Articles filed under Washington Post
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Why your commute is showing no signs of getting quickerAug 30, 2015 6:31 am - The United States is choking on its traffic, with the average driver losing 42 hours a year in the bumper-to-bumper grind and a drain on the economy costing $160 billion...
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U.S. airlines: Persian Gulf carriers cutting into marketAug 30, 2015 5:36 am - The three big U.S. international airlines say competition from rapidly expanding Persian Gulf carriers has cut their passenger load to the Middle East and Asia by more t...
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Fewer companies are giving out bonuses to lower-paid employeesAug 30, 2015 1:00 am - The good news for workers, according to data released by Aon Hewitt, is that company spending on compensation has reached a new high. In 2015, the human resources consul...
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A growing push to document surgeries with cameras in operating roomsAug 29, 2015 11:00 pm - Chris Nowakoski's wife died in Wisconsin during what should have been a routine procedure on her pacemaker. Danny Long's wife in North Carolina suffered catastrophic neu...
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Inside the high-stakes quest to design a computer program that 'gets' sarcasm onlineAug 29, 2015 7:35 am - Sarcasm on the Internet, the old Web adage goes, is kind of like winking on the phone. It's pointless. It's invisible. It's almost always misunderstood. And for linguist...
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Review: Facetune allows users to remove imperfections, reshape their featuresAug 29, 2015 7:33 am - The social media arms race is ever-escalating. First you had to post about what you were doing (Finally visiting the Grand Canyon!). Then you had to include a picture fr...
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How the Internet actually makes you happierAug 29, 2015 7:31 am - According to a strain of trend piece popular in certain circles these days, the Web is some kind of social parasite, eating our decency and confidence and good humor awa...
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We're terrible at ignoring our cellphonesAug 29, 2015 7:00 am - If you're a millennial, or if you know one, then you've probably struggled at some point with the social etiquette of the cellphone. Highly scientific surveys show that ...
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My Drunk Kitcken, BBQ Pit Boys new celeb chefs on YouTubeAug 29, 2015 7:00 am - YouTube sees 280 percent increase in video views
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A personal tutor, just a mouse click awayAug 29, 2015 7:00 am - Imagine if your teacher knew that you learned math best between 8:40 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. Or that after 38 minutes of studying history, you lose focus. Or that you learn s...