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...Germany, Berlin has effectively grabbed control of efforts to save GM's Opel and Vauxhall operations, which GM's board in Detroit this week centralized under Opel's control. But Belgium and the U.K. are no longer willing to just follow Berlin's lead. Politicians and union leaders there fear that Chancellor Angela Merkel, facing re-election in September, is preparing a deal that would save GM jobs in Germany at the expense of plants in their countries. (See 10 milestones on the road to GM's bankruptcy...
...Doctors advised you not to scale Mount Everest, given your history of heart attacks, but you proceeded anyway. Would you have been happy to die on Mount Everest? I wouldn't be happy to die anywhere in particular. But if there is a subconscious fear of death, then it's best to remove the fear. So you can say things to yourself like, 'If you're going to die anyway, and with other bodies lying around, many of them younger than you, then die high...
...Some analysts caution that forming an official party could ultimately undermine the PAD's goal of preventing the return of Thaksin or his allies. The Democrats and the PAD appeal to similar constituencies, and the fear is they may split the anti-Thaksin vote, paving the way for his proxy party to return to power. "We may be competing for some of the same voters as the Democrats,'' Panthep conceded...
...Treasury, and the tens of millions of Americans who have a direct stake in an economic recovery. The normal slowing of economic activity during the summer season will make any progress seem like walking through water. The seasonal drop in real estate markets could increase the fear that this sector is in worse trouble than it really...
Celebrities, gay-marriage bans and fear of divorce are helping fuel the rise in unwedded bliss. "We love each other far, far too much to ever actually get married," says Raymond McCauley, 43, a biotech engineer in Mountain View, Calif., who has twin 2-year-olds with his partner of five years, Kristina Hathaway. His opposition to marriage is political, in solidarity with gays who can't legally wed in most states, and personal - he and his partner both got divorced in their 20s, an experience that has led McCauley to liken marriage to food poisoning: "You don't want...