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Madoff Victims, Five Years the Wiser Joanne and Burt Meerow, retirees in West Dover, Vt., were among Madoff's victims.Credit...Caleb Kenna for The New York Times Dec. 7, 2013 It was the first global Ponzi scheme — a slow-motion crime wave that began in the Manhattan offices of a stockbroker named Bernard L. Madoff, spread to wealthy enclaves in Palm Beach, Fla., and Southern California, and reached as far as the Persian Gulf. It carried a breathtaking price: $64.8 billion in paper wealth and at least $17.5 billion in cash losses. Those affected ranged from carpenter-union pensioners to Fren...

6962 4 ‘Save your farmer, think of your children’: Despite high crop productivity and expected market-oriented returns, French farmers continue to suffer. Reuters Devinder Sharma Food & Agriculture Specialist A few weeks ago, French farmers hung suicide dolls on trees outside parliament to draw attention to the devastation brought about by continuously sliding market prices. In a country which follows modern agricultural practices, it is disturbing to know that while three farmers on an average commit suicide every two days, growing indebtedness is resulting in the closure of at least 1,...