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Sending a perfectly-written email? That’s so low-end.

I come bearing great news for my kind of people (horrible typists): Typos are the new status symbol. Garbled spelling, a missed space, improper capitalization — those are all the new and best ways to signal to others that you are powerful and elite. Loading audio narration… The Wall Street…

13 Fees You Should Never Pay — and How to Avoid Them

Ground Picture / Shutterstock.com Like it or not, some fees are unavoidable. But others are excessive, egregious and just plain obnoxious. You certainly don’t have to like them — and you don’t have to pay them either. Here’s a look at fees you should never need to pay. 1. Coin…

10 Things You Should Always Keep in Your Medicine Cabinet

You wake up at 2 a.m. with a throbbing headache, or you slice your finger chopping onions for dinner. You rush to the bathroom, open the cabinet, and find nothing but expired cough syrup from three years ago and a single, crusty bandage. We’ve all been there. But scrambling for…

Tips to catch your flight as TSA lines stretched for hours at some US airports

Flying during a partial government shutdown is like playing a game of TSA line roulette.A shortage of security agents at Houston’s Hobby Airport and New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport led to extraordinary security queues that stretched up to three hours on Sunday. The general line in Houston snaked into…