A Sharp Rise in Suicides, Driven by Financial Hardship, Alarms Region - New York Times
They had navigated the move from South Korea and opened a nail salon on Long Island, but by last winter, Yongho and Soonhee Kim were in debt and deeply unhappy. They were fighting a lawsuit over nonpayment of rent on the Long Beach salon and were

Best And Worst SF/Fantasy Movies Of 2009 - io9.com
One of the most significant SF-themed literary novels of the past decade, Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic epic, was adapted into an arthouse film starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee. And while the novel's themes didn't quite work as well

In Hard Times, Suicides Soar Among New York Koreans - New York Times
Soonhee, left, and Yongho Kim. At dawn on Feb. 25, the couple left a note for their 20-year-old daughter outside their apartment door, doused themselves with gasoline and set themselves on fire, the police said. The blaze killed them and destroyed