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The £6 million Chen Collection to be auctioned

The GBP6 million Chen Collection to be auctioned Chen Collection of works of art for auction. The sale will be in two parts; part 1 in London this winter and part 2 next spring. The single owner sale comprises a rare,...

Schnitzer Steel acquires Puerto Rico scrap operations

New York (Platts) -- 19Sep2008 -- Schnitzer Steel Industries said late Thursday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ponce Resources, a scrap processor in Salinas, Puerto Rico. Terms of the transaction...

Roeland Park is having a field day with artist's display of tiny homes

A subdivision of 25 houses sprouted in a big, empty field at Roe and Johnson Drive a few months back. And that’s how art student Sean Starowitz put the “public” into his version of public art. The 20-year-old’s creation is...

Local Republicans, ICE, CCA Won’t Attend Forum On T. Don Hutto

Patricia Ruland at the Austin Chronicle is reporting on the fact that all the local Republicans, along with officials from ICE and CCA, that were invited will not attend next week’s forum, (EOW’s initial report here), on...

Johnny Cash Continues to Help Ministry Even After Death

A compassion project that received a boost nearly two decades ago from one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century is looking for another one this fall with the release of a new DVD that recaptures...

'ER' exit strategy is a dusty old plan

BURBANK, Calif. — John Wells has been planning the end of "ER" for a long time. They've gotten a little old and smudged, but one of the reasons Noah Wyle is coming back at the very end is we had always planned that the...

Texas lawmakers to ask Congress for billions to recover

COSTLY IKE Insurance losses could top $11 billion, which would make Hurricane Ike the fifth most expensive catastrophe for the insurance industry in U.S. history. The only catastrophes likely to cost the insurance industry...

When one gate closes, another opens but only if you are quick

Anathem Neal Stephenson William Morrow, 928 pages, $29.95 Why in the world, you may ask, would someone write a 928-page novel about “that Buck Rogers crap”? First, the novel's not all of the book; it ends on Page 860,...

A Diamond in the Rubble (Today From Barron's)

A Diamond in the Rubble By Christopher C. Williams |Published: September 12, 2008 Read/Post Comments Add this column to your News Alerts INVESTORS HAVE DUMPED shares of metal-recycler Schnitzer Steel Industries onto the...

Emerging markets seen as unhealthy risk

Sep 8, 2008

As the index of the emerging stock markets dropped to its lowest level of the past year, an interesting split emerged. While some analysts recommend joining the flight and hedging with less-risky tools in this period of...