APRIL 2009 • Vol. 24 • No. 4
A lifestyle magazine for Costco members
By Marc Saltzman
COVER STORY
DEPARTMENTS
CINDY GOLD
7 Dialogue
Letters from our readers
9 Fresh Views
Brain food for the entrepreneur
11 Consumer Connection
By David Horowitz
13 Tech Connection
INSIDE COSTCO
Michael J. Fox and
wife Tracy Pollan
5 Front End
By Ginnie Roeglin and David W. Fuller
14 Debate
Should we remove the income
tax on unemployment
insurance benefits?
52 Buying Smart: Kirkland
Signature™ Tuna
Bigger cans, better fish—
what’s the catch?
BY PAT VOLCHOK
ALSO
54 What’s New
58 Special Events
59 Costco Services Update
Not even a
debilitating
illness can stop
Michael J. Fox
from being
optimistic and
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60 Member Connection
Odds and ends from Costco members
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50 News from the warehouse
Pilot “Sully” Sullenberger
gets a hero’s welcome at Costco.
BY JAMIE SCHLIEPER
51 Land and sea yachts
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39 Spruce up
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Tips for keeping your engine
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battery changes, revving up
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your RV and automotive
buyer’s picks.
17 Silver lining
Economic downturns can
sometimes bring entrepre-
neurial opportunities.
BYRICHSLOAN
18 Bookmaker,
makemeabook
Print on demand might just
be the budding author”s
best friend.
BYPAUL LIMA
27 Book Pick: Long Lost
Harlan Coben bringsback a
favorite character inthis
month”s Book Pick.
BYSHANAMCNALLY
PHOTODISC
MR. POTATO HEAD © 2008 HASBRO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
COP YRIGHT © DISNE Y/PIXAR.
Imagination
at work
49
COVER PHOTO: BEN BAKER/REDUX
29 Turning over a green leaf
Priddy Books’ Organic Baby
book series practices what
it teaches.
BY HOPE KATZ GIBBS
31 Book Buyers’ Picks
The book-buying staff selects
their top three reads for April.
49 Disney mania!
You’ve just been shrunk
to the size of a toy.
You must be
at Disneyland.
BY STEPHANIE E.
PONDER
