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Channel 33 news is reporting that a suspected terrorist has been arrested along with an "inert" car bomb in downtown Dallas. The is a Muslim jihadi. Details as I find them.

SHANGHAI: Move over, New York. This year alone, Shanghai will complete towers with more space for living and working than there is in all the office buildings in New York City. That is in a city that already has 4,000 skyscrapers, almost double the number in New York. And there are designs to build 1,000 more by the end of this decade. China's real estate market is so hot that miniature cities are being created with artificial lakes, and the country's nouveau riche suddenly seem eager to put down as much as $5.3 million for a luxury apartment in skyscrapers...

For now, the world's tallest building-to-be is just a flower-shaped concrete tattoo on the desert sands, but its pilings are already in place, plunging 160 feet into the earth. When it's finished, visitors will swoon over this city from 123 stories high, if not more. In fact the Burj Dubai will be much higher, the developers say - dozens of stories taller than skyscrapers in Taiwan, Chicago or anywhere else. But they are keeping the exact height a secret to flummox competitors in the world's furious race for the title of tallest skyscraper. "We're going to records never approached...

Sky divers leap from tall building 12/29/2002 Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Sky divers plunged off the world's tallest buildings Saturday to warm up for a competition held only rarely because the activity is banned in most countries. The sky divers, who will take part in a tournament scheduled to start Sunday, leaped from a balcony of the 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. Strong wind gusts blew many of the sky divers off course, pushing them away from the target circle on the ground - a situation that would cost them points when the competition starts....