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  Emotional Candy Corns

  By Kirk Bromley | Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:12 PM ET

  decorator at a custom cookie shop, Bundles of Cookies, in Washington, DC. The store was featured on the Today Show, and her cookies have appeared in The Washington Post, Modern Bride, The New York Times, and Chocolatier Magazine. She's also published a book on the art of cookie decorating, Cooki Read More

  More like this in: The New York Times, Halloween, Washington DC, Candy, Today Show, Washington Post, Cookies, Crafting
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  College Student Seeks Personal Assistant

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:46 PM ET

  last week the 19-year-old logged on to the school's employment Web site and posted an ad for someone to take on "some of my everyday tasks," reports The Washington Post. Cooper laid out the job responsibilities in detail. "As my PA you will receive an email once a day by 9 a.m. with a task lis Read More

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  College Kids Today: Personal Assistant Wanted

  By Jac Chebatoris | Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:44 PM ET

  subject of criticism with the barbs directed at his being just one more of the "wealthy kids at Georgetown who can't do anything for themselves," The Washington Post writes.And after a weeklong flurry of "balloon boy" coverage, the idea of "is this a hoax?" has already blossomed, but we'll onl Read More

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  Donations Up for Public Media

  By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  don't go anywhere without about 25 NPR podcasts on my iPod. And I basically grew up on Maryland Public Television, one of the broadcasters that The Washington Post recently reported have seen surprisingly steady donations in this down economy. A public radio station in Washington, D.C., fo Read More

  More like this in: Economy, Recession, fundraising, Grants, Public Television, US, Social Responsibility, Entertainment, Regional/Local, Kindness, Giving, Fundraising, Music, TV
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  Take a Gander at the Top 35 iPhone Apps

  By Judy Mottl | Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:07 PM ET

  by Alex Ahlund, founder of AppVee, which offers up daily iPhone app reviews. Ahlund listed out the winners in a guest column for TechCrunch at The Washington Post this weekend. Slacker Radio tops the most practical segment, as do TweetDeck and Read It Later. In the games, the top winners ar Read More

  More like this in: Apple, iPhone, iPhone app, Technology, Gadgets
• Driving Blind

  By Chaniga Vorasarun | Mon Aug 3, 2009 7:00 AM ET

  left there. But for the blind, the passenger seat chatter is part of a new technology that will allow the sightless to finally get behind the wheel.The Washington Post reports that at Virginia Tech, engineers have created a prototype vehicle that will allow the blind to navigate street Read More

  More like this in: Technology, Washington Post, Virginia Tech, Business, Technology, Autos, Tech Does Good
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  Keepin' the Faith

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:17 AM ET

  on their trek."Anything can happen when you live in the moment, one step at a time," Mark Soehner, 51, one of the mentors to the young friars, told The Washington Post. "But to find that out, you have to be willing to take that one step."The four young friars got the idea for the pilgrimag Read More

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  DOE Gives Battery Industry Jolt of Cash

  By Steve Tanner | Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  of the much-needed financial charge, including corporate behemoths Dow Chemical and Johnson Controls, according to an article published today by The Washington Post (via the San Jose Mercury News).Several lesser-known, smaller firms also are in the running for federal battery-related dollars Read More

  More like this in: Johnson Controls Inc., Technology, Los Angeles, Texas, Batteries, Washington Post, department of energy, San Jose Mercury News
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  Real Responsibility for the Real Estate Society

  By Steve Mnich | Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:38 PM ET

  a contributing factor by fusing the gap between established professionals and the future bright minds of the real estate industry.” According to The Washington Post, Social Entrepreneurship––the movement in which people launch nonprofit or business ventures to address systemi Read More

  More like this in: New York City, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Social entrepreneurship, Small Business, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania
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  So a One-Legged Guy Walks into a Bar . . .

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:00 AM ET

  able to joke around with people who are in similar situations as you,” Ryan Kules, who lost his right arm and left leg in a roadside bomb, told The Washington Post.At Walter Reed, soldiers rely on doctors, nurses and physical therapists to help heal their physical wounds, but often look t Read More

  More like this in: Iraq, Medicine, Humor, Depression, Washington Post, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, US