Articles filed under Washington Post
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Flexibility matters: It's no stretch to say that muscles need to be workedOct 07, 2018 7:30 am - Myles Schneider, 74, a semiretired podiatrist, stretches for 60 minutes, six times a week. Schneider, who also walks briskly for 45 minutes twice weekly and runs three t...
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10 years later: How the housing market has changed since the crashOct 07, 2018 1:15 am - Flashback to fall 2008 and you'll remember the free fall the U.S. economy experienced. At the heart of it was the collapse of the housing market. If you were house hunti...
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Downward mobility: Where middle-class kids are worse off than their parentsOct 07, 2018 1:10 am - A team of economists led by Raj Chetty of Harvard University has released a massive new data set on prosperity at the neighborhood level in the United States. Called the...
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Last year's flu broke recordsOct 06, 2018 7:30 am - Flu killed and hospitalized more people in the United States last winter than any seasonal influenza in decades, according to new data released in September. It's the mo...
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Starting, or returning, to a fitness routine? Here are tips to prevent overdoing itOct 06, 2018 7:00 am - It's the fall, which means gyms, golf courses and sports clubs are full of new participants using the beginning of the school year as a reason to jump-start their fitnes...
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Review: The Apple Watch faces its toughest challenge yet: GrandmaOct 06, 2018 1:17 am - Is the new Apple Watch ready for Grandma? The Series 4 Apple Watch now in stores pitches itself as a Food and Drug Administration-cleared "proactive health monitor" and ...
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Introducing Sans Forgetica, the font designed to boost your memoryOct 06, 2018 1:09 am - A new font can help lodge information deeper in your brain, researchers say, but it's not magic - just the science of effort. Psychology and design researchers at RMIT U...
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How legalized sports gambling could create a new kind of fan experienceOct 06, 2018 1:09 am - Ted Leonsis was never a gambler. An entrepreneur, a businessman, a philanthropist, an investor - but never much of a gambler. So he's perhaps an unlikely torchbearer for...
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What's in new proposed Internet Bill of Rights?Oct 06, 2018 1:08 am - WASHINGTON - By July of 2019, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., aims to see the House of Representatives pass landmark legislation shielding consumers from the onslaught of data...
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What does it take to be Wikipedia's MVP? 2.5M editsOct 06, 2018 1:05 am - Steven Pruitt has more than 2.5 million edits to Wikipedia articles to his credit. Yes, 2.5 million. That's a lot of editing to a lot of articles, so you'd understand if...