I was late to my wedding. I was late delivering the carpool kids to school Monday morning. I was late filing this column. And no matter how hard I try, I will likely be late to my parent-teacher conference Monday afternoon. I am perpetually fighting the tardy gene. Read full article > >
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When it comes to tardiness, shouldn’t the punishment fit the crime?
American television subscribers pay, on average, about $100 a year for sports programming — no matter how many games they watch.
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News Analysis: For Pay TV Clients, a Steady Diet of Sports
With the rainy weather recently , lawns are producing bumper crops of mushrooms. And doctors at Georgetown University Hospital are offering some advice: No matter how tempting the fungi, don’t yank them out of the ground and pop them into your mouth . Physicians offer the cautionary tale of Frank Constantinopla, 49, who after a Sept. 12 rainstorm looked in wonder at his backyard in Springfield, Va. “Oh, there’re so many mushrooms,” Constantinopla recalls thinking. “They look so lovely; I’m so lucky.” Read full article > >
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Two men who ate poisonous mushrooms survive
“Inherently governmental” is one of those Washington terms that can signal a boring discussion is ahead. But as federal employees know, the phrase is key in determining what work they do and what work is done by outside contractors. Yet despite many attempts to define it, including a recent policy letter issued by the Obama administration, reining in a definition for “inherently governmental” is like bailing water with a leaky bucket. No matter how hard you try, something that should be included escapes. Read full article > >
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Defining intelligence contractors’ jobs, and pay, is a fuzzy job
Harold Camping will not stop warning of the impending Rapture, no matter how many times he is wrong. The doomsday preacher and radio-show host came out of hiding Monday and said the end of the world will be October 21, not May 21 as he previously…
No matter how rough English pubs gets, they’ll have nothing on the ancient Britons, who researchers at London’s Natural History Museum say ate the dead and turned their skulls into cups. The 15,000-year-old cups were discovered in a cave in the Cheddar…
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Ancient Britons Drank From Skull Cups
Spending lots of free time glued to the TV or computer screen can hurt your heart and shorten your life, no matter how much exercise you get when you’re not riding the couch, a new study suggests.
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Too much TV time may hurt your heart
The only certainty is that there will be surprises in your financial life, no matter how hard you try to seek out predictable patterns and normality.
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Bucks: There’s No Such Thing as the New Normal
You can’t sell people what they don’t want, no matter how mellifluous your pitch.
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Blindsided by their own blindness
No matter how devoted Rand Paul is to Tea Party goals, he may have to yield to some of the politics he denounces.
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For Tea Party Candidate, Time to Temper Message
No matter how furious both countries get, they need each other.
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The U.S. and Pakistan: An alliance too crucial to fail
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