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Japanese and Korean researchers were the first to notice the El Niño Modoki phenomenon, before its possible effect on hurricanes really snapped into focus in 2004. That was an El Niño year, which led experts to predict a lighter than average Atlantic hurricane season. But it instead to turned out to be an El Niño Modoki, and overall hurricane activity was 2½ times as severe as normal, with 15 named storms and six major hurricanes. Florida was repeatedly battered. "We had a lot more storms than we expected, and that got us thinking...
...beauty shops, that hit you in a tidal wave of pink as soon as you step outside the gates. Short skirts, sky-high heels, bows, and sparkles abound. It seems strange that the college at the center of this Barbie-land has been the source of tremendous empowerment for Korean women. South Korea’s first female prime minister, its first female justice on the Constitutional Court, and the youngest international soccer referee all went to Ewha. Living in this area of mixed signals, a living representation of the dichotomy embodied by Legally Blonde’s Elle Woods...
...need of protection. Korea’s hottest music group is the nine-member teen girl group “Girls’ Generation,” has rocketed to stardom with cutesy outfits and “who, me?” Lolita looks. All Korean men must serve two years in the army; Korean women have no such national service obligation. In my workplace, too, a 200-employee public research institute, the entire management corps is male. The Korean traditional clothing for women, the hanbok, has no waist—it is fitted under the shoulders to reveal...
...typical’ Ewha girl, I’m not so interested in makeup or clothes. But I don’t think I would have had the leadership positions I had here at a [co-ed] college.” Maybe, despite the opportunities Ewha affords Korean women, the real solution is less pink...
...types of aid haven't been flowing into North Korea as in the past, either. During the decade in which South Korea pursued its "sunshine policy" of engagement with the North, Seoul became a major trading partner and source of aid, especially of much needed fertilizer. But current South Korean President Lee Myung Bak reversed the policy when he took office in 2008, linking economic cooperation with Pyongyang's dismantlement of its nuclear-weapons program. The result is that North Korea is now more dependent than ever on its main patron, China. Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert...