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  As children, we love stories. We lie in bed, or curl up on our parent’s knee, as the voice of our mother or father takes us into fictional worlds. We explore  Where the Wild Things Are . We join the inquiry,  Are You My Mother?  We doff our hats with  Babar , learn life lessons from  Charlotte’s Web , stand with outstretched arms towards  The Giving Tree . We wonder what  Green Eggs and Ham  actually taste like. Then we grow older. But hopefully not too old to pass through wardrobes into Narnia, or dig our five-by-five  Holes  with Stanley Yelnats, or live in them with  The Hobbit . We might imagine seeing color the first time with  The Giver  or soaring on a Nimbus 2000 with the boy bearing the thunderbolt scar. We humans are creatures of story. As such, we are born with a unique skill: the ability to detect off-notes in narrative. Like the wrong key struck on the piano. Little ones tell their dad, “That’s not how ...

  AsiaToday reporter Park Ah-ram  South Korea raised the alert level for monkeypox after confirming its first case on Wednesday.  The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said Wednesday the patient, who arrived in South Korea on Tuesday, has tested positive for the virus in a test result.   The patient arrived at Incheon Airport from Germany at 4 p.m., according to the health authorities. The person reportedly had a headache two days before departing and showed symptoms of mild fever, sore throat, lethargy and skin lesions when arriving in South Korea. They said the person voluntarily reported a possible infection after arriving at the airport, and was classified as suspected case of monkeypox by the Airport Quarantine Office an the central epidemiologist. Then the patient was transferred to Incheon Medical Center for treatment after being isolated at an airport quarantine facility.    The KDCA raised the monkeypox risk level from “attent...