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Food & Wine

2 Bon Appétit
Tastes like chicken
By Anne Desjardins

3 Food for Valentines by Anita Thompson

Arts & Entertainment

3Food for your Valentine BY ANITA THOMPSON Prepare an intimate meal for the one you love this Valentine’s Day with an assist from the newest of Costco’s series of cookbooks.

18A good-night’s sleep BY DR. MEIR KRYGER Learn 13 tips for getting the best out of a night’s sleep from a sleep disorder expert and author of Can’t Sleep, Can’t Stay Awake.

14 Book Buyer’s Pick:
Green Grass, Running Water

15 Book Awards

17 Book previews

4COVER STORY

17 Book look

A meaty company

19 The Consumer
Connection
by David Horowitz

BY STEPHANIE E. PONDER
At age 16, Art Oberto found himself
in charge of the sausage company
his father founded in 1918. Over the
course of a long career, he has crafted
Oberto into one of the largest meat-
snack businesses in the country.

SPECIAL SECTION: TECHNOLOGY UPDATE 7Flash memory cards give you storage options galore for photos, music files and video clips from your digital camera, PDA, Ipod and computer. Also, the new Media Center PC can consolidate all the media functions in your home. Plus get straight on the TV spelling game—HDTV, LCD, DLP—what does it all mean?

10Buying Smart: Travel for a value BY PAT VOLCHOK Costco is applying its successful formula—great value—to the travel industry. Costco Travel offers vacations in some of the world’s most desired locations without breaking your travel budget.

13Real (estate) value BY T. FOSTER JONES Costco’s real estate and mortgage programs make the process of buying and selling a home easy, plus it puts money back in your pocket!

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12Member Services Update What exactly does it mean when an account is “FDIC insured”? We offer a primer. Also, the latest news from ShareBuilder, Costco’s online investing service provider, and a tally sheet of savings from a happy member.

14Costco Book Buyer’s Pick BY DORMAN T. SHINDLER In Green Grass, Running Water, Thomas King details the ups and downs of the lives of a group of Native Americans in Canada. The novel, King says, deals with “a different way of looking at the world.”