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(20 Sep) - Before his three-hour neck surgery for herniated disks in December, Peter Drier, 37, signed a pile of consent forms. A bank technology manager who had researched his insurance coverage, Mr. Drier was prepared when the bills started arriving: $56,000 from Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, $4,300 from the anesthesiologist... 

Chinese tourists in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris ( 17 September 2014 )   Chinese President Xi Jinping has become the latest Beijing official to advise Chinese tourists improve their image abroad, apparently by eating less instant noodles. "Don't throw mineral water bottles around and don't damage the coral reef here,"... 

South Korea has one of the lowest birth rates worldwide. (19 Sep) - A study by the National Assembly Research Service in Seoul predicted that by 2750, Koreans will go extinct if current low birth rates are maintained. At the same time, the Korean media reported that this year, for the first time in history, the fertility rate...