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EndNotes archive for March 9, 2012

FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012


This 1960s Barbie doll was bought for $30 by Toy Roadshow on Tuesday. The amount would have been higher if the doll hadn't had a broken pinkie finger. 
 (Photos by Kathy Plonka/ / The Spokesman-Review)

Barbie's small-neck-artery problem

The Barbie doll turns 53 today. The reason I know this? I am somehow on the press release list of the Society for Vascular Surgery. The woman who sends out the press releases always makes some interesting connections between vascular surgery and popular culture. So…

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Larkins Lake is nestled below Larkins Peak in the Mallard-Larkins Pioneer Area of the St. Joe National Forest. (Rich Landers)

Lost...and found

Margaret Page, 41, was found alive in a New Mexico national forest. Page had been in the woods for nearly a month. She was found in her sleeping bag – with her cat. She survived on a limited amount of food and water from a…

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Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.