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...reached 318 million sq. ft., or about as much as 150 Empire State Buildings. The glut has rocked the real estate business and the financial system by sending rents and property values plummeting. "We have overbuilt in this country on an unprecedented scale," says J. McDonald Williams, managing partner of Trammell Crow, the largest U.S. developer...
...already being rolled out on a test basis. You can view an early version by clicking a link from beta.aol.com. News, Internet Radio (including XM satellite radio stations), Shopping, Travel, Food and other channels will retain an AOLian look and feel; "Maps" will take you to AOL partner site Mapquest.com, Movies to Moviefone.com and so on. A new video hub, complete with a separate search tool, will feature music and comedy performances, news, sports and celebrity gossip, plus exclusive content streamed live and on-demand (Aolmusic.com, for example, will webcast live on July 2 the Live 8 concert series...
...course, to say that China is both an economic partner and a rival is no revelation. There has been so much talk, for so many years, about the potential of China's "opening up" to the West. Still, the extent of its rise somehow managed to sneak up on the U.S. "You have an emergent power and a dominant power," says Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former director of policy planning at the State Department. "The question is, Will we inevitably be enemies? No, it's not inevitable." The goal for Washington is to manage...
...barrels of oil for anyone, no matter how much cash the airlines can put up front. That's why Southwest's fuel savings will decrease with time. In 2009, for example, the airline will be able to buy just a quarter of its fuel at $35 per bbl. No partner is willing to cover hedges that low now that oil has passed $50 per bbl. "We're willing to write hedges," says John Kilduff, an energy analyst with brokerage firm Fimat. "The question is, Does it make sense to be locking in crude oil when prices are this high...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il hinted last Friday that he might be willing to return to nuclear disarmament talks in July, provided that the U.S. demonstrates it no longer "looks down on" the North and is willing to "recognize and respect us as a partner." But U.S. President George W. Bush has stated in the past that he "loathes" Kim, and he risked angering the Dear Leader again last week by hosting a politically sensitive guest at the White House: Kang Chol Hwan, author of The Aquariums of Pyongyang, a first-person account of growing up inside...