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Money Magazine: How to invest your 401(k)

Question: I've got many investing options in my 401(k) -- small caps, large stocks, emerging markets, fixed-income, etc. What would be the ideal portfolio for me considering that I'm 51 and plan to retire at 65? --D.D., Anaheim, Calif.

People.com: PHOTO: Meet Lance Armstrong's Baby

Two-month-old Max Armstrong snoozes through Tour de France trophy ceremony

SI.com: Austin Murphy: Contador a threat to Lance's record; more Tour lessons

What we learned from the 96th Tour de France:

SI.com: Austin Murphy: All not well within Astana after 17th stage

LE GRAND BORNAND, France -- Worst kept secret at this Tour de France: Astana general manager Johan Bruyneel will announce tomorrow that he intends to start a new team next year, backed by American sponsorship and led by Lance Armstrong.

Elite athletes: They're quick, competitive and nearly 40

Aging athletes don't have the agility they had in their youth. Minor injuries accumulate and become major ones. And by the time they hit their mid-30s and 40s, they're considered geriatric -- that's the conventional wisdom.

Robot chalks tweets on Tour de France route

Cycling at the Tour de France has taken a techie turn.

SI.com: The Bonus: Tour de France, cycling a clash of cultures for Americans, Europeans

Alberto Contador is a 26-year-old professional bike racer from Spain who in two seasons has won the Tours of France, Italy and his homeland. It's a feat matched by only four other riders in history, and by last fall Contador's performances had depleted the European press of its supply of superlatives. Then, in March, wearing the yellow leader's jersey one week into the Paris-Nice stage race, he did what even the finest racers are occasionally known to do, but Contador since his rise to prominence had not yet done. During a mountain stage, he cracked.

SI.com: A long history of awkward Tour de France encounters: U.S. vs. Europe

Since the first American cyclist made his way to the European pro circuit in the mid-'70s, enough gaffes, misunderstandings and flashpoints have taken place to keep a U.N. peacekeeping force busy -- from Greg LeMond's spending the Tour de France rest day playing golf, to the conversion of La Taverne Zimmer, the Montmartre bar in which the Tour was hatched at the turn of the century, into a TGI Friday's. Among the lowlights:

People.com: Lance Armstrong Starts Strong in Tour de France Comeback

"Overall I'm happy with my ride," says the cyclist after finishing the first stage of the grueling race

People.com: Lance Armstrong Becomes a Father Again

Little Max Armstrong announces his own birth on dad's Twitter page with a "Wassup, world?"

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