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...department of motor vehicles actually got shorter. Plus, fears that working 10-hour days would lead to burnout turned out to be unfounded - Wadsworth says workers took fewer sick days and reported exercising more on Fridays. "This can really make a difference for work-life balance," says Jeff Herring, Utah's executive director for human resources...
...with lots of ocean churn. Meanwhile immense blooms of jellyfish - of the kind that Katija studied - are drawing the attention of other scientists and policymakers. Such blooms, thousands strong, are becoming increasingly common worldwide, in part due to the overfishing of jellyfish's natural predators, including anchovies, sardines and herring. In the Sea of Japan, for example, the nomura, jellyfish that grow up to 6.5 ft. (2 m) in diameter and weigh more than 400 lbs. (180 kg), have proliferated, and a recent study by Hiroshima University researchers has warned that another big bloom is expected this summer...
Chronically aggrieved, Ensor was the sort of man who didn't hesitate to draw himself as Christ crucified or, better, as a pickled herring being pulled apart by two art critics represented as skulls. Perhaps because he never expected his work to be accepted, he could pursue it to its furthest conclusions. But then - surprise - the honors started coming his way anyway. Museums began acquiring his art and offering him big shows. In 1929, Belgium's King Albert I even named him a baron, which makes you wonder if Albert had ever seen Ensor's etching of a king defecating...
...building inside existing settlements; days before Netanyahu and Mitchell were to have met, Israel's government approved the construction of hundreds more housing units in two West Bank settlements. As if that wasn't clear enough, Netanyahu this week derided the Administration's concern over settlements as a red herring. "I think the more we spend time arguing about this, the more we waste time instead of moving towards peace," he told an Italian TV interviewer...
Scientists are still digging into the Sound's beaches, trying to get a better sense of how much oil might be left and whether it will be possible to finish the cleanup. And there are still other questions that need to be answered. The Sound's valuable commercial herring fishery collapsed completely a few years after the spill - there are just 10,000 tons of the fish left today, down from a peak of 150,000 tons before the accident - and researchers are trying to figure out what impact the oil might have had on the species' decline...