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If you’re finding it hard to hear what your companions are saying in a restaurant or at a party, it’s time to get your hearing checked. -
Most nightmares are not a ratio, but mine was last night. The ratio 11 to 1 kept floating across my frontal lobe. Eleven to one. Eleven to one in all different sizes and typefaces — actually hovering in my mind, mocking me. -
El puertorriqueño Carlos Beltrán, de 38 años, no tiene el carisma de otros peloteros boricuas que se han destacado en las grandes ligas como Roberto Clemente, Sandy y Roberto Alomar, Bernie Williams, Yadier Molina, Carlos Delgado, Juan "Igor" González o Carlos Baerga, por citar a algunos, pero es… -
Shoe shopping is my favorite aerobic sport: Stand up. Sit down. Twirl and strut at the mirror. Sprint from one display table to another, racing along the sales rack to snatch that rare size-5 find before the competition can their hands on it. I’m telling you, it’s a major workout! -
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) increases access to health insurance coverage, establishes a minimum benefit package, makes coverage more affordable, and eliminates most cost sharing for recommended preventive services. Now it’s time to empower consumers to take advantage of these improvements. One… -
Frank Sinatra would have turned 100 on Dec. 12 of this year, but even if you played three of his recordings every day from now till then, you wouldn’t come close to exhausting his songbook: The best estimates suggest the Chairman of the Board recorded about 1,000 different songs in the studio. -
More than one-third of workers say they won’t retire until after age 65, about three times the number saying so in the early 1990s. -
As we pedaled along, it was as if we shared a bike path with the whole city. -
For decades, the three-legged stool was the metaphor for funding retirement: Social Security, pensions and savings/investments. Because of the recession and drop in pensions, the stool started to shake. That hasn’t escaped the notice of our adult children as they watch parents head into retirement. -
Hoy escribo con el corazón en la mano, para contarles sobre la gran importancia de obtener una segunda opinión cuando se trata de alguna enfermedad catastrófica. Y les quiero contar sobre María*, una joven cercana a mí.