Moon Jae-in's Final Attempt to Heal South Korea

 Posted on August 25, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2634 words  |  Billy Koelling

Moon Jae-in can still hear the roar today. South Korea’s President had been seated next to Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang’s May Day Stadium on Sept. 19, 2018, for the close of the Mass Games when North Korea’s leader beckoned him up to the dais. Beneath a vast collage calling for Korea to “unite the strength of the entire people,” Moon urged the 150,000-strong crowd to “hasten a future of common prosperity and reunification,” while revelers brandished white flags with powder blue outlines of a unified Korean Peninsula. [Read More]

Mountain Lion Urine Is On The Menu At One Massachusetts Restaurant

 Posted on August 25, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  450 words  |  Kelle Repass

Getty ImagesA coyote prowls near Los Angeles, Calif. Grumpy White’s has a coyote problem. The restaurant in Quincy, Massachusetts, has been getting nightly visitors from a few coyotes who live in the woods behind the pub’s parking lot. The feral animals — two adult coyotes and three pups have been spotted there this week — are scaring the patrons and the staff. Luckily the restaurant’s owner has a plan: mountain lion urine. [Read More]

New York City To Host First National 'Rat Summit'

 Posted on August 25, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  489 words  |  Martina Birk

New York City will host its very first National Urban Rat Summit this fall, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday. The summit will invite experts like academic researchers and municipal pest control managers to come together and share strategies on rodent mitigation and “advance the science of urban rat management,” the city said in a press release. Experts from across the country—including Boston, New Orleans, and Seattle—will be invited to attend the summit, which will be held on Sept. [Read More]

Orlando Shooting Latest News: 5 Shot, Including Journalists

 Posted on August 25, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  763 words  |  Patria Henriques

At least one journalist for local news channel Spectrum News 13 has died in central Florida after being shot on Wednesday afternoon while reporting on the scene of an earlier homicide, authorities said. The shooter also injured a second News 13 crew member and allegedly separately killed a nine-year-old girl and injured her mother. Orange County Sheriff John Mina said in a Wednesday evening briefing that the suspect, identified as 19-year-old Keith Melvin Moses, who police believe is responsible for the multiple shootings, has been detained. [Read More]

Review of The Knick on Cinemax

 Posted on August 25, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1393 words  |  Tandra Barner

The Knick (Cinemax, Fridays at 10 p.m. ET) is a show about the future. It just happens to take place in 1900. The medical drama, created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and produced and directed by Steven Soderbergh, is emphatically a period piece, meticulously produced, capturing turn-of-that-century New York City in all its grimy, typhoid-infected squalor. But this ain’t Downton Abbey, and no crumpets shall be served. The Knick doesn’t hold the past at a remove; it feels as immediate as any series set in 2014. [Read More]

Science: Hot Clothes at Idlewild

 Posted on August 25, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  381 words  |  Tandra Barner

A new hazard of the nuclear age came to light last week. Five mechanics of Pan American World Airways had been in Gander, Nfld., to check the Boeing 707 jetliner that went into an unscheduled dive-and almost plunged its passengers into the Atlantic (TIME, Feb. 16). They did their job and returned to New York. When the mechanics passed through a gate at Idlewild International Airport, one of the unseen Geiger counters that monitor international travelers chattered an alarm; some of the work clothes they were wearing were radioactive. [Read More]

Show Business: Ali MacGraw: A Return to Basics

 Posted on August 25, 2024  |  25 minutes  |  5275 words  |  Patria Henriques

Scene: Loew’s State 1, Manhattan. The innocent moviegoer and his girl head for the box office. Two signs: TICKET HOLDERS ONLY. TICKET BUYERS ONLY. Omigod, the temperature is about 19°—but they both have to see Love Story. She wants to see Ryan O’Neal, and he saw Ali MacGraw in Goodbye, Columbus and is hooked. She cried when she read the novel; he choked up. Who could resist Jennifer Cavilleri, the Radcliffe girl, condemned on the first page to a tragic death, then, loving Bach and the Beatles right to the end, expiring in her husband’s arms? [Read More]

Studying Medicine in Czech Republic - Live & Study

 Posted on August 25, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  248 words  |  Billy Koelling

30. 8. 2021 | Fields of Study The Czech Republic has a range of impressive selection of medical schools to offer. Most of the universities offer English courses in medicine which allows internationals from around the world to come to this beautiful country and gain their medical education. All the medical universities are internationally recognized. There are many leading universities like Charles University (with its five medical faculties in the country). [Read More]

The Battle in Uganda Over Female Condoms

 Posted on August 25, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1037 words  |  Kelle Repass

On the surface, it seems like a fine idea; reproductive-rights groups certainly think so. In July the Ugandan government announced that, using cash from the U.N. Population Fund, it would distribute 100,000 female condoms in a bid to stop a resurgence of HIV/AIDS. Advocates cheered the initiative, saying it would give women more control over their bodies. But in the weeks since, major funders of HIV/AIDS-prevention programs have shown far less enthusiasm, with many deciding not to back the plan. [Read More]