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Plummeting stock prices and anger over lofty compensation packages drove the trend. "When stocks start to go down and you see executives getting very big paychecks, that's when people get angry," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a Washington think tank...
...pledge to cut its own carbon emissions in half by 2050 over 2005 levels. For airlines, like other businesses, the realities of climate change can't be ignored - a world where resources are scarcer and temperatures are rising will demand other ways of doing business, or companies will go out of business. "We all should realize that carbon has a cost," says Jeffrey Swartz, CEO of the shoe company Timberland...
...insisting that key final-status issues such as Jerusalem and refugees are not up for negotiation, Netanyahu prefers to focus on what he calls "economic peace" - developing the Palestinian economy as a basis for long-term stability in the relationship between the two peoples. But he's happy to go through the motions on his own terms. "There'll ... be some kind of handshake, because this is what Obama wants," an Israeli official told Reuters. "But it's not going anywhere longer term ... With all due respect to Obama, this is not realistic. Everyone wants a process ... but nobody actually...
This may come as a surprise, but with just days to go before the German parliamentary election, the suspense is building. For the past four years, Germany has been governed by a so-called Grand Coalition of the two biggest parties in parliament: the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD). Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor and leader of the CDU, hopes to drop her current partners and govern instead with the liberal Free Democrats (FDP). But a tight electoral race and the complexity of the German voting system mean that outcome is far from...
...That still beats what many of them escaped. "If I go back to Afghanistan, the Taliban will kill me," said Nasser Khan, 25, who fled last year after his parents and two brothers were killed in a raid on their family home. Stuck in France for nearly eight months, Khan describes feeling increasingly jittery and disoriented. "I have headaches. My family is gone. I cannot sleep at night," he said on Monday, standing in a clearing in the camp. "I close my eyes and see my family...