Articles filed under Washington Post
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When your dream kills your retirementAug 21, 2016 7:12 am - It's something many of us dream about every day: retiring from that 9-to-5 and starting a business. It might be opening up a bed and breakfast. Or creating a little used...
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AT&T's new data plans trade one overage penalty for anotherAug 21, 2016 7:11 am - One of the nation's biggest wireless carriers is rolling out a series of new data plans that change what's been a key part of the company's business for years. Starting ...
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Fee could triple the cost of reward flightAug 21, 2016 7:10 am - If you've tried to book an international flight using your rewards miles recently, you might have noticed something strange. Two round-trip flights on the same route tha...
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Experts compare Trump's, Clinton's cybersecurity policiesAug 21, 2016 7:00 am - Cybersecurity is now a top national security problem — some officials even call it a bigger threat than terrorism. But both major presidential candidates have hit hurdle...
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Neuroscientists scanned Sting's brain — here's what they learnedAug 21, 2016 7:00 am - A book with the title “This Is Your Brain on Music” would, presumably, be of great interest to a musician like Sting. His gray matter has been on the stuff for a career ...
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The best reason for reading? Book lovers live longer, scientists say.Aug 21, 2016 7:00 am - Good news for book lovers: a chapter a day might keep the Grim Reaper away — at least a little longer. A recent study by Yale University researchers, published online in...
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Extreme heat isn't necessary for heatstrokeAug 21, 2016 7:00 am - Summer may be entering its final stages, but that hardly means that those exercising outdoors are mere weeks away from not worrying about taking the proper precautions t...
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How's your hydration IQ?Aug 20, 2016 7:30 am - It's now the norm to carry around a water bottle as if it's a permanent extension of your arm, so it seems that most of us have bought in to the benefits of proper hydra...
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Q&A: Tim Cook steps out of Steve Jobs's shadow, champions the promise of AppleAug 20, 2016 7:21 am - On a sleek white coffee table in Apple CEO Tim Cook's fourth-floor office in late July, beneath framed posters of Robert F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and ...
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Instagram has a secret Facebook group - just to talk to teensAug 20, 2016 7:18 am - Olivia logged on to the Facebook group, opened her video chat and waited for other people to sign on. Minutes later, pizza arrived - ordered by Instagram in California b...