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Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moring

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High school teacher Allyson Moring was diagnosed to have massive systemic infection and doctors were pessimistic about her chances of survival. Miraculously, a tape recording of Christmas carols sang by her students helped in Allyson's eventual recovery.

Author: Hurt, Henry
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1995
Health aspects, Evaluation, Music therapy, Carols, Carols (Songs)

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The boy who never came home

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The abduction of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling by an armed man in St Joseph, MN, on October 22 1989 is described, together with the subsequent police investigation, a profile of the abductor, and the views of Jacob's parents, Patty and Jerry Wetterling.

Author: Hurt, Henry
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1999
Crimes against, Kidnapping, Abduction, Missing children, Wetterling, Jacob

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Red River rising

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Details of the courage and compassion shown by residents to each other in the flooding of the Red River is presented. The Red River is at the border of North Dakota and Minnesota and the rise in the river's water level comes during the winter thaw.

Author: Hurt, Henry
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1998
Social aspects, Natural disasters, Floods, Search and rescue operations, Red River (Southwestern United States)

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