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...gold paydays at financial firms are about to become a hot topic - again. In the next week or so, Kenneth Feinberg, the U.S. Treasury Department's special master of compensation who is scrutinizing pay packages at bailed-out banks, is expected to release a report on the 75 top pay packages at the seven firms that have received the most government support. Feinberg may say some of the salary deals are too rich and need to be reduced...
...unrelenting drumbeat of bad news confirms what many have sensed for some time. First, the globe is being cursed with more natural calamities than before. Second, the distribution of disaster is unequal. A U.N. report released in May studied natural disasters between 1975 and 2007 and found not only that the frequency of catastrophe is increasing because of climate change, unsafe cities and environmental degradation, but also that the brunt of tragedy is borne by poor countries least equipped to deal with such misfortune. In 2008, 98% of natural disaster - related fatalities occurred in Asia, according to the Worldwatch Institute...
...populated urban neighborhoods of San Francisco and Oakland. The destruction missed Silicon Valley - with its tens of billions in economic value - altogether. "If that quake had to happen, that was really the best place," says Yanev. "We were about as lucky as we could get." (See TIME's special report "Where Will the Next Five Big Earthquakes...
...real change in attitude. "I've seen less and less willingness on the professional side to understand how hard it is on the parents' side, especially from younger professionals," she says. "[Child protection] laws have changed, so a lot of times they worry that if they don't report parents, they'll get in trouble." (See a special report on the science of appetite...
While some imagined that Hathaway herself would stay in the White House to serve as the new cybersecurity czar after her team concluded their report, she decided to leave for Cambridge...