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Thanks in part to a new tax credit put into place by Congress in October, owning your own wind turbine could be the next green trend. While it's true that wind power has taken off in the U.S. - adding more in new capacity to the electrical grid last year...
Zhang Wei, 42, came here in 1990 from Henan, where his family of six was struggling to live by farming one-third of an acre. "In the past, nobody would do this work," he says. "It's for the outsiders, poor people from the countryside where they can't earn...
Shortly after the turn of the century, though, the housing boom began to spin out of control. As incomes and employment in Ireland rose, cheap credit and tax incentives fueled a buying frenzy that pushed up both prices and housing stock: the cost of an average house rose almost three...
The pain is hitting real estate too. Hamptons realty agent Rick Hoffman of Corcoran says his market usually gets an infusion of Wall Street money this time of year - thanks to the bonus payouts - but he isn't expecting a pickup in slow sales anytime soon. He says he is...
Some of the same slogans were heard in Indian-administered Kashmir during the summer, when tens of thousands of people poured out on to the streets in a surprise wave of protests, triggered by a dispute over a 99-acre piece of land designated for the use of Hindu pilgrims...