Reader's Digest 1999 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
6 big career mistakes - and how to avoid them. | General interest | Donna 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 interest | Lynn Waldsmith |
A cop's life.(policeman Frankie McDonald, Jr) | General interest | Brian McDonald |
A dangerous drug hits the heartland.(includes related article on symptoms of methamphetamine abuse)(methamphetamine abuse) | General interest | Per Ola D'Aulaire, Emily D'Aulaire |
Addicted to luck.(legalized and compulsive gambling) | General interest | Matea Gold, David Ferrell |
A good friend of mine.(automobile mechanic Archie Raasch) | General interest | Richard Ezra Probert |
A heart attack to save a life.(excerpt from 'Orange County Register')(medical procedure for treating idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis) | General interest | Debra Gordon |
A home for Blanca's children.(dying mother of eight children) | General interest | Lawrence Elliott |
Allergies: nothing to sneeze at. | General interest | Laura Elliott |
Alliana's new mother.(step children) | General interest | Lynn Schnurnberger |
A man's intuition.(Heroes for Today)(successful rescue efforts of T.J. Long of Virginia) | General interest | Kathryn Orth |
A mom from cyberspace.(finding biological parent) | General interest | Dave Shiflett |
A mother's touch.(comedian Ray Romano) | General interest | |
Animal ER.(excerpt)(Cover Story) | General interest | Vicki Croke |
A question of trust.(memories of a father) | General interest | Sherry Hemman Hogan |
Archie against the odds.(student Archie McNealy) | General interest | Lori Teresa Yearwood |
Are we ready for bioterror?(biological weapons) | General interest | Rachel Wildavsky |
A super tribute.(former porter Sandi Montalvo) | General interest | Jim Dwyer |
Avoid these card tricks.(credit cards) | General interest | Margaret Mannix |
Before thieves come calling....(tips on preventing residential burglaries) | General interest | Patricia Weiss |
Before you get a tan: know the real risks of sun exposure. | General interest | Valerie Gladstone |
Better than money?(things that people prefer above money) | General interest | Renee Loth |
Beware the silver-tongued swindlers.(includes related article on how to avoid telemarketing fraud)(telemarketing fraud) | General interest | Fred Schulte |
Beyond the piggy bank.(Guide to Family Finance)(financial management) | General interest | Jayne A. Pearl |
Can we fight the next war?(American military might is seriously eroded) | General interest | Rowland Evans, Robert Novak |
Click here for your roots.(tracing family lineage) | General interest | Margot Hornblower |
Click you way to an M.B.A.(online studying for Master of Business Administration degree) | General interest | Lisa Gubernick, Ashlea Ebeling |
Closing the gap.(benefits of reconnecting the age groups) | General interest | Mary Pipher |
Coming soon: the next great flu epidemic.(preparing for killer virus) | General interest | Rachel Wildavsky |
Computer violence: are your kids at risk? | General interest | Stephen Barr |
Daybreak with Dad.(making breakfast for shiftworking father) | General interest | Ed Landry |
Desert flower.(model Waris Dirie's experience with female genital mutilation) | General interest | Catherine Miller |
Designated Soup Carrier.(family traditions) | General interest | Gerri Hirshey |
Did I really need to know that?: some things are better left unsaid. | General interest | Elaine Glusac |
Dirty diamonds.(reprinted from U.S. News & World Report, Aug. 3, 1998) | General interest | Christian Caryl, David E. Kaplan |
Diver down.(underwater survival) | General interest | Michael Bowker |
Doc Milburn's prescription.(professional guidance) | General interest | Yosiya Niyo |
Dr. Koop's guide to managed care: ways to ensure the treatment you need. | General interest | C. Everett Koop |
Encounter with the arctic mosquito.(an Alaskan experience) | General interest | Nick Jans |
End of the long winter night.(living in Barrow, Alaska) | General interest | Jeff Rennicke |
Faith is powerful medicine. | General interest | Phyllis McIntosh |
Father and son.(views on parenting) | General interest | W. W. Meade |
Finding my father.(reprinted from the Washingtonian, October 1998) | General interest | Susan Hadler |
Friends of the ring.(school memento) | General interest | Barbara Bressi-Donohue |
Get the max from your 401(k). (boosting retirement savings or the 401.(k) account) | General interest | Penelope Wang |
Getting enough sleep? Dream on.(effects of sleep deprivation) | General interest | William C. Dement, Christopher Vaughan |
Get your kids to listen up: tips for frazzled parents. | General interest | Claire Regan |
Gift from the sea.(Sea World of San Diego rescue of a gray-whale calf) | General interest | Jim Calio |
Giving lessons.(Irish author Maeve Binchy's book entitled 'Evening Class') | General interest | Margaret Bernstein |
Grandest ride on earth.(a 14-day river journey through the Grand Canyon) | General interest | Jeff Rennicke |
Greatest gift.(profile on Oklahoma State University football head coach Bob Simmons and wife Linda) | General interest | S. L. Price |
Green eggs and Sam.(a blind chicken named Sam becomes the favorite pet of a household) | General interest | Penny Porter |
Gun control that works.(Project Exile, Richmond, Virginia) | General interest | Kenneth Smith |
Hamilton Smith's second chance.(geneticists) | General interest | Douglas Birch |
Handle stress like an expert.(includes related article on foods that fight stress) | General interest | Megan Othersen Gorman |
Haylee's ordeal.(Haylee Bernstein of Wilton, CO) | General interest | Per 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 interest | Timothy Gower |
Heart to heart.(heart transplant) | General interest | Stephanie Mansfield |
Hell's greatest hits.(comment on compact disc packaging) | General interest | Steve Martin |
Heroes for today. | General interest | Suzanne Chazin, Peg Roen, Sherry Cremona, Pat Milton |
Heroes in Education.(winners of 'Reader's Digest's American Heroes in Education award) | General interest | William Hendryx |
Hey, take it easy ... it's never too late to slow down. | General interest | Adele Angle |
Hit-and-run.(Drunk Driving: A License to Kill)(reckless driving victims) | General interest | Jason Williams |
Home smart home.(intelligent devices in the home) | General interest | Steven Levy |
Hooked on giving.(Heroes for Today)(15-year-old Justin Thran of Nevada) | General interest | Linda Hiller |
How Lincoln lost its library.(Lincoln, VT) | General interest | Chris Bohjalian |
How to bend a broken friendship: the payoff for you is well worth the effort. | General interest | Patricia Skalka |
How to be true to yourself.(the principles of integrity) | General interest | Denis Waitley |
How to find true love. | General interest | Lois Smith Brady |
How to heal a family feud. | General interest | Amy Laboda |
How you can fight back.(excerpt from 'U.S' News & World Report')(airline customers' rights) | General interest | Katherine T. Beddingfield |
If you think we think alike, think again.(gender differences) | General interest | Dianne 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 interest | Trevor 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 interest | Todd Lewan |
Is democracy just a numbers game?(opinion polls) | General interest | Eric Burns |
Is your house making you sick?(includes related article on how to prevent mold) | General interest | Tom Philbin |
It never fails.(inescapable facts of life) | General interest | Richard Glover |
I was the doughnut lady.(views on people who watch over other people's children) | General interest | Elinor Markgraf |
Keeping connected.(radio station WWUS-FM) | General interest | Jim Carrier |
Keep Washington off Wall Street.(government's decision to invest in stocks) | General interest | Charles Krauthammer |
Kids at risk: the alarming truth about safety seats.(includes related article on a safety check for safety seats) | General interest | Hal Karp |
Kids at risk: when seat belts are not enough. | General interest | Hal Karp |
Kids' symptoms you shouldn't ignore.(Family Health Guide)(includes related article on stiff neck) | General interest | Jennifer Reid Holman |
Last stand of the Komodo dragon.(the efforts aimed at protecting the world's biggest lizard) | General interest | Brian Eads |
Leaving the land of the blind.(guide dogs) | General interest | Stephen Kuusisto |
Legacy of a generous heart.(teacher Dorothy Ryther) | General interest | David MacDonald |
Lena's story.(physician malpractice) | General interest | Edward Grossman |
Lessons from the dream factory.(glimpses into the lives of celebrities) | General interest | Lawrence Grobel |
Letting go.(Book Section)(excerpts from the book "Beyond the Road's End") | General interest | Mary Catherine Fish |
Life for Austin.(complications of pregnancy)(Cover Story) | General interest | Barbara Sande Dimmitt |
Life unfair? Just sue.(expansion of tort laws in the US) | General interest | Jonathan Rauch |
Live well on one income.(includes related article on ways of saving)(tips on managing a one-income household) | General interest | Andy Dappen |
Lost in the Northwest Angle.(how retired postmaster John Johnson survived eight days in Minnesota's remote Northwest Angle wilderness) | General interest | William M. Hendryx |
Loving Adam.(mother's narrative) | General interest | Martha Beck |
Marriage resolutions for the New Year. | General interest | Laura Morice |
Meeting Mr. Griffin.(a son meets his father's classmate, Stuart Griffin) | General interest | Bill Littlefield |
Meet the organoleptics. | General interest | David McDonough |
Meghan's final match.(organ recipients' relationship) | General interest | Catherine Wald |
Milosevic: master of malevolence.(Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic) | General interest | Rudolph Chelminski |
Money tips you need right now.(Guide to Family Finance) | General interest | Kimberly Lankford |
My $325 salvation.(story of a 16-year old who saved their family car) | General interest | Marvin Jules Wolf |
My brother's way.(excerpts from 'To The Hoop: The Seasons of a Basketball Life') | General interest | Ira Berkow |
My father was a cop. | General interest | Maureen Dowd |
My life as a phone psychic.(excerpt from 'San Antonio Current') | General interest | Debbie Nathan |
My night on the assembly line.(work experience at a Saturn automobile plant) | General interest | Lesley Hazleton |
Mystery of Flight 427.(Boeing 737 airplane accident) | General interest | Bill Adair |
My uncle's secret life: hearing stories about him for so many years, I wanted to find out more. | General interest | Sheila Allee |
Needed: missile defense.(US' development of missile defense) | General interest | Ralph 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 interest | Phyllis McIntosh |
New rules for safe kids.(excerpt from 'Protecting the Gift') | General interest | Gavin De Becker |
Night of terror, night of mercy.(eyewitness accounts of tornado in Birmingham, Alabama, in April 1998) | General interest | Henry Hurt |
No-show.(Drunk Driving: A License to Kill)(drunk driving victims) | General interest | Sylvia Moreno, Maria Glod |
On behalf of common courtesy.(reprinted from Woman's Day, June 3, 1997) | General interest | Susan Jacoby |
One inch from death.(1972 accident of Dana Bienenfeld in Yosemite National Park, California) | General interest | Michael Bowker |
Our secrets on sale.(sale of US technologies to potential enemies) | General interest | Kenneth R. Timmerman |
Peril on Lake George.(memoir of shipwreck survivor Glenn Gardner) | General interest | Nanette Woitas Holt |
Prince of pork.(Republican Bud Shuster) | General interest | Eric Felten |
Prince of rides: some parents saw chauffeuring the kids as a chore; he saw it as an opportunity. | General interest | Jon Katz |
Privileged few.(US Commerce Sec William Daley's failure to pay Customs duties on imported clothes) | General interest | Greg Rushford |
Prostate scores.(way of determining the chances of prostate cancer to recur) | General interest | Edward Edelson |
Reader's Digest home vision test. | General interest | Beth Levine |
Rescue from the sky. | General interest | John Dyson |
Rescue on the roof of the world.(Stuart Findlay and Claire McNaughton's Tibetan rescue mission)(Cover Story) | General interest | David Moller |
Rudy rules - you got a problem with that?(New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani) | General interest | Michael Barone |
Rx for joy.(six ways for a fulfilling life) | General interest | Bernie S. Siegel |
Safe haven.(Heroes for Today)(Project Debby for battered women) | General interest | Thomas Fields-Meyer |
Sam's way.(death and family relations) | General interest | Ann Hood |
Schools where kids succeed.(charter schools) | General interest | Joseph I. Lieberman |
Secret of the lost stone.(locating a lost diamond) | General interest | W.W. Meade |
Secrets about women husbands should know. | General interest | Beth Levine |
Secrets of the Fall.(excerpt from 'I'm a Stranger Here Myself') | General interest | William Bryson |
Shall we dance?(A son's narration of how her mother proved to him her story about award-winning actor George Burns) | General interest | Neil Simon |
Shot by a laser.(Canadian helicopter, Russian ship) | General interest | J. Michael Waller |
Should women go into combat? | General interest | Catherine L. Aspy |
Showdown in Sweet Water Canyon.(attack by mountain lion) | General interest | Lee Maynard |
Sibling rivalry.(top tennis stars and sisters Venus and Serena Williams) | General interest | L. Jon Wertheim |
Singing in the key of me.(reprinted from Oxford American, June 1998) | General interest | Steve Yarbrough |
Six worst health mistakes that women make.(includes related article on the medical tests that must be ignored) | General interest | Jeanie Wilson |
Solutions for 7 sexual problems.(understanding the female sex drive) | General interest | Ginny Graves |
Something good about America?(quality of life) | General interest | Gregg Easterbrook |
Spring across America. | General interest | Charles Kuralt, Peter Freundlich |
Suite deal.(forced resignation of a building maintenance workers union president) | General interest | Steven Greenhouse |
Surprising facts about breast cancer.(includes tips for reducing risk of breast cancer) | General interest | Sue Ellin Browder |
Surviving my divorce. | General interest | Chris Cox |
Survivor's guide to the gym.(young professional's gym tips) | General interest | Michael O'Reilly |
Tale of the radioactive Boy Scout.(David Hahn's toxic backyard experiment) | General interest | Ken Silverstein |
Teach your child temper control. | General interest | Salley Shannon |
Teach your child to bounce back.(resilience in children) | General interest | Ann E. LaForge |
Terror on an empty road. | General interest | Jim 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 interest | Amity Shlaes |
That day in the trench.(parenting) | General interest | Andre Dubus |
The ball.(excerpt) | General interest | Daniel Paisner |
The Bonnie & Clyde of credit card fraud.(Roger and Cheryl Cullen) | General interest | Kristin Davis |
The boy who never came home.(abduction of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling in St Joseph, Minnesota) | General interest | Henry Hurt |
The case of the Rolex murder.(solving the mystery of the death of Ronald Joseph Platt) | General interest | Bill Schiller |
The cheetah runs for its life.(Cheetah Conservation Fund founder Laurie Marker) | General interest | Paul Raffaele |
The chocolate wars.(excerpt from 'The Emperors of Chocolate') | General interest | Joel Glenn Brenner |
The E diet: here's how to lose weight while boosting your energy. | General interest | Harriet Webster |
The great 1999 budget rip-off. | General interest | Daniel Levine, Ralph Kinney Bennett |
The hidden power of play: to get things done, nothing beats hard work - except having fun. | General interest | Virginia Postrel |
The hunger-proof diet. | General interest | Nancy Stedman |
The incredible ice-cream machine. | General interest | Susan Sarver |
The last man on the moon.(excerpt from Eugene Cernan's book 'The Last Man on the Moon') | General interest | Don Davis, Eugene Cernan |
The latest skinny on fat. | General interest | Burkhard Bilger |
The lords of time.(dragonflies) | General interest | Richard Conniff |
The lowdown on outlet malls. | General interest | |
The man with the perfect swing.(golfer Moe Norman) | General interest | Bruce Selcraig |
The most dangerous Russian.(Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov) | General interest | Dale van Atta |
The murder of justice.(murder of policemen) | General interest | Jeffrey 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 interest | Steven Levingston |
The new way to buy used cars. | General interest | Jerry Edgerton |
"The next aircraft will crash on landing.".(Virgin Atlantic Flight 024's Nov. 1997 crash) | General interest | John 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 interest | Paula Bock |
The poetry roadshow.(Andrew Carroll's American Poetry and Literacy Project) | General interest | Julie A. Miller |
The power of Cassie Bernall.(profile on one of the victims of the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado) | General interest | Matt Labash |
The quarter-acre universe.(toys and parenting) | General interest | Geraldine Brooks |
The real message of the Millennium.(endurance of Christianity) | General interest | Paul Johnson |
The simple truth about Harrison Ford.(excerpt from 'Men's Journal') | General interest | Doug Stanton |
The spark she can't explain.(actress Meryl Streep) | General interest | Lawrence Elliott |
The "superstar" nutrient.(Family Health Guide)(reprinted from New York Times, October 13, 1998)(calcium) | General interest | Jane E. Brody |
The tax man is stealing our savings. | General interest | Brian S. Wesbury |
The things we can't control.(effects of a car accident to a father) | General interest | Dugan |
The transformation of Robin Williams.(Cover Story) | General interest | Ellen Hawkes |
The truth about cigars. | General interest | Alec Klein |
The truth about Dr. Berger.(researcher Dan Berger) | General interest | Jerome Groopman |
They defend the right to know.(journalists killed around the world for doing their jobs) | General interest | Daniel Levine, Floyd Whaley |
"They were happy.".(Drunk Driving: A License to Kill)(victims of drunk driving) | General interest | Thomas Farragher, Paul Langner |
Time to give sneakers the boot.(excerpt from 'The Wall Street Journal')(wearing age-appropriate clothing) | General interest | Ned Crabb |
Tim Heidler's voice of courage.(organ transplant recipient) | General interest | John Pekkanen |
Up from the ashes.(reprinted from Los Angeles Times, July 11, 1998)(St. John Baptist Church, Dixiana, SC) | General interest | Richard E. Meyer |
Vacations on the fly. | General interest | Sylvia Tiersten |
Vladimir's song.(foreign adoption) | General interest | Rick Stafford, Diana Stafford, Pamela Patrick Novotny |
Ways to germ-proof your kitchen. | General interest | Lisa Connors McDonough |
Weird science at the EPA.(air pollution standards) | General interest | Trevor Armbrister |
What love can build.(how a father reached out to his son afflicted with Down's syndrome) | General interest | Meg Laughlin |
What matters most: a guide to raising an effective family.(the seven habits of highly effective families) | General interest | Stephen Covey |
What's right about reading. | General interest | Anna Quindlen |
What's wrong with global warming?(the good side of global warming) | General interest | Dennis T. Avery |
What's wrong with Jennifer?(story of Jennifer Lanchance) | General interest | John Pekkanen |
What your phone company won't tell you.(reprinted from Smart Money, August 1998)(includes related article on monthly bill savings) | General interest | Kevin J. Delaney |
When the sun stood still.(memories of summer) | General interest | Adair Lara |
When your child talks back. | General interest | Marianne Neifert |
Where is Jaimee Lee?(boating accident) | General interest | Jim Hutchison |
Who is George W. Bush, really? | General interest | Morton Kondracke |
Who is Jack Kevorkian, really?(assisted suicide advocate) | General interest | John Corry |
Who was uncle Sam?: the intriguing stories behind five American icons. | General interest | Brad Herzog |
Why a man needs a woman.(excerpt from 'Slate') | General interest | Herbert Stein |
Why character counts. | General interest | Stephen Covey |
Winning for Zora.(mother of professional football player Chris Zorich) | General interest | Collin Perry |
World's most wanted.(criminals) | General interest | Michael 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 interest | Andrea 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 interest | Bob Trebilcock |
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