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...level, Morgan Spurlock's 2004 Super Size Me is an incisive look at American appetites, health and consumerism. On another, it's just a brainy Fear Factor episode. Spurlock spends 30 days eating nothing but McDonald's. He gets fat, he gets ill, he vomits copiously. Documentarian, schmockumentarian: any man who will hurl in the pursuit of truth has the goods to make an excellent reality show...
...live for decades longer, and--like other boomers--you may find retirement boring. Maybe you'll surprise yourself: buy a horse, scale mountains, collect rare butterflies--all pursuits that require money in addition to what you'll need just to live. Not only that, if you do fall seriously ill, you'll want the best medical care you can afford. Still, you are absolutely right to shun probate in California: it costs your heirs a bundle. But if you leave your partner your house and money in a will, probate is just what you'll get, say California attorneys. Michael...
Head counselor: Don Imus Campers: Critically ill children can romp at the radio cowboy's Imus Ranch in northern New Mexico...
...intense can that competition become? Deborah--not her real name--a Minneapolis, Minn., health-care aide who preferred not to be identified to protect family members' feelings, had always been favored over her elder sister, she says, as the daughter who behaved best. When her parents became ill, she sold her house and moved with her husband and their kids into Mom and Dad's home to care for them. As Mom's dementia worsened, she often refused to take her pills. When Deborah insisted, Mom whined, "Deborah's being mean to me." No one in the family took...
During their mother's last hospitalization, Deborah was tending to her acutely ill father, so her elder sister became the hospital's main family contact. When a nurse called her sister at 2 a.m. to say their mother was fading fast, Deborah's sister did nothing. Deborah had hoped to be with her mother at the end, perhaps to say a few last words. "My sister took that chance away from me," Deborah says, "and because of her, my mother died alone. I will never forgive her for that...