Articles filed under Washington Post
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Google-backed drones will drop library books so kids can do their summer readingJun 13, 2020 6:22 am - Kelly Passek has thought up a way to get kids to read this summer: deliver library books by drone. Passek, a middle-school librarian, was one of the first customers of a...
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Siri and Alexa say black lives matter, but tech is still criticized for lack of diversityJun 13, 2020 6:19 am - Ask Alexa or Siri or Google whether "black lives matter," and the voice assistants of some of the most powerful companies in the world are quick to answer in the affirma...
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Corporate America takes the internship online this summerJun 13, 2020 6:16 am - College students have already been uprooted from their dorm rooms to their parents' basements, forced to finish their semester online and faced with the dire prospect of...
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Amazon, Facebook and Google turn to deep network of political allies to fight antitrust probesJun 13, 2020 6:15 am - David Espinoza appeared unhappy when Arizona joined scores of states investigating Google last year. The Phoenix-based owner of a shoe-and-leather store wrote in a local...
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How to read a recipe and avoid common cooking pitfallsJun 10, 2020 6:00 am - Reading comprehension: It's not just for the SAT! The concept that many of us probably rolled our eyes at in our youth - surprise! - does indeed have practical implicati...
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Toss together pickled vegetables for a colorful, one-skillet antipasto chicken dinnerJun 10, 2020 6:00 am - I'm willing to bet that in your refrigerator right now there are at least a few random jars of antipasto-type vegetables needing to get eaten. Searching mine recently, I...
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The sharp, rich flavors of a muffuletta make this salad an ideal pairing for pizzaJun 10, 2020 6:00 am - At first glance, you'd think a muffuletta, that famous New Orleans sandwich piled with cold cuts and a spicy olive salad, simply isn't for vegetarians. At least not in i...
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Capture the sunny freshness of lemons with syrup, marmalade and preservesJun 10, 2020 6:00 am - In his 1925 poem "I Limoni" ("The Lemons"), Eugenio Montale calls the scent of lemons "a restless sweetness raining on the heart" and "riches," and the fruit itself "sun...
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Are asymptomatic people spreading the coronavirus? WHO official's words spark confusion, debateJun 09, 2020 1:00 am - The World Health Organization moved Tuesday to clarify its position on whether people without symptoms are widely spreading the new coronavirus, saying much remains unkn...
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We're human, we have to hugJun 08, 2020 6:00 am - Twenty-three years ago this month, my first child was born. Some hours after she was born, she was in my arms feeding. She turned gray and stopped breathing. The doctor ...