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Features

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Volunteers driven to help others

Several years ago, Barbara Greenfeld’s aging mother needed someone to drive her to doctor appointments while Greenfeld worked full time in enrollment services at Howard Community College. Greenfeld discovered Neighbor Ride, a Columbia-based...

Born to be a lifelong showgirl

Calvin Coolidge was president of the United States when Dorothy Dale Kloss discovered her passion for dance in 1926 at the age of 3. Now 89 and still enjoying a career as a dancer, singer and all-round stage performer, Kloss is nowhere near ready to...

Fitness & Health

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Forgetfulness can have multiple causes

Worried that you’re getting more forgetful as you age? Ironically, worry itself can trigger memory slips. It might take a conversation with your doctor to pinpoint the cause of your memory lapses — especially if the change is sudden or...

Breast cancer radiation may harm hearts

Women treated with radiation for breast cancer are more likely to develop heart problems later, even with the lower doses used today, new research suggests. The risk comes from any amount of radiation, starts five years after treatment, and lasts...

Law & Money

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Startup helps DIY investors buy cheaply

Think you can tell the difference between a fad and a trend with staying power? Look around, and you might come up with some decent investing ideas. If you’ve noticed that lots of your friends are using tablet computers instead of PCs, it...

How to return (wisely) to the stock market

How you re-enter the stock market matters, especially if you’ve taken a hiatus. Even if you’re anxious to get back in the game, you’ll want to buy into stocks gradually.

Leisure & Travel

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Airlines will schlep your bags for a price

United Airlines is emulating rival American in featuring a baggage-delivery service at your arrival airport. Although you have to get your bags to the departure airport and check them by yourself, when you arrive at your destination airport, you...

Celebrate the 30th Balloon & Wine Festival

Tasty wines and foods, hot air balloon flights at dawn, evening picnicking beneath the towering illuminated orbs, top entertainment in concert, and an FMX freestyle motocross show will fill the 30th Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Festival,...

Arts & Style

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KC and the Sunshine Band still shaking

When KC and the Sunshine Band released iconic dance hit "Get Down Tonight" in 1975, it was an instant success. Despite many changes in mainstream music, the band's hits have remained popular over the years. Video game series Dance...

Melissa Etheridge rocks again at Wolf Trap

Singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge may have won two Grammy Awards, been honored by Washington’s Women in the Arts Museum last year and garnered a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame in 2011. But when she was a child in Leavenworth, Kan., a...

Careers & Volunteers

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New insurance options for retired workers

As employers continue to drop retirees from group health plans, new alternatives are emerging that may ease their pain. A growing number of employers are making cash contributions to individual accounts that help retired workers pay for insurance...

The Peace Corps pursues volunteers 50+

In 2008, Jerilyn Ray-Shelley, 65, went to Thailand to visit her daughter, who was there as a volunteer with the Peace Corps. The experience rekindled her nearly 40-year-old desire to become a Peace Corps volunteer herself. The organization,...

New Car Reviews

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The new Lexus RX-350 SUV

Lexus has been able to justify its often hefty price tags over the past two decades by creating high quality automobiles, earning a reputation as a maker of reliable and sophisticated luxury vehicles.  J.D.

There’s No Refusin’ the New Ford Fusion

2013 Ford Fusion SE The Ford Motor Company would probably hate this, but if you pried the Ford logo, with its old-timey, swirling lettering, off their new Fusion SE, and replaced it with the logo from a more upscale auto, there’s a chance nobody...

Housing Options

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New technology enables aging in place

From wireless monitoring systems to devices that call for emergency response, technology that helps older adults live at home is growing by leaps and bounds. Below are five devices that have recently gone on the market. They not only allow people to...

The retirement community of the future

With retirees increasingly worrying about outliving their savings, Friendship Retirement Community is looking to address the concern with the assistance of architecture students. The Roanoke retirement community that currently is home to nearly 900...

Reader Submissions

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Unexpected arrival of old age

               Here’s a big question. When does old age begin? Will thirty years do it? Is being 50 and holder of an AARP card with senior discounts enough?  Both would...

Montreal Winter

An old man, bundled against the snowy February blasts, peers into a familiar store window on Rue St. Paul in Old Montreal, Quebec. The contents of the window are unchanged from the time he passed it a month ago, yet he knows that he himself has aged...