Weekly News Quiz

While individual needs vary, older Americans can benefit from exploring new products and services that may meet their financial needs. Apps for auto-savings, micro-investing or debt payoff make personal finance less about willpower and more about default systems, which is something older generations could adopt to simplify their own finances.

She was “the first female broadcaster to host a national news program… [and] hosted All Things Considered for 14 years.”

“The key to learning something new is total commitment. You’ve got to shut out the part of your brain that finds excuses,” Beamon recently told AARP. “It’s like when I was getting ready to take my long jump in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. I’d worked hard, I’d sharpened all my tools, and it was my time to perform well. I won a gold medal that day and set an Olympic record — 8.90 meters (29 feet, 2.5 inches) — that hasn’t been broken yet.”

In the 40 years since Ethan Hawke, 54, made his film debut alongside River Phoenix in the sci-fi adventure Explorers, the Texas native has won acclaim —  and four Academy Award nominations — for his range of creative roles, including actor, screenwriter, director, producer, documentarian and novelist.

In the new movie Blue Moon, his ninth collaboration with innovative filmmaker Richard Linklater, Hawke portrays lyricist Lorenz Hart, who was part of the legendary songwriting team of Rodgers and Hart alongside composer Richard Rodgers.