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Buffett tips his farmer son as next Berkshire chair

Dec 11, 2011

NEW YORK (AFP) -- Mega-billionaire Warren Buffett says his son, a corn farmer, would be a good replacement for him as chairman of his $245 billion investment giant Berkshire Hathaway.Warren Buffett (AP-Yonhap News)Buffett told CBS television that Howard Buffett, 56, would be a good "guardian of
Police shoot gunman as he stalks Hollywood streets

PodcastDec 11, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 26-year-old man walked down the middle of a street in Hollywood, firing on passing cars with no clear target until police shot and killed him, authorities said. A passing driver was injured.Investigators are trying to determine a motive for the attack, which some people thought
Anne Frank's pre-war apartment to open to public

TravelDec 9, 2011

An Amsterdam apartment where Jewish teenager Anne Frank and her family lived for nine years before going into hiding due to the Nazi occupation will be opened Saturday, a spokesman for its owner said."Around 400 people will be allowed to enter the home," Andre Bakker, a spokesman for the Ymere socia
Study shows rats nice, not naughty

HealthDec 9, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) _ New experiments show rats demonstrating compassion and helping other rodents. It is a trait some scientists thought was reserved only for humans and higher primates.And it is certainly not the sneaky, selfish rap that goes with calling someone a dirty rat.In repeated tests, rats fr
Planet in sweet spot of Goldilocks zone for life

ScienceDec 6, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside Earth's solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch. It is a bit too big.The planet is smack in the middle of what astronomers call the Goldilocks zone, that hard to fin
US investigates modern art forgery: report

PodcastDec 4, 2011

NEW YORK (AFP) - US federal authorities are investigating whether paintings and drawings sold by elite New York art dealers as the work of Modernist masters are in fact fakes, The New York Times reported Saturday.The pieces purported to be by artists like Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock, sold
Did FDR conceal Pearl Harbor intelligence?

CultureDec 4, 2011

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AFP) - For more than 70 years, some have believed that US president Franklin D. Roosevelt had received intelligence about an imminent 1941 Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor but willingly chose not to act on it.The theory goes that Roosevelt believed the shock
Korean dogfighting racket busted in Philippines

Social affairsDec 4, 2011

MANILA (AFP) - Police have arrested six South Koreans suspected of running a massive, high-tech dogfighting operation where matches in the Philippines were shown online to overseas bettors, police said Saturday.About 240 pitbulls were confiscated in the raid late Friday from a secluded compound wher
Apple juice can pose a health risk _ from calories

HealthDec 2, 2011

It's true _ apple juice can pose a risk to your health. But not necessarily from the trace amounts of arsenic that people are arguing about.Despite the government's consideration of new limits on arsenic, nutrition experts say apple juice's real danger is to waistlines and children's teeth. Apple ju
US report: Arctic much worse since 2006

ScienceDec 2, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) _ U.S. officials say the Arctic region has changed dramatically for the worse in the past five years.It is melting at a near record pace, and it is darkening and absorbing too much of the sun's heat.A new report card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration rates the
Google's maps go indoors with new mobile feature

TechnologyNov 30, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Google's next frontier in digital mapping will span the world's shopping malls and airports.An upgrade of Google's mobile mapping service released Tuesday includes directions within stores, malls, airports and transit centers in the U.S. and Japan.The initial index only covers a
Seven out of 10 teens get cursing habit from elementary years: poll

Social affairsNov 30, 2011

Seven out of 10 teens who commonly use swear words picked up the habit in elementary school, and many of them curse to make themselves appear cool and as an expression of affinity toward their peers, a survey showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted in September jointly by the state-run N
Lee signs off on bills for U.S. FTA implementation

PoliticsNov 29, 2011

President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday signed off on a package of bills needed to implement South Korea's free trade agreement with the United States, moving a step closer to putting the landmark pact into effect.The signing came a week after the trade pact and 14 related bills passed through parliament
First CJD death reported in Korea

HealthNov 29, 2011

(Yonhap News)The Korea Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed the first death from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease here.Authorities stressed that the strain of the disease was different from variant CJD, which is known to spread to people who eat beef infected with bovine
Kindle sales quadrupled on Black Friday: Amazon

TechnologyNov 29, 2011

Online retailing giant Amazon said Monday that sales of its Kindle e-readers and tablets quadrupled on Black Friday over the previous year's annual pre-Christmas national shopping orgy.The company gave no specific data on Kindle sales last Friday, but said its new tablet computer, the Kindle F