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Fights among brothers and sisters are inevitable, but you can make them less frequent

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Among the new devices are a bathroom mirror that allows you to play music and a microwave you can control from your app

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Researchers are taking a closer look at how diet can impact your mood and future cognitive function, and they are finding that it does make a difference

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5 Sizzling Health Care Funds to Consider Now
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The top-performing no-load mutual funds that invest in health care stocks, as measured by one-year returns. If the health care sector can keep riding its current winning streak, these relatively high-momentum funds should continue to shine

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How to find a wine you like at a restaurant: First, know what to say
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Sommeliers offer tips on how to help them help you

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On this day in . . .

• 1848, James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, a discovery that led to the gold rush of '49

• 1908, the first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell

• 1916, in Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional

• 1924, the Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad in honor of the late revolutionary leader (however, it has since been re-named St. Petersburg)

• 1935, Canned beer makes its debut. In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. Ninety-one percent of the drinkers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green light to further production

• 1943, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco

• 1946, the United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission

• 1972, the Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year

• 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada

• 1980, in an action obviously designed as another in a series of very strong reactions to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. officials announce that America is ready to sell military equipment (excluding weapons) to communist China. The surprise statement was part of the U.S. effort to build a closer relationship with the People's Republic of China for use as leverage against possible Soviet aggression

• 1984, the first Apple Macintosh goes on sale

• 1985, the space shuttle Discovery was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the first secret, all-military shuttle mission

• 1989, confessed serial killer Ted Bundy was put to death in Florida's electric chair

• 1995, the FDA approved Olestra, the nation's first zero-calorie artificial fat. ALSO: Specialist Michael New was discharged from the U.S. Army after a court-martial jury convicted him for refusing to wear a UN beret for a peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia

• 2003, the new Department of Homeland Security officially opened and its chief, Tom Ridge, was sworn in. ALSO: A report said the global economic slowdown that began about two years previously had wiped out 20 million jobs, bringing total world unemployment total to 180 million people

• 2004, the United Nations for the fist time commemorated the 60-year anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi, ym"sh, death camps, directly linking its own founding with the end of the Holocaust in some of the strongest language ever. ALSO: After years of denials, Pakistan admitted scientists may have sold nuclear designs to other nations probably "for personal financial gain"

• 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attempt by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to prevent the husband of Terri Schiavo from removing her life support system. Lower court rulings said the severely brain-damaged woman was in a "persistent vegetative state"

• 2007, Democratic-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee dismissed President Bush's plans for a troop buildup in Iraq as "not in the national interest" of the United States

• 2008, congressional leaders announced a deal with the White House on an economic stimulus package that would give most tax filers refunds of $600 to $1,200

• 2011, a suicide bomber blew himself up in Moscow's busiest airport, killing 37 people

• 2013, a federal judge in Chicago sentenced U.S. citizen David Coleman Headley to 35 years in prison for his role in a 2008 terror attack that killed 160 people in Mumbai

• 2017, President Donald Trump moved swiftly to advance the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, signing executive actions to aggressively overhaul America’s energy policy and deal a sharp blow to Barack Obama's legacy on global warming

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