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...salary has been cut, but there has been no trickle-down effect," says Brandon Rees, the deputy director of the office of investment at the AFL-CIO, which owns shares in Citi. "Now that they are out from under the pay czar, expect 2010 numbers to go up from here. One of the concerns we do have about companies exiting TARP is that they are just going to return to the old model of compensation...
...decision to support the ban should go a long way at the CITES meeting, but it doesn't ensure that the tuna will be protected under Appendix I. Any decision at CITES requires the vote of at least two-thirds of the represented countries, and while the European Union has voiced its support for the bluefin tuna, Japan remains very much against a trade ban. In the past - especially during the ongoing debate over commercial whaling - Tokyo hasn't been shy about using its generous foreign aid budget to leverage support from smaller countries. (See the top 10 most dangerous...
...methane over the coming years to see if it really is increasing. It's also a perfect example of how climate science actually works, as opposed to the cartoon version bandied about by activists and politicians: you take data, acknowledge any uncertainties about exactly what it means, then go out and take more data to narrow those uncertainties. That's exactly why human-triggered global warming was widely acknowledged to be mostly theoretical a few decades ago - and why it's considered a scientific fact today...
...connected with Avatar's message about taking care of our planet. How can we create our own Pandora here on earth? -Julie Patrick, Manhattan Beach, Calif. Go for a walk in the forest. Go snorkeling in a coral reef. Appreciate the nature we have. I think that from a respect for nature comes action. The best thing people can do right now to help the planet is to understand how we've got to make a fairly rapid transition to alternative energy...
Although there was a common consensus that doctored photos have dangerous latent impacts on body image, there was also an understanding that they are unlikely to go away...