2Hot soup for you! BY LAURA LANGSTON

January 2005

VOLUME 20 • NUMBER 1

DEPARTMENTS
Food & Wine
2 Hot soup for you!

Defense against the season.

by Laura Langston

3 Costco a-go-go
Arts & Entertainment
19 Book Buyer’s Pick:

Pictures of Hollis Woods

20 Book previews
21 Book look
23 The Consumer
Connection

by David Horowitz

24 The Financial
Connection

by Suze Orman

COVER PHOTO:

MELISSA MOSELEY

PHOTO

CONTEST,

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8COVER STORY

You gave us your best shots: 2004 Photo Contest winners

We asked members to point and

click, and they snapped to it. The

eye-popping results are in, and

here are the winners, culled from

more than 22,000 entries sent in

by members all around the world.

What could be better than hot homemade

soup to stave off the chill of winter?

3Costco a-go-go BY MARK E. STRODER

The challenge: Create a menu using

only ingredients from Costco. The result?

Five-star dining.

17Decorating roundup We offer tips on organizing the contents

of your home to fit your lifestyle, plus a

furniture-buying checklist.

22Packing it in BY T. FOSTER JONES

The long and short of being an efficient packer.

SPECIAL SECTION:

FOR YOUR HEALTH

14Aromatherapy might provide some answers; keeping well in Mexico;

cereal makers dig whole grains; is your

doctor overlooking hearing loss; and

fitting hand protection.

INSIDE COSTCO

6Buying Smart: Healthy choices

BY PAT VOLCHOK

A heart-to-heart Q&A: Jim Romanoff, food

editor of Eating Well health magazine, praises

Costco’s variety of nutritious food choices.

12Member Services Update Scoping out the service savings in your

Wallet; news about auto insurance; plus the

scoop on those service tables in the

wareho use.

13Web wonder BY MARK E. STRODER Creating your own Web site gives your small business 24/7 exposure—and Value Web by Affinity can help you set up shop on the Internet at a great value. 22Postcard from paradise BY PAT VOLCHOK There’s nothing like a trip to the sugary white beaches of Tahiti, Bora Bora and Moorea to help make life’s little problems seem far away.

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