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Food critic dines out on Michelle Obama favorites

Food&BeverageOct 14, 2011

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― It’s sure nice work if you can get it: going to nearly every restaurant in Washington patronized by Michelle Obama and ordering exactly what she ordered.Marian Burros did just that for the Politico website (www.politico.com), and the experience ― which took her through 25 eateries
Ancient art supplies found in South African cave

CultureOct 14, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers in South Africa have discovered what may have been the world's earliest artist's studio. A 100,000-year-old workshop used to mix and store the reddish pigment ochre has been discovered in Blombos Cave on the rugged southern coast near Cape Town. At the same site,
Geum receives Sejong Culture Award

PeopleOct 13, 2011

Geum Nan-sae, music director of the Eurasian Philharmonic Orchestra, received the 30th Sejong Cultural Award in arts, actress Kim Hye-ja in social volunteering and Ahn Hwi-joon, professor emeritus of art history at Seoul National University, for academia.The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism a
Book industry fights back against debt crisis

BooksOct 13, 2011

FRANKFURT (AFP) ― Publishers and booksellers from debt-laden countries gathered at the world’s biggest book fair Wednesday determined to fight the impact of Europe’s economic woes.But authors at least have drawn inspiration from the crisis, they reported.Greece, currently in the eye of the eurozone
Hollywood hacking case victims include Johansson

PeopleOct 13, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A man was charged with hacking into the emails of Christina Aguilera, Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis in a computer invasion scheme that targeted Hollywood celebrities, federal authorities said Wednesday.Christopher Chaney, 35, was arrested without incident as part of a yearlong
‘Premature birth needs 35 weeks’

HealthOct 13, 2011

A group of doctors here say it is safer for Korean women to give birth at 35 weeks or later, even should premature labor be required, suggesting a different view from U.S. obstetricians’ 34 week theory. Thirty-five weeks is the minimum period of time for the fetus to be able to protect itself from v
NCC lung cancer survival rate exceeds 50%

HealthOct 13, 2011

Thirty-nine out of 81 lung cancer patients who underwent surgery to remove tumors in 2001 at the National Cancer Center have lived till now, the hospital said Wednesday. Moreover, the hospital’s five-year survival rate marked 65 percent. Among them, two out of every three survivors were declared “he
Autumn season hair care

HealthOct 13, 2011

Human hair usually has a growth cycle. It is made up of three periods: growth season; catagen season and telogen season.The growth phase of hair is about three years, catagen phase is about three weeks and then there is a pause for about three months. This is continually repeated. In contrast to ani
Obese population growing in Korea, with estimated 70,000 serious cases

HealthOct 13, 2011

Being fat used to represent wealth in the old days, when life was hard.But nowadays, it has emerged as a social issue for a very different reason: it is not healthy. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, about 31.3 percent of adults are likely to become overweight once in their lifetime a
Pancreatic cancer 4th most deadly

HealthOct 13, 2011

Death of Apple founder Jobs, Steinman highlights cancer with few treatmentsPancreatic cancer is notoriously lethal ― there are almost as many deaths from it each year as there are new cases. The deaths this week of Apple founder Steve Jobs and Nobel laureate Ralph Steinman have brought more attentio
Panel advises against prostate cancer screening

HealthOct 13, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) ― No major medical group recommends routine PSA blood tests to check men for prostate cancer, and now a government panel is saying they do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive the tests as part of routine cancer screening.The panel’s guidelines had long advise
80 percent of US boys use condoms the first time

HealthOct 13, 2011

CHICAGO (AP) _ A surprising 80 percent of teenage boys say they are using condoms the first time they have sex, a government survey found in a powerful sign that decades of efforts to change young people's sexual behavior are taking hold.But another promising trend _ a drop since the 1980s in the nu
World’s biggest fair of publishers eyes safe future for books

BooksOct 12, 2011

FRANKFURT (AFP) ― The world’s biggest book fair, which opened Tuesday, wants to put paid to fears for the survival of the book in its traditional, bound form in the face of its digital rival’s growing popularity.While electronic books and other gadgets have been all the talk of the Frankfurt Book Fa
Sarkozys unusually mum about First Baby

PeopleOct 12, 2011

PARIS (AP) ― Their early courtship was hardly discreet: President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni visited Disneyland Paris together, then jetted off to Jordan with cameras in tow. Weeks later, they were married.Now, Bruni-Sarkozy is about to have a baby, and the pending birth has taken on the air of
Little Free Libraries lets neighbors share books and a bit of themselves

BooksOct 12, 2011

MINNEAPOLIS ― They look like large birdhouses and act like water coolers. But the sustenance stored inside the wooden, windowed boxes is a blend of knowledge and recreation.Little Free Libraries, the brainchild of Stillwater, Minnesota, native Todd Bol, are popping up all over Minnesota, from tony L