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...soon as June), Tusumba was leading the charge to apply the new conservation techniques more aggressively still to a third place: the Sankuru area. So convincing was he that President Joseph Kabila allowed the nearly 12,000-sq.-mi. (31,080 sq km) region to jump the queue and earn the reserve designation first. Adding that to the 95,000 sq. mi. (214,000 sq km) the country has already declared reserve land means 10.5% of the D.R.C. is now under protection, more than two-thirds of the way to the government's long-stated goal of 15%. When...
...phone calls by Donato, however, to find the Minnesotan forward a spot with the Hartford Wolf Pack, the New York Rangers’ AHL affiliate.Naturally, adjusting to a new team takes some time, especially at a higher level. But the move is even more staggering for college players who earn amateur tryouts, as they join teams that are already reaching the end of their seasons.“It is kind of a tough situation to jump onto a team where they’ve had a whole season behind them when they’ve played together...
...mixed results about what, exactly, say-on-pay votes accomplish. In the U.K. there have been some resounding successes - most notably GlaxoSmithKline, which revamped its pay practices, aligning compensation with performance, after a "no" vote of 50.7% in 2003. (Its CEO at the time was on track to earn about $18 million.) Yet various studies have shown that in the years since say-on-pay went into effect, CEO compensation has continued to rise, anywhere between 5% and 11% annually...
...while weekly taste tests of various lagers would doubtlessly earn the class an unprecedented Q Guide rating, there is absolutely no sampling of alcoholic beverages...not that students were expecting inebriation to be part of the curriculum...
...financial losses of medical school tuition—which can run up to $160,000 for private institutions—in a lucrative specialty. Primary care doctors have some of the lowest salaries for physicians, from around $160,000 to $175,000, in contrast to specialists who can easily earn two to three times that amount...