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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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[Graphic News] More Koreans say they plan long-distance trips this year
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[KH Explains] Hyundai's full hybrid edge to pay off amid slow transition to pure EVs
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North Korea removes streetlights along cross-border roads with South
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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Farming households dip below 1m for first time in 2023
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Red meat boosts risk of dying young: study
Eating a portion of processed red meat daily can boost a person's risk of dying young by up to 20 percent, said a long-running US study of more than 120,000 people released on Monday.While the research by Harvard University experts offers more evidence that eating red meat increases the risk of hear
March 13, 2012
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Apple says shipment of new iPad may take 2-3 weeks
Apple said that shipments of its new iPad to customers who order it online may take two to three weeks but that the tablet would still be available in stores on Friday.Apple, which has set March 16 as the launch date for all sales of the third-generation iPad, said online pre-orders of the device ha
March 13, 2012
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Venus and Jupiter cuddling up in night sky
It's not too late to catch the spectacular Venus and Jupiter show.On Monday and Tuesday evenings, the planets will appear just 3 degrees apart in the western sky. The gap has been narrowing since last month.The two planets are visible every night at twilight. Venus is brighter because of its relativ
March 13, 2012
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Herald begins upgraded news messaging service
The Korea Herald is expanding its text message service that provides up-to-date news with English learning help. The nation’s largest-circulation English newspaper has been providing “Herald Topic” since 2010 using short message service technology. The daily on Monday introduced another version of the service based on the long message service to meet user demand for more detailed news and study materials.Herald Topic has been well received by its nearly 2000 subscribers for fast, up-to-date loca
March 11, 2012
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Korea Herald improves mobile offerings
Herald Topic offers up-to-date news, English learning through longer text messageThe Korea Herald’s new long message service launched on Monday is its latest effort to broaden content platforms and give readers faster access to news and easier ways to learn English. The LMS is an upgraded version of its “Herald Topic” mobile text service, which offers the latest news in the form of an English headline with the Korean translation of selected words. Herald Topic SMS has hosted about 2,000 subscrib
March 11, 2012
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Proposed ‘nuclear’ clock most accurate?
A clock tied to the orbiting of an atom’s neutron could gain or lose less than a second in 14 billion years, the age of the universe, Australian scientists say.“This is nearly 100 times more accurate than the best atomic clocks we have now,” said one of the researchers proposing such a “nuclear” clo
March 9, 2012
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Space weather storm fizzles on arrival
A picture taken late on March 7, 2012 of northern lights in Abisko, Swedish Lapland. (AFP)A space weather storm that was forecast to be the strongest in five years has fizzled out and ended up causing no impact to power grids or modern navigation systems, US experts said on Thursday.A series of erup
March 9, 2012
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A remedy for so much ― walking
I remember that Dr. Kim Kwang-won of the Diabetes Center of Samsung Seoul Hospital, where I currently work, said at a health lecture, “I could count on my finger tips the best treatment method for diabetes after studying diabetes for life. That’s exercise.”At the time, I slapped my knee in glee to get advice from an outstanding master of diabetes.This spring, I plan to recommend to nearly all I meet at my outpatient clinic that they walk 30 minutes a day. This is because I finally realized that
March 8, 2012
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Doctors question effect of Google glasses on eyes
Have you ever imagined people walking along the street, digitally scanning and analyzing the information of their surroundings on the spot? This may become a reality as Google is expected to start selling eyeglasses that project information, entertainment and advertisements onto the lenses. According to the New York Times, the glasses are not designed to be worn constantly ― although Google engineers expect some users will wear them a lot ― but will be more like smartphones, used when needed, wi
March 8, 2012
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How music therapy can reduce stress, ease pain
Expert suggests use of complementary alternative medicine in highly individualized wayDALLAS ― Judith Ritchie unlocked her office at the Sammons Cancer Center and carefully gathered the instruments that she determined would best serve her patients in the oncology unit.An American Indian flute. A plucked psaltery or lap harp.Ritchie, a certified music practitioner on the staff of Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, fills doctors’ prescriptions to bring pain relief to patients with cancer.
March 8, 2012
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Antimatter atom measured for the first time
Scientists have succeeded in measuring an atom made of antimatter for the first time ever, marking a giant step toward finding out how universe is formed, livescience.com reported Wednesday.According to scientists all particles of matter have antimatter partners with equal mass and opposite charge. When the two parts meet, they destroy each other and become pure energy.However, measuring antimatter had been impossible since universe is made of matter. It is thought that the universe contained eq
March 8, 2012
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Police say customer info of two major mobile carriers leaked
Police said Thursday that they have booked five workers of a company subcontracted by the country's two major mobile carriers for their suspected leaks of customers' personal and real-time location information in return for financial profits. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said the workers, in
March 8, 2012
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Seoul begins review for third space rocket launch
A panel of experts will start reviewing launch plans for the country’s first space rocket this week, which could help set a specific blastoff date, the government said Thursday.A review committee will hold its first meeting Friday after the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology filed its request for a launch late last month.The ministry said earlier that the launch, which will be the third of its kind, will likely take place before October. The first two launches of South Korea’s first l
March 8, 2012
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Earth braces for biggest space storm in five years
The biggest space weather storm in five years is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to disrupt power grids, GPS systems, satellites and airline flights, experts say. (Yonghap News) The brunt of the stor
March 8, 2012
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World first: Images of atoms moving in a molecule
Laser-induced electron diffractionScientists on Wednesday said they had recorded the first real-time images of atoms moving in a molecule, a feat that captured movement lasting less than one millionth of a billionth of a second.The exploit entailed directing an ultra-fast laser onto molecules of nit
March 8, 2012
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Ape genes show we have gorillas in our midst
Our ancestors made the evolutionary split with gorillas around 10 million years ago, but we still share a remarkable number of genes with the great ape, according to a groundbreaking study published on Wednesday. A worldwide consortium of scientists sequenced the genome of the western lowland gor
March 8, 2012
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World first: Images of atoms moving in a molecule
Scientists on Wednesday said they had recorded the first real-time images of atoms moving in a molecule, a feat that captured movement lasting less than one millionth of a billionth of a second.The exploit entailed directing an ultra-fast laser onto molecules of nitrogen and of oxygen. Its pulse of
March 8, 2012
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US studies confirm Europe close on 'God particle'
More scientists are getting closer in the search for the ``God particle'' of physics that would help explain the fundamentals of the universe, but they haven't found it yet. In the hunt for the Higgs boson, which is key to understanding why matter has mass, two teams of physi
March 7, 2012
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Mobile money faces developed-world challenge
BARCELONA ― Instances of the so-called tail wagging the dog abound. Add to that club mobile-money services, the idea that you can make financial transactions of all kinds using only a cellphone.The technological brawn, sophisticated banking and widespread financial literacy seemingly required to deploy mobile-money programs are, of course, heavily concentrated in the developed world.Yet it’s in places lacking that infrastructure, such as sub-Saharan Africa, where the idea has actually taken hold
March 7, 2012
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Low-priced tablets hope to take on the big boys
Samsung diversifies lineup to counter threat, while LG remains skeptical of their challengeThe local tablet PC market is being challenged by online shopping malls selling low-priced tablet PCs to consumers here by joining hands with smaller manufacturers.Samsung Electronics, the country’s biggest IT firm, has unveiled plans to release low-tier tablets in the first half of the year, while its rival LG Electronics has no plans to roll out another tablet PC in the first quarter.“We’re aiming to div
March 7, 2012