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Teenager Owes $600,000 in Mortgage Loans After ID Theft {AOL Real Estate}

Oct 17th 2011 3:41PM Nonsense, she doesn't owe a penny - don't you even try to fact check? See any lawyer. If one of those creditor's takes any action other than clearing her credit record, she can sue the pants off them.

Soldier Buys Back Parents' Foreclosed Home (Video) {AOL Real Estate}

Sep 20th 2011 4:00PM a good son, he used his savings to re-purchase his parent's foreclosed home. With luck, when his parent's finances improve or when the house is finally sold, he will get his money back with interest.

Keeping Fit After 70 {That's Fit}

Jun 11th 2011 2:17PM Your housework & gardening amounts to a good daily workout. Not all workouts need to be formal exercises. When I was younger, I took three, six & eighteen mile "strolls" to keep in shape. I am 72 going on 73 (August) and do one mile at 4 mph on a treadmill as well as some upper body exercises with weights. That is sufficient to maintain good condition at my age. I watch my diet and follow my exercise program. So, I can still live an active life. Made three parachute jumps within the past year - first two tandem and the last one solo.

Michigan May Allow Under-10 Crowd to Go Hunting {ParentDish}

May 27th 2011 3:29PM To those trying to educate the "anti-hunting' crowd. It is a waste of time. They cannot understand. I and my six siblings lived in a house where there was always a loaded revolver in my father's desk. He believed that the drawer was locked and that the children could not get to the gun. We were well taught about gun safety and would not touch the gun unless an adult was supervising. However, the #2 pencil box was in the same drawer and we all knew how to "open" that drawer. We took pencils but never touched the gun. The majority of children in gun-ownibg households are well trained. It is those who have guns but hide them from their children and never teach them who have accidents.

Teen Drinking at Home: Helpful or Harmful? {ParentDish}

Mar 9th 2011 7:35AM I grew up in the 1940's. In my neighborhood - Irish, German, Jewish, Italian & Jamaican, every family introduced their children to alcohol as soon as possible. Begining with a sip from mommy or daddy's glass as a toddler to, as a pre-teen, having a jelly glass of beer or wine at dinner on special occassions was the custom. We associated drinking with food and company and no one drank to get drunk. by the time I was a teen-ager, drinking was not associated with any mystery of adulthood. We had fewer drunken teenagers than today where getting drunk seems to be a rite of passage.

Make Filing Your Taxes Less Painful and Less Costly -- Savings Experiment {WalletPop}

Jan 20th 2011 6:51AM I have been preparing and filing my own taxes since I was 14. I tried out TurboTax this year. At 72, I think that I might need assistance in the future. TurboTax was simple to use. My only problem was with IRS. The IRS computer refused to recognize my IRS PIN #. Had to make an in-person visit to IRS to get the problem solved. I wil be using TurboTax from now on.

Travel Myths Debunked {AOL Travel News}

Jan 18th 2011 8:07AM The sleeping gas theory is not true. The problem is there is no safe way to insure that the sleeping gas will work without pumping enough gas into the compartment to risk killing some of the passengers. Also, the dispensing mechanism is relatively large and hard to conceal.

Maternal Ambivalence: Dr. Barbara Almond Discusses the 'Hidden Side of Motherhood' {ParentDish}

Jan 1st 2011 6:22AM There is an old saying that I learned from my mother " I will always love you but that doesn't mean that I will always like you." She had seven children, a husband and numerous relatives that she loved but, at any given time, some of us would be on her "don't like' list. I follow her advice and sererate love from like. It makes sense to me.

Where Should You Mount Your Nav System? {AOL Autos - Translogic}

Dec 5th 2010 8:12PM Personnaly, I mount my GPS at the upper left side of the windshield. This causes the least obstruction of the driver's necessary field of vision. Mounting it on the lower left blocks your vision in making a left turn and can hide either oncoming traffic or a small child crossing the road. As I use a wide angle rear view mirror, mounting the GPS next to the mirror cuts too much of my front view.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer Dances the 'Dougie' with Doug E. Fresh at the 'Soul Train Awards' (VIDEO) {AOL TV}

Nov 29th 2010 12:26PM If you think this funny, you should have seen his performance on the McNeil/Leher Report during Gulf I. He was on an air base in Saudi Arabia and was completely clueless about what was going on. at that time he was called "the Dean of the Pentagon press corps" yet could not even identify a HUMVEE.