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22 Got junk? One man’s trash is Costco member
Brian Scudamore’s treasure.
BY STEPHANIE E. PONDER
29 Creating a chronicle The desire to leave a legacy or
capture one’s story has never been
so popular.
BY ANITA THOMPSON
31 Memoir made easy Writing your life story sounds
formidable. But here are some tips
for getting started.
BY EVA SHAW
32 Electronicle Using technology opens up the
options for creating, sharing and
displaying your family history.
BY DAVID WIGHT
34 Roots on the Web The Internet can help you trace
your genealogy.
BY PAUL LIMA
35 StoryCorps A simple idea—recording a conversation about anything for 40 minutes—has grown in scope, and
proves that everybody has a story.
BY STEPHANIE E. PONDER
36 Five-course circus Combine Cirque du Soleil and dinner
theater, and you’ll have a good idea
of the zany and delicious entertainment at Teatro ZinZanni.
BY TIM TALEVICH
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STORY
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The choice
ıs ours
Following up on
An Inconvenient
Truth, the former
U.S. vice president writes about potential solutions in Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate
Crisis. Here, Al Gore writes for The Connection
to explain his approach.
COVER/CONTENTS PHOTOGRAPHY OF AL GORE BY CHRIS CRISMAN
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62 Wine and cheese with ease There are no hard-and-fast rules for
pairing wines and cheeses, but a few
tips can take out the guesswork.
BY NATALIE MACLEAN
64 Creative holiday cooking Easy-to-prepare-and-serve hors
d’oeuvres and side dishes, courtesy
of Home Cooking The Costco Way.
BY TIM TALEVICH
66 The king of brandy
Cognac’s vintage lineage can be
traced back several hundred years.
BY FRED MINNICK
69 Days of wine and turkey The varied tastes of a typical
Thanksgiving Day meal mean it’s best
to have a variety of matching wines.
BY ANNETTE ALVAREZ-PETERS
73 Fly away, flu How to battle cold and flu bugs
and stay healthy this winter.
BY ANGELA PIRISI CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
9 Front End
By Ginnie Roeglin and
David W. Fuller
10 Dialogue
Letters from our readers
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13 Fresh Views
Brain food for
the entrepreneur
15 Consumer Connection
By David Horowitz
17 Financial Connection
By Suze Orman
18 Debate
Should we have a
Consumer Financial
Protection Agency?
