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...that there was any malfeasance in the decision that left the bonus management of the highest performing employees at these companies to the boards and senior managers. But, the government elected to avoid getting into a series of disputes over how thousands of people should be paid. Federal regulators chose to hope that the banks would use discretion when they made compensation decisions during this unprecedented credit crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Government Missed All Those Wall St. Bonuses | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...produce clean-burning diesel fuel. But unlike corn and other biofuel sources, the jatropha doesn't have to compete with food crops for arable land. Even in the worst of soils, it grows like weeds. Sound too good to be true? That's why brothers Paul and Mark Dalton chose to name their Florida jatropha company My Dream Fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Big Biofuel? | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...will one day become universal symbols that people of all languages can understand. "If you see the same signs often, you automatically learn them and can read them like letters without thinking," he explains. Bilgil wanted to make an instructional video to show off his new symbols, and he chose the Internet as his topic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the Internet | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...happy atmosphere wasn't just senatorial clubbiness. The fact that Kerry chose to make global warming the subject of his first hearing as chairman of the committee signals that in President Barack Obama's Washington at least, Gore's views on the severity of climate change and the need for action are gaining clout - and not just for environmental reasons. "Climate change will be increasingly central to our foreign policy," said Kerry. (Read "Obama Cleans Up After Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore in the Senate: A More Receptive Audience Now | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) says it chose its targets carefully, to minimize destruction to surrounding property and human lives. And the IDF accuses Hamas of putting ordinary Gazans in harm's way by firing rockets at Israel from within crowded neighborhoods. But several businessmen interviewed by TIME insist that no militants were taking refugee inside the factories bombed by Israel. "They're targeting factories to make us dependent on the Israeli economy," claims Hamad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devastation of Gaza: From Factories to Ice Cream | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

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