Battle over fate of W.Va.’s Coal River Mountain may be shown to world leaders in December

World climate-change forum may touch on W.Va. mine

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Environmental activists who want West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin to stop Massey Energy's blasting plans for the Coal River Mountain say the world is watching, and they plan to add pressure with a Google Earth tour created for a United Nations climate-change conference.

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China Real Estate, ZST Digital IPOs to gauge state of US investors’ taste for Asia investments

2 IPOs to signal US desire for China investments

NEW YORK — Two Chinese IPOs expected to start trading this week are going to be a gauge for Americans' taste for Beijing's offerings, some of which have flopped this fall.

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Enter Charity 2.0 with Social Networking sites, but aren’t there tiring too many already?

Charities see potential, risk with social networks

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Meredith Bowen was getting tired of requests from Facebook friends to exchange make-believe pansies, daffodils and tiny cartoon characters for her "(Lil) Green Patch," a virtual garden that sprouted on her social-networking page about a year ago.

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