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...deals worth $3.84 billion last year, up from three deals worth $224.3 million in 1998. Significant transactions include KKR's $940.5 million acquisition of British conglomerate Wassall, whose primary holding is Thorn Lighting, a manufacturer of light fixtures; and the $1.4 billion buyout of the German bathroom-fixtures maker Friedrich Grohe, led by BC Partners...
Around the turn of the last century, Friedrich Nietzsche killed God and replaced him with the Ubermensch, or superman. In the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon; 380 pages; $27.50), Chicago cartoonist Chris Ware goes Nietzsche one better. He replaces God with Superman, the caped hero, who becomes a God/father metaphor to the emotionally crippled title character. Then Ware kills Superman too--or at least a man in a Superman suit, who, in a single bound, leaps to his death from a tall building in a scene, witnessed by Jimmy, that sets the tale's poignant...
...Friday's issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, which shows for the first time that a new type of rehabilitation may help stroke victims regain nearly full use of their paralyzed limbs. The experimental therapy, employed by researchers at the University of Alabama and the Friedrich Schiller University in Germany, involves immobilizing the good arm of a stroke victim and forcing the patient to use their "bad" arm to perform daily tasks. Patients performed the exercises six hours a day for two weeks...
There is one basic explanation for this. As the libertarian economist Friedrich von Hayek once pointed out, the bulk of information generated in any economy is local in nature. If this local information has to be processed through a centralized hier- archy--whether government ministry or even overly large corporate bureaucracy--it will inevitably be delayed, distorted and manipulated in ways that would not happen in a more decentralized economic-decision-making system. The U.S.S.R. used to have an office called the State Committee on Prices, where a few hundred bureaucrats would sit around setting every price in the Soviet...
...Angeles Lakers win the NBA championship this year, their fans will have two people to thank: Phil Jackson and Friedrich Nietzsche...