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GlobeSt.com: 60 Floor Westside Medical World Trade Mart Tower Advances

Despite a daily dish of sour news that paint the picture of a city in economic contraction, a group of developers say excavation had begun and marketing is underway, for a new 60-floor, glass and steel tower that will rise over-looking the Jacob Javitts Center. The 1.5-million-square-foot complex--scheduled to be complete by 2013--will bring an international multi-purpose trade center for medical professionals and vendors to Manhattan's far west side.

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Fair Trade bonanza

Ethical consumerism is on the rise

Creative Weblogging - an error has occured

In the wake of the Societe Generale meltdown, maybe we are all rogue traders at heart. Studies show that our brains are actually hard-wired to give us the thrill of taking big risks and making money.

Tax or trade: every carbon scheme has a cost sting

Cap-and-trade creates opportunities for cheating. They can lead to unpredictable fluctuations in energy prices and they do nothing to offset high power costs for consumers. Carbon taxes, on the other hand, can be structured to deliver clean-energy incentives. Ultimately, however, the choice boils down to practical and political considerations

Painful 9/11 Truth

Can Americans open their minds to consider an alternative explanation of the collapse of the three World Trade Center buildings?

Why the Government Tests Few Chinese Imports

Cheap Chinese products are a powerful and insidious destructive force. Free trade globalism more than violent terrorism or military attack is bringing America to its knees. The Chinese have us by our budget-deficit balls. Our government depends on China for loaning us money and for not dumping the vast hoard of over one trillion dollars it has accumulated by financing our huge deficits and selling us virtually everything. Dumping dollars is called the Chinese economic nuclear option.

My Sister Disappeared | True Stories, Eyewitness News, Citizen Journalism, Free Classifieds

Revelle Balmain was an Australian dancer and model who was about to return to Japan to take up another dance contract. She was due to meet her friend on the evening of November 5th, 1994 but never made it. Her friend last spoke to her by phone at 7:15 p.m. Police interviewed a 31-year-old man who had been with Revelle on the afternoon prior to her disappearance...

Lived To Use And Used To Live: A Former Sex-Trade Worker Covering A Serial Killer's Trial

This week, Orato begins the coverage of the trial of Robert Pickton, the man accused of killing at least 26 sex trade workers from Vancouver s Downtown Eastside. I say at least, because there are more than 60 women missing from the area, and Pickton has been mentioned in connection with more disappearances.

Treasury Chief Delivers New Warning to China

Stop holding down the value of the yuan, or else!

World trade talks collapse over farm and manufactured goods

WTO members called a halt to more than five years of commerce liberalization talks today as differences over farm aid proved unbridgeable.

WTO Powers Seek Elusive Common Ground in Brazil

The EU, US and Brazilian trade chiefs are meeting in Rio de Janeiro this weekend in a bid to bridge yawning differences on how to tear down global trade barriers before an April deadline.

China Retreats Now, But It Will Be Back