Kent Handleman in the former Arco executive offices on the 51st (top) floor of the City National Plaza building in downtown Los Angeles Thursday October 04, 2007. Handleman, Senior Vice President of Thomas Properties Group is a landlord at one of downtown’s largest office complexes that is finally starting to fill up. The story is about how the downtown office market is starting to turn in landlords favor after many years of favoring tenants.

Airman First Class (A1C) Michael Vratanina (cq) is silhouetted against a bright blue sky as he cleans an F15B Eagle in a wash rack, Thursday afternoon at Edwards Air Force Base.

Looking through the window at the refueling pad of a KC-135 Stratotanker, an F-15 fighter jet peels off after fueling near the skies over Salt Lake City, Monday afternoon over Utah.

An airplane making a landing is framed by a bright yellow Lamborghini on the left, and a Ferrari, right, at Beverly Hills Rent A Car, Friday morning near LAX in Los Angeles. Curbside service is offered, and many clients are picked up at the airport.

Longshoreman Greg Mitre in his crane unloading cargo, works high above the port,Wednesday morning at Long Beach Harbor. The supersizing of the ports. Both Los Angeles and Long Beach are opening ther first so-called mega-terminals this year, and each have ordered up a dozen of the world s largest cranes to operate on them. The Gerald Desmond Bridge is slated to be replaced with a new one that will rival the Golden Gate in size. All this in anticipation of arrival of mega-freighters, twice as big as any on the ocean today.