Cleveland leads a slew of Midwestern towns on our annual list, but thanks to high taxes New York and Chicago make it too. The city of Cleveland has had a colorful history. The Cuyahoga River, which runs through the city, famously caught fire in 1969 thanks to rampant pollution, and it wasn’t the first time. [...]
JAKARTA — Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) secara tegas menyatakan keberatan atas rencana dirilisnya film “Hantu Puncak Datang Bulan” di bioskop Indonesia pada 4 Februari yang lalu. “Film ini mengandung pornografi yang dapat mengumbar syahwat dan kami sudah melakukan penelitian. Di dalamnya juga memperlihatkan kekerasan,” ucap Amirsyah Tambunan Sekretaris Jendral Pengkajian dan Pengembangan MUI Pusat, dihubungi [...]
Film sains fiksi Avatar dan drama mengenai perang Irak yang dinilai bagus oleh kritikus film, The Hurt Locker berada paling atas dalam nominasi Academy Award ke-82 yang diumumkan hari Selasa di Los Angeles. Kedua film masing-masing meraih sembilan nominasi dari Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Amerika. Nominasi tersebut termasuk sutradara terbaik James Cameron [...]
Sekitar 22 Desember, matahari berada di 23 derajat lintang selatan dan disebut juga ” Puncak Musim Dingin ”. Setelah 22 Desember, matahari bergerak ke arah utara. Awal musim semi di daratan Tiongkok dimulai antara 21 Januari s/d 19 Februari. Karena itu, awal tahun baru yang bertepatan dengan awal musim semi jatuh diantara tanggal tersebut. Awal [...]
Makassar:It has been revealed that at least 12 regions in the country have potential ethnic conflicts, struggles over natural resources and fights caused by political alignments and corruption. In South Sulawesi, the seeds of conflict have existed since a long time and have started to grow now. If they are not anticipated, conflicts like those [...]
AUSTIN, Texas – A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service launched a suicide attack on the agency Thursday by crashing his small plane into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing for their lives. At least one person in the building was missing. The FBI tentatively identified [...]
SEATTLE – Boeing Co.’s giant 747-8 freighter should make its first flight Monday after performing well on taxi tests and reaching a top speed of about 103.5 mph, the company said. At 250 feet long, the plane is the largest Boeing has ever built and about 18 feet longer than the existing 747-400 jumbo jet. [...]
Tegal – Indonesia Media – Ratusan umat Khonghucu Kota Tegal, Jawa Tengah, yang tergabung dalam Majelis Agama Khonghucu Indonesia (Makin), berdoa khusus untuk memperingati 40 hari wafatnya mantan Presiden KH Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) di Sekretariat Makin, di Jalan Gurame Nomor 1 Kota Tegal.. “Sembahyang ini kami lakukan secara khusus untuk mendoakan Gus Dur. Beliau [...]
With a blazing fast last lap, American Shani Davis successfully defended his 1,000-meter speedskating gold. The win makes him the first black athlete to win an individual gold in consecutive Winter Olympics. It’s the skater’s second career gold and third medal overall. Though he has encountered his fair share of controversy, Davis silenced his critics [...]
WILMINGTON, N.C. – An environmental contractor dramatically underreported the level of a cancer-causing chemical found in tap water at Camp Lejeune, then omitted it altogether as the Marine base prepared for a federal health review, an Associated Press review has found. The Marine Corps had been warned nearly a decade earlier about the dangerously high [...]
WASHINGTON – Did the stimulus work or not? A year after Congress passed President Barack Obama’s huge economic revival plan, the results are mixed — and hardly final. Despite Obama’s bold promises, unemployment remains stubbornly high. But job losses have slowed dramatically. And the nation’s recent economic growth is real, even though the government has [...]
The Whistler-Blackcombe resort, where the Alpine events such as snowboarding and ski-jumping are being held, could go into foreclosure this week, smack dab in the middle of the Olympics, and be owned in part by the now defunct Lehman Brothers, one of its creditors. Whistler Blackcombe is one of several ski resort properties owned by [...]
Although the tax code permits a wide range of deductions for taxpayers in various situations, thousands of filers routinely claim deductions for various types of expenses that are in fact non-deductible. Here is a list of some of the more common non-deductible expenses that show up on tax returns each year. Spousal and Child Support [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Vancouver Olympic chiefs came under fire Tuesday amid claims that they had chosen the failing ice resurfacers that sparked the “Frozen Water-gate” speedskating farce here because the machines were a cheap option. Monday night’s men’s 500-meter speedskating event was delayed more than an hour – infuriating skaters, coaches, and fans – [...]
Much has been made of late about the hyper-partisan political environment in America. On Tuesday, Sen. Evan Bayh explained his surprising recent decision to leave the Senate by lamenting a “dysfunctional” political system riddled with “brain-dead partisanship.” It seems you’d be hard-pressed to get Republicans and Democrats inside and outside of Washington to agree on [...]
WHISTLER, British Columbia —None of it mattered one bit to Lindsey Vonn. Not the badly bruised and swollen right shin, so painful at first it was tough to even walk, let alone ski with abandon at 65 mph down an icy, bumpy mountain. Not the anguish that came from knowing the injury in a practice [...]
