Author name: Enthusiast

The city’s efforts to stop using endangered tropical hardwoods as it replaces the Coney Island Boardwalk’s planks raise aesthetic, pragmatic and linguistic issues.

Despite the negative publicity surrounding John A. Paulson’s ill-fated investment in the Chinese timber company Sino-Forest, a bet on a company that acquired some assets of the failed lender IndyMac is up 200 percent, Reuters reports.

Teaching children construction is gaining momentum across the country as a way to develop imagination and confidence in the very young.