Costco Connection - September 2008

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Wisconsin, home of Carr Valley

CORBIS

I write you today to ask for a correction to an article. Your cheese buyer, Sarah George [Buyer’s Pick, Wine + Cheese Connection, July 2008], mistakenly credited Vermont for the successes of Carr Valley Cheese Company. Carr Valley’s home is in La Valle, Wisconsin and has been for 100 years. They are an artisan cheese maker and local family business with many, many awards nationally and globally. I must say that I never write letters but I am most passionate about the cheese movement in this country. Please make sure they get the credit they deserve.

for the greater clarity and wider field of the new digital mammograms.

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Medicine and technology

As the husband of a two-time breast cancer survivor I appreciated Mr. Horowitz’ [July 2008] article about digital mammograms, but feel the focus was misdirected. While it is true there may be increased expense and anxiety [from additional tests], our experience confirms the benefits of the new technology in achieving what he refers to as “hopefully, more cancers discovered at an early stage.” Indeed, while it is important to have the benefit of earlier x-rays for comparison, my wife’s recurrence would not have been detected in the lymph nodes were it not

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