NEW YORK (AP) ― Andy Rooney, the curmudgeonly commentator who spent more than 30 years wryly talking about the oddities of life for the TV news magazine “60 Minutes,” died Friday night, CBS said. He was 92.Just a month ago, Rooney delivered his last regular essay on the CBS news magazine.CBS said he died Friday night in New York from complications from a recent surgery.Rooney, also a syndicated newspaper columnist, talked about what was in the news. But he was just as likely to use his weekly te

Robert A. Scalapino, the Robson Research Professor of Government emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, died last Monday in Oakland, of complications from a respiratory infection. He was 92.A renowned expert in East Asian studies, Scalapino advised three American presidents and various governmental groups on foreign policy. He published some 550 articles and 39 books or monographs on Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan as well as on Asian politics and U.S. Asian policy.In 1978,

Han Chang-woo, a Korean-Japanese businessman who founded Maruhan Corp., Japan’s largest operator of pachinko parlors, said Saturday he will donate all his wealth, worth $1.7 billion, to help improve relations between the two countries.  “I’d like to give away all the money I’ve made before I die. I can assure that my personal assets, except for the company to be handed over to my son and some money for my wife, will be used for the inter-development of Korea and Japan,” Han told reporters in Bus

An executive at POSCO Terminal, a subsidiary of steelmaker POSCO, amended an error concerning Admiral Yi Sun-sin in a history book by a British writer. While reading the book “What On Earth Happened” by Christopher Lloyd in September, Kwak Jeong-shik was surprised to find that the Korean admiral was identified as Chinese. He sent an e-mail to the book’s author to inform him about the error and received a reply last month that Lloyd would “do all I can to make sure these improvements are reflecte

CAIRO ― Diplomatic versions of the three-cushion shot in billiards are perilous, but let’s suppose you could accomplish the following: Lift the stature of Egypt’s fragile transitional government, support Israel’s desire for Arab recognition, re-animate the Palestinian peace process and deal a blow to Iran. It’s a tricky shot, and it would take a while to line up, but it strikes me that these goals could gradually be advanced if Egypt could convince the Palestinian group Hamas to recognize that a

The other day, I came across a recent study by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. It found that insomnia affects about 23 percent of U.S. workers, and it put the annual national cost for the sleeping disorder at $63.2 billion.That night, I lay awake for hours worrying about all that wasted money.OK, I didn’t really. But I have spent countless hours when I wanted to be asleep fretting about things far less important. And I have spent considerable time reflecting on sleeplessness. Here, for t