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...keep the cans filled, large Philippine boats have gone further and further afield - to Papua New Guinea, to the Solomon Islands - where there is still plenty of skipjack for the taking. Fishing is growing faster in this swath of the Pacific than in any other part of the world, says the WCPFC, as ever greater numbers of boats from Asia, the Americas and Europe are leaving depleted waters for these bluer pastures. "We're getting a lot of boats seeking to come into our region from the Indian Ocean and eastern Pacific because the skipjack is still healthy here," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting for Tuna: The Environmental Peril Grows | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...Feinberg, 64, holds a unique position in American society. He decides what people - their pain as well as their day-to-day roles - are worth. Appointed 25 years ago to distribute about $200 million to Vietnam vets poisoned by the herbicide Agent Orange, he has become the Solomon of settlement. As head of the 9/11 fund, he held town-hall meetings and met one on one with countless grieving relatives to explain his bottom line on the lost years of mothers and fathers and daughters and sons. "He recognized the astounding amount of sensitivity of the assignment," says former Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street, Meet Ken Feinberg, the Pay Czar | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...bestowed artistry and other gifts to mankind,” says Nafees A. Syed ’10, a practicing Muslim and Crimson staff editorial writer. “Even when Solomon built this beautiful temple there was a recognition of where the gifts came from...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer | Title: Middle Ground | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

While both the lab and the committee have not yet decided how to fill his positions, Solomon said he strongly believed all would be well...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beloved Lab Administrator To Retire in December | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...person to act like Solomon and try to calculate the value of lives. To be judge, jury, accountant, lawyer, rabbi, etc., is very, very difficult." - Arguing that Congress should try a different method of disseminating compensation funds in the event of another such terrorist disaster (The Washingtonian, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Compensation Czar Kenneth Feinberg | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

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