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...latest wrinkle in CEO pay is boosting pension benefits by giving credit for unserved years and using total comp--not just salary--to figure final pay. John Snow, the new Treasury Secretary, got such a deal when he retired as CEO of railroad CSX. You probably won't. But you might negotiate a higher annual benefit--say, 70% of final pay instead of 50%, says Richard Bayer, chief operating officer at the Five O'Clock Club, an outplacement firm...
Pittodrie Stadium, home to Scotland's Aberdeen Football Club, sits on the edge of the North Sea. During the winter - the middle of the Scottish Premier League season - a bitter wind whips up off the water, giving a biting edge to the snow and rain that often accompany Aberdeen's matches. The climate's tough on away fans, but it's even harder on the boggy pitch: last season, Aberdeen spent about €45,000 to maintain its field - a big sum for a declining club in a peripheral league. Little wonder, then, that when UEFA, European football's governing...
...have ever seen footage of Buddhist monks sitting in the Himalayan snow, warming cold towels draped over their shoulders and back with body heat generated by meditation, you have seen at work the power of the mind over the body. The monks can manipulate their metabolism to redirect the body's energy from warming its core to heating its surface; the drop in internal metabolic rate is well documented. Similar results have been observed in studies of patients having surgery; patients who meditated experienced less operative bleeding than controls given placebos...
...Part of the "Ring of Fire," the string of volcanoes that encircles the Pacific Ocean, Kamchatka has more than 100 volcanoes, 29 of them active, along with spectacular concentrations of geysers and thermal springs. For nine months a year, snow blankets the peninsula, and only by July does it melt sufficiently to enable comfortable hiking. Well, let's say relatively comfortable. During our mid-August trek, it rained half the time. Much of the interior is accessible only by helicopter, and tourists who fly into a volcanic site for an afternoon can occasionally be stranded for days...
...confidently enlarges this triangle to include the sweeping vision of a New York suddenly swarming with immigrants. Displaying an urgency and elegance unmatched by any other living auteur, Scorsese finds drama in visual contrast: a door in a dark, noisy room that is kicked open to reveal a silent, snow-laden street. One amazing panorama shows men coming off a ship from Ireland, being immediately conscripted and outfitted in Northern blue, then put on a troop ship--all in a single shot that ends with a view of the troop ship's cargo: 20 coffins on the dock...