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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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[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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S. Korea votes in favor of Palestinian bid for UN membership
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Farming households dip below 1m for first time in 2023
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A decade after horror of Sept. 11, a new kind of storytelling
When details were released of the recent raid to hunt down and kill Osama Bin Laden in his Abbottabad compound, a daring narrative complete with Navy SEALs and Blackhawk helicopters, many readers of international thrillers probably had the same thought: Sounds like a scene from a Brad Thor novel.Tha
Aug. 19, 2011
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Iraq’s last king lives on in Tintin comics
BAGHDAD (AFP) ― Everyone here knows that the July 14 bridge, a convenient route to the U.S. Embassy and government offices in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, marks a 1958 coup when Iraq’s last king was murdered. But not many know that King Faisal II lives on in the classic “Tintin” comic books.This
Aug. 16, 2011
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American writer talks about owning Brooklyn deli with his Korean in-laws
Korean-language edition of Ben Ryder Howe’s memoir ‘My Korean Deli’ releasedFor Ben Ryder Howe, a self-identified WASP working as a literary man on the Upper East Side, owning a deli in Brooklyn was certainly an adventure.It was in 2002 that Howe, married to Korean-born corporate lawyer Gab, decided
Aug. 15, 2011
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Light side of Fitzgerald
“A Short Autobiography” By F. Scott Fitzgerald and James L. W. West III(Scribner)An often light but still poignant side of F. Scott Fitzgerald is evident in this compilation of 19 of his previously published items and articles, written mostly for popular magazines during 1920-1940.Edited by Fitzgera
Aug. 12, 2011
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Imagined Garden of Eden
Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of EdenBy Brook Wilensky-Lanford(Grove Press)It’s a challenge: Choose the location for the original Garden of Eden from the 17 suggested by this book’s new map.In the first two chapters of the book of Genesis, God is quoted as pinpointing the fruitful area whe
Aug. 12, 2011
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Parenting guide for the college years urges empathy
It hadn’t occurred to me that my husband and I might skip the college family weekend this fall, when our older son becomes a freshman. But the authors of “Don’t Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money” have given me pause.Parents and their college-age sons and daughters are tied by an electronic umbilic
Aug. 12, 2011
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Author returns to Alaska for fish and stories
It took 10 years of nonstop classes, workshops and study for Melinda Moustakis to earn her Ph.D in writing.In the process, she had work published in serious literary journals around the country and picked up one of the most coveted prizes in American literature, the 2011 Flannery O’Connor Award for
Aug. 12, 2011
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Best-selling children’s novel to be sold in Germany
A translated version of a best-selling South Korean children’s novel about the adventures of a hen who escapes her coop in search of freedom will soon be sold in Germany, the book’s local publisher here said Tuesday.“The book will be published in Germany and other German-speaking countries sooner or
Aug. 9, 2011
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Korean author debuts in English with popular novel
NEW YORK (AP) --There's a big difference between ``mother'' and ``mom.''``Mother'' is someone to be respected, perhaps held at arm's length. But ``mom'' is an intimate name. It's the woman on the floor playing with her child, wisps of hair falling around her face, instead of the woman in the starche
Aug. 7, 2011
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Juan Williams pitches for civility in political debate
Fox News commentator and former NPR news analyst Juan Williams calls himself the worst kind of bigot on the very first page of his new book, “Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate.” “I am a bigot,” he writes. “I hate Muslims. I am a fomenter of hate and intolerance. I am a black guy who makes fun of
Aug. 5, 2011
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U.S. military’s strategic manhunts
Wanted Dead or Alive: Manhunts from Geronimo to bin LadenBy Benjamin Runkle(Palgrave Macmillan)When U.S. Navy SEALs last spring ended a seemingly endless manhunt by killing Osama bin Laden in his hide-out in an affluent suburb north of Pakistan’s capital, the world learned that the code name given t
Aug. 5, 2011
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Visual and sound artist publishes book with music
Steve Roden combines found old pictures, recordings and text for his latest projectThe genesis of “... i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces,” a new book of vintage photographs with musical accompaniment, came simply, during one of artist Steve Roden’s regular visits to the flea market.“Th
Aug. 5, 2011
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Sweet, adorable tale for kids
While We Were Out By Lee Ho-baek(Kane/Miller Book Pub)A cute little rabbit sneaks into an empty house through an unlocked balcony door, while the family is away visiting grandma. The bunny is thrilled to explore the place and the new things she’s never done before.For any kid who has wondered what t
Aug. 5, 2011
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Marvel: New Ultimate Spider-Man boasts big changes
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Peter Parker is dead and gone, but Spider-Man’s still slinging webs and fighting crime.A half-black, half-Latino teenager named Miles Morales, as unveiled by Marvel Comics (Yonhap News)And it’s not just a new teenager climbing Manhattan buildings, it’s an entirely new crime
Aug. 4, 2011
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Internet archivist seeks every book written
RICHMOND (AP) ― Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an Internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word.Brewster Kahle, 50, founded the nonprofit Internet Archive in 1996 to save a copy of every Web page ever posted. Now the MIT-trained comp
Aug. 2, 2011
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A look at Asia in U.S. culture
Although the comics publisher DC Comics is now co-headed by Jim Lee, an Asian-American, for many decades American comics regularly featured racist depictions of Asians as inscrutable masterminds and devious coolies, among other stereotypes.A new exhibition at New York University (NYU), titled “Marve
Aug. 1, 2011
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Peace or prosperity in East Asia: Which came first?
Global AsiaVolume 6, No. 2, Summer 2011East Asia FoundationThe year 1979 ought to be studied one day as perhaps the pivotal point in East Asia’s history. In South Korea it is remembered as the year in which the dictator Park Chung-hee was assassinated, ending his 18-year rule and heralding the tumultuous ‘80s, in which the people fought the government for greater liberties. Also in 1979, the last
July 29, 2011
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Author Park’s life rendered in fiction
Who Ate Up All the Shinga? An Autobiographical Novel By Park Wan-suhTranslated by Yu Young-nan and Stephen Epstein(Columbia University Press)Among the many novels by the late author Park Wan-suh, who wrote a great deal on the brutality of the Korean War, Korea’s ordinary families and women’s issues, her 1992 novel “Who Ate Up All the Shinga?” explores Park’s own family, whose fate was deeply affec
July 29, 2011
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Author gives insights into shoplifting and its costs
Trying on shoes at a department store, I was struck by how long it took for the salesperson to return from the stock room.“Where did he go?” I asked author Rachel Shteir, my new shopping companion.“Now, if you wanted to steal those, you would just take the pair you came in with and place them in the box, and wear the new ones right out the door,” Shteir whispered. “The Steal: A Cultural History of
July 29, 2011
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Dorothea Benton Frank talks about life in the Lowcountry
In her life and in 12 novels, writer Dorothea Benton Frank never hesitates to put her broad sense of humor on display and show she can deliver a punchline.Frank’s newly published book, “Folly Beach.”Such as her impassioned answer to this question: What impressions has she formed of her fans from hundreds of book-tour appearances over the years?“This is the honest-to-god truth ― my readers are good
July 29, 2011