| Reader's Digest 1997 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| 12 simple ways to burn fat faster. | General interest | Julia Califano |
| 20 ways to save $100. | General interest | Susan Berger |
| 50 things to do before I die. | General interest | Wendy Swallow Williams |
| A cowboy's honor. | General interest | Steve Wagner |
| A doctor's denial. | General interest | William Ecenbarger |
| A dozen ways to boost your tax refund. | General interest | Julian Block |
| A healing birth. (controversy arises when a family has a child in part to find a donor for daughter with leukemia) | General interest | Lawrence Elliot |
| A heart for the run. (bond formed between a sledder and his lead sled dog) | General interest | Gary Paulsen |
| A houseful of love and laughter.(television personality Jay Leno's parents) | General interest | |
| A license to kill. (includes article on Michigan pathologist and assisted-killing proponent Jack Kevorkian)(Special Report.) | General interest | Brian Eads |
| Almost a cowboy.(excerpt from "Pass the Butterworms") | General interest | Tom Cahill |
| A love affair with bats. | General interest | Kristin Von Kreisler |
| America's most wanted manhunter. (television personality John Walsh) | General interest | Dave Shiflett |
| An a child shall lead them.(eight-year-old Rona Mahilum saves her brothers and sisters from a fire in Negros Occidental, Philippines) | General interest | Henry Hurt |
| Anatomy of a strike. | General interest | Randy Fitzgerald |
| Andrew Wyeth's Christina.(painting) | General interest | Richard Meryman |
| A passion for reading. (includes related article on motivating children to pick up reading as a habit) | General interest | Anna Quindlen |
| Are you an optimist? (an enumeration of the characteristics of an optimist) | General interest | Tamara Eberlein |
| Are you getting the wrong prescription?(a connivance of prescription between pharmacy benefit managers and health insurers) | General interest | Peter Keating |
| A shopping mall for nuclear blackmailers. (security problems of the former USSR in protecting its nuclear material stockpile) | General interest | Brian Eads |
| A special sort of stubbornness. (reprinted from Flint River Review) | General interest | Joan Curtis |
| Assault in the cockpit.(excerpt from "Hijacked: The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705") | General interest | Dave Hirschman |
| Attack of the food police. (Center for Science in the Public Interest) | General interest | Daniel Levine |
| A walk across the sky. (reprinted from Equinox, May/June 1996) | General interest | Shane Peacock |
| Away in a manger.(the effect of a child's song on a father) | General interest | Tim Madigan |
| Barbara's choice. | General interest | Bryan Smith |
| Because of Hanna.(a pathologist's encounter with a cancer patient) | General interest | Spencer Nadler |
| Be the parent your child really needs. | General interest | Tamara Eberlein |
| Better health is just ten pounds away.(includes related article on how to lose weight) | General interest | Carolyn Kitch |
| Bipartisan boondoggle.(Commerce Department's programs) | General interest | Daniel Levine |
| Brave voices in the mean streets.(violence in Northern Ireland) | General interest | Fergus M. Bordewich |
| Breast cancer detection: safer, faster, better. | General interest | Larry Katzenstein |
| "But it's only pot.".(physiological effects of marijuana) | General interest | Emily D'Aulaire, Pert Ola |
| Can these pills make you live longer?(dietary supplements) | General interest | Jennifer Reid Holman |
| Can we handle this much freedom?(handling of retirement money) | General interest | James K. Glassman |
| Can we stay young? (scientific research into the process of aging) | General interest | Jeffrey Kluger |
| Can we stop the super-terrorists? Here's what we must do now. | General interest | William Webster |
| Can we trust the FBI? | General interest | Brock Brower |
| "Can you fix my car?"(evaluation of auto repair shops' services) | General interest | Kevin Clemens |
| Celebrating a lifetime. (a mother's childhood memories of son) | General interest | Mary E. Potter |
| Chelsey's missing smile.(5-year-old girl's coping with physical deformities) | General interest | Barbara Sande Dimmit |
| Clean slate: it's the making of resolutions that counts.(New Year's resolutions) | General interest | Rebecca Rupp |
| Close to home. (actor Paul Reiser) | General interest | Rick Lyman |
| Competition's coming to town. (competitive bidding in municipal contracts) | General interest | Rich Lowry |
| Control your hunger pangs - and lose weight. | General interest | Bob Arnot |
| Could they save this baby? | General interest | John Pekkanen |
| Diet traps ... and how to avoid them. (things that may interfere with dieting) | General interest | Sue Browder |
| Disabled by a paper cut.(fraudulent claims on disability) | General interest | Dale Van Atta |
| Dispatches from the home front. (humorist Erma Bombeck)(reprinted from 'Forever, Erma') | General interest | Ellen Goodman |
| Do animals fall in love? | General interest | Susan McCarthy, Jeffrey M. Masson |
| Don't block the blessings. (excerpt from "Patti La Belle") | General interest | Patti LaBelle |
| Duffy's one last favor. (memories of a family's pet dog) | General interest | Fred Bauer |
| Eight easy ways to beat fatigue. | General interest | Russell Wild |
| Eight symptoms you must not ignore. | General interest | Maureen Callahan |
| Enjoy the round.(golf and life) | General interest | James Dodson |
| Escape from Tibet. | General interest | Jeffrey Fleishman |
| Family alert: how safe is your car? | General interest | Bob Knotts |
| Fashion rules. | General interest | Susan Cheever |
| Fat to firm in five weeks. | General interest | Harriett Webster |
| Feel better, live longer - without dieting. (reprinted from 'Health')(includes a fitness test) | General interest | Laura Fraser |
| Final season.(coaching a baseball team)(excerpt from "A Father for All Seasons") | General interest | Bob Welch |
| Finding my way back. (excerpt from 'My Sergei: A Love Story') | General interest | E.M. Swift, Ekaterina Goordeva |
| First steps.(first dance with a first date by an eighth-grade boy) | General interest | Marnie O. Mamminga |
| Fly away home. (excerpt from "Father Goose") | General interest | Bill Lishman |
| Free as the wind.(freedom) | General interest | W.W. Meade |
| Get with the program.(computer language) | General interest | Dave Barry |
| Go ahead - smell.(a scientific look into the sense of smell) | General interest | Louise Kiernan |
| Graduating with honor. (Eileen Laskas' efforts to complete her college education despite her age) | General interest | Jeanne Marie Laskas |
| Grumpy old man? this sweet guy? (profile - veteran actor Walther Matthau)(Interview) | General interest | Patrick Goldstein |
| Guaranteed excitement. (books and the joys of reading) | General interest | Dave Barry |
| "Have you seen this child?"(the kidnapping of Edwin Cortez) | General interest | Paul Bagne |
| Health alert: new facts about food poisoning. | General interest | Karen Houppert |
| He declared war on heart attacks. (Raymond Bahr) (includes related article on warning signs of a heart attack) | General interest | Carol Krucoff |
| Heroes for today. (a collection of brief stories on present-day heroism and good deeds) | General interest | |
| He's not a hyphenated American. | General interest | Keith B. Richburg |
| Home alone. (family possessions that bring back memories) | General interest | Roger Rosenblatt |
| Home free! (age and softball) | General interest | David E. Morine |
| Hong Kong betrayed? | General interest | Stan Sesser |
| House on the lake. | General interest | Mike Royko |
| How honest are dentists? (study conducted on American dentists) | General interest | William Ecenbarger |
| How to get your husband to help at home. | General interest | Beth Levine |
| How to master your moods. | General interest | Barbara Hustedt Crook |
| How to talk so your teen-ager will listen. | General interest | Carolyn Kitch |
| How to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere. | General interest | Larry King, Bill Gilbert |
| I like them hot, hot, hot.(collecting species of chili peppers) | General interest | Randy Wayne White |
| In the blink of an eye.(life of a paralytic) | General interest | Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt |
| Into thin air. (fatal Mt. Everest expedition)(book excerpt) | General interest | Jon Krakauer |
| Is God listening?(testimonies on the power of prayer) | General interest | Kenneth L. Woodward |
| Is there sex after children? (techniques for a better married life after giving birth) | General interest | Katy Koontz |
| Is the world really coming to an end? | General interest | Ronald Bailey |
| Is this the perfect place to work? (management strategy of Southwest Airlines) | General interest | Jesse Katz |
| It came from outer space. (meteorite from Mars)(reprinted from Texas Monthly) | General interest | Mimi Swartz |
| Journey to the bottom of the earth. (a trip to the South Pole) | General interest | Mary Roach |
| Just trying to be cool. (smoking among teenagers)(reprinted from Florida) | General interest | Mike Thomas |
| Ken Benedict's second chance. (volunteer saves a handicapped man from a firestorm) | General interest | Michael Bowker |
| Last hope for flight 961. | General interest | John Dyson |
| Let's enforce our movie ratings. | General interest | Alvin Poussaint |
| Letters from camp. (lessons to learn from children's observations) | General interest | Alice Steinbach |
| Letters to Anne Frank's father. (author's correspondence with Anne Frank's father and how it helped her through her ordeals in life) | General interest | Cara Wilson |
| Life's little larcenies ... they cost us all. | General interest | Cheryl Downey |
| Life without father.(fatherless children) | General interest | David Popenoe |
| Listen to this.(acoustic engineering) | General interest | Richard Wolkomir |
| Listen to your fear. | General interest | Gavin De Becker |
| Lost in Knife Hill Canyon. (story of a missing child) | General interest | Bob Trebilcock |
| Madeleine Albright: standing for freedom. (US Secretary of State) | General interest | Rowland Evans, Robert Novak |
| Make mine a medium. (the economic aspect of product sizing) | General interest | Cynthia Crossen |
| Making a career of trivial pursuit. | General interest | Chi Chi Rodriguez |
| Marriage counselors' five best fixes.(advice on handling nuisances in marriages) | General interest | Dianne Hales, Doris Wild Helmering |
| "Marry me!" | General interest | Rich Lowry |
| Meltdown in the Atlantic. | General interest | Peter Huchthausen, Igor Kurdin, R. Alan White |
| Mission of the heart.(excerpt from "Ruth, a Portrait") | General interest | Patricia D. Cornwell |
| Mom knows best. | General interest | Connie Schultz |
| Mom's the one.(the significance of the word "Mom" for a mother) | General interest | Deborah Shouse |
| Mugged by the law. (unfairness of the legal system) | General interest | Randy Fitzgerald |
| My dad, the worrier. | General interest | Meg Cimino |
| My favorite valentine. | General interest | Chuck Thompson |
| My four-legged partner in healing. (a veterinarian's pet dog)(excerpt from 'Love, Miracles and Animal Healing') | General interest | Pam Proctor, Allen M. Schoen |
| My kid's college fund blues.(saving for college and the Internal Revenue Service tax policy) | General interest | Blake Hurst |
| "My name is Ike."(relationship with a dog)(excerpt from "My Life in Dog Years") | General interest | Gary Paulsen |
| My unforgettable "animal lady." | General interest | Bob Noonan |
| New help for PMS.(premenstrual syndrome) | General interest | Katy Koontz |
| Nightmare ride through Wyoming. | General interest | Jim Hutchison |
| Night of the wolf.(case of wolf attack along Tom Thomson Lake in Ontario, Canada) | General interest | Kathy Cook |
| Once upon a time. (storytelling festivals) | General interest | Michael McLeod |
| One minute left. (Joe and David Meistrell's experience in a diving accident that almost cost them their lives) | General interest | Sara Jameson |
| On the trail of a killer. (the work of Detectives Tim Murray and Stephen Murphy of the Boston Police Cold Case Squad) | General interest | Steven Levingston |
| Orwell got it wrong. (psychological aspects of networking) | General interest | Michael Kinsley |
| Our friendly neighborhood thief. (Rosie, the neighborhood dog) | General interest | Terry Miller Shannon |
| Outsmarting the identity thieves. (includes related article on managing identity theft) | General interest | Ilene Raymond |
| Paradise squandered. (Nauru Island, Western Pacific) | General interest | Dale Van Atta |
| Paranoid packaging. (humor) | General interest | John Updike |
| Radical Islam's bloody battlefield. (religious struggle in Algeria) | General interest | Fergus M. Bordewich |
| Rage on the River Zambezi.(hippotamus attack) | General interest | John Dyson |
| Renoir's invitation to a party. (an identification of painter Pierre Auguste Renoir's friends who modeled in 'Luncheon of the Boating Party' painting) | General interest | David Stewart |
| Scores count at this school. (Science Skills Center in Brooklyn, New York) | General interest | Sara Mosle |
| Second gift of life. (the search for a woman's biological mother by her adoptive parents) | General interest | Michael Bowker |
| Secrets from " the millionaire next door."(simple rules to become rich) | General interest | Tony Cook |
| Seven ways to sleep better tonight. | General interest | Richard Laliberte |
| Sex after 35: it can be better.(tips for a healthy and exciting sex life after 35) | General interest | Allison Glock |
| Sex, lies and the Kinsey report. (an analysis of methodologies used by Dr. Alfred Kinsey in publishing his books on human sexuality) | General interest | Rachel Wildavsky |
| Shame on American soil. (political corruption in the Mariana Islands) | General interest | Henry Hurt |
| Sisters three. | General interest | Faith Andrews Bedford |
| Someone to lean on. (handicapped man found acceptance among high school athletes) | General interest | Gary Smith |
| Some things you just know. | General interest | W.W. Meade |
| Song of survival. | General interest | Helen Colijin |
| So proud of her father. (Leila Sinclair-Wise seeks recognition for Terry Wise's heroic deed) | General interest | Jim Hutchison |
| Sound the alarm. (fire at the Eskimo village of Ambler, AK)(excerpt from 'The Last Light Breaking) | General interest | Nick Jans |
| Stand out from the crowd.(career management)(excerpt from "Wake Me When it's Funny") | General interest | Garry Marshall, Lori Marshall |
| Steer clear of these dangerous drivers.(threat of driver rage in America's roads) | General interest | Steven Levingston |
| Stop feeling guilty. | General interest | Beth Levine |
| St. Paul's zaniest saints. (Minnesota) | General interest | Pat Jordan |
| Sure is cold.(living in northwest Alaska) | General interest | Nick Jans |
| Surviving the Unabomber.(surviving from a mail bom injury) | General interest | David Gelernter |
| Swarm!(a swarm of wasps attacks a family) | General interest | Gerry Johnson |
| Tasty foods that help you lose weight. | General interest | Betty Jo Schuler |
| Tea: it's just the cure. | General interest | Elin McCoy |
| Teardrops of hope. (drop earrings) | General interest | Nancy Sullivan Geng |
| Tears of Rage.(the abduction and death of Adam Walsh) | General interest | John Walsh, Susan Schindehette |
| Test of faith.(experience of a pastor) | General interest | Bryan Smith |
| The best places to raise a family. (research into places which offer economic, social, educational and aesthetic fulfillment to families) | General interest | |
| The bravest eagle. | General interest | Kristin von Kreisler |
| The chair. (fulfillment of a young mother's dream) | General interest | Jennie Nash |
| The day we became brothers. (fatherless boys learned to open themselves to one another) | General interest | Albert DiBartolomeo |
| The day we unplugged the TV. | General interest | Michael Ashcraft |
| The Dromedary derbies of Dubai.(race camels in the United Arab Emirates) | General interest | Mary Roach |
| The global war on Christians. | General interest | Ralph Kinney Bennett |
| The iron man's mentor.(Cal Ripken, Jr talks about his father)(excerpt from "The Only Way I Know") | General interest | Mike Bryan, Cal Ripken Jr. |
| The kindness of strangers. (transcontinental hitchhiking narrative)(book excerpt) | General interest | Mike McIntyre |
| The king of dumb.(former Congressman William Scott) | General interest | Harry Stein |
| The last passenger. (excerpt from 'Chosen to Live') | General interest | Jerry Schemmel, Kevin Simpson |
| The loner who leads Israel. (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) | General interest | Ralph Kinney Bennett |
| The lost children of Bacau. (Romania) | General interest | Beverly Peberdy |
| The lost spectacles. | General interest | Magnus Linklater |
| The love I'll never forget.(narrative on a man's first love) | General interest | Tim Madigan |
| The man who gave us Yellowstone. (Thomas Moran's greatest painting, "The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone) | General interest | Cliff Yudell |
| The man who listens to horses.(horse trainer Monty Roberts) | General interest | Monty Roberts |
| The missing wink. | General interest | N.M. Nieman |
| The night I didn't sleep. | General interest | Timothy Gower |
| The Pentagon's army and navy store. (Defense Logistics Agency) | General interest | Peter Cary, Douglas Paternak, Penny Loeb |
| The perfect part.(actor Kirk Douglas) | General interest | Kirk Douglas |
| The promise.(a grandson's wish to witness a total solar eclipse) | General interest | Joe Rao |
| The rising power we are ignoring. (China) | General interest | Fareed Zakaria |
| "The season starts tomorrow.".(relationship between a coach and his high school basketball team) | General interest | Katie McCabe |
| The second most powerful man in America.(Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan) | General interest | Rachel Wildavsky |
| The seeing glass. | General interest | Jacquelin Gorman |
| These teens know how to say no. (Best Friends) | General interest | Mona Charen |
| The stadium shell game.(the use of public funds for state stadiums) | General interest | Tim Keown |
| The truth about Cajun cooking. | General interest | Gene Bourg |
| The twelfth door.(excerpt from "The Things I Want Most") | General interest | Richard F. Miniter |
| The view from Dilbert's cubicle.(cartoon creator Scott Adams) | General interest | Steven Levy |
| The White House: was it really for sale?(Asian money scandal) | General interest | Rowland Evans, Robert Novak |
| They're closing in on prostate cancer. | General interest | Sally Squires |
| "They're stealing the election."(election fraud in Louisiana) | General interest | Trevor Armbrister |
| Things you pretend to know (and hope no one will ask). (reprinted from 'Everything You Pretend to Know and Are Afraid Someone Will Ask') | General interest | Lynette Padwa |
| This generation means business.(young businessmen) | General interest | Richard Miniter |
| This land was your land.(land dispute over a conservation program) | General interest | John B. Anderson |
| This tune makes you want to stand. ('The Stars and Stripes Forever' by John Philip Sousa)(includes words written for the march) | General interest | Victoria Doudera |
| Time for "the talk". | General interest | Brett Lott |
| Time to change your birth control? | General interest | Julia Califano |
| To catch a rising rainbow. (profile on trout fishing) | General interest | Cathy Newman |
| To the rescue of the dying manatee. | General interest | Alison Young |
| Treated like criminals.(jail system in Arizona) | General interest | Joe Arpaio, Len Sherman |
| Two for the road: a driving lesson can be a rite of passage - both for the youngster and the parent. | General interest | Marnie Mamminga |
| Virus hunter. (achievements and failures of C.J. Peters in his capacity as chief of the Disease Assessment Division of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) | General interest | C.J. Peters, Mark Olshaker |
| Watch what you say. (interpretation of various hand signals by different cultures) | General interest | Roger E. Axtell |
| We can fix the jury system. (excerpt from "Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice") | General interest | Harold J. Rothwax |
| What child is this? | General interest | Timothy S. Wight |
| What friends are for. | General interest | Dianne Hales |
| What heroes teach us. | General interest | Irina Eremia Bragin |
| What I owe the wilderness. (search for a missing hunter in the wilderness) | General interest | Tim Cahill |
| What "managed care" did to Karen Smith. (includes related article on improving health test accuracy) | General interest | Jan De Blieu |
| What men secretly love about marriage. | General interest | Joel Achenbach |
| What paramedics wish you knew. (basic life-saving techniques for common people) | General interest | Jeanie Wilson |
| What's in a name? | General interest | Marc Fischer |
| What's wrong with Lauren? (four-year-old girl undergoes hemispherectomy) | General interest | John Pekkanen |
| What your credit-card company won't tell you. | General interest | James A. Anderson, Jean Sherman Chatzky |
| What your feet are telling you. (includes related tips to make feet feel better) | General interest | Joseph (American screenwriter) Anthony |
| When the cheering stopped. | General interest | E.M. Swift, Travis Roy |
| When the telephone rang. (reprinted from 'The Lessons of Love,' 1994) | General interest | Melody Beattie |
| When your child hates school. | General interest | Sue Browder |
| Where the police are winning.(New York, New York) | General interest | Eugene H. Methvin |
| Where the sun spilled gold. | General interest | Jaroldeen Edwards |
| Who wanted Aaron dead? (the investigation of Aaron Iturra's mysterious death) | General interest | Fred Rosen |
| Why do we tolerate terrorism? | General interest | A.M. Rosenthal |
| Why good drivers have accidents. (reprinted from Washington Post Magazine)(includes related article on aggressive drivers) | General interest | Peter Perl |
| Why Michigan works. (managing welfare reform) | General interest | Michael Barone |
| Why our kids can't do math.(an evaluation of the US mathematics education) | General interest | Marianne M. Jennings |
| Why we admire Tiger Woods. | General interest | Charles Krauthammer |
| Why we love who we love. | General interest | Joyce Brothers |
| Why won't my son talk? | General interest | Thomas Sowell |
| Will my brain remember me?(experience of undergoing brain surgery) | General interest | Jimmy Breslin |
| Will someone stand up for them? (residents of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) | General interest | Bill Maxwell |
| Winston Churchill: his other life.(excerpt from 'Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter') | General interest | Mary Soames |
| Wit by wire. (funny telegraph messages) | General interest | Christopher Buckley |
| Woman of the World. (Mother Teresa) | General interest | Peggy Noonan |
| Words that can save a life. (emergency medical identification tags) | General interest | Stanley Englebardt |
| You don't have to be perfect.(excerpt from 'How Good Do We Have to Be: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness') | General interest | Harold S. Kushner |
| "Your claim is denied." (tips on dealing with insurance companies regarding claims) | General interest | Devin Leonard, John Protos, Nelson D. Schwartz, Nicholas Varchaver |
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