How to fend off sexual harassers on buses, subways (2)

1. A harasser approaches a woman from the front as shown in Picture 1, leaving very little or no personal space.There are two ways of getting out of this tight situation. One is the silent approach without drawing attention from nearby people, and the other is to aggressively stand against the opponent causing commotion.Here is how to actively fend off harassers on public transport.2. Take a step away from the opponent. Bend both arms to bring both hands toward your chest and block the opponent

Jan. 30, 2013

New hair transplant device developed to improve success rate

The number of people in Korea suffering from hair loss has now reached 10 million. Recently, it’s not only because of genetic reasons, but also due to environmental factors such as excessive stress, drinking, smoking and irregular eating habits.A growing number of hair loss patients are in their 20s and 30s, and most of them have difficulties in their social life.The most common way to prevent or treat hair loss is by taking drugs such as finasteride and minoxidil. But patients with genetic caus

Jan. 30, 2013

Entrepreneur finds an opportunity in home care for elderly Asians

PHILADELPHIA ― It’s hard for anyone to care for an ailing, aging family member, but Choi Im-ja faced extra challenges when her mother’s stomach cancer was diagnosed in 2002.Choi’s mother, who had come to the United States from Korea in 1978 to help raise Choi’s children, had never learned to speak English or enjoy American food. Choi thought she would be miserable in a nursing home.But her mother weighed 62 pounds and had a colostomy bag when she got out of the hospital. Choi and her husband bot

Jan. 30, 2013

Timing of meal affects weight loss: study

A new study shows that meal timing seems to affect weight loss, suggesting that when people eat matters as much as what they eat. A research team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the University of Murcia studied the relationship between meal times and weight loss among 420 participants for 20 weeks. The first group of people was told to eat before 3 p.m. while the latter group ate after 3. The study suggested that early eaters lost more weight than late eaters and did so more quic

Jan. 30, 2013

Subglacial Lake suggests life deep under Antarctic

The successful drilling of subglacial Lake Whillans suggests that microorganisms may have been living under the Antarctic ice sheet for thousands of years, U.S. broadcaster NBC News reported. Funded by U.S. National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs, members of the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project drilled into the 800-meter-deep lake, retrieved water and sediment samples and analyzed them. The analysis of experiments showed that microorganisms may exist

Jan. 30, 2013

Airborne bacteria may impact climate

U.S. scientists say bacteria and fungi found floating a surprising 30,000 feet above the Earth‘s surface have the potential to affect the globe’s weather.Scientists have long studied airborne bacteria, but they typically do so from the ground, so not much has been known about the number and diversity of floating microbes, researcher Athanasios Nenes, an atmospheric scientist at Georgia Tech, said.To find out more, Nenes and his colleagues hitched rides on a NASA research aircraft doing atmospher

Jan. 30, 2013

Beer hops could be new drug resource

U.S. researchers say hops, which help preserve beer and give it its distinctive flavor, may yield new drugs to treat diabetes, some cancers and other maladies.University of Washington researchers used a process called X-ray crystallography to analyze the precise configuration of humulones, substances derived from hops that give beer its flavor.Previous research has suggested beer and its bittering acids, in moderation, can have beneficial effects on diabetes, some forms of cancer, inflammation a

Jan. 30, 2013

S. Korea's space rocket lifts off from Naro Space Center

South Korea's space rocket blasted off Wednesday from the Naro Space Center on the country's southern coast.The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), also known as Naro, lifted off at 4 p.m. No apparent problems have been observed since its takeoff from the launch site, located 480 kilometers south of Seoul.The 170-ton thrust space rocket is designed to reach its target orbit in 9 minutes following its takeoff. Whether the launch was successful will initially be determined approximately 140 min

Jan. 30, 2013

Adults spend 5 years worrying: study

People spend several years of their life worrying about all sorts of things, which could lead to harmful health effects, a British health group said. According to a survey conducted by Benenden Health, a British health organization, adults spend five years of their life on average worrying about day-to-day issues. Adults’ concerns usually involve weight problems, finances and job security. Being overweight, getting old, having a lack of savings and staying fit were the top four worries on the li

Jan. 29, 2013

Vine video porn posts exposed

Twitter's iPhone video-snippet sharing service Vine had concerns about porn exposed on Monday after adult content was bared briefly in an "Editor's Picks" section.Twitter apologized for the mistake, blaming "human error" but providing little detail, and quickly removed the video.The globally popular one-to-many message sharing service last week launched Vine, a service that lets people share video snippets from iPhones or iPod touch devices.Perpetually looping video clips up to six seconds each

Jan. 29, 2013

Smoking addiction linked to brain’s self-control

Smokers’ craving for cigarettes is directly linked to brain’s self-control circuitry, a study showed Monday.A research team studied the relationship between the changes in brain activities and the level of craving for a cigarette after participants watched a neutral video and a video of people smoking. Before the experiment, some respondents were told that smoking would be allowed after watching the video, while others were told to wait 4 hours to smoke after the experiment was over. Scanning th

Jan. 29, 2013

Parents paying tuition linked to lower GPA

U.S. college students who get their education paid for by parents may not study as hard, but they have better odds of graduating, a researcher says.Laura T. Hamilton, a sociology professor at the University of California, Merced, found students‘ GPAs decreased with increased financial support from their parents.However, the study also found students with financial aid from their parents were more likely to complete college and earn a degree.“Students with parental support are best described as s

Jan. 29, 2013

Text app said violating privacy laws

WhatsApp, which allows text messaging over the Internet without incurring SMS messaging charges, violates Canadian and Dutch privacy laws, officials say.Canada’s privacy watchdog, in a joint investigation with Dutch authorities, determined the popular mobile messaging app breaches Canadian and Dutch privacy laws by forcing many of its users to grant access to their entire address book to use it, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News reported Monday.“The address book contains phone numbers of both [Wh

Jan. 29, 2013

Final preparations under way for launch of Naro space rocket

The Korea Space Launch Vehicle, the Korean-made space rocket also called Naro-1, began final preparations on Monday for its Wednesday launch. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced Monday that Naro-1 had been moved to the launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province.The Naro-1 is scheduled to blast off from the Naro Space Center on Wednesday at around 4 p.m. A final rehearsal for the launch will take place Tuesday, and the preparation committee will

Jan. 28, 2013

[Newsmaker] Apple relinquishes its crown

For any reigning monarch, stumbling off the throne is painful. It’s expected to be the same for Apple Inc., the king of electronics and smartphones, which recently forfeited the crown as the world’s most valuable company. ExxonMobil has now taken over that spot as Apple has lost some $247 billion in shareholder wealth compared to its high, which pundits note exceeds the value of IBM, worth $232 billion. Last week, following its earnings announcement -- which disappointed investors despite being

Jan. 28, 2013

More U.K. women injecting fat to change look

An increasing number of women in Britain are injecting fat into their bodies to change how they look, a British cosmetic surgeon group said.According to data published by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, the number of women who had undergone fat transfer procedures in the U.K. came to 2,641 in 2012, marking a 13 percent increase from the year before.BAAPS president Rajiv Grover said that people wanting to receive procedures have risen by double digits, despite the country’s

Jan. 28, 2013

Cellphones teeming with germs

Cellphones are full of germs but users can damage phones‘ finishes with some commonly used cleaning products, U.S. researchers say.“Cellphones are 10 times as dirty as a toilet seat,” Chuck Gerba, a professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, told ABC News.Cellphone users often carry their phones or smartphones all day -- from cars, public transit, offices, restaurants, stores, gyms, public bathrooms, home and often their beds.Most mobile phone manufacturers do not recommend using an

Jan. 28, 2013