Reader's Digest 1999 - Abstracts

Reader's Digest 1999
TitleSubjectAuthors
6 big career mistakes - and how to avoid them.General interestDonna Brown Hogarty
A boy, a dream and a dinosaur.(the death of Mackenzie Colvin at three years old inspired his parents to name the mall they redeveloped in his honor, complete with the dinosaur he had wanted inside the mall)General interestLynn Waldsmith
A cop's life.(policeman Frankie McDonald, Jr)General interestBrian McDonald
A dangerous drug hits the heartland.(includes related article on symptoms of methamphetamine abuse)(methamphetamine abuse)General interestPer Ola D'Aulaire, Emily D'Aulaire
Addicted to luck.(legalized and compulsive gambling)General interestMatea Gold, David Ferrell
A good friend of mine.(automobile mechanic Archie Raasch)General interestRichard Ezra Probert
A heart attack to save a life.(excerpt from 'Orange County Register')(medical procedure for treating idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis)General interestDebra Gordon
A home for Blanca's children.(dying mother of eight children)General interestLawrence Elliott
Allergies: nothing to sneeze at.General interestLaura Elliott
Alliana's new mother.(step children)General interestLynn Schnurnberger
A man's intuition.(Heroes for Today)(successful rescue efforts of T.J. Long of Virginia)General interestKathryn Orth
A mom from cyberspace.(finding biological parent)General interestDave Shiflett
A mother's touch.(comedian Ray Romano)General interest 
Animal ER.(excerpt)(Cover Story)General interestVicki Croke
A question of trust.(memories of a father)General interestSherry Hemman Hogan
Archie against the odds.(student Archie McNealy)General interestLori Teresa Yearwood
Are we ready for bioterror?(biological weapons)General interestRachel Wildavsky
A super tribute.(former porter Sandi Montalvo)General interestJim Dwyer
Avoid these card tricks.(credit cards)General interestMargaret Mannix
Before thieves come calling....(tips on preventing residential burglaries)General interestPatricia Weiss
Before you get a tan: know the real risks of sun exposure.General interestValerie Gladstone
Better than money?(things that people prefer above money)General interestRenee Loth
Beware the silver-tongued swindlers.(includes related article on how to avoid telemarketing fraud)(telemarketing fraud)General interestFred Schulte
Beyond the piggy bank.(Guide to Family Finance)(financial management)General interestJayne A. Pearl
Can we fight the next war?(American military might is seriously eroded)General interestRowland Evans, Robert Novak
Click here for your roots.(tracing family lineage)General interestMargot Hornblower
Click you way to an M.B.A.(online studying for Master of Business Administration degree)General interestLisa Gubernick, Ashlea Ebeling
Closing the gap.(benefits of reconnecting the age groups)General interestMary Pipher
Coming soon: the next great flu epidemic.(preparing for killer virus)General interestRachel Wildavsky
Computer violence: are your kids at risk?General interestStephen Barr
Daybreak with Dad.(making breakfast for shiftworking father)General interestEd Landry
Desert flower.(model Waris Dirie's experience with female genital mutilation)General interestCatherine Miller
Designated Soup Carrier.(family traditions)General interestGerri Hirshey
Did I really need to know that?: some things are better left unsaid.General interestElaine Glusac
Dirty diamonds.(reprinted from U.S. News & World Report, Aug. 3, 1998)General interestChristian Caryl, David E. Kaplan
Diver down.(underwater survival)General interestMichael Bowker
Doc Milburn's prescription.(professional guidance)General interestYosiya Niyo
Dr. Koop's guide to managed care: ways to ensure the treatment you need.General interestC. Everett Koop
Encounter with the arctic mosquito.(an Alaskan experience)General interestNick Jans
End of the long winter night.(living in Barrow, Alaska)General interestJeff Rennicke
Faith is powerful medicine.General interestPhyllis McIntosh
Father and son.(views on parenting)General interestW. W. Meade
Finding my father.(reprinted from the Washingtonian, October 1998)General interestSusan Hadler
Friends of the ring.(school memento)General interestBarbara Bressi-Donohue
Get the max from your 401(k). (boosting retirement savings or the 401.(k) account)General interestPenelope Wang
Getting enough sleep? Dream on.(effects of sleep deprivation)General interestWilliam C. Dement, Christopher Vaughan
Get your kids to listen up: tips for frazzled parents.General interestClaire Regan
Gift from the sea.(Sea World of San Diego rescue of a gray-whale calf)General interestJim Calio
Giving lessons.(Irish author Maeve Binchy's book entitled 'Evening Class')General interestMargaret Bernstein
Grandest ride on earth.(a 14-day river journey through the Grand Canyon)General interestJeff Rennicke
Greatest gift.(profile on Oklahoma State University football head coach Bob Simmons and wife Linda)General interestS. L. Price
Green eggs and Sam.(a blind chicken named Sam becomes the favorite pet of a household)General interestPenny Porter
Gun control that works.(Project Exile, Richmond, Virginia)General interestKenneth Smith
Hamilton Smith's second chance.(geneticists)General interestDouglas Birch
Handle stress like an expert.(includes related article on foods that fight stress)General interestMegan Othersen Gorman
Haylee's ordeal.(Haylee Bernstein of Wilton, CO)General interestPer Ola D'Aulaire, Emily d'Aulaire
Heartburn: for the fire inside.(Family Health Guide)(reprinted from Health, May/June 1997)(includes related article on drugs for heartburn)General interestTimothy Gower
Heart to heart.(heart transplant)General interestStephanie Mansfield
Hell's greatest hits.(comment on compact disc packaging)General interestSteve Martin
Heroes for today.General interestSuzanne Chazin, Peg Roen, Sherry Cremona, Pat Milton
Heroes in Education.(winners of 'Reader's Digest's American Heroes in Education award)General interestWilliam Hendryx
Hey, take it easy ... it's never too late to slow down.General interestAdele Angle
Hit-and-run.(Drunk Driving: A License to Kill)(reckless driving victims)General interestJason Williams
Home smart home.(intelligent devices in the home)General interestSteven Levy
Hooked on giving.(Heroes for Today)(15-year-old Justin Thran of Nevada)General interestLinda Hiller
How Lincoln lost its library.(Lincoln, VT)General interestChris Bohjalian
How to bend a broken friendship: the payoff for you is well worth the effort.General interestPatricia Skalka
How to be true to yourself.(the principles of integrity)General interestDenis Waitley
How to find true love.General interestLois Smith Brady
How to heal a family feud.General interestAmy Laboda
How you can fight back.(excerpt from 'U.S' News & World Report')(airline customers' rights)General interestKatherine T. Beddingfield
If you think we think alike, think again.(gender differences)General interestDianne Hales
"I'm not guilty.".(former police officer Grant Snowden was denied due process of law and had to suffer being in jail for 12 years)General interestTrevor Armbrister
Internet ER.(World Clinic, a virtual medical practice that connects physicians and patients through the Internet)General interest 
Into the teeth of the storm.(search-and-rescue)General interestTodd Lewan
Is democracy just a numbers game?(opinion polls)General interestEric Burns
Is your house making you sick?(includes related article on how to prevent mold)General interestTom Philbin
It never fails.(inescapable facts of life)General interestRichard Glover
I was the doughnut lady.(views on people who watch over other people's children)General interestElinor Markgraf
Keeping connected.(radio station WWUS-FM)General interestJim Carrier
Keep Washington off Wall Street.(government's decision to invest in stocks)General interestCharles Krauthammer
Kids at risk: the alarming truth about safety seats.(includes related article on a safety check for safety seats)General interestHal Karp
Kids at risk: when seat belts are not enough.General interestHal Karp
Kids' symptoms you shouldn't ignore.(Family Health Guide)(includes related article on stiff neck)General interestJennifer Reid Holman
Last stand of the Komodo dragon.(the efforts aimed at protecting the world's biggest lizard)General interestBrian Eads
Leaving the land of the blind.(guide dogs)General interestStephen Kuusisto
Legacy of a generous heart.(teacher Dorothy Ryther)General interestDavid MacDonald
Lena's story.(physician malpractice)General interestEdward Grossman
Lessons from the dream factory.(glimpses into the lives of celebrities)General interestLawrence Grobel
Letting go.(Book Section)(excerpts from the book "Beyond the Road's End")General interestMary Catherine Fish
Life for Austin.(complications of pregnancy)(Cover Story)General interestBarbara Sande Dimmitt
Life unfair? Just sue.(expansion of tort laws in the US)General interestJonathan Rauch
Live well on one income.(includes related article on ways of saving)(tips on managing a one-income household)General interestAndy Dappen
Lost in the Northwest Angle.(how retired postmaster John Johnson survived eight days in Minnesota's remote Northwest Angle wilderness)General interestWilliam M. Hendryx
Loving Adam.(mother's narrative)General interestMartha Beck
Marriage resolutions for the New Year.General interestLaura Morice
Meeting Mr. Griffin.(a son meets his father's classmate, Stuart Griffin)General interestBill Littlefield
Meet the organoleptics.General interestDavid McDonough
Meghan's final match.(organ recipients' relationship)General interestCatherine Wald
Milosevic: master of malevolence.(Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic)General interestRudolph Chelminski
Money tips you need right now.(Guide to Family Finance)General interestKimberly Lankford
My $325 salvation.(story of a 16-year old who saved their family car)General interestMarvin Jules Wolf
My brother's way.(excerpts from 'To The Hoop: The Seasons of a Basketball Life')General interestIra Berkow
My father was a cop.General interestMaureen Dowd
My life as a phone psychic.(excerpt from 'San Antonio Current')General interestDebbie Nathan
My night on the assembly line.(work experience at a Saturn automobile plant)General interestLesley Hazleton
Mystery of Flight 427.(Boeing 737 airplane accident)General interestBill Adair
My uncle's secret life: hearing stories about him for so many years, I wanted to find out more.General interestSheila Allee
Needed: missile defense.(US' development of missile defense)General interestRalph Kinney Bennett
New help for headaches.(Family Health Guide)(reprinted from New Choices, July/August 1998)(includes related article on when to call the doctor and on chronic headaches)General interestPhyllis McIntosh
New rules for safe kids.(excerpt from 'Protecting the Gift')General interestGavin De Becker
Night of terror, night of mercy.(eyewitness accounts of tornado in Birmingham, Alabama, in April 1998)General interestHenry Hurt
No-show.(Drunk Driving: A License to Kill)(drunk driving victims)General interestSylvia Moreno, Maria Glod
On behalf of common courtesy.(reprinted from Woman's Day, June 3, 1997)General interestSusan Jacoby
One inch from death.(1972 accident of Dana Bienenfeld in Yosemite National Park, California)General interestMichael Bowker
Our secrets on sale.(sale of US technologies to potential enemies)General interestKenneth R. Timmerman
Peril on Lake George.(memoir of shipwreck survivor Glenn Gardner)General interestNanette Woitas Holt
Prince of pork.(Republican Bud Shuster)General interestEric Felten
Prince of rides: some parents saw chauffeuring the kids as a chore; he saw it as an opportunity.General interestJon Katz
Privileged few.(US Commerce Sec William Daley's failure to pay Customs duties on imported clothes)General interestGreg Rushford
Prostate scores.(way of determining the chances of prostate cancer to recur)General interestEdward Edelson
Reader's Digest home vision test.General interestBeth Levine
Rescue from the sky.General interestJohn Dyson
Rescue on the roof of the world.(Stuart Findlay and Claire McNaughton's Tibetan rescue mission)(Cover Story)General interestDavid Moller
Rudy rules - you got a problem with that?(New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani)General interestMichael Barone
Rx for joy.(six ways for a fulfilling life)General interestBernie S. Siegel
Safe haven.(Heroes for Today)(Project Debby for battered women)General interestThomas Fields-Meyer
Sam's way.(death and family relations)General interestAnn Hood
Schools where kids succeed.(charter schools)General interestJoseph I. Lieberman
Secret of the lost stone.(locating a lost diamond)General interestW.W. Meade
Secrets about women husbands should know.General interestBeth Levine
Secrets of the Fall.(excerpt from 'I'm a Stranger Here Myself')General interestWilliam Bryson
Shall we dance?(A son's narration of how her mother proved to him her story about award-winning actor George Burns)General interestNeil Simon
Shot by a laser.(Canadian helicopter, Russian ship)General interestJ. Michael Waller
Should women go into combat?General interestCatherine L. Aspy
Showdown in Sweet Water Canyon.(attack by mountain lion)General interestLee Maynard
Sibling rivalry.(top tennis stars and sisters Venus and Serena Williams)General interestL. Jon Wertheim
Singing in the key of me.(reprinted from Oxford American, June 1998)General interestSteve Yarbrough
Six worst health mistakes that women make.(includes related article on the medical tests that must be ignored)General interestJeanie Wilson
Solutions for 7 sexual problems.(understanding the female sex drive)General interestGinny Graves
Something good about America?(quality of life)General interestGregg Easterbrook
Spring across America.General interestCharles Kuralt, Peter Freundlich
Suite deal.(forced resignation of a building maintenance workers union president)General interestSteven Greenhouse
Surprising facts about breast cancer.(includes tips for reducing risk of breast cancer)General interestSue Ellin Browder
Surviving my divorce.General interestChris Cox
Survivor's guide to the gym.(young professional's gym tips)General interestMichael O'Reilly
Tale of the radioactive Boy Scout.(David Hahn's toxic backyard experiment)General interestKen Silverstein
Teach your child temper control.General interestSalley Shannon
Teach your child to bounce back.(resilience in children)General interestAnn E. LaForge
Terror on an empty road.General interestJim Hutchison
Thanks for nothing, Beardsley.(Beardsley Ruml, former chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, was the man responsible for the withholding tax)General interestAmity Shlaes
That day in the trench.(parenting)General interestAndre Dubus
The ball.(excerpt)General interestDaniel Paisner
The Bonnie & Clyde of credit card fraud.(Roger and Cheryl Cullen)General interestKristin Davis
The boy who never came home.(abduction of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling in St Joseph, Minnesota)General interestHenry Hurt
The case of the Rolex murder.(solving the mystery of the death of Ronald Joseph Platt)General interestBill Schiller
The cheetah runs for its life.(Cheetah Conservation Fund founder Laurie Marker)General interestPaul Raffaele
The chocolate wars.(excerpt from 'The Emperors of Chocolate')General interestJoel Glenn Brenner
The E diet: here's how to lose weight while boosting your energy.General interestHarriet Webster
The great 1999 budget rip-off.General interestDaniel Levine, Ralph Kinney Bennett
The hidden power of play: to get things done, nothing beats hard work - except having fun.General interestVirginia Postrel
The hunger-proof diet.General interestNancy Stedman
The incredible ice-cream machine.General interestSusan Sarver
The last man on the moon.(excerpt from Eugene Cernan's book 'The Last Man on the Moon')General interestDon Davis, Eugene Cernan
The latest skinny on fat.General interestBurkhard Bilger
The lords of time.(dragonflies)General interestRichard Conniff
The lowdown on outlet malls.General interest 
The man with the perfect swing.(golfer Moe Norman)General interestBruce Selcraig
The most dangerous Russian.(Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov)General interestDale van Atta
The murder of justice.(murder of policemen)General interestJeffrey Robinson
The mysterious case of E.P.(the findings of a modern clinical pathologist about the possible cause of death of writer Edgar Allan Poe)General interestSteven Levingston
The new way to buy used cars.General interestJerry Edgerton
"The next aircraft will crash on landing.".(Virgin Atlantic Flight 024's Nov. 1997 crash)General interestJohn Dyson
The orchid girls of Burma.(profile on Dr. Cynthia Maung and her efforts at alleviating the suffering of the people of Chogali, Myanmar)General interestPaula Bock
The poetry roadshow.(Andrew Carroll's American Poetry and Literacy Project)General interestJulie A. Miller
The power of Cassie Bernall.(profile on one of the victims of the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado)General interestMatt Labash
The quarter-acre universe.(toys and parenting)General interestGeraldine Brooks
The real message of the Millennium.(endurance of Christianity)General interestPaul Johnson
The simple truth about Harrison Ford.(excerpt from 'Men's Journal')General interestDoug Stanton
The spark she can't explain.(actress Meryl Streep)General interestLawrence Elliott
The "superstar" nutrient.(Family Health Guide)(reprinted from New York Times, October 13, 1998)(calcium)General interestJane E. Brody
The tax man is stealing our savings.General interestBrian S. Wesbury
The things we can't control.(effects of a car accident to a father)General interestDugan
The transformation of Robin Williams.(Cover Story)General interestEllen Hawkes
The truth about cigars.General interestAlec Klein
The truth about Dr. Berger.(researcher Dan Berger)General interestJerome Groopman
They defend the right to know.(journalists killed around the world for doing their jobs)General interestDaniel Levine, Floyd Whaley
"They were happy.".(Drunk Driving: A License to Kill)(victims of drunk driving)General interestThomas Farragher, Paul Langner
Time to give sneakers the boot.(excerpt from 'The Wall Street Journal')(wearing age-appropriate clothing)General interestNed Crabb
Tim Heidler's voice of courage.(organ transplant recipient)General interestJohn Pekkanen
Up from the ashes.(reprinted from Los Angeles Times, July 11, 1998)(St. John Baptist Church, Dixiana, SC)General interestRichard E. Meyer
Vacations on the fly.General interestSylvia Tiersten
Vladimir's song.(foreign adoption)General interestRick Stafford, Diana Stafford, Pamela Patrick Novotny
Ways to germ-proof your kitchen.General interestLisa Connors McDonough
Weird science at the EPA.(air pollution standards)General interestTrevor Armbrister
What love can build.(how a father reached out to his son afflicted with Down's syndrome)General interestMeg Laughlin
What matters most: a guide to raising an effective family.(the seven habits of highly effective families)General interestStephen Covey
What's right about reading.General interestAnna Quindlen
What's wrong with global warming?(the good side of global warming)General interestDennis T. Avery
What's wrong with Jennifer?(story of Jennifer Lanchance)General interestJohn Pekkanen
What your phone company won't tell you.(reprinted from Smart Money, August 1998)(includes related article on monthly bill savings)General interestKevin J. Delaney
When the sun stood still.(memories of summer)General interestAdair Lara
When your child talks back.General interestMarianne Neifert
Where is Jaimee Lee?(boating accident)General interestJim Hutchison
Who is George W. Bush, really?General interestMorton Kondracke
Who is Jack Kevorkian, really?(assisted suicide advocate)General interestJohn Corry
Who was uncle Sam?: the intriguing stories behind five American icons.General interestBrad Herzog
Why a man needs a woman.(excerpt from 'Slate')General interestHerbert Stein
Why character counts.General interestStephen Covey
Winning for Zora.(mother of professional football player Chris Zorich)General interestCollin Perry
World's most wanted.(criminals)General interestMichael Welzenbach, Brian Eads
You can remake your life.(reprinted from Money, December 1998)(includes related articles on updating skills and working together to ease the transition)General interestAndrea Rock
You really can shrink your stomach ... and feel fuller on much less this summer.(includes a sample-three meal, two-snack menu)General interest 
Zeroing in on the zodiac.(solving serial murder case)General interestBob Trebilcock
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