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Recession imagery captured in exhibit

Hardship, strife in D.C. caught in lens

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009

An empty office. An abandoned building. A sign that says, "I want what we had." These images from the recession have been captured in a new photography exhibit, "Framing the Economic Downturn," presented by the Washington Project for the Arts. It opens Wednesday at Gallery O/H on H Street Northeast and runs through Dec. 12.

Peace Corps' popularity jumps

Economy may play key role

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009

The Peace Corps, the volunteer program that emerged from President Kennedy's New Frontier in 1961 to promote international development and good will, is seeing a record number of applications.

New wave of dolls delivers positive messages

Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009

A half-century of criticism leveled at Barbie's sexy image has left a spot on the shelves for companies that have created dolls just a little more modestly dressed and with a girl-power message that trumps even Barbie's NASA flight suit.

McMoms answer fast-food critics

Embattled McDonald's' trusted ambassadors

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009

Listen to your mother. Or, at least, to someone's mother. That's the rationale behind McDonald's Corp.'s Moms Quality Correspondents program.

Unproven swine flu products for sale

Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009

Ultraviolet lights that destroy the H1N1 virus. Herbal sprays that disrupt molecules. Vitamins to superboost immunity. Even a $580 men's suit from Japan that is claimed to cut the chance of contracting the deadly virus by 40 percent because of a combination of titanium dioxide and the sun's UV rays.

Giving admissions essays the old college try

Share personal experiences, avoid complaining

Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009

For today's highly competitive high schoolers, narrowing down considerable achievements and experiences to one tale for college admissions essays is tricky.

Family sitcom making a comeback

Reassuring genre returns in uncertain times

Friday, Oct. 23, 2009

Singles sitting around navel gazing? That's so 1990s. After more than a decade of self-involved urban tribes on television's sitcoms, there is a new genre this fall. Make that an old genre with a new twist — the family sitcom.

Washington attracts the young and rich

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009

The greater D.C. area now leads the nation proportionally in young and wealthy residents - and can expect many more, thanks to a little help from a binge in anti-recession federal spending.

Pumpkin shortage threatens Halloween fun

Farmers patching up pickings

Monday, Oct. 12, 2009

When children leave Cox Farms and other pumpkin patches across the nation this fall, they may go home with a gourd instead of the traditional orange pumpkin.