| Reader's Digest 1998 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| 15 ways to beat a cold: these simple steps can make a big difference.(reprinted from Family Circle, January 7, 1997) | General interest | Julia Califano |
| A booming business.(Controlled Demolition Inc) | General interest | David Samuels |
| Across the bitter divide.(medical relief in Croatia) | General interest | Christopher Besse |
| Adding up the good things.(reprinted from Woman's Day, November 18, 1997) | General interest | Faye Moskowitz |
| A deadly drug, a new generation.(heroin) | General interest | Henry Pierson Curtis |
| A devotion hard to measure.(reprinted from New York Times, Dec. 9, 1997)(volunteer firefighters) | General interest | Edward Koren |
| A dog like no other. | General interest | Peter Muilenburg |
| A dream in stone. (construction of the monument of Sioux war chief Crazy Horse in Black Hills, South Dakota) | General interest | Lamar Alexander |
| Afraid of computer?(benefits of using computers) | General interest | Karen Miles |
| A good deed comes around. | General interest | Peter Godwin |
| A good heart to lean on. (a son realizes the value of his father) | General interest | Augustus J. Bullok |
| A hand to hold.(finding life after a loved one's death) | General interest | Aaron Latham |
| A last chance for troubled boys. (how the Potters changed the lives of troubled teenagers) | General interest | Lawrence Elliott |
| All hits, all the time.(motion picture reviewers) | General interest | Daniel Rubin |
| All in the name.(relevance of names with career choices) | General interest | Eleena De Lisser |
| All we had was hope: Donghua Li thought only of winning a gold medal. Then he met a woman who changed everything. | General interest | Lucinda Hahn |
| America's dangerous railroad crossings. | General interest | Bob Trebilcock |
| America's most powerful lobby.(American Association of Retired Persons) | General interest | Dale Van Atta |
| America's worst drivers. | General interest | William Ecenbarger |
| An etiquette for grief. (how to help others go through a loss) | General interest | Crystal Gromer |
| An unexpected love. (profile on the marriage of champion disabled skier Diana Golden and Steve Brusnihan) | General interest | Robert Sullivan |
| An unlikely friendship: a quick note of apology was supposed to be the end of the encounter. | General interest | Albert DiBartolomeo |
| An urge toward evil: why we need to teach kids about right and wrong. | General interest | Jon R. Haddon |
| A place at the table.(friendship between a black man and a white man) | General interest | Collin Perry |
| A place of her own. (endeavoring to keep a childhood promise to one's mother) | General interest | Rick Bragg |
| A racoon named T65: this ring-tailed home wrecker taught us a few things about life. | General interest | Bob Noonan |
| A run for their lives.(crash landing of a twin-engine Beechcraft in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains) | General interest | Lee Maynard |
| A simple truth about happiness. | General interest | Dennis Prager |
| A Sioux warrior returns: generations were haunted by Long Wolf's final wish. | General interest | Jessica Seigel |
| A star to steer by: when she lost the one person she counted on, she had to abandon her dream. Or did she? | General interest | Jacquelyn Mitchard |
| A voice for Elizabeth: an HMO's medical director is forced to choose between her compassion and the economics of her business. | General interest | Linda Peeno |
| A walk in the woods.(reprinted from the book) | General interest | William Bryson |
| Beat these diet myths.(misconceptions associated with obesity) | General interest | Michael Fumento |
| Binge drinking, a campus killer.(drunkenness among college students) | General interest | Sabrina Rubin |
| Birth of the coffee bar: how a simple idea became a huge business. | General interest | Howard Schultz, Doris Jones Yang |
| Bonnie's time: even at the end, life is precious. Its termination should not be encouraged. | General interest | Gary Eisler |
| Can we do business with China? Put principles above trade. | General interest | A.M. Rosenthal |
| Change your bad habits to good.(reprinted from Treatment Today, Summer '98) | General interest | Robert Epstein |
| Cheat sheets.(reprinted from Los Angeles Times)(student cheating) | General interest | John M. Glionna |
| Christmas out of season. | General interest | Robert Fulghum |
| Christopher Reeve's decision. | General interest | Christopher (American actor) Reeve |
| City lost in the jungle. (profile on the restoration work on the temple ruins of Angkor, Cambodia) | General interest | Fergus M. Bordewich |
| Confessions of a crossword constructor. | General interest | Merl Reagle |
| Courage on Nahanni River: a couple's dream vacation turns into a life-and-death struggle. | General interest | Kathy Cook |
| Crucial advice from top women doctors. | General interest | Donna Christiano |
| Danger beneath the dash: sure, it's convenient. But don't let this popular car option cost you your life.(cellular phones) | General interest | Steven Levingston |
| Decision on an angry sea: the only one close enough to help his friend, Pete Goss would have to go back into the face of the storm.(yacht racing contestants Raphael Dinelli and Pete Goss) | General interest | Rudolph Chelminski |
| Democracy is not enough; what happens after the elections is important too. | General interest | Fareed Zakaria |
| Dial a friend.(how babysitting programs can reduce the burden of mothers) | General interest | Susan Schoenberger |
| Does your HMO work for you?(tips on selecting an HMO)(health maintenance organization) | General interest | Irwin Ross |
| Don't be a victim of highway crime.(reprinted from 'Strong On Defense') | General interest | Sanford Strong |
| Do you need the 'hormone of desire'?(testosterone) | General interest | Jane E. Brody |
| Easy home repairs that really pay-off. (simple home repairs that improve tha value of a house) | General interest | Tom Philbin |
| End homework hassles: what to do when your child says "I can't" or "I won't.".(A Reader's Digest Family Guide: Help Your Child Excel in School) | General interest | Sandi Kahn Shelton |
| "ER": behind the scenes. (television's medical drama series) | General interest | Linden Gross |
| Every criminal's worst nightmare. (Top Ten list of Federal Bureau of Investigation's most wanted criminals) | General interest | Bob Drury |
| Every evening: from a nightly ritual comes a deep affirmation. (a mother's realization of the power of prayer on her family) | General interest | Joanne Kaufman |
| "Exhaust the little moment.".(making life better) | General interest | Anna Quindlen |
| Fighting fire. (insights into the life of fire fighting personnel) | General interest | Caroline Paul |
| Finding my way with Jesse.(reprinted from 'Hunting for Hope')(father and son) | General interest | Scott Russell Sanders |
| Five minutes to live.(delivering a baby) | General interest | Bob Trebilcock |
| For the love of music. (profile on the life of 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition winner Jon Nakamatsu) | General interest | Linda DeLibero |
| Four words that changed a life. (the power of words) | General interest | Bob Greene |
| Fox in the kitchen. | General interest | Avril Johannes |
| Free to kill.(the Yanceyville, North Carolina tragedy) | General interest | Henry Hurt |
| Games for your brain.(reprinted from Health, Nov/Dec 1997)(includes several brain twisters) | General interest | Deborah Franklin |
| Gifts to warm the heart.(adapted from 'It's Just What I've Always Wanted!') | General interest | Chiquita Woodard |
| Good news about racial progress: the remaining divisions in American society should not blind us to a half-century of dramatic changes. | General interest | Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom |
| Good news for bad backs. | General interest | Joseph (American screenwriter) Anthony |
| Hanging from cliffs: the sport of rock climbing is growing by well, leaps and bounds. An intrepid first-timer finds out why. | General interest | Matthew Futterman |
| Heart of fire.(burn victim Lesia Stockall) | General interest | Bryan Smith |
| Help for a crippling disease. (causes and prevention of osteoporosis in women)(icnludes related article) | General interest | Toni Stabile |
| Help for reluctant readers: they, too, can discover the joys of reading.(A Reader's Digest Family Guide: Help Your Child Excel in School)(reprinted from Woman's Day, September 1, 1997) | General interest | Karen Miles |
| Here comes more weird weather: brace yourself for El Nino's bratty little sister.(La Nina) | General interest | Per Ola D'Aulaire, Emily D'Aulaire |
| He walks into gunfire; when gang warfare breaks out in Chicago's projects, Brother Bill is there with a message of love.(Roman Catholic lay worker Bill Tomes) | General interest | Ron Stodghill II |
| Hidden heart-attack risks. | General interest | Abby Avin Belson |
| Home is where the heart is.(Amber Coffman) | General interest | Christina Cheakalos, Linda Kramer |
| Home remedies even doctors love.(reprinted from Woman's Day, June 23, 1998) | General interest | Maureen Sangiorgio |
| How to get a discount on college tuition. | General interest | Amy Virshup |
| How to get real Social Security.(includes related article on returns from a private investment account against Social Security benefits) | General interest | Tom Miller |
| How to plan for your financial future. | General interest | Richard Miniter |
| Hunt for a Mafia hit man.(Giovanni Brusca's capture) | General interest | Christopher Matthews |
| I believe you, Mr. President. | General interest | Michael Kelly |
| I got rhythm. (dancing and its rewards) | General interest | Tim Madigan |
| 'I'm here to rent the purple flowers'. (a father's experience in dealing with his son's autism) | General interest | Charles A. Hart |
| Is your bank ripping you off? (evaluation of costly bank services that increase burden to customers) | General interest | Jean Sherman Chatzky |
| "I've found gold!"(gold mining in California) | General interest | Fergus M. Bordewich |
| "I will be there for you.".(a physically challenged woman's New York City Marathon's run) | General interest | Zoe Koplowitz, Mike Celizic |
| Justice for Kipp: would the hit-and-run driver pay the price for killing a child? | General interest | Robert C. Yeager |
| Keeping seniors from their doctors. (analysis of Medicare provisions on senior citizen health care) | General interest | Kenneth Smith |
| Kick calculators out of class.(reprinted from New York Post, May 21, 1998) | General interest | David Gelernter |
| Knowing Brenda.(story of a physically handicapped woman) | General interest | Jacqueline Guidry |
| Lee's story.(adapted from 'Not To Worry, Mom, I'm OK')(Lee Belnap) | General interest | Karma Smith Belnap |
| Lives, fortunes, sacred honor.(the men who signed the Declaration of Independence) | General interest | Rush Limbaugh Jr. |
| Lose two inches in 30 days. (diet tips from thin persons) | General interest | Tamara Eberlein |
| Make your home break-in proof. (tips on preventing home burglaries) | General interest | Colin Perry |
| Medical help a click away. (medical information available on the Web helps save lives)(includes related articles) | General interest | Connie McNamara |
| Meet Ted Turner. | General interest | Dale Van Atta |
| Mel Gibson: taking chances.(actor)(Cover Story) | General interest | Linden Gross |
| Missile threat from Iran. | General interest | Kenneth R. Timmerman |
| "Mom, I want a tattoo": if your teens are needing you for body art, here's how you can draw the line. | General interest | Mary Lord |
| Much "I do" about Mr. Right.(reprinted from Health, Sept. 1998) | General interest | Mary Roach |
| Murder, he sculpted: combining artistry, forensic training and intuition, Frank Bender helps solve crimes. | General interest | Sabrina Rubin |
| Murphy's law or coincidence? (the science behind life's annoyances) | General interest | Robert A. J. Matthews |
| Music of hope.(Catherine Geach)(Cover Story) | General interest | Karen Emmons |
| My father's perfect Christmas. | General interest | Thomas Cahill |
| My fourteenth summer. | General interest | W.W. Meade |
| My husband's hands: his smallest gesture was the purest expression of love. | General interest | Helen Troisi Arney |
| My only prayer. (musings on the importance of prayers) | General interest | Lee Maynard |
| Natural remedies that really work. | General interest | Burkhard Bilger |
| No harm, no foul? We really should sweat the small stuff. | General interest | Vincent Barry |
| Not a moment to spare.(fire rescuers) | General interest | Kevin Harter |
| Old-house blues.(reprinted from This Old House, November/December 1997) | General interest | Jeanne Marie Laskas |
| One word we can do without: how to wipe it off the public slate.(reprinted from U.S. News & World Report, April 6, 1998)(the 'F' word) | General interest | Elizabeth Austin |
| Open mouth, insert foot.(reprinted from Forbes FYI, Summer 1998)(famous faux pas) | General interest | Christopher Buckley |
| Ordeal on Mount Foraker.(mountain climbing experience of Colby Coombs) | General interest | Peter Potterfield |
| Perfect match. (profile on the Kid's Stuff Foundation of former women's tennis superstar Andrea Jaeger) | General interest | Bill Stump |
| Red River rising. (Book Section) | General interest | Henry Hurt |
| Reshape your body ... with six simple exercises.(reprinted from 'Strong Women Stay Slim') | General interest | Miriam E. Nelson, Sarah Wernick |
| Right drug, wrong patient: pharmacy errors are more common than you think.(reprinted from Money, April 1998) | General interest | Andrea Rock |
| Runaway train. | General interest | William M. Hendryx |
| Saving Tenneh: what the surgeons saw on the X rays seemed completely incompatible with life. | General interest | David Moller |
| Saving the snow tiger.(Siberian tiger) | General interest | Paul Raffaele |
| Search for the Tin Man.(murder of three tourists) | General interest | Thomas French |
| Seconds to save Emily: they could never stop the 6200-ton train in time.(toddler Emily Marshall; train engineer Rod Lindley and conductor Robert Mohr) | General interest | Collin Perry |
| Secrets of happy families. | General interest | Stephen Covey |
| Seeds of hope.(Crenshaw High School's garden project) | General interest | Jim Hutchison |
| She carves music from wood. (violin maker Rena Weisshaar) | General interest | Duane Noriyuki |
| She dares to live free: Vietnam's most famous novelist writes what others only think.(Duong Thu Huong) | General interest | Brian Eads |
| Shooting pool with the old man.(father and grown-up son playing with billiards) | General interest | Pat Jordan |
| Showdown in Simple City.(housing project in Washington D.C.) | General interest | Debra Dickerson |
| Silence, not trade, is the sin.(reprinted from The Wall Street Journal, April 3, 1998)(doing business with China) | General interest | William McGurn |
| Simplify your life ... and free up time to do what you love most. | General interest | Catherine Houck |
| Solo sailor, in peril. (rescue of sailor Tony Bullimore from his four-day shipwreck ordeal in the Southern Ocean) | General interest | Tony Bullimore |
| Some sort of magic: this extraordinary horse, grateful parents say, has a rare gift for helping troubles kids. | General interest | Annette Foglino |
| Spy on the run.(ex-Soviet intelligence officer Sergei Bokhan) | General interest | David Wise |
| Start now- retire early.(how to efficiently manage one's retirement plan) | General interest | Deborah Rankin |
| Stay slim for the holidays. | General interest | Jonna Gallo |
| 'Stop whining!' (profile on psychologist and radio personality Dr. Laura Schlessinger) | General interest | Joannie M. Schrof |
| Storm in the high sierra. | General interest | Michael Bowker |
| Struck by lightning. (mountain climbers trapped in a vicious electrical storm) | General interest | Ruaridh Pringle |
| Surprising health benefits of sex. | General interest | Hugh O'Neill |
| Surprising news about diets: even if you've failed before, you can still be a winner at losing. | General interest | Sally Squires |
| Surrounded by brothers: what happened between the two boys was a father's dream fulfilled. | General interest | James Schembari |
| Sweet temptation: like Adam, we can't resist.(adapted from 'Apples') | General interest | Frank Browning |
| Tell me a story: those tales shared at special moments with the family have untold worth. | General interest | Eileen Silva Kindig |
| Terror in the night. (a woman's courage in preventing her home from being burglarized) | General interest | Jim Hutchison |
| The bears of summer.(excerpt from the book 'Summers with the Bears') | General interest | Jack Becklund |
| The bird that didn't fly. | General interest | Audrey Ronning Topping |
| The coach's son. (the life and career of football coach Eugene Stalings and his relationship with his son John Mark) | General interest | Gene Stallings, Sally Cook |
| The day I lost myself. (how a doctor managed to overcome her inadequacies after an accident that damaged her brain) | General interest | Claudia L. Osborn |
| The death of innocents.(Waneta Hoyt story) | General interest | Jamie Talan, Richard Firstman |
| The guy in charge of breakfast.(reprinted from 'Family Man') | General interest | Calvin Trillin |
| The healing power of touch.(health benefits of massage to infants) | General interest | George Howe Colt |
| The irresponsibility that spreads AIDS. | General interest | Alan J. Mayer |
| The IRS vs. us. (Internal Revenue Service) | General interest | James Bovard |
| The joy of doing nothing. | General interest | Anthony Schmitz |
| The lady on Pemberton Street.(Mable Howard) | General interest | Albert DiBartolomeo |
| The loves we leave behind. (to be with the those destined for us for the rest of our lives) | General interest | Lisa Bain |
| The most elusive love of all.(mother and daughter) | General interest | Sue Monk Kidd |
| The other life of an ATM card. | General interest | Richard E. Anderson |
| The secret face of Vegas: America's fastest-growing city is always reinventing itself. | General interest | Andrew Ferguson |
| These spies steal American jobs.(downside of espionage to the United States) | General interest | J. Michael Waller |
| The seven commandments of parenting: how to raise your child not to be a spoiled brat like all those other kids. | General interest | John Dorschner |
| The tragedy of foster care. (insights into the deficiency of foster care regulations) | General interest | Suzanne Chazin |
| The virility pill. | General interest | Steven Lamm, Gerald S. Couzens |
| This man wants you dead.(terrorist Osama Bin Ladin) | General interest | Kenneth R. Timmerman |
| Thrilled to death. (an examination into the causes of teen driving deaths)(Special Report) | General interest | Stephen Barr |
| 'Tis the season for relief.(stress management) | General interest | Carol Krucoff |
| To save a child. (profile on social worker Chan Kit Ying) | General interest | Jenni Meili Lau |
| To save her daughter's life. (a mother's efforts to save her daughter from brain cancer) | General interest | Sarah Pekkanen |
| To the top of a volcano.(reprinted from Conde Nast Traveler, May 1998) | General interest | Simon Winchester |
| Touched by an angel - named Mahalia. | General interest | Della Reese, Franklin Lett, Mim Eichler |
| To win at marriage, learn to lose. (handling arguments with domestic partners) | General interest | Gerald Leonard Spence |
| Tracking "the fox.".(drug smuggler Michael Gleave Forwell) | General interest | Tim Bouquet |
| Trapped in a burning elevator. (insights into the courage of firefighters of the Portland, Oregon Squad One technical rescue team) | General interest | Bob Trebilock |
| Trapped in a flood. (rescue stories on the 1996 Northern California flood) | General interest | Robert C. Yeager |
| Trial by fire: her spirit inspired those around her, but few had survived the odds she faced.(fire victim Shirley Badke) | General interest | James Garvey |
| Tuesdays with Morrie. (lifes's lessons from an unforgettable mentor) | General interest | Mitch Albom |
| Turning points: the Pulitzer Prize-winning author reflects on a life of teaching, and learning from the kids he taught. | General interest | Frank McCourt |
| Unforgettable James Michener. (insights into the generosity of best-selling author James Michener) | General interest | Lawrence Grobel |
| Unforgettable "Madaket Millie": a woman of few words and even fewer social niceties, she taught me something about the human heart. | General interest | Fred Rogers |
| Voice of the Little guy.(journalist Mike Royko) | General interest | Georgie Anne Geyer |
| What happened to the Republican revolution: finally in the majority, GOP leaders forgot their credo that government is the problem, not the solution. | General interest | Rowland Evans, Robert Novak |
| What kids really need from Mom. | General interest | Joyce Brothers |
| What makes a good dad? Some famous children share their thoughts. | General interest | Jonathan P. Decker |
| What makes them so tough? The harder the challenge, the more Norwegians like it. | General interest | Lucinda Hahn |
| What will they do with the surplus? | General interest | Rowland Evans, Robert Novak |
| When forgiveness is a sin. (automatic forgiveness bestowed by Christians to those who commit evil against anyone) | General interest | Dennis Prager |
| When hell freezes over.(reprinted from P.O.V., June '98) | General interest | Michael Finkel |
| When is a cold not a cold?(facts about the colds) | General interest | Edwin Jr. Kiester |
| When nature comes too close: the wild world is staring at us with big, hungry eyes, right in our own backyards. | General interest | Anthony Brandt |
| When the teacher is the problem: be an advocate for your child.(A Reader's Digest Family Guide: Help Your Child Excel in School)(reprinted from Redbook, September 1997) | General interest | Ronnie Polaneczky |
| When to say no to your kids. | General interest | Marlys Harris |
| When you don't like your child's friends. | General interest | Edwin Kiester Jr., Sally Valente Kiester |
| When your child asks about God.(teaching children about God) | General interest | Kristin von Kreisler |
| When your kids won't eat right. | General interest | Paula M. Siegel |
| Where all kids are welcome: with the help of the Boys & Girls Clubs, dreams can be made real. | General interest | Curt Smith |
| Where crime is on the run. (profile on the crime prevention strategies developed by states) | General interest | Eugene Methvin |
| Why Bond is back: the secret to Agent 007's 35 years of success. | General interest | Desson Howe |
| Why Priscilla can't breathe. (insights into the life of an asthmatic)(BodyWorks) | General interest | Christopher Davis |
| Why wealth works: everyone benefits from economic freedom, not just the rich.(reprinted from 'Eat The Rich') | General interest | P.J. O'Rourke |
| Why you should vote ... for the Democrats. | General interest | Richard Gephardt |
| Why you should vote ... for the Republicans. | General interest | Newt Gingrich |
| Win your war against debt. | General interest | Gary Belsky |
| Would you like to work at home? (telecommuting) | General interest | Harriet Webster |
| Your missing money.(unclaimed funds held by the Retirement Operations Center of the US Office of Personnel Management) | General interest | Joan Caplin |
| Zero hour.(reprinted from Miami Herald Tropic, July 5, 1998)(includes related article on home PCs)(Y2K bug) | General interest | John Dorschner |
This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.
