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Time to Rebalance Your Portfolio 02/01/2016 07:00pm • Was one of your New Year's resolutions to manage your finances better in 2016? Perhaps your list included saving more, spending less, paying off credit cards and student loan debt. Here's another important task to add to your financial health to-do list: rebalance your portfolio. Don't worry -- it's Mommy, am I fat? 02/01/2016 07:00am • What kind of impact is the world's obsession with weight and physical appearance having on our children? At what age do you believe children are becoming conscious of appearance and developing attitudes regarding what is and is not acceptable? At what age do you believe children should become concer 11 Hot Investing Ideas for Millennials 01/31/2016 07:00pm • Millennials make up the largest generation in U.S. history, so companies are paying lots of attention as they enter their peak spending years. Stocks over the next two decades will likely rise and fall from the spending power of the millennial generation, so you might as well harness the power of th Pregnancy and the Heart: a Difficult Pregnancy May Warn of Future Cardiovascular Risk 01/31/2016 07:00pm • Cardiovascular diseases -- heart disease and stroke -- claim the lives of 1 out every 3 women, but many aren't aware of their risk. A survey conducted by the American Heart Association in 2012 discovered that only about half of women realize that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, and less The Least Valuable Player of Every NFL Team in 2015 01/30/2016 10:10am • The following information is provided by Graphiq and pointafter.com   Every year, the NFL's 32 teams hold a fancy end-of-season banquet to gather all their players one last time as a collective unit. Food is eaten, drinks are consumed and awards are handed out to commemorat Snow on plants; orchid auction, hydrangea care 01/29/2016 05:03am • WASHINGTON — Germaine in Greenbelt writes: “I have an oakleaf hydrangea that was damaged last year because a well-meaning neighbor shoveled snow onto it and broke one of its branches. I now do my own shoveling, and won’t put any more snow on my shrubs than Mother Nature already has, but that w Michael Bay explores Benghazi attack in action film '13 Hours' 01/29/2016 02:16am • WASHINGTON -- It's become one of the biggest political footballs of the past four years, pitting Congressional Republicans against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a controversy that has undoubtedly shaped our political conversation heading into this weekend's Iowa Caucuses. B How volunteering can save you money 01/28/2016 04:00pm • If you're like many of us, your New Year's resolutions might look something like this: get healthy, lose weight, save money, travel more, find a new job or make new friends. In fact, there's one way you can accomplish many of these things, often at once: by volunteering. Volunteering your time, w Super Bowl Sunday promises a blitz on chicken wings 01/28/2016 11:56am • WASHINGTON — Super Bowl Sunday is the second-biggest day for eating in the U.S., behind Thanksgiving, and the National Chicken Council, in Washington, says Americans will eat 1.3 billion chicken wings during this year's big game — about 37.5 million more than were consumed during last year's ga Burmese dessert pop-up introduces healthy snack to D.C. 01/28/2016 01:43am • WASHINGTON — A new pop-up is giving locals a taste of an exotic treat from abroad. On Saturday, Jan. 30, the concept Toli Moli will showcase the Southeast Asian dessert falooda at EatsPlace in Northwest D.C. In Burma and other parts of Southeast Asia, Toli Moli means “a little bit of this From the Archives: First U.S. Space-Flight Disaster Stuns Nation 01/27/2016 07:00pm • This article originally appeared in the Feb. 10, 1986, of U.S. News & World Report. America's space program is probably destined for even bolder ventures despite the awful blast that turned Challenger into a thunderbolt of splintered metal. What was to be the most glorious year yet in space c 8 ETFs for Investors Who Love Value 01/27/2016 07:00pm • Slow and steady wins the race.There's nothing sexy about value investing. Put a biotech doubler next to a consumer staples play with a low price-to-earnings ratio, and we all know which will draw headlines. Value investing -- looking for "underappreciated" stocks based on metrics like P/E or dividen 7 nutrition facts about potatoes you didn't know 01/27/2016 04:00pm • Patient: "I don't eat potatoes." Me: "Really, why?" Patient: "They are fattening." Me: "Hmm. How are you eating them?" And so goes the all-too-common conversation I have in my office about potatoes -- white potatoes, that is. Truth is, potatoes (yes, even white ones) are quite nutritious Why you should eat pulses 01/27/2016 10:30am • It's official. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has formally declared that 2016 is the "International Year of Pulses." In other words, the UN is on a global mission to get us to eat more pulses. So the million dollar question is, what the heck is a pulse? Pulses are par How much snow from D.C. blizzard could fit in Washington Monument? 01/27/2016 06:01am • WASHINGTON — Nearly 20 inches of snow blanketed the nation's capital over the weekend. While inches and feet are the go-to method for measuring snowfall accumulation, there is another tool — D.C. monuments and memorials. According to the National Park Service "Math Rangers," crews are m