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  Non-Traded REITs – Warning, Danger Ahead

  By Allan Roth, January 12, 2015 11:30 AM

  Are you looking for income? One solution often pitched is private and non-traded REITs (real estate investment trusts). REITs raise money to buy income-producing real estate. In this low-yield environment, they are touted as having high yields and no market risk, and as alternatives to bonds.
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  Weak Flu Shot Adds to Woes for Those 65-Plus

  By Candy Sagon, January 09, 2015 04:49 PM

  It's already a bad flu season for those age 65-plus and now there's more bad news: This season's flu shot will only cut your chances of getting sick by 23 percent, compared to the more typical 60 percent in previous years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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  Infecciones urinarias, ¿qué tienes que saber?

  By Zulay Ortiz, January 09, 2015 04:14 PM

  ¿Tienes escalofríos y dolor o molestia al orinar? Podría ser una infección urinaria y si eres mujer el riesgo es mayor. Pero ¡cuidado!, muchas veces las personas mayores son sometidas a análisis de orina innecesarios y terminan siendo medicados, según reportes de Cómo Elegir Sabiamente.
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  Actresses Need Roles, Not Russell Crowe’s Carping

  By Lorrie Lynch, January 09, 2015 01:57 PM

  Russell Crowe, no longer a young man at nearly 51, thinks women around his age should just get over themselves and even at “40, 45, 48” be content to move into their dotage on screen. Tell that to gorgeous new Bond “girl” Monica Belluci, who at 50 will star with four-years-younger Daniel Craig in…
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  Rod Taylor: The Aussie Actor Who Hit It Big in ‘The Birds’

  By Patrick Kiger, January 09, 2015 01:24 PM

  You might remember Rod Taylor as Mitch Brenner, the handsome, stolid lawyer who, despite being something of a mama’s boy, summons up the courage and presence of mind to repeatedly rescue young socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) from flocks of inexplicably murderous avians in Alfred…
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  11 Things We Didn't Know Last Week

  By Steve Mencher, January 07, 2015 04:43 PM

  News, discoveries and ... fun
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  Internet Food Searches Go Bananas in 2014

  By Candy Sagon, January 07, 2015 03:08 PM

  When it comes to the trillions of Internet searches for health, diet and food in 2014, Americans evidently went bananas.
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  7 predicciones para Latinoamérica y el mundo en 2015

  By Álvaro Valderrama, January 07, 2015 11:47 AM

  “ Año nuevo, vida nueva, más alegres los días serán…”
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  Wanted: Members for My 'Not-Ready-for-Botox' Club

  By Lois Joy Johnson, January 06, 2015 06:22 PM

  I’m launching a new support group for 2015: a clan of women who will resist the urge to freeze and fill every nook and cranny with a syringe of neurotoxin or filler. Want in? If nothing else, it’ll save you some serious coin.
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  El Rey Elvis Presley, genial y contradictorio

  By Ernesto Lechner, January 06, 2015 03:49 PM

  Ser un pionero de la música popular no fue nada fácil para Elvis Presley. Desde el comienzo de su carrera, su motivación principal fue un amor desmedido hacia las canciones de sus artistas favoritos, blancos y negros. Y cuando la gente no entendía su flamante estilo rocanrolero, Elvis sufría.…