HallucinationsBy Oliver Sacks(Knopf)Enter a nondescript building in the West Village, ride an old elevator a couple flights up and suddenly you’re in a world of wonder long in the making.You’ve entered the office of Dr. Oliver Sacks.The well-worn lair of the world’s most literary neurologist bespeaks a restless spirit that all but says, “Yeah, I’ve been at this awhile.” A vintage, multicolor Chart of Electromagnetic Radiation dominates one wall; it looks like something you’d find in a gargantuan

Exhibition highlights Joseon envoys sent to Japan to forge ties between the two countries

HOUSTON (AP) ― Former President George H.W. Bush has been admitted to a hospital intensive care unit “following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever,” but he is alert and talking to medical staff, his spokesman said Wednesday.Jim McGrath, Bush’s spokesman in Houston, said in a brief email that Bush was admitted to the ICU at Methodist Hospital on Sunday. He said doctors are cautiously optimistic about his treatment and that the former president “remains in guarded condition.”No othe

Army Brigadier General Lee Eun-soo will be inaugurated as the nation’s first woman Chief Judge of the High Court for Armed Services on Friday.The 47-year-old was also the first woman to be commissioned as a judge advocate in 1991. She was also the nation’s first woman to hold other posts in the military judiciary, including chief judge of a general military court.She graduated from the school of law of Kyungpook National University in 1989 and passed a state exam to recruit judge advocates in 19

Former Culture Minister Yoo In-chon will break the 7-year hiatus he took from acting with a performance of his own play on Friday. The professional actor-turned-public official will perform the main role in the new play he produced, “Faust ― Goethe and Gounod,” on Friday at Yoo Theater, which he founded in 1999, in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul. Yoo served as the culture minister for three years starting in 2008 under the Lee Myung-bak administration. “I am warming up to my return to being an actor,” Yo

Playing “hard to get” works for women who want a long-term relationship, but not for those looking for casual sex, researchers in Australia say. Study author Peter Jonason, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Western Sydney in Australia, and colleagues said playing “hard to get” is a mating tactic in which people give the impression they are ostensibly uninterested to get others to desire them more. The researchers conducted four experiments using a supply-side economics mo

Concerns are growing over the Korea National Opera’s struggle to pay over 7 billion won ($6.5 million) in compensation to the Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance for a fire that broke out during a performance five years ago. According to industry insiders, the KNO has yet to pay any of the 4.8 billion won in principal and 2.2 billion won in interest to the insurance firm 10 months after the Supreme Court ruling that ordered the opera company to pay its insurer. The money exceeds this year’s governme

Following is part of a series on Seoul’s hottest bars and clubs. ― Ed. Most bars in Seoul do not differ greatly from one another. They uniformly feature a modern or futuristic interior with loud music. It is not bad to be in such an environment, but in a party scene like that, people get exhausted and everyone needs an escape from time to time to a more relaxing and friendly atmosphere. Club Horizon located on the top floor of Renaissance Seoul Hotel is a perfect place for a relaxing and comfort