Articles filed under Washington Post
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Live to 100? You may have it in your genesJan 04, 2016 5:00 am - Mary Harada's father lived to 102, healthy and sharp to the end. She wouldn't mind living that long, if she could stay as mentally and physically fit as he was. "He di...
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Researcher thinks certain drugs might slow agingJan 04, 2016 12:00 am - Can people reach 100 if they don't have the genes? Science doesn't know yet, but Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein Colleg...
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Being able to handle stress might help you become a centenarianJan 04, 2016 12:00 am - The New England Centenarian Study began studying very old people and their offspring in 1995, setting out to determine - among other things - which characteristics peopl...
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This guy had a great year betting against ETFsJan 03, 2016 6:37 am - NEW YORK - In a town of financial wizards, David Miller stood out this year. The Michigan-native is betting against one of the most popular investment vehicles for mom-a...
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AT&T is doing away with the 2-year contract once and for allJan 03, 2016 6:00 am - Starting Jan. 8, you'll no longer be able to get a cellphone from AT&T on a two-year contract. You won't even be able to quietly ask for one in AT& T retail stores anymo...
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Microsoft to warn users of possible government hacking attemptsJan 02, 2016 6:37 am - Microsoft this week said it will warn consumers if it suspects governments are trying to hack into their accounts to access things, including Outlook email and the compa...
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Facebook is saying you and your friends go back 46 yearsJan 02, 2016 6:35 am - Like many of you out there in Internet land, I woke up Thursday morning to an interesting bug on my Facebook page. According to my own account, I had a lot to celebrate,...
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A new version of Google Glass shows up in FCC filingsJan 02, 2016 6:34 am - Despite being declared dead quite a few times, a new version of the Google Glass headset may be coming soon. Though Google may have stopped selling the $1,500 "Explorer"...
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Why hoaxes flourish on FacebookJan 02, 2016 6:31 am - If you are a chain letter hoax, then heaven is for real and it is Facebook. The site has hosted an army of copyright and giveaway hoaxes in recent years with a fury not ...
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2015 is the year that Tumblr became the front page of the InternetJan 02, 2016 5:12 am - The Internet story of the year - perhaps of many years - began with a breezy, under-punctuated blog post on the Tumblr of some 21-year-old no one had previously heard of...