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South Korean author Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize in literature
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Han Kang speaks up on Nobel Prize, thanks ‘enormous wave’ of blessing
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Exploring works of Han Kang
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Han Kang declines press conference, not to celebrate, citing global wars
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Han Kang's 'first reactions' after winning the Nobel Prize
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Former Ador CEO gains ground in legal battle with Hybe, as whistleblower reveals plagiarism evidence
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BTS’s V and RM celebrate Han Kang’s Nobel Prize in literature win
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Han Kang drives readers to bookstores both online and offline
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BOK cuts key rate by quarter point to 3.25%
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Han Kang: From blacklist to Nobel laureate
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Alcohol releases addictive endorphin: study
Drinking alcohol helps to release endorphins in areas of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure and reward, a study found.According to the study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, endorphin release in the nucleus accumbens and orbitofrontal cortex in response to
Jan. 12, 2012
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Samsung eyes 15% growth in TV sales this year
(Yonhap News)Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea's tech behemoth, said Thursday it aims to increase its sales of televisions by around 15 percent this year by boosting its entire lineup of TVs.Yoon Boo-keun, president of Samsung's TV business, was quoted as saying at a consumer electronics show in
Jan. 12, 2012
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Company announces low-cost DNA decoding machine
NEW YORK (AP) _ A biotechnology company announced it has developed a machine to decode an individual's DNA in a day for $1,000, a long-sought price goal for making the genome useful for medical care.Life Technologies Corp. said Tuesday it was taking orders for the technology, which it expects to del
Jan. 12, 2012
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Tablets, ultrabooks hot items at CES
LAS VEGAS ― The chief of the Consumer Electronics Association said Wednesday that tablet PCs are becoming a tremendously competitive field in the industry, since the device has turned into an office item for many firms. “Tablets are transformational products and something that has developed really quickly,” said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of CEA, a U.S. trade association that has over 2,000 members in the consumer electronics industry. This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in La
Jan. 11, 2012
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El Gordo: A 'fat' distant galaxy cluster
An extremely hot, massive young galaxy cluster -- the largest ever seen in the distant Universe -- has been studied by an international team using ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile along with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. The new
Jan. 11, 2012
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Samsung Electronics’ 2011 sales rank first in world
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of memory chips and No. 2 handset maker, posted the largest revenue among global tech firms last year on the back of strong sales of smartphones, a financial information provider said Tuesday.Samsung Electronics’ 2011 sales reached $148.6 billion when its yearly revenue was converted into the dollar, according to data compiled by FnGuide Inc. The company estimated on Friday that it posted a record operating profit of 5.2 trillion won ($4.5 billi
Jan. 10, 2012
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Government to keep watch on falling satellite
As a Russian Mars probe that stalled in orbit may fall to the Earth sometime next week, the government announced Tuesday that it would broadcast its location real time on the websites of related agencies and via Twitter until its crash.The 13.2-ton probe named Phobos-Grunt, launched last November, w
Jan. 10, 2012
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Hawking: Mankind must colonize space
(AP)British physicist Stephen Hawking says mankind faces the threat of nuclear annihilation and should build colonies on Mars and beyond.Hawking made the remarks on a radio program to mark his 70th birthday, responding to questions submitted by listeners, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday."It is p
Jan. 10, 2012
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Nicotine could ward off memory loss: study
Older adults who are starting to have problems with memory may benefit from small amounts of nicotine therapy, according to a US study published on Monday.The research in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, included 74 non-smokers with an average age of 76. Half were
Jan. 10, 2012
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Apple CEO Tim Cook could top pay list in 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Tim Cook could well end up being the highest paid CEO in America in 2011, after Apple Inc. granted him a million restricted stock units last August for taking the reins shortly before cofounder Steve Jobs died. An Associated Press review of a securities filing shows Cook's pay pac
Jan. 10, 2012
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Global warming delays natural patterns of glaciation, researchers say
Unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are disrupting normal patterns of glaciation, scientists said.The Earth's current warm period that began about 11,000 years ago should give way to another ice age within about 1,500 years, according to the study published online Jan.
Jan. 10, 2012
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Healthy eating may help ADHD kids: U.S. study
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Simply eating healthier may improve the behavior of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder if therapy and medication fail, said a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.Researchers, however, said that their review of recent controlled scientific studies had shown conflicting evidence on the impact of supplements and restricted diets ― in some cases they were no better than the placebo effect.Nutritional interventions should therefore be considered an
Jan. 9, 2012
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Red wine may reduce breast cancer risk
Red wine may reduce one risk factor for breast cancer, challenging the widely-held belief that alcohol increases breast cancer, U.S. researchers say.Bottles of wine are displayed on a shelf at the Capercaillie Wine Co. cellar in Lovedale, in the Hunter Valley region of Australia, on Tuesday, O
Jan. 9, 2012
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Samsung Electronics sweeps Russian mobile handset market
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest handset maker, swept the Russian mobile phone market, ranking first in four categories in November last year, a research firm said Monday.Samsung Electronics took first place in the Russian mobile phone market in terms of
Jan. 9, 2012
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Tiny wires could usher new computer era
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Scientists said Thursday they have designed tiny wires, 10,000 times thinner than a human hair but with the same electrical capacity as copper, in a major step toward building smaller, more potent computers.The advance, described in the US journal Science, shows for the firs
Jan. 8, 2012
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Bits of Russia space probe set to fall Jan. 15
MOSCOW (AP) — Fragments of a failed Russian space probe are now expected to fall to Earth on Jan. 15, officials said Wednesday.The unmanned Phobos-Ground probe was launched Nov. 9 on what was supposed to have been a 2 1/2-year mission to the Mars moon of Phobus to take soil samples and fly the
Jan. 8, 2012
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First mixed-embryo monkeys are born in US
US researchers said Thursday they have created the world's first mixed-embryo monkeys by merging cells from up to six different embryos, in what could be a big advance for medical research. A baby rhesus macaque monkey looks out from the arms of its mother in Hong Kong in July 2011. (AFP)Until
Jan. 6, 2012
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Brain power can decline from age 45: study
Cognitive skills can start to fall from the age of 45, not from around the age of 60 as is commonly thought, according to research published on Friday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).Researchers led by Archana Singh-Manoux from the Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health in Fr
Jan. 6, 2012
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Siblings bound by blood to fight rare cancer
MILWAUKEE ― In the course of a few hours on a recent fall day, all of Ann Merrell’s blood slowly exited her body through a tube in her left arm, then re-entered through a tube in her right.Two lives were bound up in this circle of blood.The night before, in her own bed in South Beloit, Ill., she’d tossed and turned. Some of it was fear of the unknown. Yet Ann had decided that what she knew about her brother’s disease outweighed what she didn’t know about this effort to save him. Since 2006, her
Jan. 5, 2012
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Sudden cardiac death
When the temperature falls, the heart can be put under greater stress and the probability of sudden cardiac death surges among those in mid-life. Excessive drinking, excessive smoking and chronic fatigue in day-to-day life may lead to the onset of sudden chest pain followed by cardiac arrest and death. Sudden death refers to an unexpected natural death caused within one hour of the onset of symptoms. Most cases of sudden death are the result of heart disorder. Therefore, sudden death is normally
Jan. 5, 2012
