Articles filed under Washington Post
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The future of botanical illustration is endangered, but the job is vitalFeb 16, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — From her fifth-floor office in the National Museum of Natural History, Alice Tangerini has a stellar view: to the right, Constitution Avenue runs in front o...
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Chardonnay in the shoe department: Retailers are increasingly serving alcohol to woo shoppersFeb 16, 2020 5:27 am - NEW YORK - Walk past the $2,500 studded Saint Laurent boots and $995 Versace sneakers at Nordstrom's newly minted flagship store, and you'll end up at its most buzzed-ab...
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Analysis: The rich can probably escape new laws on inherited IRAs. But the rest of us can't.Feb 16, 2020 5:18 am - If you've got tons of money in your Individual Retirement Accounts, you can probably buy your way around the new rules for inherited IRAs. But if you've got merely pound...
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As you age, strength training can be vital in staying independentFeb 16, 2020 5:00 am - When an intruder broke into the Rochester, New York, home of 82-year-old Willie Murphy a few months ago, he was met with a big surprise. Murphy, a diminutive but powerli...
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A mom is skiing across Norway to raise PKU awarenessFeb 16, 2020 5:00 am - WASHINGTON — For 125 miles over snow and ice, a Washington, D.C., mother will cross-country ski across Norway later this month to raise money and awareness for her daugh...
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Trevor Noah: The calm in the stormFeb 15, 2020 6:30 am - NEW YORK - Trevor Noah bounds into a bright, skylit conference room at "The Daily Show" offices in Manhattan wearing a black Nike T-shirt and a headset mic, like he's a ...
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Sampling too much from the past, Hulu's 'High Fidelity' remix fails to find its own grooveFeb 15, 2020 6:18 am - Hulu's "High Fidelity" is for people who love to watch a square peg get painfully hammered into a round hole. The sound of a needle scratching across an entire side of a...
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You are not a failure as a parent if your child is depressedFeb 15, 2020 6:00 am - A woman walked into an emergency room with her 13-year-old son, her lips pursed. He was there for a psychiatric evaluation for suicidal thoughts he voiced to his school ...
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Don't sell my data! We finally have a law for thatFeb 15, 2020 5:22 am - With apologies to the Beastie Boys: You gotta fight for your right to privacy. America's first broad data privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act, went into eff...
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Tweeting in a time of coronavirus: Woman uses social media to lighten mood on cruise shipFeb 15, 2020 5:21 am - Christina Kerby was corralled aboard a massive luxury cruise ship, charting a meandering course somewhere in the South China Sea, when she began thinking about the apoca...