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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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Asteroid in closest swing by Earth in 35 years
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― An asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier zipped by Earth on Tuesday in the closest encounter by such a massive space rock in more than three decades.Scientists ruled out any chance of a collision but turned their telescopes skyward to learn more about the object known as 2005 YU55.Its closest approach to Earth was pegged at a distance of 325,088 kilometers at 6:28 p.m. EST. That’s just inside the moon’s orbit; the average distance between Earth and the moon is 384,633 kilomet
Nov. 9, 2011
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Warrantless GPS tracking raises question of principles
WASHINGTON (AP) ― The U.S. Supreme Court invoked visions of an all-seeing Big Brother and satellites watching us from above. Then things got personal Tuesday when the justices were told police could slap GPS devices on their cars and track their movements, without asking a judge for advance approval.The occasion for all the talk about intrusive police actions was a hearing in a case about whether the police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects. The out
Nov. 9, 2011
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NASA plans 2014 test-flight of deep-space capsule
WASHINGTON (AFP) ―NASA said Tuesday it will launch in 2014 an unmanned test flight of its Orion deep space capsule, made by Lockheed Martin to someday carry astronauts to the moon, an asteroid or Mars.The test launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida aims to send the capsule into orbit, where it will circle the Earth twice, then attempt to make an intact re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere before plunging into the ocean.The U.S. space agency said in a statement it hopes the data will help “influence des
Nov. 9, 2011
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Defiant Cain says he won’t quit despite harassment allegations
WASHINGTON (AP) ― A defiant Herman Cain declared he would not end his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in the face of allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior and called his latest accuser a troubled woman and tool of the “Democrat machine” in America.Cain spoke at a news conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Tuesday, one day after Chicagoan Sharon Bialek became the fourth woman to lodge complaints of unwanted sexual advances.He denied that he even knew Bialek, saying he watche
Nov. 9, 2011
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Russian craft fails to head for Mars moon
Moscow’s ambitious step toward deep space fails due to technical problemsMOSCOW (AP) -- A daring Russian mission to fly an unmanned probe to Phobos, a moon of Mars, and fly samples of its soil back to Earth was derailed right after its launch by equipment failure.The Phobos-Grunt (Phobos-Soil) craft was successfully launched by a Zenit-2 booster rocket at 12:16 a.m. Moscow time Wednesday from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It separated from the booster about 11 minutes lat
Nov. 9, 2011
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Russian probe launched to Mars' moon fails
Russian probe launched to Mars' moon failsMOSCOW (AP) _ A daring Russian mission to fly an unmanned probe to Phobos, a moon of Mars, and fly samples of its soil back to Earth was derailed right after its launch by equipment failure.The Phobos-Grunt (Phobos-Soil) craft was successfully launched by a
Nov. 9, 2011
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In GPS case, US court debates '1984' scenario
The US Supreme Court delved Tuesday into the issue of privacy amid 21st century technology, hearing arguments on whether police can use a GPS device attached to a vehicle to track a suspect without a search warrant.The US government asked the justices to reinstate the conviction of Washington nightc
Nov. 9, 2011
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Defiant Berlusconi taken down by markets
ROME (AP) _ Silvio Berlusconi survived sex scandals and corruption trials. Tawdry accounts of sexy ``bunga bunga'' parties turned him into an international laughing stock. Prosecutors pursued him over a mind-boggling array of suspected improprieties.Every time he seemed finished, the perma-tan
Nov. 9, 2011
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Italy's Berlusconi to resign after reforms pass
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, right, leaves after attending the the Group of 20 (G20) Cannes Summit, in Cannes, France, on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. (Bloomberg)ROME (AP) _ Premier Silvio Berlusconi promised Tuesday to resign after Parliament passes economic reforms demanded by the Europea
Nov. 9, 2011
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Europe crisis spreads to Italy
ROME (AP) ― Italy became the latest target in Europe’s financial crisis Monday, as soaring borrowing rates intensified pressure on Premier Silvio Berlusconi to resign and let a new government reform the country’s spendthrift ways.Berlusconi batted away reports that he was considering stepping down in favor of early elections, saying they were “without foundation.”But the prospect of financial disaster was real because of Italy’s huge debts and slow growth. Unlike Greece, Ireland and Portugal ― t
Nov. 8, 2011
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Norman Ramsey dies
BOSTON (AP) ― Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics for his research into atomic energy levels that led to the creation of the atomic clock and MRI machines, has died, his wife said.Ramsey died in his sleep at a Wayland nursing home on Friday, Ellie Ramsey said Monday. He was 96.Ramsey, an emeritus professor of physics at Harvard University and longtime Brookline resident, wrote in his autobiography for the Nobel Prize he shared with Hans Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul that he was
Nov. 8, 2011
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Deadly riot breaks out in Liberia day before vote
MONROVIA (AP) ― Violence broke out at opposition headquarters, killing at least one person hours before Liberia’s presidential runoff on Tuesday, a vote that tests the West African nation’s fragile peace after a devastating civil war.Despite sharp criticism from the United States, the U.N. and election monitors, opposition leader Winston Tubman kept urging supporters to boycott Tuesday’s runoff.Demonstrators clashed with police in one rally backing the boycott, leaving one young man dead inside
Nov. 8, 2011
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Syrian troops storm Homs district
BEIRUT (AP) ― Syrian troops stormed a restive neighborhood in Homs on Monday, kicking in doors and making house-to-house arrests in an area that has spiraled out of government control after nearly a week of deadly assaults, activists said.The regime is scrambling to clear out Baba Amr, a major center of resistance and reprisal, as Damascus faces potential fallout from the Arab League for defying a peace plan brokered by the 22-nation body with persistent violence. According to activists, more th
Nov. 8, 2011
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U.S.: Iran nuke report a case for new sanction
WASHINGTON (AP) ― The United States is increasingly worried by indications that Iran may be on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon, but the latest report on its atomic program from a U.N. watchdog is unlikely to sway the Obama administration from its plan to rely on sanctions and diplomatic pressure, not military threats, to deter Iranian ambitions.Ahead of the release this week of a new report on the Iranian program from the International Atomic Energy Agency, U.S. officials said Monday th
Nov. 8, 2011
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4th accuser details Cain sexual advance
WASHINGTON (AP) ― A woman who said she sought help finding a job from Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain went before television cameras Monday to add her voice to anonymous sexual harassment allegations by three others, accusing the novice politician of reaching under her skirt and pulling her head toward his crotch.Sharon Bialek said she had come forward about the incident in 1997 to provide “a face and a voice” to support other accusers who have so far remained anonymous in their ch
Nov. 8, 2011
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Russian man dug up corpses and kept them
MOSCOW (AP) ― The Russian historian had always been open about his interest in the dead and eagerly described how he loved to rummage through cemeteries, studying grave stones to uncover the life stories behind them.What he failed to mention, according to police, was that he had dug up 29 bodies and taken them back to his apartment, where he dressed them in women’s clothes scavenged from graves and then put them on display.A police video of the man’s apartment in the Volga River city of Nizhny N
Nov. 8, 2011
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U.S. poverty at new high: 16 percent or 49.1m
WASHINGTON (AP) ― A record number of Americans ― 49.1 million ― are poor, based on a new census measure that for the first time takes into account rising medical costs and other expenses.The numbers released Monday are part of a first-ever supplemental poverty measure aimed at providing a fuller picture of poverty. Although considered experimental, they promise to stir fresh debate over social programs to help the poor as a congressional supercommittee nears a Nov. 23 deadline to make more than
Nov. 8, 2011
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Prostitutes, drugs, cock fights in Mexico prison
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico, Nov 7, 2011 (AFP) - Mexican police discovered 19 prostitutes, two sacks of marijuana and 100 roosters for cock fighting in a surprise inspection of a jail in the resort city of Acapulco, authorities said Monday.The discovery came as 500 federal officers prepared to transfer som
Nov. 8, 2011
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White House says no evidence of extraterrestrials
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sorry, E.T. lovers — the White House says it has no evidence that extraterrestrials exist.The White House made the unusual declaration in response to a feature on its website that allows people to submit petitions that administration officials must respond to if enough
Nov. 8, 2011
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Saddam cell now unlit, dusty and missing a commode
The small cell concealed in a bombed-out villa is dusty now, has no electricity, and its door and toilet are gone, bound for a US museum. But it once held Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.There is no graffiti on the cell's white walls, no remnants of the once-feared dictator's presence.The narrow conc
Nov. 8, 2011