Historian Dominic Sandbrook examines why in the popular imagination the 1970s are lampooned and despised as the era of Edward Heath, the decade of the donkey jacket, and the age of the Austin Allegro.
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Was the 1970s really such a grim decade?
Facebook has weighed in on a practice by some businesses asking employees or job applicants for their passwords to the popular social-media site.
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Facebook: Employers risk lawsuit
The Justice Department’s shutdown of the popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com reverberated across the Internet on Friday, sparking fresh questions for major Web companies while rattling millions of users of sites like it. Read full article > >
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Megaupload shutdown raises new Internet-sharing fears
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Wisconsin has been linked to a decorative water wall in a hospital lobby, according to a study published Tuesday that suggested the popular architectural feature can pose dangers in a health-care setting, especially for people with weakened immune systems. Read full article > >
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Hospital fountain linked to Legionnaires’ outbreak
US actor Harry Morgan, best known for playing Colonel Sherman Potter in the popular series Mash, dies at the age of 96.
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Mash star Harry Morgan dies at 96
Amazon moved aggressively to fulfill its new ambition to publish books as well as sell them, announcing that it had signed Timothy Ferriss, the popular self-help guru.
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Amazon Set to Publish Pop Author
T-Mobile customers will be able to use iPhones, as Apple began selling unlocked models of the popular smartphone online Tuesday. The phones, which require micro-SIM cards, are compatible with both AT&T and T-Mobile networks. Before T-Mobile users…
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Apple Begins Selling Unlocked iPhones
Actor and singer Roy Skelton, best known for voicing puppets George and Zippy in the popular children’s programme Rainbow, dies aged 79.
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Voice of Rainbow’s Zippy and George dies
Best-selling author Jennifer Worth, who wrote the popular Call the Midwife trilogy, dies aged 75.
Engaged: Policy analyst Anna Russell , 28, and teacher Daniel Zielaski , 27, who are famous for . . . meeting through the Washington Post Magazine’s “Date Lab.” Editors matched them up, noting that they’re both marathoners, and a Monday night fix-up date last May at Oya turned into late-night drinks at Proof, which led to plans to go running together. A year later, Zielaski popped the question on the Georgetown waterfront, midway through a 10-mile run. No wedding date yet, but probably next summer. They’re believed to be the third couple engaged through the popular weekly matchmaking column. (Any others out there with good news to report? Fill us in: reliablesource@washpost.com) Read full article > >
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Love, etc.: Date Lab couple Anna Russell and Daniel Zielaski engaged
Less than a month after Sony’s security breach that revealed personal information from some 100 million PlayStation user accounts, the company is relaunching the popular videogame network. Service restoration will begin on Sunday in the U.S., Europe,…
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Sony Relaunches PlayStation
Bahrain tore down the monument at the center of Pearl Square in a symbolic end to the popular protests put down by the government.
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Bahrain Tears Down Monument as Protesters Seethe
Sony Music Artists, managers of the popular Japanese boy band Kishidan, apologises after the group appeared on national TV dressed like Nazis.
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Sony sorry for band’s Nazi gaffe
Mobile phones have been used to capture footage of an opposition rally in the Iranian capital Tehran, called in solidarity with the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
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VIDEO: Amateur footage of Tehran protests
A bus carrying American tourists to the popular tourist site of Aswan, Egypt crashed Sunday killing eight people on board. Twenty-one others were injured, including 19 American tourists and the Egyptian tour guide and driver. Three tourist buses were…
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Egypt Bus Crash Kills 8 American Tourists
Love, etc.: Date Lab couple Anna Russell and Daniel Zielaski engaged
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
