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...receiving exceptional aid from the government would be subject to a pay czar. The office, later filled by high-profile lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, has the ability to set compensation for the 25 highest-paid employees at those firms. Other firms receiving government assistance are subject to much less stringent pay rules. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...fish the tuna for their own markets. But given that about 80% of the worldwide bluefin tuna catch is eventually eaten in Japan - with the main fishing nations being Italy, France and Spain - a global trade ban should significantly reduce pressure on the fish population, which is now at less than 15% of its estimated historical high. "This step will help fix a management system that is broken," says Mark Stevens, senior program officer for fisheries at the World Wildlife Fund. "First of all, we have to stop the overfishing pressure...
...ever taken such careful measurements in this part of the world before, says Heimann. We have satellites that do a remarkable job of observing methane emissions from land, he says, but they're not very accurate over water. So while he considers Shakhova's data absolutely convincing, he's less convinced that these emissions are necessarily new. "In the context of the global methane cycle, has this been accelerating recently, or has it been going on for some time?" Heimann says. "It may be related to recent Arctic warming, but I don't know." (See the top 10 green ideas...
...Would I have liked to be injured less? Yes,” he says. “But in the long run, it teaches me some good life lessons. It teaches perseverance and being able to overcome adversity...
...talk out of the President's office does not match up with the realities faced by ordinary Iranians. "They look at their pockets and find nothing positive there," says the Iranian journalist. "They cannot believe all those optimistic figures given by the government. The government says that inflation was less than 30%, but they go to the grocery store and find everything is double and triple the price that it was four years...