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...eaten? Where haven't you been? There's still more places I haven't been than places I've been. I've become an Africa junkie in the last year or two. It's a magical place. This fall I'm crossing Afghanistan and Mongolia off my list. I would like to get down to the South Pole...
...plunged. O'Leary told Canadian business magazine Profit in June 2003, "There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all." If O'Leary doesn't turn things around at his funds, he can add one more manager to his list...
This issue also features our first list of 25 Responsibility Pioneers, which includes a range of social innovators, from individual activists and nimble nonprofits to megacorporations. Their work covers everything from the environment to poverty eradication, community-building, fair trade and better health...
...could cause bluefin tuna to go the way of dinosaurs and dodos. Now the European Commission says it agrees with that grim assessment. In a compromise that unites Europe's departments of environment and fisheries, the commission lent its support to a proposal that, barring new scientific evidence, would list Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin as an endangered species - and therefore ban its trade - for two years. "This decision marks an important step in the protection of Atlantic bluefin tuna," Stavros Dimas, environment commissioner, said in a press release after the agreement was reached. "We must act on the best scientific...
...commission agreement supports the proposal, sponsored by the tiny Mediterranean principality of Monaco, to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) that Atlantic bluefin be included on a list of endangered species. The listing would automatically prohibit trade in the fish. If the commission's agreement is approved by a majority of the E.U.'s member states later this month - and some governments, like France, Germany and Britain, have already expressed their support - Europe's stance will add weight to moves for a worldwide ban when CITES gathers to vote on the measure in March 2010. (Read "Sashimi...