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...peak of its popularity in the 1920s, the Wertheim department store on Leipziger Platz in central Berlin boasted of being the biggest in Europe, the place shoppers could find "everything under one roof," from French goat cheese to Wagner opera scores. One contemporary writer even hailed the emporium, with its statues and marble columns, as the Berlin Louvre. Like so much else in Berlin, Wertheim fell victim first to the Nazis and then to the postwar communist rulers of East Germany. Most of the Jewish Wertheim family members fled Germany or were killed at Auschwitz, and the property was nationalized...
...unfathomable 150 Gs per second, compressing the spine so much that a person sometimes comes out a half-inch shorter. Better to be 6-foot-1 1/2 than dead, I reasoned. The seat also packs a parachute, set to open below 14,000 feet. Noting that Pike's Peak is approximately that height, I asked what would happen if I ejected there. "They'd be cleaning you up with a spoon," I was told. Hence, I was nervous. My prospective crewmates, however, were reassuring. Said one: "At least you won't be flying at night. In bad weather. With people...
Bickford’s is owned by the publicly-traded ELXSI Company, which has had experienced a drastic fall in stock price over the past few years, from a peak value of $15 a share in 2000 to lows in the last several months of around...
...racially motivated prosecutions, coerced confessions and unreliable witnesses have made the system capricious. Such worries may help explain why many states with capital punishment--there are 38 in all--seem to be wavering. The number of executions in the U.S., excluding Texas, fell to 38 last year from a peak...
Chase hot investments, and you might get burned. Investors typically pour money in at the top--think tech stocks--and mutual-fund companies play along. Now it's bond funds. After three years of solid gains, some experts are calling the peak, yet investors, spooked by stock losses, are still piling in. They moved $63 billion into bond funds this year, a stark change from 2000, when they withdrew $50 billion. Fund companies follow the money, notes Standard & Poor's. While 14% of funds opened in 2000 were bond funds, they are 33% of new funds this year, says FundFiling.com...