- Fish Dinner
- Job Searching?
- Mobile Polling
- Aging in China
Photo by Bob Rowan; Progressive Image/CORBIS
- Fish Dinner
- Job Searching?
- Mobile Polling
- Aging in China
Photo by David Evans/National Geographic/Getty Images
BULLETIN BEATS
Who Will Win the Election?
A researcher has developed 13 keys that provide a context for the presidential campaign and an early indicator of the results. Take a look at Key 1 and tell us what you think.
Learning From the Family Next Door
What could be cozier, sweeter or more summery than watching wonderful kids play with wonderful dogs, eat ice cream and swim to guitar music on a night in July.
Credit Promises
Private Plans
Secondhand Smoke
Keeping Cool
Right for You
Second Spouse
Retirement
Saving Gas
MULTIMEDIA SPECIALS
THEY MADE HISTORY
JULY 18, 1969
Mary Jo Kopechne, former secretary to the late Robert Kennedy, dies when a car driven by his brother Ted, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, plunges into Nantucket Sound.
1947: Florence Blanchfield becomes the first woman to hold permanent rank in the U.S. military.
64: Rome burns. But Emperor Nero doesn’t fiddle: The instrument wouldn’t be invented yet for centuries.
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
BRAIN AEROBICS
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CLIMATE CHANGE HURTS SENIORS MOST
Think it's hot now? The heat waves—and higher health risks that come with them—have only begun.
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GM HALTS DIVIDEND, ADDS LAYOFFS
The automaker aims to cut employment costs of salaried workers by 20 percent or $1.5 billion in 2009.
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CONGRESS RESURRECTS MEDICARE BILL
Almost as fast as President Bush announced his veto, Congress overrode it.
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UNEMPLOYMENT OFFSET LAWS LINGER
Four states still have rules that could cut older workers' jobless benefits in half.
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THE ISSUE OF MCCAIN'S AGE: TAKE 4,595
OK, he's 'old.' So? Smarter people usually continue to excel well past retirement, experts say.
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DAYS OF RIDING THE WAVE ARE OVER
Bear market makes boomers wary as retirement draws near.
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WHO GOES FIRST?
As more people face relocating, career couples fight over who's the 'trailing spouse.'
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THIS BUD'S FOR WHO?
With its sale to a Belgian company, Anheuser-Busch's dynasty nears a close.
NEWSMAKER
Hubert Pryor Dead at 92
Early editor of AARP magazine grew circulation from 700,000 to 7 million. More>>
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LATE NIGHT HUMOR
"They are playing T-ball on the lawn of the White House. George Bush and the Vice President and Condoleezza, all the folks down there playing T-ball. Beautiful summer day playing T-ball. Let's see, bank failures all over the United States. Record oil prices. A war with no end in sight. Well sure, let's play some T-ball."—David Letterman
