For this small group of fit folks with sunglasses, beach season begins as it always does, a week before Memorial Day in a small bathroom at the 10th Street Medical Center. One by one, a woman in a floral blouse and blue latex gloves calls them in and hands them a sterile cup. Read full article > >
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For Ocean City’s lifeguards, summer starts with beach boot camp
When Mark Zuckerberg’s stated mission to connect and empower people collides with Wall Street’s actual mission, which is to empower and enrich the well-connected, guess which mission prevails? Wall Street’s, hands down. That’s the lesson we can take from the debacle of Facebook’s initial public stock offering. Read full article > >
Downing Street dismisses a suggestion it “doctored” an independent report on possible changes to employment law to avoid political embarrassment.
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Work report not doctored – No 10
The first rule of magazine covers is: Make ’em pay attention. Stop them at the checkout stand, at the mailbox or while walking down the street. Does that image — the half-naked celebrity, the airbrushed model, the outrageous headline — turn heads? Does it make subscribers want to read and non-readers want to buy? Does it make them angry? If so, you’re on the right track. Read full article > >
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Newsweek’s Obama cover: Does controversy sell?
If you have plans next week to pick up lunch on K Street, thrift your way through Eastern Market or meet friends for happy hour, a couple of words of advice: Look out. You just might find yourself starring in the Kennedy Center festival “ Look Both Ways: Street Arts Across America .” Read full article > >
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‘Look Both Ways: Kennedy Center Street Arts Festival’
Occupy Wall Street holds May Day protest
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In pictures: Occupy Wall Street protests
After a rainy morning, the May Day protests coordinated by Occupy Wall Street grew more clamorous, and the police moved in.
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Occupy Wall Street to march in U.S.
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May Day Protests Planned Across Globe
A suicide bomber blew himself up across the street from a mosque in the Syrian capital Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding nearly 30, state TV said. Thousands of Syrians protested elsewhere to denounce persistent violence by President Bashar Assad’s regime.
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Syria Says Suicide Bomber Kills 10 in Damascus
A County Down woman who nearly died after having a heart attack on the street wants defibrillators to be installed in public places.
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Heart attack woman’s cardiac call
Downing Street says the government will resist “vigorously” any application for bail by radical cleric Abu Qatada.
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Government ‘to block Qatada bail’
Downing Street says there are “various options on table” to limit the tax relief on charitable donation and ministers want to “get the balance right”.
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Consultation on charity tax plan
The Federal Communications Commission has cleared Google of charges that it illegally collected WiFi data using its Street View cars, but fined the company $25,000 for obstructing the bureau’s investigation. Read full article > >
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Google fined by FCC for impeding Street View probe
The Rev. Al Sharpton is lord of all he surveys. “Check out this,” the flamboyant civil rights leader told me during breakfast at his organization’s annual meeting this week. He flipped through the program until he found a full-page ad with the logos of Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal. “News Corporation Proudly Supports National Action Network ’s 2012 Convention,” it said. Read full article > >
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Al Sharpton, power player
Every time a new clue turned up during renovations — a child’s lace-up shoe, a bottle, a candle-holder — Abigail Wiebenson would wonder: Just who had lived in her S Street NW house? “We’d find these things and I’d say, ‘There’ve gotta be good stories to be told here,’ ” Wiebenson says. Read full article > >
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History in the house: How to discover your home’s past
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