THE way we’re working isn’t working. Even if you’re lucky enough to have a job, you’re probably not very excited to get to the office in the morning, you don’t feel much appreciated while you’re there, you find it difficult to get your most important work accomplished, amid all the distractions, and you don’t believe that what you’re doing makes much of a difference anyway. By the time you get home, you’re pretty much running on empty, and yet still answering emails until you fall asleep. Increasingly, this experience is common not […]

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DONETSK, Ukraine – The conflict in eastern Ukraine has been fought in recent days with bullets, bombs and mortars. But Sunday, the weapons of choice were chocolate, caramel and lemon-lime. What started as a separatist publicity stunt ended in one angry, gooey mess. Under the watchful gaze of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, whose statue looms over this square in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, rebels give away candy to children. (Photos by Griff Witte for The Washington Post) First, the PR stunt: The rebel government staged a rally for children in Donetsk’s Lenin Square to highlight what it claims are […]

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‘Ferris Bueller’ house sells for $1.06 million.

Price was for less than half of what previous owner had initially sought 5 years ago The famous garage of the Highland Park home featured in the 1986 movie ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.’ The midcentury modernistic steel-and-glass house in Highland Park and the nearby auto pavilion that together are commonly known as the Ferris Bueller home for their prominence in the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” sold on Thursday for $1.06 million. And the buyers, an investment banker and a lawyer, are nearby residents and Northwestern University alumni. The deal brought to a close a more than five-year-long […]

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Miley Cyrus will now have to crash a rental.

A pair of burglars scaled the fence of Miley Cyrus’ North Hollywood home Friday and drove off in her $100,000 Maserati, Los Angeles police said. Authorities were called about 4 p.m. after the car and some jewelry were reported stolen from the pop star’s residence, police said. Nobody was home at the time of the burglary, police said. This is the second reported burglary at the 21-year-old singer’s home in the last eight months. The burglars, a man and a woman, climbed the fence and then entered the home and garage, according to an LAPD statement. The base model […]

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 Though counterfeit bills make up only a tiny fraction of the $1.27 trillion in circulation, law enforcement officials and federal prosecutors say they aggressively target money forgers to protect consumers and business owners and the larger U.S. economy. Tarshema Brice hardly ranks among the world’s elite counterfeiters. But with the help of modern consumer technology, she developed an exacting system for crafting fake U.S. greenbacks. First, the 34-year-old hairstylist and janitor took $5 bills with a specific watermark and soaked them with “Purple Power” degreaser. Next, she scrubbed off the ink with a toothbrush. After […]

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