleFeb 21, 2013

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) ― South African police say the lead investigator in the case against Olympian Oscar Pistorius faces attempted murder charges in an October 2011 shooting. Police Brig. Neville Malila said Thursday that detective Hilton Botha is scheduled to appear in court in May on seven counts of attempted murder. Malila says Botha and two other police officers fired shots while trying to stop a minivan in the incident. On Wednesday, the prosecution case against Pistorius began to un
Asan Foundation offers W5 billion in scholarships

PeopleFeb 21, 2013

Asan Foundation offered 5 billion won in annual scholarships to 1,724 students Thursday. The scholarship recipients break down into 835 high school and 659 university students, with 230 of them the children of soldiers, police officers and firefighters. The foundation offered to pay full tuition fees for the first time for 84 university students, who are at the risk of dropping out for financial reasons. It also gave full tuition scholarships to another 130 college students who voluntarily tutor
Reports about independence movement go on display

PeopleFeb 21, 2013

Three historical documents, which show that the March 1, 1919 Independence Movement against the Japanese colonial rulers was not ignored internationally, were unveiled to the public on Thursday at the Independence Hall of Korea. The disclosed items are Harry Whiting’s letter of appeal to Americans about the tragedy in Korea; an American Christian group’s report; and a magazine article about the Japanese colonial ruler’s deadly crackdown on the movement that left more than 7,000 Koreans dead. Th
More people sit at work, more disease risk

HealthFeb 21, 2013

The more people sit the more they are at risk for chronic diseases even if they had a similar body mass index with those who sat less, U.S. researchers say.Richard Rosenkranz, assistant professor of human nutrition, at Kansas State University and colleagues examined the associations of sitting time and chronic diseases in middle-aged Australian males. Rosenkranz, and Emma George and Gregory Kolt, both at the University of Western Sydney, said the study involved 63,048 men ages 45-65 from the Aus
Life-giving land: Tidal flats are haven for marine creatures

CultureFeb 20, 2013

Korea prepares for designation of expansive tidal flats as UNESCO World Heritage Site
How to fend off sexual harassers in crowded buses or subways (5)

CultureFeb 20, 2013

A man is approaching a woman as shown in picture 1.It is very important to make room between you and the harasser in this situation.Stare and give a warning look at the opponent while watching the opponent’s movement.To make room between the opponent and yourself, widen your stance by moving your leg furthest from the opponent. Next put the hand closest to the opponent on your hip to create an angle that your elbow is close to so you are able to block the harasser as shown in picture 2. The hand
‘Les Miserables’ musical is bound for Broadway

CultureFeb 20, 2013

Someone is dreaming the dream: “Les Miserables’’ is coming back to Broadway.Producer Cameron Mackintosh said Tuesday that the national tour of the epic musical about life in 19th-century France will make a stop on Broadway in March 2014 at a Shubert theater.The move comes on the heels of the Oscar-nominated big screen adaptation directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway.It will mark the third time the show has made it to Broadway. The original landed in 19