Articles filed under Washington Post
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Freak summer hailstorm buries Mexican city under five feet of iceJul 01, 2019 1:00 am - It's summer in Guadalajara, one of Mexico's most populous towns, which made what happened there over the weekend all the more surprising. Sunday morning, residents woke ...
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Here's what $1.6 trillion in student loan debt is doing to the U.S. economyJun 30, 2019 6:19 am - American families are carrying about $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, a massive burden that amounts to nearly 8 percent of national income, a share that has roughly d...
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Millennials have sparked a sober revolution. Enter nonalcoholic spirits and 'mocktails.'Jun 30, 2019 6:15 am - It's everywhere you look these days: #SoberCurious, #SoberIsSexy, #SoberLife and #SoberSaturday. There are sober nightclubs, sober early-morning dance parties, Instagram...
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How a school nurse and a computer geek are getting rich off liceJun 30, 2019 6:00 am - Maybe it's not the very worst call that you can get from your kid's school, but it is a plenty bad one. Flunked out? No. Punched a student? Not that, either. Brought a p...
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How a networking newbie can make a great first impressionJun 30, 2019 6:00 am - Q: I was unimpressed with the letter writer in a recent column about time-wasting networkers. Networking is a complex skill set. The law student who annoyed the writer w...
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Five reasons you need a budgetJun 30, 2019 1:00 am - There are two loves in my life - my "boo" and my budget. OK, maybe my husband comes first, but I'm not kidding about my love affair with our budget. It's the road map to...
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Help Desk: How to fight the spies in your Chrome browserJun 29, 2019 6:25 am - Is your web browser spying on you? My recent column about the stark privacy differences between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox generated a lot of conversation - and q...
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How to stop companies from selling your dataJun 29, 2019 6:20 am - The second you fill out an online survey, purchase a new home or subscribe to a magazine, your information may be scooped up by a data company and sold to a subterranean...
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Analysis: Microsoft's missteps decades ago offer antitrust lessons for tech's Big FourJun 29, 2019 6:15 am - Of the five biggest tech companies in the U.S., Microsoft is the only one that isn't currently in the crosshairs of U.S. antitrust authorities. The software giant alread...
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States are trying to stop data brokers from selling consumers' secretsJun 29, 2019 6:09 am - Until recently, Randy Koloski had never heard of Amerilist, a small business 25 miles north of Manhattan. But for $150, Amerilist makes available a list of information o...