Articles filed under Washington Post
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How America became a nation of yoga pantsNov 18, 2018 5:30 am - The first pairs of yoga pants Lululemon sold in 1998 were a simple item for women to wear at the studio. They were a mix of nylon and Lycra-synthetic elastic fibers that...
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Long Island City faces Amazon dilemma: How to reap rewards amid changing landscapeNov 18, 2018 12:00 am - NEW YORK CITY - Lorraine Romano has owned her two-family house here for 42 years, raising her children and, more recently, hosting visiting grandchildren. But Romano, a...
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Inequality makes it harder than ever for cities to say no to AmazonNov 18, 2018 12:00 am - New York and Virginia have given Amazon somewhere between $2 billion and $3 billion in tax breaks to convince it to do what it was probably already going to: open its tw...
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Are you a minority borrower? You might want to think twice about using an online lender.Nov 18, 2018 12:00 am - It's not just bank loan officers with racial biases who discriminate against black and Latino borrowers. Computer algorithms do, too. That is the groundbreaking conclusi...
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She's one of millions disillusioned with social media. She also helped create it.Nov 17, 2018 12:00 am - On the evening of Sept. 26, Bailey Richardson logged in to Instagram for the last time. "The time has come for me to delete my Instagram," she wrote to her 20,000 follow...
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Police think Alexa may have witnessed a double slaying. They want Amazon to turn her over.Nov 17, 2018 12:00 am - Alexa might have been listening, as she almost always is, when Christine Sullivan was stabbed to death in the kitchen of the Farmington, New Hampshire, home where Sulliv...
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Some fear Amazon's arrival could deepen inequality in Washington, D.C., regionNov 17, 2018 12:00 am - A Crystal City, Virginia, condo that had sat on the market suddenly shot up in price by $20,000. Realtors are fielding cold calls from out-of-state investors eager to sn...
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He's supposed to shape Japan's cybersecurity. He just admitted he doesn't use computers.Nov 17, 2018 12:00 am - Japan is in the midst of revising its cybersecurity laws ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. However, a Cabinet minister who is supposed to be shaping these laws made...
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Your smartphone photos are totally fake - and you love itNov 17, 2018 12:00 am - The little camera on this phone has a superpower: It can see things our eyes cannot. At night for the past few weeks, I've been tromping around dark places taking photos...
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Trump says he's finished writing answers to questions from MuellerNov 16, 2018 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday said he has answered a set of questions from special counsel Robert Mueller "very easily," while his lawyers signal that th...