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...these massacres are out in the public, it's very hard for any government ... to get this information covered up again," says Bruce Cumings, a professor of Korean history at the University of Chicago. "President Lee's administration is trying to get a lot of toothpaste back into the tube...
...world each year - and local economies on both sides of the planet depend on it. Off the coast of the Spanish port of Cartagena, hundreds of seagulls swarm the same patch of water six days a week, waiting for a boat to arrive and uncoil a long, plastic tube into the water. As sardines and mackerel are pumped into the deep, the water begins to churn. Hundreds of bluefin tuna, circling in vast cages beneath the water's surface, duke it out for their daily meal. This is a tuna ranch, a method that started in the Mediterranean...
...surreal," says Scott Atkinson, news director at WWNY, the main television station in the district's largest city of Watertown. "From where we are, there are all these local issues to contend with. But then we turn on the tube and we're watching this weird parallel universe of the talking heads talking about this as the future of the Republican Party...
Over the past few decades, medical improvements have made parenthood possible for millions of couples suffering from infertility. One of the main technological breakthroughs is in-vitro fertilization, which unites the sperm and egg in a test tube before implanting the embryo in the mother’s womb. The technology, however, comes at a high price. The procedure itself is expensive, but, more importantly, it can greatly increase the chance of seeing birth complications...
When those systems fail, patients are often treated aggressively rather than with palliative care. More than 40% of residents who died over the course of the study were sent to the emergency room, hospitalized, tube-fed or given IV nutrition during the last three months of life. These interventions can themselves cause distress and pain while providing, at best, questionable benefit and minimal prolongation of life, experts say. Among the family members who directed these residents' care, however, those who believed that the resident had less than six months to live and understood the nature of advanced dementia were less...