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...stunned to pick up a popular German newspaper one recent Sunday and find a photo of himself along with several colleagues in a mock WANTED poster. Ostmeier's offense: he runs the German operations for the Blackstone Group, the big U.S. buyout firm. Blackstone isn't exactly a household name in Germany. But this spring, a top German politician named Franz Müntefering likened Blackstone and other private-equity groups to "swarms of locusts" that fall on companies and devour all they can before moving on. "Some financial investors don't waste any thoughts on the people whose jobs they...
OCCUPATION: Underachieving, overweight patriarch of award-winning prime-time cartoon household the Griffins...
OCCUPATION: Underachieving, overweight patriarch of award-winning prime-time cartoon household the Simpsons...
...Americans suffer an alarming number of eye injuries: nearly 2 million a year. Men have twice the injury rate of women, and white males in their 20s have the highest rate of all. Among the riskiest activities: playing basketball and other sports, operating welding or construction tools and using household cleansers. --By Sora Song
...with, say, 40 million Hispanics, but consider how premium a customer a South Asian is: Indians alone commanded $76 billion worth of disposable personal income last year, according to market-research firm Cultural Access Group, using figures from the University of Georgia's Selig Center for Economic Growth; median household income is nearly $64,000--50% higher than the national average. The U.S. has always welcomed the world's poor and working classes. India has sent its professionals...