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Foreign companies were the buyers in four of the top 13 U.S. commercial real estate deals in 2007, according to Real Estate Alert newsletter. Another foreign acquisition of notable Manhattan real estate was the Dubai-based Jumeirah group's 2006 purchase of the Essex House on Central Park South...
...media industry, suffering from declining newspaper and magazine readership, seems willing to test the theory. When presented with the study's initial findings last year, the Associated Press developed what it calls a "1-2-3 filing" system. A news-by-the-numbers approach, it starts with a news alert headline, followed by a short present-tense story, and finally padded with additional details and alternate formatting for different news platforms (the web, radio, TV, etc.). The AP also launched a mobile news service available on hand-held devices in May and increased its online interactive content to appeal...
...daughter, Alaper. Despite the extended stay at the hospital, Santina says she is grateful. "I appreciate one thing for sure," she says. "My child looks better than when she arrived." Two months ago, Alaper weighed just over half the normal weight for her age. Today she is lively and alert, and watches her mother closely...
...thing that the arrests are unlikely to do, however, is to stem ETA's violence. On Thursday in fact, Spain's Interior Ministry issued a special alert to Basque police forces urging them to "tighten precautions" in the face of likely attacks. ETA has a habit of striking after arrests in an effort to counteract the perception - especially among its own supporters - that it is weakened. "They'll compensate with a terrorist attack that will animate their base," says Dominguez. "After all, the arrests only affected the political wing, the military part wasn't touched. So they could attack...
...many of us, though, technology has actually lowered the odds of bumping into inconvenient knowledge. If I had been setting up a Google alert in 1989, mine would not have been for "China" or "human rights." In 1992, I certainly would not have asked for stories on "concentration camps." When I'm abroad these days and have to go without my newspaper, I often turn to the most e-mailed stories on news websites, which are generally opinion pieces (rather than news stories), from which I cherry-pick arguments or facts that comport with my pre-existing views. Reading this...