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.
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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.
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Teaching children construction is gaining momentum across the country as a way to develop imagination and confidence in the very young.
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Wood has become a symbol of the moment, an imprint of nature to give fashion a feeling for ecology, inspiring designers from Laura and Kate Mulleavy at Rodarte to Phoebe Philo at Céline.
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