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Same day, different holiday: Mid-autumn festivals across East Asia
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Yoon hosts luncheon meeting with Korean atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima on Chuseok
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Swimmer, gamers celebrate Chuseok with gold medals
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With teammate's help, inconsolable shooter regroups in time to win bronze
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The many regional flavors of songpyeon, a Korean holiday dessert
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NewJeans hits 1 bln streams mark on Spotify with debut album
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Traffic heavy on expressways following Chuseok
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Diplomatic vehicle blessed for safety via Hindu ritual by S. Korean Embassy in India
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Post-pandemic Chuseok to revive overseas travel, gift giving
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Households in capital areas hold 70 pct larger assets than non-metropolitan families: data
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Future galaxy collision predicted
U.S. astronomers are forecasting the Milky Way will have a violent collision with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy in about 4 billion years.The encounter will result in a major makeover for our galaxy, NASA astronomers said, that will see the sun flung into a new area of the Milky Way. However, Earth and the rest of the solar system will be in no danger of being destroyed, a NASA release said Thur
June 1, 2012
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For some, exercise can increase health risk
Exercise may increase heart risk for some, a study has found.Scientists analyzed data from six exercise studies including 1,687 people to find that close to 10 percent showed worse blood pressure, insulin levels, HDL cholesterol or triglycerides, all of which are related to heart disease.The direct cause, however, remains unknown.“It is bizarre,” said Claude Bouchard, lead author of the paper and a professor of genetics at Louisiana State University.Authors of the study also warned that the stud
June 1, 2012
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Baby bird found with 2 heads, 3 beaks
(UPI)A Massachusetts woman said she investigated bird sounds in her yard and discovered a baby cardinal with two heads and three beaks.April Britt of Northampton said she and her husband followed the sounds of squawking birds in their back yard to a tree where they discovered the baby female cardinal with the unusual deformities, WGGB-TV, Springfield, reported Thursday."My husband says, 'Oh my God
June 1, 2012
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320,000 Koreans have sleep disorders
About 320,000 people have been treated for sleeping disorders last year, the Health Insurance Review and Assessment said Monday. The figure is a 73 percent jump from 180,000 in 2007, the state insurance-auditory body said. About one-third of the patients were in their 40s and 50s. According to HIRA, the factor behind the spiraling cases of sleep disorders is extreme stress from work. The fact that they suffer from obesity, hypertension and other illnesses stemming from an unbalanced diet and lac
May 31, 2012
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Raw milk, and raw emotion, go to court
MINNEAPOLIS ― Melinda Olson has given her 12-year-old son raw milk for years. When he walked away virtually unscathed from a serious bike accident last year, she credited his healthy diet of raw milk dairy products.Matthew Caldwell fed his 2-year-old son, Owen, raw milk in the spring of 2010. The boy was hospitalized for 13 days, victim of an E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak traced to raw milk producer Mike Hartmann.The two parents’ stories are bookends to a debate that is on high boil in Minnesota. One
May 31, 2012
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Nasal obstruction
The nose has an important cosmetic function and also serves an even more important physiological role especially in respiration. Any problems with the respiratory function of the nose will lead to symptoms of nasal obstruction. People with normal respiratory function are not conscious of their breathing but patients with nasal obstruction as well as those around them experience stuffiness as a result.There are several conditions which cause nasal obstruction, the most common of which is rhinitis
May 31, 2012
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Mom and baby yoga not a stretch, participants say
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. ― Babies can be good yoga partners. Just ask the folks at Pacific Cultural Center’s Ashtanga Yoga Institute.Babies live in the present moment, are flexible and like to stretch. But the Mama & Baby Yoga classes are really for the moms.One or two volunteers attend, holding and distracting the little ones who have had their fill of a quiet yoga practice, allowing their moms to continue with the asanas, or poses.A mother of two, instructor Treea Clements said she started teaching
May 31, 2012
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Research links coffee to lower death rates
LOS ANGELES ― Researchers have some reassuring news for the legions of coffee drinkers who can’t get through the day without a latte, cappuccino, iced mocha, double-shot of espresso or a plain old cuppa joe: That coffee habit may help you live longer.A new study that tracked the health and coffee consumption of more than 400,000 older adults for nearly 14 years found that java drinkers were less likely to die during the study than their counterparts who eschewed the brew. In fact, men and women
May 31, 2012
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How to stay away from cigarettes
The health hazards of smoking are well known: Cigarettes are known to contribute to the prevalence of cancers of the mouth, head, lung, breast, bladder, stomach and other parts of the body. It is also linked to coronary heart disease and many other fatal disorders. It is suspected of causing infertility in women and raises the risk of fetal deformity during pregnancy. The World Health Organization said it kills 5 million people worldwide a year, which is equivalent to one person dying every six
May 31, 2012
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'Bloodletting' may be beneficial
Bloodletting as a medical treatment was abandoned in the 19th century, but German researchers said blood donation is beneficial to the donor.Professor Andreas Michalsen of the Charite-University Medical Centre in Berlin and colleagues at the University Duisburg-Essen said donating blood can provide medical benefits for obese people with metabolic syndrome -- which includes insulin resistance, glu
May 31, 2012
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Scientists decode tomato genome
Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the tomato in an international project that promises enhanced versions of the fruit.The study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, has been conducted since 2004 by more than 300 scientists from 14 countries including a Korean team that mapped out one of the 12 chromosomes.“We have identified 35,000 genes in the tomato genome. This will be of
May 31, 2012
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Americans' skulls getting bigger over time
American heads are getting larger although it's unclear why that is happening, forensic anthropologists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, said.Examining 1,500 skulls dating back to the mid-1800s through the mid-1980s, the researchers found U.S. skulls have become larger, taller and narrower as seen from the front and faces have become significantly narrower and higher, a UT release report
May 31, 2012
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New theory addresses frozen Earth paradox
A U.S. scientist says he has a theory why a much fainter sun 2 billion years ago didn't leave a frozen Earth unfit to develop the kind of life we see today.Why the Earth avoided the deep freeze in what has been dubbed the Faint Young Sun Paradox is a much-debated question among scientists, but Purdue University's David Minton says he believes he might have an answer."If you go back in time to abou
May 31, 2012
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Israelis develop 'cannabis without the high'
Israeli scientists have cultivated a cannabis plant that doesn't get people stoned in a development that may help those smoking marijuana for medical purposes, a newspaper said on Wednesday.According to the Maariv daily, the new cannabis looks, smells and even tastes the same, but does not induce any of the feelings normally associated with smoking marijuana that are brought on by the substance TH
May 31, 2012
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Genes make difference if quitting smoking
Genetics can predict success of smoking cessation and whether a person is likely to respond to drugs for nicotine addiction, U.S. researchers say.“We found that the effects of smoking cessation medications depend on a person’s genes,” first author Dr. Li-Shiun Chen of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said in a statement.The research focused on specific variations in a clu
May 31, 2012
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Red Hat to support Korean financial firms’ migration to open-source platforms
Top business-to-business software firm eyes expansion in handling large data setsWhen people generally think of open-source platforms in Korea, Google’s Android immediately comes to mind due to the wide use of smartphones and tablet PCs in the business-to-consumer space.But in the business-to-business world, U.S.-headquartered Red Hat provides the world’s leading open-source operating systems for enterprises’ data-processing servers.Working “behind the scenes,” it’s unknown to the general publi
May 30, 2012
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New-found asteroid whizz by Earth, no danger
A small asteroid had a close encounter with Earth on Tuesday, according to NASA scientists.The 5-meter space rock, called 2012 KP42, was not spotted until a day before it came within 14,400 kilometers of Earth. Its closest approach to Earth was less than one-26th of the average distance between the planet and the moon, which is 386,000 kilometers.However, given its diminutive size, experts say it was unlikely to cause significant damage to the Earth anyway. The close call on Tuesday came only a
May 30, 2012
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Apple chief vows innovation in TV and more
Apple chief Tim Cook on Tuesday vowed that creativity would remain in the company's "DNA" and hinted that products on the horizon could come in the area of television.Cook was the star opening guest at a prestigious All Things Digital conference hosted by the Rupert Murdoch-owned technology news website at a resort in the Southern California town of Palos Verdes."We're going to introduce some grea
May 30, 2012
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Woman fails to get compensation for lost teeth
A mother has been left toothless after a dental implant went terribly wrong.Gariela Andrews, 48, says that she cannot get compensation for the failed surgery as the private dentist who was in charge of the procedure has moved to another country, complicating matters.“I have been left looking like a monster,” she told the Daily Mail. “My confidence has been affected, my speech has been affected, I can’t eat solid food and nobody does you justice.”The General Dental Council has suspended the licen
May 30, 2012
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Occupy stone street? Study shows Inequality dates back to stone age
Scientists found that hereditary inequality began over 7,000 years ago by looking at human skeletons buried during the early Neolithic era, Science Daily and BBC reported Monday.The study, conducted by archaeologists from universities of Bristol, Oxford and Cardiff found that ancient people that were buried with tools had better access to preferred farmlands than those without. Researchers used strontium isotope analysis that lets them know the skeletons’ place of origin. Since the people with t
May 30, 2012
