All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • By Jaeyub Chung Aliso Niguel High School 11th grade By Jaeyub Chung Aliso Niguel High School 11th grade
    Socialism: Good or Evil?

    The term “socialism” has garnered an immensely negative connotation throughout history, particularly in a country like the United States where anything that does not sound like “democracy” is dismissed as communism. In fact, many Americans do not...

    • Posted January 25, 2016
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  • Brennan Lee Harvard-Westlake 11th grade
    Preparing for Godzilla El Niño

    It is no secret that California is facing one of the strongest El Niño’s ever recorded. The “Godzilla” El Niño is predicted to be stronger than the one that struck California in 1997-1998. El Niño’s occur when...

    • Posted January 25, 2016
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  • (Courtesy of Apple)
    Apple’s iPhone success may be reaching its peak

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple could soon face one of its biggest challenges to date: Peak iPhone. Most analysts believe Apple surpassed its own record by selling more than 74.5 million units of its flagship product in...

    • Posted January 25, 2016
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  • Residents of W. Leicester St. in Winchester, Va. join forces to shovel out on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, after an historic snowstorm dumped more than 30 inches of snow on the city Friday night and Saturday. (Jeff Taylor/The Winchester Star via AP)
    At least 37 killed in snowstorm-related deaths

    At least 37 people have died as a result of the mammoth snowstorm that pounded the eastern U.S. The deaths occurred in car accidents, from carbon monoxide poisoning, and from heart attacks while shoveling snow: WASHINGTON, D.C....

    • Posted January 25, 2016
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  • (KT&G's Lamborghini cigarettes)
    Lamborghini cigarettes introduced in S. Korea

    By Lee Hyo-sik KT&G (Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation)) introduced the Tonino Lamborghini L6 cigarettes. The country’s largest cigarette maker said that to manufacture its latest product, it imported tobacco leaves from Europe and other regions and...

    • Posted January 25, 2016
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  • Kim Jong-un
    S. Korea raises cyber alert level amid signs of N. Korean hack attacks

    By Kang Yoon-seung SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea raised its cyber alert level following the influx of malicious e-mails presumed to have originated from North Korea amid a spike in cross-border tensions after Pyongyang tested a fourth...

    • Posted January 25, 2016
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  • This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. On Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, U.S. health officials are telling pregnant women to avoid travel to Latin America and Caribbean countries with outbreaks of a tropical illness linked to birth defects. The Zika virus is spread through mosquito bites from Aedes aegypti and causes only a mild illness in most people. But there’s been mounting evidence linking the virus to a surge of a rare birth defect in Brazil. (James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)
    WHO says Zika likely in all but 2 countries in Americas

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — The World Health Organization says the Zika virus that’s suspected of causing birth defects is likely to spread to every country in the Americas where the mosquito that carries it can be found:...

    • Posted January 25, 2016
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