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...giant Swiss food company Nestlé jolted Berlin a few months ago by announcing that it is closing its candy factory in the German capital. The company will stop making "Yes" chocolate bars and lay off 450 people - another rainstorm feeding the flood of 250,000 manufacturing jobs that have been lost in Berlin since German reunification in 1990. With the city's unemployment rate at an astounding 18.4%, a dark mood of pessimism and angst has settled over Berlin as it struggles with a weak global economy, huge debts and unaffordable welfare provisions that have left the city bankrupt...
ELECTED. V. GENE ROBINSON, 56, as the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church; in a vote by clergy and lay members in Concord, N.H. The selection of Robinson, who was married and has two children but now lives with a male partner, still must be confirmed by the church's national convention next month. Said Robinson after his election: "We will show the world how to be a Christian community...
...beaten with sticks. Tin Oo, her 76-year-old NLD vice chairman, was severely clubbed and may have been shot. The attackers set upon anyone without a white armband, impaling them, stripping women, splitting open skulls. When the bloodletting subsided, 40 to 80 of Suu Kyi's supporters lay dead. Soldiers carted her off, along with Tin Oo and 17 youth members of her party, to an unknown destination, though some reports place her in a military base near Rangoon...
...infant son. Both were born in 1995 more than two months prematurely. After gazing at Roy in his incubator in the neonatal intensive-care unit of Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing, I strolled past a row of bassinets containing other newborns. At the end lay a child with seaweed-colored skin stretched tight over his skull. I motioned to the young attending doctor, figuring she hadn't yet noticed his death. She had. The child's lungs were underdeveloped, she explained, and lack of oxygen at birth meant he would suffer severe mental and physical handicaps. The parents...
...that spectacle lay the seeds of Martha's resurrection, if only she'll stop wielding her whisk long enough to take note of Hillary's example...