Story Lab: January 23, 2011 - January 29, 2011
Story pick: 'The Mommy-Fight Site'
Around the time my son was born a couple of years back, I found myself trolling the Internet in search of information about child-care options. My search led me to the D.C. Urban Moms and Dads message board, which, as...
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J. Freedom du Lac
| January 28, 2011; 9:19 AM ET |
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The story behind the ice cream cone man
UPDATE: 1/28/11 at 1 p.m. Zach Burroughs stopped by The Washington Post where he took readers' questions and snacked on some pistachio ice cream. Watch the video. ORIGINAL POST: 1/27/11 at 5:31 p.m. The man racing across 15th Street NW...
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Eric Athas
| January 27, 2011; 5:31 PM ET |
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Story pick: 'Sabermetrician In Exile'
Voros McCracken could probably walk through the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown without earning a second glance from even the game's most devoted fans. But he's something of a legend among the baseball stat nerds known as sabermetricians...
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J. Freedom du Lac
| January 26, 2011; 8:18 AM ET |
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Story pick: A forger's story
I'd never heard of Father Arthur Scott, nor Steven Gardiner, nor Mark Augustus Landis before I came across this truly fascinating story in the Financial Times on Scott, Gardiner and Landis, who, as it turns out, are one and the...
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J. Freedom du Lac
| January 25, 2011; 9:27 AM ET |
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Story pick: Jack LaLanne's good living
Fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who died Sunday at 96, was a paragon of health who often toyed with the notion that he'd be doing push-ups in perpetuity: When reporters came to see LaLanne his later years, he liked to play...
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J. Freedom du Lac
| January 24, 2011; 8:21 AM ET |
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