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15 hrs ago | Korea Herald

Korea urged to embrace diversity

Korea should recalibrate its multiculturalism policy toward a greater acceptance of cultural diversity and broader social integration of ethnic minorities, a senior official said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Asia, South Korea, World News,

Tue May 14, 2013

The Straits Times

Few in Singapore opt to remove both breasts, ovaries

FEW women in Singapore will have both their breasts and ovaries removed - even when they know they have an extremely high risk of getting cancer, doctors here say.

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Fiji Times

Lab to benefit Fiji and region

FIJI and the region will benefit from the provision of better pathology services after the Fiji National University refurbished the pathology lab at the CWM Hospital in Suva.

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Related Topix: Pathology, Medicine, World News, Fiji,

The Olympian

New principals hired at two North Thurston schools

Two administrators from Seven Oaks Elementary School in Lacey will take the helm at other schools on July 1, according to North Thurston Public Schools spokeswoman Courtney Schrieve.

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Related Topix: Seven Oaks, SC

Korea Herald

[Newsmaker] New Samsung body eyes Nobel laureates

Choi Yang-hee, head of Samsung Group's ambitious new technological research foundation, is determined to produce Nobel Prize winners through advancing basic sciences.

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Related Topix: Asia, South Korea, World News

Mon May 13, 2013

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Internet-Delivered Interpersonal Psychotherapy Versus...

Online CBT interventions have demonstrated efficacy in decreasing depressive symptoms and can facilitate the dissemination of therapies among the public.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News, Youth, Alternative, Psychology, Science,

BroadwayWorld.com

Fourth Cape Town International Ballet Competition Set for February

CEO of the Cape Town International Ballet Competition , Dirk Badenhorst, has announced that the fourth CTIBC takes place from 17 to 23 February 2014 at the Artscape Theatre Centre in Cape Town.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, World News, South Africa, Dance

ABC News

Researchers find Earth's layers out of sync

Scientists at the Australian National University in Canberra have found the moving layers of molten rock under the Earth's surface influences the planet's magnetic field.

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Sun May 12, 2013

The Globe and Mail

Specialist phys ed teachers really do make a difference, study finds

Give kids more physical-education classes in school, and they'll be healthier and form good habits for a lifetime.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Fitness, Yoga

Fri May 10, 2013

Cincinnati.com

CCM student steps in for Xavier Piano Series

Edward Neeman, an internationally recognized pianist currently doing advanced studies at UC's College-Conservatory of Music, has replaced Japan's Kotaro Fukuma in the concert at 2:30 p.m. this Sunday, May 12, in Xavier's Gallagher Student Center Theater.

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Related Topix: Classical, James Tocco, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music

Business World

New breakthrough in quantum computing

Australian scientists have made a breakthrough that brings the prospect of a network of ultra- powerful quantum computers-connected via a quantum internet-closer to reality, the University of New South Wales said in a statement yesterday.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science

Thu May 09, 2013

Nanotechweb.org

Graphene forms transparent actuator

A transparent actuator developed by researchers in Korea could be used to make movable elements for touch-screens, or even vari-focal lenses.

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Related Topix: Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Science

Wed May 08, 2013

English Dong-A

8-year-old victim of a car accident

A young victim`s rehab . MAY 09, 2013 03:33. . Hong Hyeon-joon and his mother have been struggling every day since February 2010 when he had a car accident, which gave him a permanent disability.

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Daily Times

BNU report proposes economic revival methodology

LAHORE: The 6th annual report of Institute of Public Policy of Beaconhouse National University titled, 'The State of the Economy: From Survival to Revival' has stressed the need to address the major issues confronting the current economic situation of Pakistan.

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Related Topix: Pakistan, World News

Tue May 07, 2013

Chosun Ilbo

Korean Engineering Faculties Jump in World Ranking

The world ranking of Korean engineering faculties improved greatly in the latest World University Rankings released on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Science

Science

[Research Article] A Network of Substrates of the E3 Ubiquitin...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Pharmacology, Duke University, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Oncology, Dallas, TX

UPI

Non-Muslim candidates largely absent in Pakistan's election

Few non-Muslims are running in Pakistan's planned May 11 election, a practice critics say reinforces non-Muslims' status as a poor underclass in this predominantly Muslim country.

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Related Topix: Pakistan People's Party, Benazir Bhutto, World News, Pakistan,

The News-Review

Umpqua Community College strengthens ties to Ukraine

Courtesy of Susan Rochester Students line up in a folk dance class at the Uzhhorod College of Arts and Culture in Ukraine.

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9NEWS

9-year-old 'professor' teaches history in Ukraine

History lectures about the Mongol invasion of 1237 may not seem appealing to attend, at least, not until the class is taught by a 9-year-old prodigy.

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Fiji Times

Discussion on finance and governance

Update: 2:26PM FINANCE experts, heads of institutions and academics from the region are expected to converge at the Fiji National University's Nasinu campus tomorrow for a week of discussion on reconciling governance systems and deepening the financial sector in market economies.

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