Goguma Juk is a long-cooked sweet-potato porridge made with sticky rice powder. It has a sweet and nutty flavor.Ingredients● 2 sweet potatoes (yams)● 3 cups milk● 4 tbsp sticky rice powder● 100 g water● 2 tbsp honey● 1/2 tsp salt1. Clean sweet potatoes and rinse well with water.2. Set up a steamer over high heat. Once it starts to steam (which takes approximately 9 minutes), put sweet potatoes in the steamer and steam them for about 15 minutes. Peel the skins.3. Blend it with half the amount of

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WASHINGTON (AP) ― Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein’s forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf War against Iraq, died Thursday. He was 78. Schwarzkopf died in Tampa, Florida, where he had lived in retirement, according to a U.S. official, who was not authorized to release the information publicly and spoke on condition of

CAIRO (AP) ― Egypt’s deputy interior minister says that ousted President Hosni Mubarak has been transferred to a military hospital from his prison cell for the second time in a week following complications from a recent injury. Mubarak is serving a life term after being sentenced in June for failing to stop the killing of hundreds of protesters during last year’s uprising. Maj. Gen. Mohammed Ibrahim said Thursday that the 84-year old Mubarak had been moved to the hospital in Cairo’s Maadi suburb

ISLAMABAD (AP) ― The 24-year-old son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has launched his political career with a fiery speech on the fifth anniversary of his mother’s assassination. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s speech Thursday comes several months before national elections are expected to be held. He is too young to participate in the elections himself, but is likely to be a key asset for the ruling Pakistan People’s Party. Zardari was made party chairman after his mother’s death but

U.S. food experts remind New Year‘s revelers that researchers found eating asparagus may help guard against a hangover. The Institute of Food Technologists said it published a study in 2009 by researchers at the Institute of Medical Science and Jeju National University in South Korea found the amino acids and minerals found in asparagus extract may alleviate alcohol hangover and protect liver cells against toxins.Lead researcher B.Y. Kim said chronic alcohol use caused oxidative stress on the li

The presidential election is over, and the year 2012 is reaching its end. Korea is heading into a new year with its newly-elected, first female president. So what’s Korea’s fortune for the year 2013?According to fortune teller Kim Deok-young, a nation’s fortune is inseparable from the “saju,” or four pillars of destiny, of its president. The term saju describes the four components creating a person’s destiny or fate: the year, month, date, and hour of one’s birth.Kim posted a video-clip on his w

German researchers say exercising self-restraint and holding back negative emotions -- what Britons call keeping a "stiff upper lip" -- may reduce lifespan.Researchers Marcus Mund and Kristin Mitte at the University of Jena in Germany said the findings might explain why the generally more emotional Italians and Spanish live almost two years longer than the cool English who "keep calm and carry on," MedicalDaily.com reported.After analyzing more than 6,000 patients, Mund and Mitte found people wh

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Growing children have growth plates around their joints, which promote growth of the upper and lower limbs. Such growth plates disappear when children pass puberty, and their growth stops. These growth plates are made of cartilage tissue, which is vulnerable to damage by external forces. Therefore, various traumas can lead to growth plate damage. Children enjoy outside activities and sports when the weather becomes warmer. This is why growth plate injuries most frequently occur in the spring and

When it comes to events like school shooting in Newtown, Conn., there are knowns, unknowns and, already, mis-knowns. A photograph of Ryan Lanza circulated asserting he was the shooter, when in fact it was his brother, Adam Lanza. Their mother, Nancy Lanza, whom Adam killed, was reported to have been a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary, where the other shootings took place ― but she was not. The story of what happened Friday when 20 children and seven adults were killed has been written and rewrit

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Desert AirBy George Steinmetz(Abrams, New York)‘Tis the time of year for coffee table books and, for the adventuresome, there is nothing better than “Desert Air.”World-class photographer George Steinmetz who worked for National Geographic and GEO Magazine has published a number of his finest photographs in a book that is only just big enough to hold their subjects.He was fascinated with the hyper-arid regions ― “areas that get less than four inches of annual precipitation.” Seated in a motorized