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...like most other professional sports, pro gaming takes a physical and mental toll on players - crippling backaches, shoulder pain, headaches, tired eyes and sore wrists are par for the course, explains Hoon, a graduate in sports psychology. Gaming is also highly addictive. In 2005, a 28-year-old South Korean man collapsed and died after playing StarCraft, an online game, at an Internet Café for 50 consecutive hours, during which time he had hardly slept or eaten - authorities deemed his death the result of heart failure caused by exhaustion...
...Brundtland said she and the other special envoys - former South Korean Foreign Minister Han Seung-soo and former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos - will be consulting ahead of the G-8 summit with leaders from the main emitters of greenhouse gases, from the major developing world economies, and from small island nations and the poorest countries...
Ncube: Mugabe is extremely power conscious. He's obsessed. Anything that disturbs his power base, he immediately reacts. In the 1980s, he sent the [North-Korean trained Zimbabwean Army] Fifth Brigade into Matabeleland to kill 20,000 people. It was crazy. It was his own people. It's absolutely diabolical. Atrocious...
...Cabot House seniors were unofficially married in a mock traditional Korean wedding ceremony in Cabot last night, in an event hosted by the Global Cultural Club, a group of Korean-Americans dedicated to spreading and sharing Korean culture. Cabot Resident Tutor Ha Yan Lee invited representatives of the Los Angeles-based group to Cambridge to participate in the ceremony, in which Snezhana B. Zlatinova ’07 and Ludwig “Matt” Otto ’07—who began dating after meeting during freshman orientation—were fake-married...
...Apollo 7 was Schirra's third and last mission. Having joined the space agency as one of the original seven astronauts in 1959, the former Korean war combat pilot became the fifth American in space, orbiting the Earth in his tiny Mercury spacecraft in 1962. In 1965, he returned to space aboard Gemini 6 with co-pilot Tom Stafford, rendezvousing with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, already waiting in orbit in Gemini 7. After those two trips, there wasn't much that rattled Schirra, but agreeing to fly Apollo 7 at all still took some spine...