On Wlodarczyk's embedding theorem
  We prove the following version of Wlodarczyk's Embedding Theorem: Every normal complex algebraic ${\bf C}^*$-variety admits an equivariant closed embedding into a toric prevariety $X$ on which ${\bf C}^*$ acts as a one-parameter-subgroup of the big torus of $X$. 
Juergen Hausen