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If Paul Bunyan were chopping logs today, he'd probably be working for a retirement fund. The nation's 504 million acres of timberland, home to wildlife and the source of everything from deck frames to copy paper, have been the focus of a massive multi-year auction, the outcome of which is set to change the rules for wood companies and conservationists alike.

Leading forest products group UPM is pressing further into China where it plans to become a leading supplier of labels, it said yesterday. The Finnish firm, whose main products include printing paper, converted materials and wood products, launched its Asia R&D Center and a new label factory yesterday in Changshu, close to the economic and financial hub of Shanghai.

Asparagus is a type of vegetable obtained from one particular species of the many within the genus Asparagus, specifically the young shoots of Asparagus officinalis. It has been used from very early times as a culinary vegetable, owing to its delicate flavour and diuretic properties.

FDA drug approval would make humans more vulnerable.

China's currency will continue to strengthen, but its awesome export machine is unlikely to lose much steam

No policy could better serve the common progress of humanity than genuine free trade, but support for open trade is evaporating among American voters and foreign governments that the U.S. hopes to engage.

Additional funding that could aid forest management in a number of areas - areas designated in recent national forest plans in Minnesota - could be on the way, if Congress and the president approve funding sought by Minnesota Sens. Norm Coleman and Amy Klobuchar.

The Bush team has agreed a free-trade deal with South Korea but also slapped tariffs on Chinese paper. Is America's trade policy going backwards or forwards?