CEOs Received Massive Pay Increases in 2010
The Associated Press is reporting CEOs at the nation’s largest companies received giant pay increases in 2010. The typical pay package for a head of a company in the S&P 500 was $9 million last year—24 percent higher than a year before. Philippe Dauman, the CEO of Viacom, took in $84.5 million last year, two-and-a-half times what he made the year before.
2 Million Women Raped in Democratic Republic of Congo
A new study estimates more than two million women have been raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a figure that translates to some 1,100 women every day, or nearly one woman every minute. The findings are based on extrapolations from a survey of 3,400 women conducted in 2007. The study authors say the figure is likely a conservative estimate, but the United Nations says it could be misleading because the sample group is too small.
Hole in the ozone layer and rainfall patterns
Research published last week by scientists at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, in conjunction with partners in Canada, purports to demonstrate how the massive hole in the ozone layer of the atmosphere high above Antarctica is altering rainfall patterns in the Southern Hemisphere. The study ran in Science magazine Friday.