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Report: NASA needs to keep more astronauts on hand

ScienceSept 8, 2011

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA needs to keep more astronauts on staff than planned even though no one is being launched from the home turf, a new report urged Wednesday. (MCT)Many astronauts have retired or quit with this year's end of the space shuttle program. But a robust corps still is needed
‘iPhone to overtake Nokia in smartphone shipments’

TechnologySept 7, 2011

U.S. IT giant Apple is set to become the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer by volume, overtaking Nokia for the first time, a report showed on Tuesday.According to DigiTimes, a Taipei-based daily, Apple is expected to take 19 percent of the global smartphone market with shipments of 86.4 millio
[URGENT] Ahn gives up Seoul mayor candidacy

PoliticsSept 6, 2011

Popular professor, civic activist agree on latter’s candidacyAfter days of speculation, Professor Ahn Cheol-soo ended his dalliance with candidacy for Seoul mayor on Tuesday, giving an endorsement to lawyer-turned-civil activist Park Won-soon.“Park has long dedicated himself to promoting civil right
Chinese students join Taiwan universities despite strict rules

World NewsSept 5, 2011

About 1,000 Chinese students are joining their Taiwanese counterparts at college campuses here today, as the new academic year starts.They are the first mainlanders to study here as full-time degree students under a new initiative that the Taiwanese authorities hope will boost cross-strait understan
Aquino performance hampers growth in Philippines

Sept 5, 2011

Administration’s under-spending on infrastructure blamed for slower economic growthLess optimistic than most assessments tracking the slump of Philippine economic growth since President Benigno Aquino took office in July last year, Credit Suisse, the Swiss financial services firm, has downgraded its
Three Korea Univ. medical students face expulsion for sex crime

Social affairsSept 5, 2011

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- Three male students from South Korea's prestigious medical college will be expelled for sexually harassing their female colleague, school officials said Monday.The school's decision came after the three unidentified students at the medical college of Korea University had b
Top show host apologizes for cheating on taxes

TelevisionSept 5, 2011

SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- One of the nation's top TV show hosts on Monday apologized through his agency for failing to declare his income properly.The apology came after a local newspaper reported, quoting officials at the National Tax Service, that Kang Ho-dong, 41, was audited and ordered to pay
Korean American joins Libyan rebels

PeopleSept 4, 2011

A Korean American college student has joined a group of Libyan rebels for the last two months to fight against Gadhafi forces, according to reports.According to the Christian Science Monitor, Chris Jeon, a math major at the University of California, Los Angeles, bought a one-way ticket to Cairo and
Jessica Simpson wants smaller boobs

MusicSept 4, 2011

Jessica Simpson is planning to take breast reduction surgery, a U.S. entertainment magazine reported.Jessica Simpson (Bloomberg)According to the magazine, the U.S. TV star and singer does not want her double D breasts, reportedly telling her friends that they make her look bigger than she really is.
Logger cuts off own toes after foot is pinned

World NewsSept 1, 2011

DENVER (AP) — Jon Hutt was doing logging work all alone in a remote Colorado forest when his six-ton trailer fell onto his right foot.The pain was excruciating, no one was around to hear his cries for help and he couldn't free himself from the big piece of equipment. Montrose Colo., resi
Comedian-turned-director falls into trap of debts after film's flop

FilmSept 1, 2011

He was once called a great master of slapstick comedy with his trademark persona, a fool named "Young-gu." Shim Hyung-rae (Yonhap)After becoming a movie director, Shim Hyung-rae became the first to receive "Korea's new intellectual" medal from the liberal government led by President Kim Dae-jung in
Marine-boy Park Tae-hwan will be teaching

More sportsSept 1, 2011

South Korean Olympic medalist Park Tae-hwan will be teaching at a high school for four weeks in Dankook Technical High School in Seoul, according to reports.As a physical education major at Dankook College of Education, he has to spend four weeks practicing teaching before he graduates, Yonhap News
Ancient humans used hand axes earlier than thought

CultureSept 1, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ancient humans fashioned hand axes, cleavers and picks much earlier than believed, but didn‘t take the stone tools along when they left Africa, new research suggests. (AP)A team from the United States and France made the findings after traveling to an archaeological site alo
Sony shows wearable 3-D personal theater

TechnologyAug 31, 2011

TOKYO (AP) _ Sony is launching a head mounted display that provides a three dimensional theater of music videos, movies and games. Head Mounted Display “Personal 3D Viewer” (HMZ-T1) (www.Sony.net)Sony Corp. showed the 60,000 yen ($800) ``HMZ personal 3-D viewer‘’ Wednesday. The machine is set to go
Ark. man in plane spots his home being burglarized

World NewsAug 31, 2011

BAY, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas man who wanted to capture aerial photos of his home during his first plane ride instead helped catch two men burglarizing it.Steven Lynn said he could see the two taking items from his house."I looked down, and sure enough, there was a truck hooked onto a trailer,

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