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Too much drinking will only injure your health..
My throat hurt when I swallowed food..

Today's News..

These pictures speak volumes.. "I know it does not look real..we feel like we are on a movie set or something.." The aftermath from a bridge collapse.. It happened during rush hour evening.
Cars and tons of concrete went flying as the entire span plunged into the river..

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama says if elected he would remove troops from Iraq and dispatch them to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Earlier rival candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton called his foreign policy ideas "naive".


From English Go Go..

Today's News..

1. A purported militant spokesman said after the deadline passed that the remaining 21 hostages were still alive..

2. Korea is making all-out diplomatic efforts to prevent the killing of any more of the 21 surviving Korean hostages by Taliban militants in Afghanistan, officials said..

3. Korea stock prices plummeted yesterday on heavy foreign selling sparked by an overnight plunge on Wall Street..

4. The presidential office said yesterday that President Roh Moo-hyun will not grant any special pardons before the December election..

5. The Seoul Administration Court has ruled that health insurance can cover obesity treatment if it does not include cosmetic surgery..


The left-handed gene identified..

About 10% of humans are left-handed and scientist at Oxford University have discovered a gene that appears to increase the odds of this trait.. The gene looks to play a key role in determining whether the left side or the right side of the brain controls speech and language, leaving the other side to control emotions. Further research on the gene's role in brain development is required but it may help to understand asymmetry in the brain. The gene is also associated with a slight increase in the risk of developing psychotic mental illness that are linked to an abnormal balance in brain function. Earlier, left-handed people were found to have a greater risk to other diseases, having and accident and quicker thinking when playing computer games or sports, than their right handed counterparts..



Redesigning the toilet..

A new study hightlights the environmental damage of flush toilets and the radical innovaions needed to change the bathroom culture of Western society. Flush toilets, as oposed to squat toilets, squander precious drinking water. An average person uses about 4,000 gallons of drinking water to flush away waste, according to a study, while other parts of the world, such as India and some African nations, suffer from water shortage.. Still, Westerners's insistence on flush toilets can not be ignored and is being incorporated into the design of those rethinking the toilet.. Dry toilets that collect waste to be used later as fertilizer and vacuum toilets are being considered. The study states that "both technological advancements and changes in social and cultural patterns" are needed to make a long-lasting change..


From Morning Special..

Today's News..

1. Cheong Wa Dae strongly comdemned the militant group for killing a second Korean hostage in Afghanistan and threatened to take stern countermeasures if more Korean captives are killed..

2. Thousands of police raied a New Core store early yesterday morning to forcefully disperse workers who have been holding a sit-in strike for the past three days..

3. Former comfort women hailed yesterday the passage of a resolution by the U.S. House of Representatives, urging Japan to officially apologize to the victims and acknowledge its historical responsibility..

4. The prosecutors yesterday sent questionnaire to Lee Myung-bak, a leading presidential contender of the GNP, as part of its investigation into the allegation of real estate speculation and other irregularities..

5. Imported baking mixtures and half-made pastries contain 10 times more trans fat on average than those made with local ingredients, a government report said..



China assure the U.S. it is not a threat..

In his continuing visit to China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was told by a senior Chinese official that China is no econ0mic threat to anyone and that it is still grappling with poverty. Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi expressed her pleasure that Paulson had visited the impoverished Qinghai province and seen the difference between rural China and burgeoning cities like Beijing and Shanghai. Wu said that there are still 23 million people living in poverty in China, and that China's economic development goal was to provide for all 1.3 billion citizens. She added that, China does not and will never threaten anyone."
The visit comes amid a push by lawmakers in the U.S. to pressure China into stabilizing its currency and allowing more open markets. An increasing number of Americans are crying foul over their country's trade deficit with China..


Coffee could combat skin cancer..

Recent research suggests that routine coffee drinking, when combined with regular exercise, could help in warding off some skin cancers more than if each was done alone. The senior author of the study warns that the results are no reason to discontinue regular sun-protection practices, however, since the study was only performed on animals. Although earlier studies have shown that caffeine intake or exercise indivisually can fight the onset of cancer, the new study shows that a combination of the two is more effective. The caffeine and exercise factors apparently work in tandem to help kill off cells that were damaged by UV rays before malignancy sets in,k which causes cancer. He says, "We really don't know how that happens." He also said that he din not know whether the factors would work in humans, and that he hopes to carry out a clinical study on human next..



From Morning Special..

Here and there..

That is a big seller..
Paying for something all up-front 이자없이 일시불로 내다..
interests payment..
mid-size(d) apartment..
music to my ears/ That is exactly what I want to hear..
won a landslide victory by garnering~ on popularist flatform..
match you vision of 21c socialism
take a harder line against..
media outlet언론사/ broadcasting station..
overthrow/ topple..
coup
criticizined as a major setback to democracy and pluralism..
en route../on its way..

Here and there..

He is a childhood friend..소꿉친구...
We go back a long way../ We go a long way back..
I am totally at my wit's ends..
get a restraining order against somebody from the court..접근금지명령.
player..바람둥이..He is a player..
last straw..
warm up to someone...warm up to an idea. 마음을 열기시작하다..다정하게 굴다..
loopy
I feel a littly loopy today..약간 정상이아니다..정신없네...(귀여운표현) not normal..
Knock it off../Stop it..
You have a tendacy to do that..have a habbit of..
You leap what you sow..
produced a modest achievement(just step in the right direction..not that big achievement.) in the area of global warming..
agree in principle to substancially cut green house gas emssions(fundamentally)핵심자체에대해서는 이리한다..
to impose caps on green house gas emissions.
cut emissions to half of 1990 levels mandatory(it is a binding agreement) provisions(의무조항)
200원 in aid..
No timeframe for the aid was provided..
shoot the breeze..

Here and there..

BWI/BWS/BWT/DWK..
Three to be safe..
fail-safe..
Let fate decide..
Cut me some slack..
For the last time..
I can not believe you have the nerve to talk to me after you got Abby fired..
Sometimes first blush gives you a head rush..
Good morning, sunshine..
Did you sleep it off? 술, 화, 스트레스..없어젼나? 깨었나?- I am still a bit groggy..
fine line between pleasure and pain..
You still got the blues..
My head is still whirling../ I am still hazy../ My head is still swimming..