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[Ta-Nehisi Coates] Hard labor of pregnancy

ViewpointsFeb 21, 2011

Surveying the GOP’s latest efforts to restrict abortion, I was recalled to a bit of personal history, which I try to not to think about. As with a lot of couples, the notice that me and my spouse would have a child was greeted with great joy. But about six months in, she started picking up weight at a rate that flummoxed and alarmed her doctors. Her body swelled like a water balloon, a descripti...
[Shahid Javed Burki] Pakistan’s ruling elite faces the ‘Mubarak moment’

ViewpointsFeb 21, 2011

ISLAMABAD ― Pakistan’s domestic situation is becoming increasingly precarious. Indeed, serious questions are now being raised as to whether the country can survive in its present form. Such questions stem from a growing fear that Islamist groups might once again make a serious bid to capture the levers of power in the country. If that is not possible because of the presence of a large and discip...
Director tells more than her family story in ‘Goodbye Pyeongyang’

FilmFeb 21, 2011

Personal documentary recounts tale of Korean-Japanese who resettled in N. Korea Movie director Yang Yong-hi has a one-of-a-kind family. She lives in Tokyo, her mother in Osaka and her brothers in Pyongyang, North Korea. Born in Japan to pro-Pyongyang ethnic Korean parents, Yang tells about her life and family history in a cinematic form. But the 47-year-old director’s second personal document...
Czech press photos show global interest

Foreign affairsFeb 21, 2011

“The fact that Czech photojournalists are going to places like Sudan, Sri Lanka, Laos, North Korea, and so on says something about the interests of Czechs in far away countries.” As said by Czech Republic Ambassador Jaroslav Olsa Jr. during the opening of the Czech Press Photo exhibition in Hongdae. Czech Press Photo is an annual competition and exhibition rolled into one, presenting an indepen...
Jobs, Zuckerberg, Schmidt to meet with Obama in California

WorldFeb 21, 2011

Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt are among the technology industry executives President Barack Obama will meet with tomorrow in the San Francisco area, according to a person familiar with the private session. The president will discuss the U.S. economy and job creation with the executives as he p...
S. Korea asked to verify 'spy break-in' of Indonesian envoys' hotel room

코리아 헤럴드Feb 21, 2011

Indonesia has officially asked for verification of reports that South Korean intelligence officers broke into a visiting delegation's hotel room last week to steal classified information on planned arms trade between the two countries, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday. "Indonesia asked us to verify the exact facts," the ministry's spokesman, Cho Byung-jae, said during a regular press briefin...
S. Korean actress Lee Young-ae gives birth to twins

FilmFeb 21, 2011

South Korean actress Lee Young-ae, widely popular across Asia, has given birth to twins, her agent here said Monday. Lee, 40, became a mother of fraternal twins, a boy and a girl, at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at a Seoul hospital, said Storms Company. "The mother and the babies are healthy," it said. She was secretly married in 2009 in the United States to a Korean businessman, surprising fans everywhe...
S. Korean researchers find way to fight brain tumors with drugs

코리아 헤럴드Feb 21, 2011

A group of South Korean researchers said Monday that they found a way to use drugs to fight brain tumors that are currently treated with only surgery and chemotherapy. The researchers, led by POSTEC chemistry professor Chung Sung-kee, discovered a way to breach the "blood-brain barrier" to permit anti-tumor drugs to work. The natural barrier protects the brain from contaminated blood, but it al...
S. Korea may face internal terrorism from frustrated minorities: scholar

코리아 헤럴드Feb 21, 2011

South Korea may face the threat of homegrown terrorism if its ethnic minorities end up expressing their frustration over discrimination through acts of terrorism, a research paper showed Monday. "There is a possibility that the discrimination, scorn and frustration felt by migrant workers, multicultural children and North Korean defectors may erupt in acts of terrorism," Howon University Profess...
Three S. Koreans hurt in rioting in Libya

코리아 헤럴드Feb 21, 2011

Hundreds of Libyan people, some of them armed with knives and guns, raided a South Korean-run construction site in the capital city of Tripoli, sparking a clash that left three Korean workers and two others wounded, the foreign ministry said Monday. The rioters first stormed the construction site around 11 p.m. (local time) before leaving the site and then coming back again in a few hours, a min...
Woman applies stylish designs on lips

Feb 21, 2011

An American artist has become an Internet celebrity after posting her animal-lipstick creations on her website, Daily Mail reported. Paige Thompson, 21, from Texas, spends half an hour in front of a mirror to paint each animal-lipstick creation. She has so far created a number of animals including a fox, panda, chameleon, crab, hippo and bumblebee, using colors of white, red, blue, yellow, gre...
Space weather could wreak havoc in gadget-driven world

ScienceFeb 21, 2011

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - A geomagnetic space storm sparked by a solar eruption like the one that flared toward Earth Tuesday is bound to strike again and could wreak havoc across the gadget-happy modern world, experts say. Contemporary society is increasingly vulnerable to space weather because of our dependence on satellite systems for synchronizing computers, airline navigation, telecommunications ...
Samsung develops new faster mobile DRAM

IndustryFeb 21, 2011

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's No. 2 semiconductor maker, said Monday that it has developed a new memory chip for mobile gadgets that can transfer data at a speed eight times faster than previous devices. The WIDE IO mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip can transfer data at a speed of 12.8 gigabyte per second, compared with 1.6 gigabyte per second of previous devices, the compan...
S. Korea's spy agency denies breaking into Indonesian envoys' hotel room

PoliticsFeb 21, 2011

South Korea's spy agency denied a local media report on Monday that its agents had broken into an Indonesian presidential delegation's hotel room last week in Seoul to steal sensitive arms procurement information. Quoting an unnamed senior official, the Chosun Ilbo said that a trio, who had broken into the suite room of the Lotte Hotel in downtown Seoul and fled after a delegation member saw the...
Fears of run on savings banks looming

Feb 21, 2011

FSC suspends 4 more second-tier banks 2 days after promising no new suspensions in H1 Financial regulators’ ongoing crackdown on savings banks is increasing the chances of a bank run under which a great number of customers withdraw their deposits. The Financial Services Commission suspended operations of four more saving banks over the weekend, raising the possibility of a massive exit by depos...