| Web Site Sells North Korean Luxury Goods
They're potentially just a click away. North Korea, known more for nuclear saber-rattling than its consumer products, is offering overseas shoppers the chance to buy hundreds of its goods via the Internet. - Click here for FOXNews.com's Personal Technology Center. Those who keep a close eye on North Korea say the move is likely a bid by the perpetually impoverished country to earn cash and also raise awareness about what it has to offer. The Web site — available in Korean, English, Chinese, Russian and Japanese — also sells bicycles, commemorative stamps, roller skates and uniforms for Taekwondo, a Korean martial art. It includes a shopping cart icon and says credit cards are acceptable. But, much like the North Korean economy, the site doesn't work very well.
Our community needs an endocrinologist
There use to be a endocrinologist who had hours in Bloomington one day a week. The wait to get an appointment was months. Our GP recommanded the specialist. He could not determine the cause/condition. We choose Peoria due to shorter travel time. The endocrinologist was able to determine and treat the condition and work with an ophthalmologist. However, the monthly drives to Peoria, taking at least 1/2 day off work. Sometimes the whole day if we can get both Dr. appointment the same day. " .
Study Says India Has Smoking Crisis
The study, one of the most comprehensive ever in India, sent 900 field workers to survey 1.1 million homes across the country. They compared the smoking history of 74,000 adults who died from 2001 to 2003 with 78,000 living adults. The study says there are currently about 120 million smokers in India. More than 30 percent of men and 5 percent of women between 30 and 69 years of age smoke either cigarettes or "bidis," small, cheaply made cigarettes which contain about one-fourth the tobacco of a regular cigarette, the study said. .
Sale of the century (again) at Fishs Eddy
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Need some dinner plates adorned with the Lexus car logo? Or unglazed porcelain hand molds (the five-finger kind once used to make plastic gloves)? Those are some of the more unusual items shoppers can expect to find at a sale later this month inside the Fishs Eddy storage warehouse on Front Street in Stapleton. For those who thought the Manhattan-based tableware retailer had disappeared completely from Staten Island when it closed its Bay Street retail shop in St. George in 2005, there is one last chance to get the bargain home goods in this borough. Never before open to the public, the storage warehouse at 450 Front St. will open for a close-out weekend sale starting Friday, Jan. 25. There the bulk of inventory, stacked high in dusty baskets and boxes, consists of thousands of pieces of surplus restaurant-grade tableware, glassware and silverware, including demitasse spoons, cocktail forks, shot glasses and whiskey jugs, according to Fishs Eddy owner Julie Gaines.
Writing his future
Luke, their middle child, is healthy, but when their 10-year-old daughter Kennan was 4, Tracey recalls clearly the day she saw her exhibiting the telltale signs of Friedreich's Ataxia."It never entered our minds that we would have another child with it," Tracey said. "They were fine and then all of a sudden they weren't. It just shifts your whole world."Tracey said that Andrew and Kennan both have heart issues and tire easily. During their summer vacation last year, it was the first time the family took two wheelchairs along because both children tire easily.Tim Boynton is the senior pastor at Kingsburg's Evangelical Covenant Church and Tracey is involved with many ministries through the church. She also recently began substitute teaching.Tracey said that the family takes each day as it comes.
Science TSA Wants Your Feedback via Official Blog
Few will argue that security at air ports can be difficult and taxing during the best of times. All the added security became commonplace around the country since the terrorist attacks in 2001. In an attempt to give travelers a place to voice concerns and ask questions the TSA set up a blog to allow its employees to interact with air travelers. In one of the first posts TSA Administrator Kip Hawley explained the goal of the blog as: Our ambition is to provide here a forum for a lively, open discussion of TSA issues. While I and senior leadership of TSA will participate in the discussion, we are turning the keyboard over to several hosts who represent what's best about TSA (its people). Our hosts aren't responsible for TSA's policies, nor will they have to defend them -- their job is to engage with you straight-up and take it from there.
FIFA Street 3: Sports game (Electronic Arts for Xbox 360 and ...
The biggest problem with FIFA Street 3 is that there's not enough of it. If this new hyper-real bicycle kick-heavy soccer game cost $20, instead of $50, it would get a pretty strong recommendation. But at best, this game is good for a weekend rental, or maybe a bargain-bin pickup somewhere down the line. Its biggest strength is how easy it is to master the game, and the constant high-flying action. Even the clumsiest players can do things that Pele never dreamed of. The FIFA Street series is another cousin to the still-popular NBA Street franchise, one of the better arcade-style loose interpretations of a real-life sport. (NFL Street rounds out the family.) When it came out several years ago, NBA Street wasn't just a blast to play, it had a visual style that immediately made the gamer feel that much more hip for owning it.
Air in state casinos is clearing up
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With magical powers;
It's almost crunch time for fans of the Patriots and the Giants. Which means they are developing nervous tics and naming their own warts. Just for you, themutedecho delivers his all-time Super Bowls. That'll keep you busy for a while. For something from somone who might acutally know something about hockey, yesteryearsfins takes a look at parity in the NHL. As always, thank you for your patience, and good luck in your games. .
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