If Wendy Braitman were writing a screenplay about her life, this scene would play at the top, to set the tone. It is 1993, and she is the 39-year-old only daughter of her parents’ long and loving marriage. Her mother has suffered a stroke, so Braitman has flown from California to New York to be with her. She finds her mom awake, but groggy, and hopped up on meds. After an embrace, her mother asks, “So, how’s your boyfriend?” Read full article > >

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The single life: Some people never find the love of their lives. And live to tell about it.

I miss the old Google. I miss the old Internet. I don’t miss Hamster Dance (see it once, you’ll have it stuck in your head for the next 10 years) or AOL (skreeeeee-onk, skreeeeee-onk, kcck, kssssh, kllissssh, shhhhhhs) or the dial-up speeds that required a full day to download the minute-long trailer for “ The Phantom Menace .” Read full article > >

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Alexandra Petri: Google’s no-opt-out privacy changes and the end of the anonymous Internet

Thirty years ago, a young and floppy-haired Steve Jobs made a rare lobbying effort in Washington to get more Apple computers into classrooms. The effort paid off: Apple got tax breaks for donating computers to schools, a charitable effort that won over educators and made the Apple II and the Mac the first computers used by millions of children. Read full article > >

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Apple expected to delve into textbooks

Washington entrepreneurs Ted Leonsis and Steve Case have assembled a $450 million investment war chest with the aim of rebuilding a start-up culture in the region that once gave rise to the company that made them rich, AOL. For all its success, the Washington economy has a reputation for lacking the financial growth engines essential to entrepreneurial capitals such as Silicon Valley, New York and Boston. Read full article > >

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Leonsis, Case found $450 million fund to aid Washington area start-up firms

Police anticipate arrests.

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Occupy L.A. Gets Eviction Notice

Like something out of the Old Testament, an affliction from on high has rained down on Faith Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Fairfax County: golf balls. One smashed the rear window of Pastor Bob Barnett’s Honda Odyssey on a Sunday. Another crashed through a church office window, and a third plunked the youth director on the head, knocking him down as he worked with a group of children. In all, 2,637 balls pelted the property during a recent year-long period, the church claims. Members know because they collected each one. Read full article > >

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Fairfax County church takes action against TopGolf driving range for wayward golf balls

Year after year, Carlos Rogers came close to making big interceptions for the Washington Redskins . He often dropped the ball, though, and in turn, the Redskins eventually chose to drop him. Now in his first season as a member of the San Francisco 49ers , Rogers enters Sunday’s game against his former team with three interceptions through seven games. The Redskins’ cornerbacks have a total of two this season. Rogers’s replacement, Josh Wilson, has none. Read full article > >

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Redskins pick Josh Wilson, but Carlos Rogers gets picks

Paolo Pasquali does not like to be called a crusader for good olive oil. But when I visited his oleoteca, the tasting room he built at Villa Campestri , his “olive oil resort” in the hills north of Florence, it was impossible for him to talk of anything else. At lunch, dinner and breakfast the next morning, Pasquali rhapsodized about the storied history of the olive and fumed about consumers’ feckless embrace of cheap oil. And, for most of the time, his pitch sounded like that of any number of upstart chocolate, coffee or cured-meat producers: Like wine, my product deserves more respect. Read full article > >

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Beyond extra virgin: New standard aims to guarantee quality in olive oil

Some of the people camped out Zuccotti Park for the Occupy Wall Street protest want to End the Fed. Others want to tax Wall Street. One woman assured me that “very few” of the top one percent live in New York, or even in the United States. “They’re in gated communities all around the world,” she said. Someone else saw this as a cultural revolution. When I arrived, the crowd seemed almost entirely under-30. By the time I left, it was considerably less homogenous. Read full article > >

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A tipping point for Occupy Wall Street

The Patriotic Millionaire is standing in his $2.5 million home, next to a granite-topped kitchen island big enough to pitch a tent on. Outside, the rain is pattering his pool and his fishpond. He is worrying aloud about how he might lose it all. “It is going to be really bad for rich people,” said Charlie Fink, 51, a former AOL executive, imagining an American financial collapse that could wipe out his wealth. “It’s going to be [bad] for everybody. But most people are living close to the bone anyway. So they have less to lose.” Read full article > >

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For some of the rich, budget and tax battles bring worries — of paying too little

Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed tied the knot Saturday after almost three decades together, in a ceremony that — like their engagement — was filmed for their A&E reality show, “Gene Simmons Family Jewels,” which returns to the airwaves tonight. The timing of the event has led some, including , ironically, fellow reality-TV bride Khloe Kardashian, to speculate that the wedding was held solely to amp up TV ratings. Read full article > >

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Gene Simmons, Shannon Tweed and reality-TV weddings: When is it staged and when is it love?

Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL to band together.

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Google’s Rivals Team Up on Ads

It’s eerie but it’s true: Three people have died this summer after suffering rare infections from a waterborne amoeba that destroys the brain.

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Brain-eating amoebas kill three

Lackluster quarterly earnings, AOL’s executive is confident that his company can regain some of its former glory.

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The Remake of AOL Is Still Being Written

Uh-oh! More alleged photos of New York Rep. Anthony Weiner have been leaked on the Internet. Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government claims to have a several photos initially sent through Weiner’s AOL account via BlackBerry to a woman in early May. One…

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Breitbart Leaks More Weiner Shots