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By Chris Mayer
THE RAILS RETURN
The Chinese are expanding there railway system by leaps and bounds…and recently, two of the world's most savvy investors took a sudden interest in the......

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By Rick Mills
The Big Australian & the Brazil Consortium
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information In the spring of 1869 a German Chemist named Charles Ras......

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By Richard Daughty
Unemployment Survival Guide
"All of this unemployment must be impacting demand for goods and services, which may be what prompted Jim Sinclair of jsmineset.com to ask a lot of qu......

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Free markets are meant to be fair, but are they really? People & Power investigates

Free markets are meant to be fair, but are they really? People & Power investigates.

	China and India to Join Copenhagen Climate Change Accord The countries are the last two major economies to join the agreement reached in December, which calls for limiting the rise in global temperatures After Boom and Bust, Solar Power Has a Place in the Spanish Sun A national commitment to solar power transformed one community but big subsidies led to unsustainable growth Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates The team behind ?The Cove? set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat Observatory: Scientists Propose a More Efficient Way to Make Ethanol Researchers said they found a way to break down lignocellulose, the basic structural material of all plants, to make fuel from crop waste A Deal to Save the Everglades Could Rescue U.S. Sugar Instead United States Sugar's Clewiston sugar cane refinery EBay Highlights the Environmental Appeal of Buying Used EBay, recovering from unprofitable quarters and falling market share, has recast its site to make it more attractive to new kinds of shoppers, like the carbon conscious In Aftermath of Ash Spill, a New Round of Challenges While the Tennessee Valley Authority?s cleanup has removed much of the ash the arsenic- and mercury-laced muck or its watery discharge has been moving through three states to at least six sites No Endangered Status for the Greater Sage Grouse The Interior Department said Friday that the greater sage grouse was facing extinction but would not be designated as an endangered species for now Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way But a scientist who led the study said it was too soon to say whether the findings suggest the potential for a dangerous release of methane ? a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide FPL Experiments With Solar Thermal at Gas-Fired Power Plant A vast project in Florida will be the world?s second-largest solar plant, attached to the nation?s largest fossil-fuel power plant Vernon Journal: Vernon, Vt., Finds Good Neighbor in Vermont Yankee Reactor The Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor has many detractors across the state, but in Vernon the plant is seen as a vital part of the town Shifting Soil Is Threat to a House?s Foundation Increasingly severe weather patterns are cracking foundations, like the one beneath the home of Steven Derse in Nashville National Briefing \| Rockies: Utah: Nuclear Waste Burial Scrutinized More than 10,000 drums of nuclear waste that have been buried in Utah are likely to include some material that is so radioactive state law forbids its burial National Briefing \| West: California: Sea Lions Returning to the Docks in San Francisco Sea lions are returning to Pier 39 in San Francisco after an abrupt disappearance that left tourists disappointed and experts baffled Underwater Plate Cuts 400-Mile Gash About 2,000 Chileans and hundreds more across the Pacific were killed in the 9