Andy Warhol's Second Act, Your Brain on Music and 50 Years of Hating to Cook

What's going to affect the stock market more--the financial reform bill just signed into law, or the first wave of an estimated 80 million baby boomers turning 65 next year? According to USA Today, here's the crucial question: "If boomers follow the usual pattern of shifting their portfolio mix toward income-generating investments--bank CDs, bonds and dividend-paying stocks--will the stock market's long dry spell drag on?"

So the investment firm you work for suddenly shuts down your division and you're out of a job. What to do? You could print up a few hundred resumes and hit the streets, or follow a lifelong dream to launch a music festival.

The sweet smell taste of success: a North Carolina couple turns a passion for chocolate into a thriving new career.

Planning on reinventing yourself? Five ways to do it right.

A growing number of men are out-running the mid-life blues, literally, by training for marathons.

Andy Warhol turned tomato soup cans into icons and gave us each 15 minutes to be famous. Did the avant-garde artist then rest on his laurels? Hardly. A Brooklyn exhibit of paintings shows just how productive Warhol was in his second act.

Impressionist master Pierre-August Renoir, who created more than 4,000 (!) canvases during his lifetime, was no slouch in the second act department, either.

Those scientists have been busy--turns out meditation is good for your memory.

And so is playing (and learning how to play) a musical instrument.

Are you more cerebral than musical? An Oregon hospital is teaching a class in brain gymnastics.

And in the computer brain, the newest memory breakthrough has to do with a tree protein. Seriously sci-fi.

Happy 50th birthday to The I Hate to Cook Book, which shocked the food world with its saucy, sassy title, then went on to sell more than 3 million copies, proving author Peg Bracken was hardly alone in her sentiment.