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...Germany The Financial Crisis Claims A Victim Adolf Merckle, a 74-year-old billionaire whose business empire included some of Germany's best-known cement and pharmaceutical companies, threw himself in front of a train on Jan. 5--driven to suicide, his family said, by the global financial crisis. Merckle had lost hundreds of millions of euros in a bad bet on Volkswagen shares, endangering the future of his companies as a result. A handful of other business leaders have taken their own life amid the recent economic downturn, including Kirk Stephenson, the London-based CEO of Olivant, who died...
...late November, Levine resigned from All Kinds of Minds, the North Carolina institute he founded in 1995 to train teachers to help children with learning disabilities...
...offset by new revenue or cuts elsewhere. And all this talk of trillion-dollar deficits is starting to make Republicans as well as fiscally conservative House Democrats (known as Blue Dogs) nervous - so much so that Obama recently pledged to overhaul entitlement programs to help avoid another fiscal train wreck down the road...
...study there. “There are few occasions in one’s life when a course of action presents itself with such clarity that there is nothing to do but pursue it,” she wrote in her Guggenheim biography. While she was on the train home from New Delhi for the holidays, Banaji purchased five volumes of the Handbook of Social Psychology edited by Lindzey and Aronson, for five dollars, lured not so much by the books’ content as by their low price. By the time she arrived home 24 hours later...
Crushed by watching his life's work slip through his fingers, Adolf Merckle, the 74-year-old Swabian billionaire, walked out into the bitter cold Monday night and threw himself under a speeding train...