Articles filed under Washington Post
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How much money do you need to save for retirement?Dec 11, 2016 6:01 am - Exactly how much money will you need to retire comfortably? The majority of Americans think they will need less than $1 million, according to the Merrill Edge Report Fal...
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Divorce after 50 can destroy even the best retirement plansDec 11, 2016 6:00 am - Sometimes “till death do us part” just isn't soon enough. The phenomenon of late-life divorce is growing fast — and blowing apart a lot of divorcing spouses' retirement ...
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Trump's transition: Who is Rex Tillerson?Dec 11, 2016 12:00 am - So far, President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks have mostly been either multimillionaire and billionaire executives or retired generals. In that context, it's proba...
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Forget those occasional cigarettes: There is no safe smoking levelDec 10, 2016 7:00 am - There's bad news for people who think it's safe to smoke a few cigarettes a day or even a week: They face a substantially higher risk of earlier death compared with peop...
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Five simple steps to avoid becoming a medical mysteryDec 10, 2016 6:30 am - No one wants to be a medical mystery. But it's easy to become one. While diagnosis might seem straightforward, the process can be surprisingly complex, strewn with cogni...
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Sleep-deprived drivers have plenty in common with drunken driversDec 10, 2016 6:30 am - Drivers who have had too little sleep are no different than those who have had three or four drinks and are too drunk to drive. Those are the findings of an AAA Foundati...
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Want to find a dead website? Try Internet Archive's Wayback MachineDec 10, 2016 6:18 am - It can be hard to find sites that have disappeared from the internet. But the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is on the verge of rolling out a feature that will make ...
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Qualcomm tests solution to "line of sight" drone limitDec 10, 2016 6:17 am - One of the main hurdles to drones' ability to zip around the country delivering packages is a requirement that they stay within their operator's line of sight during day...
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Why Instagram is letting users like comments - or turn them off completelyDec 10, 2016 6:16 am - In the next few weeks, Instagram is going to look even more like its parent company, Facebook. The social network announced Tuesday that it will let users like individua...
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New sensor can track energy use of your home's appliancesDec 10, 2016 6:15 am - The plethora of electronic devices in your home may plug into the same walls and draw electricity from the same source, but each has a unique signature or fingerprint th...