Rosman told me that a few editors had a big debate about whether to list a Justin Timberlake concert.
The State Office of Natural and Historic Resources must decide within 90 days whether to list it.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service may decide by March whether to list the bird as threatened.
Unesco's world heritage committee will meet in Bonn, Germany next month to decide whether to list the reef as "in danger".
And a spokesman for the Nasdaq stock market said that the exchange yields to foreign laws when evaluating whether to list overseas companies.
"We have talked endlessly about whether to list the partnership," she wrote in a 2005 memo to Mr. Bruno, referring to herself and a Senate ethics lawyer, Francis Gluchowski.
His new fieldwork comes as the agency is in the final days of mulling whether to list the bears under the Endangered Species Act before a deadline of May 15 set by a federal judge in California.
At the urging of local leaders and historians, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is weighing whether to list the Hadley House, which may be the oldest home in the Bronx and which played a role in the American Revolution.
