Articles filed under Washington Post
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Meet the adorable 90-year-old who has become a Reddit guruJan 31, 2016 6:11 am - WASHINGTON - He slides the foam headphones over his drooping ears and fixes his pale blue eyes at the computer. Reddit.com is pulled up on the screen. The site is "one o...
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Insurance: Lump-sum payments can help, but check detailsJan 31, 2016 6:00 am - Insurance policies that pay a lump sum if workers get cancer or another serious illness are being offered by employers in growing numbers. Companies say they want to he...
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Obama seeks to expand 401(k) use by employers pooling plansJan 31, 2016 5:44 am - President Barack Obama will propose allowing small businesses to more easily pool 401(k) plans, in the hope that more Americans will adopt a crucial tool to save for ret...
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Must I take lunch, and more legal puzzlersJan 31, 2016 5:22 am - Q: I work at a desk job for a small contractor at a federal facility on a task that has no immediate impact on health, safety or security. We are required to take an...
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How to use the process method of investingJan 31, 2016 4:09 am - Sports fans and investors tend to make similar errors. Perhaps the biggest is focusing on outcomes rather than process. Sports fanatics are all Monday morning quarterbac...
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Facebook gets even closer to moving beyond the LikeJan 30, 2016 6:18 am - If you feel limited by Facebook's emotional range, then you're really going to like what's coming next. The company announced that it would expand its set of in-network ...
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The Internet's favorite conspiracies would involve too many people to stay secret, says scienceJan 30, 2016 6:18 am - If NASA really faked the moon landing in 1969, about 411,000 people would have worked together to keep that information from the public, and the whole thing would have b...
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The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believeJan 30, 2016 6:18 am - In the middle of January, in a change noticed nowhere but Spain, Facebook added six words to a single dialogue box - and inadvertently stumbled into a tortuous national ...
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A $640 Uber ride for a 30-mile trip to the airportJan 30, 2016 6:13 am - Bonnie Lieb said she expected to pay more than usual for an Uber ride from her Sterling, Virginia, home to Reagan National Airport Monday morning. With her car still cov...
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A simple item that refugees need and how to get it to themJan 30, 2016 6:12 am - When two American dermatologists volunteered to provide medical assistance in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan in 2014, they didn't anticipate one basic, recurring need. ...