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Steve McQueen's 'Bullitt' car comes to National Mall 04/18/2018 12:15am • WASHINGTON — Steve McQueen drove it in one of Hollywood's greatest chase sequences. This week, the original 1968 Mustang from the action flick "Bullitt" (1968) is on display on the National Mall marking National Mustang Day on Tuesday and staying on display through Sunday as part of a weekl Barbara Bush brought plainspoken, grandmotherly style to DC 04/17/2018 08:49pm • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: '2078f23f-3e1b-4434-8147-1265c1a7e059' }).render("35661535f8e75d1f");}); HOUSTON (AP) — Barbara Bush didn't he Learning the Lingo: Decoding Your Cardiologist 04/17/2018 08:00pm • This may be a relatable experience for you: nodding along to what your doctor says but not really understanding what's going on. You and your doctor use different terms and phrases to describe the same thing. Cardiologists have been through more than a decade of medical training, and this language 15 Ways Occupational Therapy Can Help You 04/17/2018 08:00pm • Occupation is more than vocation.It's true -- occupational therapists help people thrive on the job after an injury or when dealing with a chronic health condition or disability. But OTs work with everyone from infants to seniors, in all sorts of settings, as they strive to master or maintain crucia Report: DC public schools failed on residency requirement, missed on thousands in tuition 04/17/2018 06:15pm • WASHINGTON — A report finds that D.C. schools have failed to properly check the residency of all students entering public and charter schools, and have failed to collect full tuition from nearly all nonresident students. The 28-page report from D.C. Inspector General Daniel Lucas released Tues 4 Mistakes IRA Investors Can't Afford 04/16/2018 08:00pm • Individual retirement accounts have been the ugly duckling of investments. No longer. IRAs now account for more than $8.2 trillion of American's retirement assets. More than 42 million households count on IRA's to help fund their retirement. IRAs started off simple in 1974, but like our tax code ha George and Barbara Bush, a 'storybook' 73-year marriage 04/16/2018 04:27pm • HOUSTON (AP) — They met at a Christmas dance. She was 17. He was 18. Two years later they were married. Now 73 years later, they are the longest-married couple in presidential history. "George Bush knows how I feel," Barbara Bush has said. "He is the hero... He is my hero." With her forme Watch: Smithsonian National Zoo welcomes baby gorilla 04/16/2018 12:38pm • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: 'c519e746-c35c-464e-a3ad-4e6bde1df66d' }).render("1561536903c577b");}); WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian National Z Granddaughter: Barbara Bush is 'a fighter,' in good spirits 04/16/2018 11:06am • HOUSTON (AP) — Former first lady Barbara Bush, who was reported in "failing health" over the weekend, is in "great spirits" and the family is grateful for "everybody's prayers and thoughts," her granddaughter said Monday. Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath said in a news release Sunday that How to Get Into Top Medical Schools 04/15/2018 08:00pm • At many of the nation's most prestigious medical schools, it is extraordinarily difficult to get accepted. At both Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine, less than 4 percent of applicants are admitted. To receive an acceptance letter at a med school that is rated highly Having to Home-School Your Kids About Money 04/15/2018 08:00pm • America's schools aren't making the grade, if you ask the Council for Economic Education. The organization's mission is to help teach personal finance and economics to students from kindergarten through 12th grade. And part of its aim is to officially add financial education to state-required curric How to Write a Supplemental Essay for College Applications 04/15/2018 08:00pm • Prospective students are usually aware that they'll have to write an essay as part of the college application process. But they might not know some schools will ask for additional essays. These writing supplements are usually shorter than the main college essay, but they're no less important, exper 'Does She Know Her Real Mom?' The Complexities of Open Adoption 04/15/2018 08:00pm • When I tell people that we have an open adoption with my daughter's biological family, they tend to widen their eyes. Sometimes people ask in a hesitant voice, "So, does she know who her real mom is?" There is so much to unpack in that one question! I usually smile and start with, "Well, I am her m Teens learn about healthy dating at Choose Respect conference 04/15/2018 07:26pm • ROCKVILLE, Md.— Hundreds of students and parents gathered in Rockville, Maryland, Sunday to talk about healthy relationships and learn different ways to prevent teen dating violence at the Choose Respect conference at Richard Montgomery High School. “After just nine years doing this conferenc Md. man recorded kids in his bathroom, charged with production of child porn 04/14/2018 01:21am • WASHINGTON — A Chevy Chase, Maryland, man is charged with production of child pornography after police found evidence that he was secretly recording kids using his bathroom, prosecutors said. Jonathan Oldale, 54, was arrested Friday after an extensive investigation that started with the discove