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Puckett and other environmentalists are pushing for a full ban on e-waste exports. They're hopeful that the new Administration will prove receptive; as a Senator, President-elect Barack Obama co-sponsored a bill that in 2008 became a law barring the export of mercury.
Wonder why Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel is not allowing investors to withdraw their money until at least March? Citadel has already reported about 50% losses for its two largest funds. Remember: these are unrealized losses. If Citadel liquidated assets to pay out to investors, losses would be even greater...
The ICTR has also come under criticism for not prosecuting anyone from President Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front, the rebel group that various human rights organizations say was also guilty of genocide. But it has taken that line partly because Kagame himself has obstructed the court in the past...
Barring relief from Washington, pension plan sponsors may revert to benefit cuts. Here's how that might work: A typical pension plan formula is based on an individual's ending salary, multiplied by a variable, such as .015, and then multiplied by the number of years of service. So an...
"It's ingenious. The government gets in first with its version of the news," says Bandurski, "and we can surmise that it's accompanied by a propaganda department directive barring the city papers from covering the event so they have to use the official version." Bandurski believes that the credibility...