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...which has a whopping €850 billion in annual premium income, are correspondingly huge. Yet the insurers' financial crisis is partly self-inflicted, and raises serious questions about the security of an industry whose very job is to manage and mitigate risk. How did insurers get into this mess? Holger Dock, the chief executive of AP Pension, a small Danish insurer with 47,000 clients, has a typical explanation: his company's problems stem from the high life insurance payouts that consumers were guaranteed twenty years ago. Back then, interest rates were in double digits and a Danish life policy...
...Bellevue, Wash., firm. That works out to a pricey $20,000 per customer, high enough to send DT's stock plunging 9% last week. Still, VoiceStream may be worth it. "To fulfill its global ambitions, Deutsche Telekom needs a stable position in the U.S. market," says analyst Holger Grawe at German bank WestLB, adding that the supply of U.S. companies is limited. DT reportedly hired a Washington law firm last week to lobby Congress. Sommer may be interested in making another pass at Qwest because he still needs a data network...
...OFFICIAL: Ludwig-Holger Pfahls, former head of the counterespionage service, vanished after allegedly taking kickbacks...
Recalls biologist Holger Jannasch, at Woods Hole in Massachusetts: "I got a call through the radio operator at Woods Hole from the chief scientist . who said he had discovered big clams and tube worms, and I simply didn't believe it. He was a geologist, after all." Disbelief was quickly replaced by intense curiosity. What were these animals feeding on in the absence of any detectable food supply? How were they surviving without light? The answer, surprisingly, had been found by a Russian scientist more than 100 years earlier. He had shown that an underwater bacterium, Beggiatoa, lived on hydrogen...
...knew that there would be trouble when I sawthe article," Holger Sawert, a research associate,said. "He's basically accusing the White House ofhaving the wrong foreign policy...