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...global drug industry. IBM Sings the Big Blues IBM, the world's largest com-puter company and leading tech indicator, reported a 97% fall in quarterly earnings. IBM warned that technology spending may stay slow this year. The Sweet Smell of Sale German drug giant Bayer is selling its Haarmann & Reimer fragrances and flavor unit to Sweden's EQT for 31.66 billion. The move helps cut Bayer's 314 billion debt. INDICATORS The Dollar takes a dip The euro reached and passed parity with the dollar for the first time in two and a half years, ending the week worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Things Get Tricky for Trichet and the E.C.B. | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

...killing lonely women until the guillotine ended his career in 1922. A German schoolteacher named Wagner, who was obsessed with an act of sodomy that he said he committed when he was 27, killed his family of five, nine other people and a number of cows in 1913. Fritz Haarmann, the "ogre of Hannover," combined homosexuality with the killing of at least 24 victims shortly after World War I. His lover, Hans Grans, was also convicted in the murders. In 1958 Charles Starkweather ran amuck in Nebraska with his 14-year-old girl friend, Caril Fugate, and killed ten people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Mind of the Mass Murderer | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...this commotion was caused by the trial of a monster-Fritz Haarmann, charged with the murder of 27 persons. After a trial exciting the horror and disgust of the whole nation, Haarman and an accomplice named Hans Grans, who aided in one of the murders, were sentenced to death. Haarman was found guilty of 24 murders. Said he upon hearing the verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Goose-Flesh | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

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