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Financial crisis takes human toll

Published January 7, 2009, 9:16 am, Muzi

BERLIN - His spirit broken by financial fears, German billionaire Adolf Merckle took his own life this week -- becoming the latest high-profile casualty of a global economic crisis that already has claimed the lives of executives in Europe and the U.S.

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