Articles filed under Washington Post
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Child calls 911 because she fears her 'Elf on the Shelf' has lost its Christmas magicDec 24, 2015 12:00 am - Her mom was napping when the unthinkable happened. Izzy LaPeruta, 7, was playing with a ball inside her New Jersey living room, next to a Christmas tree wrapped in color...
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For stressed flyers, dogs bring comfort and joyDec 23, 2015 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON — Phil Kauf and his family were standing in the United Airines customer service line at Dulles International Airport, exhausted and tense. Their nerves were f...
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Products marketed toward men are the better buyDec 23, 2015 10:00 pm - Radio Flyer sells a red scooter for boys and a pink scooter for girls. Both feature plastic handlebars, three wheels and a foot brake. Both weigh about five pounds. The ...
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A kids' virus you should know aboutDec 23, 2015 10:00 pm - It's that time of year again: A particularly nasty virus that in children can cause everything from mild common-cold symptoms to breathing problems bad enough to hospita...
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These athletes embrace the golden years of exerciseDec 21, 2015 4:45 am - These athletes embrace the golden years of exercise
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The emotional baggage of an office moveDec 20, 2015 6:39 am - It's moving day. Your essential work tools - dog-eared reference books, stacks of ratty notepads - have been jumbled into plastic crates, to be offloaded into a sleek, m...
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Five amazing and alarming things that may be done with your DNADec 20, 2015 6:36 am - "You're a male, you're 34-years-old and your 5-foot-10 ½ inches tall." That's a prediction that Craig Venter, long a pioneer on the frontier of genomics, offered to me w...
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Four traits that might make you a 'toxic' co-workerDec 20, 2015 6:34 am - Every workplace has them. The colleague who bad-mouths you behind your back at the water cooler. The boss who takes credit for everyone else's ideas. The sexist jerk peo...
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Why it's so hard for you to afford a rentalDec 20, 2015 6:32 am - Last year in America, the median asking rent for a newly built apartment was an astonishing $1,372 a month. That's about 50 percent more than the typical rent nationwide...
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Analysis: What the Fed rate hike could mean to mortgage borrowersDec 20, 2015 6:32 am - This week's rate increase by the Federal Reserve should not cause home buyers to panic, if history is any indication. Back in the early 2000s, after the tech bubble burs...