There is no one who has not had a cold. The flu is one of the most common acute conditions in summer and easily strikes a whole family all at once. However, not many people can give an answer to the question, “How do I control infection and easily identify the flu?” Influenza or the flu is a respiratory infection caused by a variety of flu viruses. It is contained in the millions of tiny germs that cannot be seen well through a microscope. Due to the fact that a cold is infectious, in times past

BEIJING (AP) ― Archaeologists say they have discovered a new form of primitive writing in markings on stoneware excavated from a relic site in eastern China dating about 5,000 years back. The inscriptions are about 1,400 years older than the oldest known written Chinese language and around the same age as the oldest writing in the world.Chinese scholars are divided on whether the etchings amount to actual writing or a precursor to words that should be described as symbols, but they say the findi

A two-volume photo book series featuring Korean culture and scenery has been published by local publishing house Design SOOMOKWON and the Korea Tourism Organization.A total of 31 photographers participated in the project. The series has four different categories: tradition, nature, city and countryside. The first volume of the series, titled “View of Korea,” features photographs of Korea’s palaces, including Changdeokgug and Deoksugung palaces in Seoul, as well as famous Buddhist temples such as

My EducationBy Susan Choi (Viking)Susan Choi’s “My Education” is a chaise-longue literary page-turner par excellence: sexy, smart, well-plotted, jammed with observations witty and profound, and so well-written it occasionally leaves you gasping. I guess I’m in love. And so is the protagonist of “My Education,” Regina Gottlieb. In 1992, Regina arrives on the campus of a Cornell-like university as a graduate student in writing. The first week she catches sight of the notorious professor Nicholas B

Red MoonBy Benjamin Percy(Grand Central)The setting of Benjamin Percy’s “Red Moon” ― an alternative universe in which humans and lycans coexist ― may seem unhappily familiar to anyone familiar with the words “Team Edward” or “Team Jacob.”Readers will also encounter teen angst, thuggery, interspecies love, domestic terrorism, torture and, upon occasion, tenderness and yearning. The movie rights have been sold and the novel’s conclusion can signal only one thing: sequel.But banish all thoughts of

The unexpected death of James Gandolfini, who was best known for his work on the series “The Sopranos,” recently reignited the conversation over How Much Television Has Changed, which has become so intense and widespread in the last few years that books are now being written about it.Last year, critic Alan Sepinwall self-published “The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever” to such attention it has just been reissued by Simon & Schuster’s

Kim Ran-do’s latest book ‘Future: My Job’ gives advice for young men and women looking for fulfilling career

Ku Ok-hee, a first-generation Korean female golfer, died in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, Wednesday. She was 57.A local news media reported that she had died of a sudden heart attack while playing at a country club in the prefecture. Ku turned pro in 1978 and moved to Japan in 1983. She won 23 times on the LPGA of Japan Tour between 1985 and 2005. On the LPGA Tour, she won once in 1988 at the Standard Register Classic. It was the first win on the LPGA Tour for a Korean. She was also the first golf

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― President Barack Obama Wednesday honored luminaries of the arts, including Star Wars creator George Lucas, praising his special effects for freeing movies from “planes in space” with visible strings.Obama presented National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to a group also including musician Herb Alpert, rhythm and blues legend Allen Toussaint, author Joan Didion and sportswriter Frank DeFord.“The arts and the humanities aren’t just a source of entertainment, they

NEW YORK (AP) ― An original Apple computer from 1976 has sold at auction for nearly $388,000. Known as the Apple 1, it was one of the first Apple computers ever built. It sold Monday for $387,750 at a Christie’s online-only auction. Bolaffi, an Italian collections company, said in a statement that it bought the computer. The seller was a retired school psychologist from Sacramento, California. Vintage Apple products have become a hot item since Steve Jobs’ death in October 2011. Jobs joined forc

Retired Olympic weightlifting champion Jang Mi-ran gave a special lecture at a provincial girls’ high school Thursday. She emphasized following one’s dreams and taking on challenges to the students of Il Shin Girls’ High School in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province. “Keep in mind three things: opportunities, choice and challenge. Like I realized my dream through weightlifting, I hope that you can find and accomplish what you can do,” she said. “Do your utmost in the one thing that you believe

 Archaeologists say they have discovered a new form of primitive writing in markings on stoneware excavated from a relic site in eastern China dating about 5,000 years back. The inscriptions are about 1,400 years older than the oldest known written Chinese language and around the same age as the oldest writing in the world. Chinese scholars are divided on whether the etchings amount to actual writing or a precursor to words that should be described as symbols, but they say the finding will help

MADRID (AFP) ― Spanish tenor Placido Domingo is being treated in a Madrid hospital for a pulmonary embolism, a blockage of an artery of the lungs, his publicist said Tuesday.The 72-year-old opera star was admitted Monday to the hospital in the Spanish capital, his Los Angeles-based representative Nancy Seltzer said in a statement.“He is being successfully treated for a pulmonary embolism,” she said.The embolism was the result of deep vein thrombosis, the agent said, a condition in which a clot f