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EndNotes archive for Oct. 2, 2012

TUESDAY, OCT. 2, 2012


A waitress totes some bottles of beer to patrons during a busy evening at a restaurant in China. Major brewers are showing a keen interest in the growing Chinese market.
 (Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)

Keep the lid on! Most teens are.

Many of us aging baby boomers have a habit of comparing notes about how much they drank and drove in high school and college, and we wonder how we ever survived. In my first job in Fort Lauderdale, we'd buy six packs on Friday afternoons…

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Inked forever with love 

The children and grandchildren of their elders want the stories told and remembered - and so the descendents carry a permanent reminder of these stories of horror and redemption: tattoos. Not just any tattoo, but the same number as their elders were inked with by…

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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.