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...unprecedented move, the supervisory board of German engineering giant Siemens AG on Tuesday launched plans to sue 11 former management board executives, including former CEOs Heinrich von Pierer and Klaus Kleinfeld, over alleged supervisory failings linked to a $2 billion bribes-for-business scandal...
...mentioned in the German media, there is more to his popularity. The cover of the current issue of Zitty, a local Berlin magazine, shows a photo of Obama accompanied by the headline "I'm black and that's a good thing" - a reference to Berlin's openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit, who strongly supported Obama's request to speak at the Brandenburg Gate and had once publicly announced, "I'm gay and that's a good thing." Jarring as that headline may be, it partly explains why Obama is likely to receive the warmest welcome given to any senior American...
...current wave of prosecutorial zeal kicked off in February when German authorities arrested Klaus Zumwinkel, the CEO of Deutsche Post and one of the country's most prominent businessmen, for allegedly evading some $1 million in taxes by funneling money through foundations in Liechtenstein. The German tax cops got the goods on Zumwinkel with their own bit of skulduggery: they bought records stolen by a former employee of the Liechtenstein bank LGT Group, owned by that Alpine nation's royal family. Other tax authorities piled on, including the IRS. In February, the IRS said it was investigating more than...
...messing with the chemistry of the ocean--which is probably pretty much everyone--there is one more way to go, and it's being studied in a warehouse in Tucson, Ariz., by a company named Global Research Technologies (GRT). Developed by GRT president Allen Wright and Columbia University physicist Klaus Lackner, the system consists of 32 hanging plastic panels, each 9 ft. high and 4 ft. deep (2.7 by 1.2 m), spaced about half an inch apart. As air wafts through those spaces, CO2 sticks to the proprietary plastic the panels are made of. The device in Tucson...
...less than 40% were resolved within the year the abuse was reported. In many cases, the suspected abusers were either fired from the organization or repatriated back to their country of origin. "In general the U.N. as a whole has a zero tolerance policy on this," says Michael Klaus, spokesman for UNICEF in Geneva. "If these cases are proven, those responsible are immediately fired and sanctioned...