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TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: ‘TOO HISTORIC TO TEAR DOWN, TOO COSTLY TO SAVE’
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TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: ‘TOO HISTORIC TO TEAR DOWN, TOO COSTLY TO SAVE’

A growing number of cities face a dilemma, according to The Wall Street Journal: historic office towers that hold a portion of the city’s identity are no longer able to pay their own way and fail to qualify for conversion to other uses, but preservationists militate against blowing them up or tearing them down.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZES AND OTHER DELUSIONS
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NOBEL PEACE PRIZES AND OTHER DELUSIONS

On Friday morning I jumped out of bed just before 5 am Eastern US time full of fear that President Donald Trump might have become the declared recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, following in the footsteps of noted warmonger President Barack Obama, who is fondly remembered for also institutionalizing the killing the American citizens overseas whom he targeted in weekly White House staff meetings.