Reader's Digest 1993 - Abstracts

Reader's Digest 1993
TitleSubjectAuthors
98.6 - and falling. (normal body temperature) (News From the World of Medicine)General interestLawrence K. Altman
A banana a day. (potassium-rich foods)General interest 
A bold step to save Russia. (replacing the Russian ruble)General interestJudy Shelton
A common thread. (the joy of sewing)General interestBarbara Crafton
A continent's slow suicide.General interest 
Advice to a young wife from an old mistress.General interestMichael Drury
A father's legacy. (a doctor teaches his son more than the art of healing)General interestRichard Selzer
Against the raging river. (surviving a fall to the river)General interestRichard Shears
All God's creatures. (Kuwait Zoological Gardens' animals)General interestNathan M. Adams
Alzheimer's update. (Alzheimer's disease)General interestSandy Rovner
A Mason-Dixon memory. (Mason-Dixon line)General interestClifton Davis
America's new merchants of death. (US tobacco companies) (Special Report)General interestWilliam Ecenbarger
Anatomy of a riot. (riot spurred by media sensationalism)General interestWilliam Tucker
And they say Americans can't compete. (United States Steel's Geneva Works plant in Provo, Utah) (includes related article)General interestEugene H. Methvin
An enduring game of catch.General interestBob Morris
Another kind of sex ed. (sex education)General interestCarol A. Sheehan
Antibiotics and the O.R. (operating room) (News From The World Of Medicine)General interest 
A pearl of great value. (students and teachers)General interestMarcia Evans
A place in my heart. (a cherished lake cottage)General interestFred Bauer
"A proper engine for the soul." (the human body)General interestMarc McCutcheon
Are you sure you're covered? (knowing insurance coverages)General interestWilliam Giese
A second chance. (parenting)General interestRichard M. Cohen
Aspirin: curbs four cancers? (News from the World of Medicine)General interest 
A stranger's gift of life. (undergoing a heart transplant)General interestDouglas Whynott
A tale of two widows.General interestDavid Freed
A ticket to better schools. (Milwaukee Parental Choice)(includes related article)General interestJohn O. Norquist
Avoid made-up auto maintenance.General interestRichard J. Newman, Steven D. Kaye
Bad news for women who smoke.General interestLeslie Laurence
Be shrewd about food. (quiz on eating habits)General interestPatricia Long
Bob Hurley's home court advantage. (inner-city basketball coach)General interestJohn G. Hubbell
Buyer beware: avoid these rip-offs.General interestMichael Winkleman
Caffeine-withdrawal syndrome?General interest 
Can this man bring peace to the Holy Land? (Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin)General interestRowland Evans, Robert Novak
Capsized!General interestJames Nalepka, Steven Callahan
Change of heart? maybe not. (an alternative to heart transplant)General interestSandra Blakeslee
Charlie Two-Shoes and the American dream. (Chinese youngster)General interestDavid Perlmutt
Child lost in the desert. (Drama in Real Life)General interestDonna Elizabeth Boetig
China's bloodiest secret. (Communists perpetrte party supremacy through cannibalism)General interestFergus M. Bordewich
Closing in on a killer. (cystic fibrosis) (News from the World of Medicine)General interestGeoffrey Cowley
Confessions of a tax fraud.General interestW.D. Ehrhart
Confessions of a totally cool mom.General interestNancy Kennedy
Cow's milk and diabetes. (juvenile diabetes) (News From the World of Medicine)General interestWarren E. Leary
Crime and punishment (U.S.A.).General interest 
Crime & punishment (U.S.A.). (a compilation of injustices and legal loopholes)General interestJoe Dirck, David McLemore, Mike Levine
Dad and the revenooers.General interestMartin J. Mirical
Design a diet that works for you.General interestLinda Rao, Lisa Delaney
Dial-a-patient. (telephone house calls) (News From the World of Medicine)General interest 
Divorce and kids: the evidence is in.General interestBarbara Dafoe Whitehead
Does brain exercise work?General interestGina Kolata
Does smoking hurt your eyes? (News From The World Of Medicine)General interest 
Don't let these happen to your child.General interestRobert C. Yeager
Don't let the singing stop. (family interaction)General interestKathleen Cushman
Ears looking at you. (hearing loss among men and women) (News From the World of Medicine)General interestJudy Ismach
Ear ye, ear ye. (regeneration of damaged sensory hair cells in inner ear) (News from the World of Medicine)General interest 
Easy ways to protect your home.General interestRoss R. Olney
Eat more weigh less. (Life Choice program for reducing heart risks)General interestDean Ornish
Follow these rules to ... make your New Year's resolutions stick.General interestEdwin Kiester Jr., Sally Valente Kiester
For Felicity. (coping with a miscarriage)General interestChristine Allison
For the children. (excerpt)(a high school principal gives hope to inner city students)General interestMadeline Cartwright, Michael D'Orso
Four minutes that get you hired. (making the right impression when job hunting)General interestConnie Brown Glaser, Barbara Steinberg Smalley
Freedom's new ring. (cellular phones)General interestBen J. Wattenberg
From crabtown to pig's eye. (quiz on state capitals)General interestJim Collins
From one small kindness. (Verlyn Roskam's contributions)General interestWayne Kalyn
Gene Hackman's winning wave. (American film actor)General interestJohn Culhane
Getting a better job in changing times.General interestDonna Brown Hogarty
Give yourself the winning edge. (ways to succeed)General interestSusan Chazin
God save the Queen. (Elizabeth II)General interestRobert K. Massie
Good food you can't get. (food irradiation)General interestLarry Katzenstein
Head over heels. (falling in love)General interestAndrew H. Malcolm
Health help. (health information centers) (News from the World of Medicine)General interestJane Bennett Clark
Help your man lose weight...and enjoy the surprise benefits.General interestTed Mason, Jerry C. Sutkamp
Heroes for today.General interestBob Weinstein, Dick J. Reavis, Jack Anderson, Jon Engellener
Heroes for today.General interest 
Heroes for today. (acts of courage, kindness and decency)General interestWayne Hearn, Linda Arking, Craig Steinburg
Heroes for today. (brave acts from ordinary citizens)General interestKen Steinken, Sylvia Whitman, Yu-Lan Ying
Heroes for today. (courage, kindness and decency amid moral poverty)General interest 
Heroes for today. (modern-day heroes)General interestSue Chastain, Eric Zorn, Debs McCrary, Greg Stricharchuk
Hooked on snuff. (teenagers' addiction to pulverized tobacco)General interestJeffrey Denny
Hope for the infertile. (new procedure to insure pregnancy) (News from the World of Medicine)General interest 
How to beat the Wall Street pros. (stock trading)General interestJohn Rothchild, Peter Lynch
How to deal with a difficult boss.General interestDonna Brown Hogarty
How to handle a hostile driver.General interestMary Augusta Rodgers
How to live like a millionaire. (living within personal means)General interestThomas J. Stanley
Hunt for a mad bomber. (explosives expert Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.)General interestMalcolm McConnell
"I hate kisses." (why little children hate kisses)General interestSusan Lewis
"I'm not letting you go, Dad!" (fishing accident) (Drama In Real Life)General interestWilliam M. Hendryx
In death's cold grip. (underwater accident) (Drama In Real Life)General interestWilliam M. Hendryx
Inside Hurricane Andrew.General interestPeter Michelmore
Iron-rich blood a danger? (blood iron-level and heart disease) (News From the World of Medicine)General interestK.A. Fackelmann
Is a windfall waiting for you? (unclaimed properties)General interestJohn Sims
Is Washington for sale? (lobbying in Washington, D.C.)General interestFred Barnes, Rachel Flick Wildavsky
Justice for Deana. (murder victim Deana Wild)General interestPaul Bagne
Killing cancer with cold. (cryosurgery) (News From the World of Medicine)General interest 
Let's play ball! (neighborhood softball games)General interestAudrey Curran
Lincoln, to those who knew him. (Abraham Lincoln)General interestMichael Barone, Gerald Parshall
Little known signs of a heart attack.General interestEdwin Kiester Jr., Sally Valente Kiester
Little things do mean a lot. (attention to detail)General interestRobert McGarvey
Little town that saved itself. (Viroqua, Wisconsin)General interestDonald Dale Jackson
Love and duty. (excerpt)General interestBen Purcell, Anne Purcell
Love big enough to share. (an English setter teaches lessons on love)General interestSheila M. Pardoe
Me have cancer? (breast cancer patients)General interestErma Bombeck
Moscow? In Arkansas! (unusual place names in the US)General interestBrian Hall
Most important hour in a child's day. (keeping the tradition of family dinners)General interestHarriet Webster
My fight for justice. (justice for a rape victim)General interestRobbi Sommers
Nice ways to say no.General interestJo Coudert
No free lunch. (free of charge government services not necessarily free)General interestCharles Osgood
No more victims, please. (victimism)General interestCharles J. Sykes
"Noodles" vs. "pasta." (vocabulary and age)General interestPaul Dickson
No survivors. (vehicular accidents involving young drivers)General interestPer Ola D'Aulaire, Emily d'Aulaire
Novel brain-tumor therapy. (News from the World of Medicine)General interestNatalie Angier
Now hear this. (hearing problems)General interestJeanie Wilson
Nuts for your heart? (walnuts lower risk of heart failure) (News from the World of Medicine)General interestDaniel Q. Haney
On a wing and a prayer. (Second Lt. Jack Elliot's escape from the Germans)General interestLaura Elliot
One proverb is worth a thousand words.General interestRichard Wolkomir
On the heart beat. (atrial fibrillation) (News from the World of Medicine)General interest 
On the heartbeat. (preventing another heart attack) (News from World of Medicine)General interest 
On-the-job healing. (work as therapy) (News From The World Of Medicine)General interest 
Our snow night. (finding satisfaction in snowy, winter nights)General interestJames Tabor
Our trip of a lifetime.General interestRobert A. Calcagni
Passport to the universe. (library cards)General interestPatricia O'Toole
Peppers: hot, hotter, hottest.General interestAmal Naj
Please tell the truth, Mr. President. (President Bill Clinton)General interestRobert J. Samuelson
Polar dream. (trip to the North Pole)General interestHelen Thayer
Prisoner of Saddam. (female prisoner of war in Iraq)General interestPeter Copeland, Rhonda Cornum
Promising drug for MS. (multiple sclerosis) (News from the World of Medicine)General interestJ. Madeline Nash
Reader's Digest on television. (Behind the Lines)General interest 
Read this before you have a heart attack. (preventing heart attacks)General interestRick McGuire
Rendezvous in Cuba.General interestPeter Michelmore
Riding out of childhood. (a kid's biking experience)General interestElaine West
Room at the table. (guardian angels)General interestJames DiBello
Runners: on sound footing? (improper footwear may cause injuries to runners) (News from the World of Medicine)General interest 
Savaged by a grizzly. (bear attacks retiree Deane Lengkeek)General interestDeborah Morris, Lorraine Lengkeek
Secondary smoke: an update. (News From the World of Medicine)General interestPaul Raeburn
Seldane: how safe? (prescription antihistamine terfenadine) (News From the World of Medicine)General interest 
Should you refinance? (mortgages)General interestTom Herman, Lynn Asinof
Simply awesome. (analysis of ocean waves)General interestMichael Rogers
Sister and the basketball players. (Sister Rose Ann)General interestJo Coudert
Smokers: slow mend in sight. (smoking slows down healing of broken bones)General interest 
Snore no more.General interestJim Collins
Song for a pioneer. (early settlers and the canaries)General interestRoger Welsch
Soul of a champion. (basketball star Michael Jordan)General interestBob Greene
Stories for the asking. (how interest in others can bring adventure)General interestKen Nerburn
Summers on the bayou.General interestJulie Rigby
Swarm of terror. (bees)General interestMark Rowh
Teen fat linked to adult ills. (News from the World of Medicine)General interestJane E. Brody
Test urged for moms-to-be. (test for Streptococcus B) (News From the World of Medicine)General interestSally Squire
That's outrageous! A compilation. (absurdities in American society)General interestJohn (American clergyman) Williams, Thomas Sowell, Howard Goodman, Dean Miller, Herb Caen, Maggie Gallagher
That's outrageous. (society's absurdities)General interestBill Gertz, Mike Royko, Davan Maharaj, Herb Jaffe, Elizabeth Edwardsen
The baggy yellow shirt. (a story of a mother-daughter relationship)General interestPatricia Lorenz
The boy who dreamed of a palace. (Bobby Atchison)General interestKristin von Kreisler
The boy who heard the future. (musician Les Paul)General interestReynolds Dodson
The cop who wouldn't quit. (Officer Kenyon Tuthill)General interestEdward Ziegler
The crimes of Roger Coleman. (media portrayal of criminals as victims)General interestBrenda Ratliff
The crimes of Westley Allan Dodd. (child molester)General interestEugene H. Methvin
The curious cook. (Harold McGee)General interestEdward Dolnick
The easy-does-it diet.General interestGeorge L. Blackburn
The gospel according to Marx. (World Council of Churches)General interestJoseph A. Harriss
The last day of school. (anticipation)General interestShirley Lord Bachelder
The little boat that sailed through time.General interestArnold Berwick
The loneliest county. (Loving County, West Texas)General interestRichard E. Meyer
The most worthless class I ever took. (ornithology)General interestFred Bauer
The mysterious powers of Peter Guthrie. (autistic savant)General interestSherri Dalphonse
The punk and the tyrant. (Olympic gold medalist Nelson Diebel; swimming coach Chris Martin)General interestJohn S. Tompkins
The S-Factor: a dieter's dream. (strength training)General interestMandy Matson
The Soviets' deadly nuclear legacy.General interestJohn-Thor Dahlburg
The terribly, tragically sad man. (a man's dream)General interestLoren Seibold
The trouble with teen-agers.General interestKaren Henry Clark
The United States vs. Elliott Abrams. (former Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs)General interestFred Barnes
They're waving at me. (hand-waving as a sign of recognition)General interestRobert Crum
Thinking of Sam. (a boy remembers his uncle)General interestSteven Ratiner
This tax would rob us blind. (value added tax)General interestWilliam E. Simon
This town fired its government. (San Juan Bautista)General interestTrevor Armbrister
This "tree" can save your life. (family medical history)General interestSue Browder
"Time to sacrifice the queen." (adopting creative solutions to life's problems)General interestRobert Fulghum
To catch a killer. (a victim's son-in-law tracks down his killer)General interestMichael Bowker
Tooth or consequences. (brushing your teeth)General interest 
Tornado down! (book excerpt) (Book Section)General interestWilliam Pearson, John Peters, John Nichol
Trapped in a volcano. (film crew's ordeal at Kilauea's Pu'u O'o vent in Hawaii)General interestPer Ola D'Aulaire, Emily D'Aulaire
Treasure of a pirate prince.General interestBarry Clifford, Peter Turchi
Trust in God, but lock your car. (a father's advice to his son)General interestH. Jackson Brown Jr.
Uncle Jim's wink at life. (guidelines for living) (Behind the Lines)General interestJohn L. Phillips
Unclutter your life. (getting rid of household clutter)General interestJeff Campbell
Unforgettable Arthur Ashe. (Afro-American tennis player)General interestCharles Pasarell
Unforgettable Red Barber. (sportscaster)General interestVin Scully
Voice on the wind.General interestMichael A. Kelley
Warding off kidney stones. (News from the World of Medicine)General interest 
"We're the retards." (motivating problem students)General interestJanice Anderson Connolly
What ever happened to hard work?General interestLynne Cheney
What every woman needs to know about estrogen.General interestDavid Reuben
What shimmers, shakes and soothes? (Jell-o)General interestPenny Ward Moser
What's in a name? (having ambiguous names)General interestDana Milbank
What's your hurry? (time management)General interestElizabeth Berg
What trade laws cost you. (includes related article)General interestWalter E. Williams, Steve Forbes
What you should know about male menopause.General interestGail Sheehy
What you shouldn't tell your spouse. (being honest with one's spouse)General interestDianne Hales
When criminals go free. (probation system)General interestRobert James Bidinotto
When parents become victims.General interestTrevor Armbrister
When the moon follows me.General interestMary E. Potter
Where Elvis lives. (singer Elvis Presley's Graceland home)General interestLawrence Elliott
Who do we trust? (trust in public figures)General interestGrant Ujifusa
Why are we so unhappy when we have it so good?General interestPeggy Noonan
Why is this man laughing? (illegal Chinese refugees in the US)General interestMichael T. Kaufman
Why she wrote America's favorite song. (Katharine Lee Bates's America the Beautiful)General interestMichael Drury
Why some women drink. (indications of genetic link to alcoholism in women) (News From The World Of Medicine)General interestDaniel Goleman
Why Yugoslavia exploded. (the cause of Yugoslavia's civil war)General interestRobert D. Kaplan
Win with your strengths.General interestDonald O. Clifton, Paula Nelson
Wrong way to help the homeless.General interestDwight Hobbes
Xanax or zantac? (prescription drugs) (News From the World of Medicine)General interest 
You can't kill a good giveaway. (Appalachian Regional Commission's pork barrel management only serves politicians' vested interests)General interestDale Van Atta
"You will have a good life." (marital bliss)General interestKatharine Byrne
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