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"The meeting's been a complete disaster," says Sergi Tudela of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). "The measures that have been adopted will drive the bluefin tuna to collapse." Not so, say European officials, who contend that their quota plan was the best deal possible, in part because it won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sushi Wars: Can the Bluefin Tuna Be Saved? | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

General Motors' recent 10-Q financial report, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, details the company's slide toward insolvency, indicating GM had only $16.9 billion in ready cash reserves in place as of Sept. 30. Buried in the same voluminous report is a note indicating that GM has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Taxpayers Bail Out GM's Retirees? | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

South Carolina is hoping to persuade federal authorities to allow cell-phone jamming. Last week prison officials invited CellAntenna Corp. to demonstrate such technology for state and federal lawmakers. The prison system also invited representatives from the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which regulates jamming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Keep Cell Phones Out of Prison | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

The disaster in south Florida is invisible from above water but the damage is horrific. Hundreds of yards of sensitive coral reefs, part of the largest such ecosystem in the United States, have been sliced through by boats in two incidents over the last month. Indeed, because of choppy conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Killing Florida's Coral Reefs? | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

The people who caused damage might never be found. "In this case, it's a big ocean and something passed through without anyone noticing what happened," says Erin McDevitt, a habitat coordinator with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and one of four divers who assessed the underwater damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Killing Florida's Coral Reefs? | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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