Reader's Digest (Canadian) 1995 - Abstracts

Reader's Digest (Canadian) 1995
TitleSubjectAuthors
10 ways to win at work. (adapted from 'The Pursuit of Wow!')General interestThomas J. Peters
3 words that can change your life.General interestMartha Dunagin Saunders
Ace that job interview. (common interview questions)General interestJoan E. Rigdon
A food lover's guide to fat. (adapted from Newsweek, December 5, 1994)General interestLaura Shapiro
A health risk women can no longer ignore. (osteoporosis)General interestAnne Paillard
A hollow place in my heart.General interestMillard Lampell
A little piece of Denmark.General interestDane Lanken
All I ever wanted. (sibling relationship)General interestSusan E. James
All in a day's work.General interest 
A love like no other. (adapted from Texas Monthly, February 1994)General interestSkip Hollandsworth
A low-tech wonder. (pencils)General interestBeth Leibson
A mother's faith, a brother's love.General interestBarbara Goodlett
A nation freed, a victory won. (adapted from 'The Canadians at War 1939/45')(The Liberation of Holland, part 1)General interest 
A question of duty.General interestYin Wong
Are we to blame for history? (adapted from Thee Beaver, October/November 1994)General interestChristopher Dafoe
Are you working too hard? (adapted from 'Being God's Partner')General interestJeffrey K. Salkin
Aspirin: not only for your heart.General interestMichael Castleman
A swim for life. (trapped in a rocky ocean ledge)General interestMichael Seaton
A table full of memories. (sentimental value of a dining table)General interestCecelia Gavin O'Meara
At air travel's hub. (Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Canada)General interestMargaret Polanyi
A tobacco lobbyist's new leaf. (adapted from The Washington Post, March 4, 1994)General interestJason Vest
Attacked by a bear! (personal narrative)General interestJerry MacDonald
Attack of a giant tusker. (attack by enraged bull elephant)General interestGarth King
A university for birds. (adapted from Men's Journal, November 1994)General interestP.J. O'Rourke
Aunt Maude and her desk. (adapted from Yankee, January 1994)General interestJudith Freeman Clark
Baby Paul's last hope.General interestCeleste McGovern
Backsliding to imperial. (imperial system)(adapted from The Globe and Mail, July 30, 1994)General interestWallace Immen
Back to County Clare. (adapted from New England Monthly, September 1990)General interestMichael Walsh
Ballad of the bottom dollar. (adapted from McKinney Living, Fall, 1993)General interestRobert J. Duncan
Best gift for your child. (adapted from Smithsonian, February 1995)General interestDavid M. Schwartz
Bravo for old buildings! (preservation of old buildings in Canada)General interestAlison Ramsey
Buried alive!General interestGavin Will
Businesses off the wall. (adapted from Kiwanis, November/December 1994)General interestCharles Downey
Canada's farcical refugee system.General interestDaniel Stoffman
Can't find that recipe?General interestMary Augusta Rodgers
Carjacked!General interestDeborah Morris
Car-smart tips for winter driving.General interestBob Sikorsky
Case of the missing keys. (murder case)General interestDavid Moller
Casino gambling: a bad bet.General interestMerle MacIsaac
Change your career - and succeed. (includes related article)General interestJeanie Wilson
China's great migration.General interestGeorge Wehreritz
Club Senate: a very comfortable place to be.General interestGord McIntosh
Crime and punishment.General interest 
Crime by computer.General interestLeslie Smith Dow
"Dear President Truman." (young boy writes to former Pres. Harry S. Truman)General interestJames E. Rogan
Death grip. (adapted from 'Rock Jocks, Wall Rats and Hang Dogs')General interestJohn Long
Doctors' deadly power. (euthanasia in the Netherlands)General interestBert Bukman
Do fish sleep? And dogs dream? (adapted from National Wildlife, April/May 1994)General interestDoug Stewart
Don't sell the old brain short.General interestJoannie M. Schrof
Duke of hazards: only true entrepreneurs could find the hidden treasure. (selling used golf balls)General interest 
Eighteen kids, but who's counting?General interestJack McCallum
Encounter in the rain. (policeman encounters a man he once arrested)General interest 
Full circle: the Dan Jansen story. (excerpts)General interestJack McCallum, Dan Jansen
Gain an extra hour everyday.General interestRay Josephs
Games animals play. (reasons why animals play)General interestDouglas Harbrecht
Gene Hackman's winning wave. (actor)General interestJohn Culhane
Gentle Jon: his limitations are many, but at one of life's supreme challenges he excels. (boy with Down's syndrome)General interestGeorge F. Will
Glass: on the cutting edge.General interestWilliam S. Ellis
Gold touching gold. (story of a man's lost wedding ring)General interestChristopher De Vinck
Hants County Exhibition: life as it is. (agricultural fair in Nova Scotia)General interestAlexander Bruce
Happy days in the old Ford. (recollection of experiences in an old Ford sedan)General interestSam Walker
Have elephant, will travel. (India)General interestMark Shand
Heroes for today.General interest 
Heroes for today.General interestJudith Lavoie, Derek Baldwin, Cathy Dobson
Heroes for today. (compassionate neighbors)General interest 
He will never be forgotten. (reprinted from Legion Magazine, November 1992)General interestRoss Toller
Hollywood's three big lies.General interestMichael Medved
Horror in Hecate Strait. (British Columbia)General interestLynne Schuyler
How not to "choke" under pressure: tips for quelling life's terrors when you absolutely must succeed.General interestBruce Schoenfeld, David Zinczenko
How to fail ... and bounce back! (adapted from Fortune, May 1, 1995)General interestPatricia Sellers
How to stop smoking - now!General interestAllen Carr
How we kept Mother's Day.General interestStephen Leacock
In search of Russia's old believers. (Russian Orthodox practitioners in Siberia)General interestRoger Graef
In the jaws of a great white shark.General interestKenny Doubt
Into the deadly smoke.General interestChris Bohjalan
Into the mind of an inferno. (adapted from Miami Herald Tropic Magazine, September 11, 1994)General interestPatrick Kendrick
Is a house still a good investment?General interestDon Sancton
Is the tiger doomed? (wildlife conservation)General interestEugene Linden
Is this the man who was James Bond?General interestLawrence Elliott
Jerusalem: whose city? (political and religious status of Jerusalem)General interestMartin Gilbert
Jimmy and Evan. (curling players Jimmy Little and Evan Gill)General interestDouglas How
John Paul II: an army of one. (adapted from Time, December 26, 1994)General interestPaul Gray, John Elson
Judgment in the cornfield: a whipping, it seemed, was inevitable. (relationship with grandparent)General interestErnest Shubird
Laughter, the best medicine.General interest 
Laws of lasting love. (adapted from 'The Ten Laws of Lasting Love')General interestPaul Pearsall
Learning to lead. (Colin Powell)General interestColin Powell, Joseph Persico
Letters to Emmy. (excerpt from 'Magic and Loss')General interestGreg Raver Lampman
Lily Marlene: every soldier's dream.General interestCharles W. Smith
Little-known signs of a stroke.General interestEdwin Kiester Jr., Sally Valente Kiester
Look-and feel-years younger. (keys to well-being)General interestSue Browder
Lost in the Atlantic. (plane crash)General interestDeborah Morris
Mandela: the man and the mask.General interestRichard Stengel
"Mayday! chopper down!" (story of a survivor of a helicopter crash)General interestJim Hutchinson
Me and my swift foxes.General interestRoberta Walker, Clio Smeeton
Mermaid miracle.General interestMargo Pfeiff
Miami Latina. (Miami, Florida)General interestCathy Booth
Mind your tongue, young man: a foulmouthed punk meets his match.General interestSandra Flahive Maurer
Mistakes winners don't make.General interestBen Stein
More like Anne. (adapted from Guideposts, September 1994)General interestMarion Bond West
Mr. Clean meets his match. (adapted from Western People)General interestGeorge Campbell
Mr. Rhoades neighbourhood.General interestPat Walsh
Mr. Solomon's magic shop. (a woman's childhood memories of a newsagent's shop in London)General interestAlida Baxter
My catch of a lifetime. (adapted from Oakville Beaver, July 21, 1993)General interestSteven Moore
My son, the auto mechanic. (a woman talks about her son who wanted to be a mechanic)General interestDiana C. Aspin
My son, the spin doctor. (personal narrative)General interestJenet L. Dechary
Mystery of the stone.General interestPeter Aleshire
My time in a bottle. (baseball player Mickey Mantle)General interestJill Lieber, Mickey Mantle
New hope in the fight against cystic fibrosis.General interestRichard B. Goldbloom
News from the world of medicine.General interest 
New weapons against pain.General interestRichard Burnett
"No one is looking for us!" (two men trapped inside a mine)General interestJohn Borrell
No time to panic.General interestWilliam M. Hendryx
Of boys and Beavers. (Canadian Beavers)General interestMurray Lewis
Old codgers come to order. (reunion of war veterans)General interestDavid McIntosh
One step at a time ... 52 ways to lose a pound a week.General interestGreg Gutfeld, Michele Toth
On the path to Everest.General interestPeter Carlin, Stacy Allison
On trial: Canada's justice system.General interestCeleste McGovern
Outside looking in. (adapted from the Berkshire Eagle, October 3, 1989)General interestMary E. Potter
Pachyderm polo.General interestCharles N. Barnard
Paris according to Jules Verne. (Paris, France; novelist)General interestAlan Riding
Performance under the stars.General interestRayleen Downes
Personal glimpses.General interest 
Peter Dunham's jungle quest. (search for lost Mayan culture)General interestMichael Welzenbach
PMS: a personal strategy for relief. (premenstrual syndrome)General interestCarol Krucoff
Promises to keep. (delegating responsibility to children)General interestMary E. Potter
Protect your home from fire.General interestGregory Cox
Quest for the ship of gold. (adapted from 'Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea')General interestGary Kinder
Reimagining Berlin. (Germany)General interestPaul Goldberger
Remembering Isabell.General interestChristel Zachert, Isabell Zachert
Return of the glaciers.General interestDerek Grzelewski
Reunion of two hearts. (reprinted from Yankee, May 1995)General interestEdie Clark
Reverend Spooner's tips of the slung.General interestJules Loh
Save our hymns.General interestSusan Elkin
Search for the lost city of the sands.General interestMichael Welzenbach
Second chance for Sara. (victim of bacterial meningococcal meningitis)General interestRobert Kiener
Secret of the Black Mountains. (Mynydd Du in Wales)General interestJan Morris
Seduced in the supermarket. (influence of packaging on supermarket purchases)General interestThomas Hine
Seinfeld on life.General interest 
Selling illusions: the cult of multiculturalism.General interestSteven Chase
Sex secrets men wish wives knew.General interestBarbara De Angelis
Sexual politics at StatsCan. (Statistics Canada)(adapted from Westeern Report, January 23, 1995)General interestPeter Verburg
Snowbound is fine. (winter)General interestPeri Phillips McQuay
Someone waiting. (importance of having a loved one waiting for one's return)General interestLynette G. Esposito
So young, so addicted. (smoking)General interestSabrina F. Hall
Straight talk about mammograms.General interestJean Benoit Nadeau
Stressed for success. (reprinted from Forbes FYI, March 1995)General interestWilliam F. Allman
Survival of the fittest. (exercise)(adapted from Health, May/June 1993)General interestSteve Fishman
Sylvie Frechette: triumph over tragedy. (synchronized swimmer)General interestJean Gounelle
Ten big questions on "The Big One." (quiz on World War II)General interestKen Ramstead
Tequila: gift of the sun. (liquor)General interestMargo Pfeiff
Terror at snowbird. (accident at a ski lodge)General interestWilliam M. Hendryx
"Thanks, Jarrod."General interestPer Ola D'Aulaire, Emily D'Aulaire
That's outrageous.General interest 
That special canoe. (adapted from Northeast Woods and Waters, January 1993)General interestJason S. Berger
The 10 sexual senses. (adapted from Redbook, March 1994)General interestW.W. Meade
The baseball expert of Bourron-Marlotte.General interestRudolph Chelminski
The birthday song. (childhood friendship)General interestRobert Tate Miller
The bomb that shook America. (1993 World Trade Center bombing)(adapted from 'Two Seconds Under the World')General interestPeg Tyre, Jim Dwyer, David Kocieniewski, Deidre Murphy
The boy who couldn't stop running. (adapted from Health, September 1994)(includes related article on obsessive-compulsives)General interestEdward Dolnick
The continuing scandal of MP's pensions.General interestDeborah Grey
The cop who wouldn't give up. (Norwegian detective Ola Thune)General interestRobert Wernick
The disappearing duchess.General interestBen MacIntyre
The dreadful waves below. (helicopter crash)General interestParker Barss Donham
The filtered truth. (low-tar cigarettes)General interestJean-Benoit Nadeau
The glorious messiness of English.General interestRobert MacNeil
The glory of Keats. (poet John Keats)General interestHubert De Santana
The long arms of our human-rights commissions. (Canada)General interestDoug Small
The magic of the corner store. (reprinted from The Georgia Strait, Nov 11, 1994)General interestJohn Lekich
The man who gave us Mario. (Sigeru Miyamoto, creator of Donkey Kong and Super Mario Brothers)General interestDavid Sheff
The man who would rule Russia. (Vladimir Volfovitch Zhirinovsky)General interestRudolph Chelminski
The missing masterpiece. (adapted from The New York Times Magazine, December 25, 1994)General interestJonathan Harr
The mystery of child prodigies. (adapted from Town and Country, April 1994)General interestGeorge Lang
The new diet pills: are they safe? Effective? (fenfluramine)General interestMary Murray
The nobs at Rideau Hall. (Canada's governor-general)General interestDavid MacDonald
The passions of Ben Weider. (collector of Napoleon memorabilia)General interestMichael Ballantyne
The plundering of Eastern Europe's treasures.General interestJonathan Kandell
The power of garlic.General interestStephen Hall
The price isn't right. (bargaining)General interestSusan Jacoby
The ride of his life. (Joe Wimberly)General interestDirk Johnson
The rogue versus the idol. (rivalry of two horses in Kentucky Derby)General interestJay Hovdey
The secret life of Chairman Mao. (Mao Zedong)(adapted from 'The Private Life of Chairman Mao')General interestLi Zhisui
The slippery slope that leads to death. (mercy killing)General interestAndrew Coyne
The United Nations is out of control.General interestDale van Atta
They're all my children. (adapted from 'The Girls in the Back of the Class)General interestLouAnne Johnson
"They were all handsome." (Canadian liberators of the Netherlands)(The Liberation of Holland, part 2)General interestGerald Clark
This lie will not die. ('Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion')General interestLawrence Elliott
Thought control goes to college.General interestParker Barss Donham
Three words that heal. (adapted from McCall's, June 1994)General interestDianne Hales
"Throw your hat over the fence." (avoiding procastination)(adapted from Guideposts, December 1994)General interestRichard H. Schneider
Tired? Depressed? Check your thyroid.General interestPaula Dranov
To bait a killer. (reprinted from The Plain Dealer, June 26, 1994)General interestStephen G. Michaud
To catch a rapist. (adapted from Ladies' Home Journal, September 1994)General interestKathryn Casey
Toronto's enduring love affair. (St. Lawrence Market in Toronto, Canada)General interestSidney Katz
To save Ryan. (toddler swallows pills)General interestBarbara Deane
Trapped by a killer fire storm.General interestMark Stuart Gill
Weight-loss answers from the calorie lab. (reprinted from Health, January 1995)General interestPeter Jaret
What I learned from Dr. Clean. (sanitizing kitchens and bathrooms)General interestMary Roach
What next for the family farm?General interestPhil Jenkins
What's behind the holly?General interest 
What women don't know about today's men. (reprinted from Cosmopolitan april 1992)General interestShelley Levitt
When a man loves a woman.General interestBill Walls
When infants cry.General interestRichard B. Goldbloom
When is it too late to have a baby? (reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly, June 1995)General interestGina Maranto
When Santa came to Lake Lorne.General interestMargaret Riddell
When squeak came to visit. (hummingbird)General interestArnette Heidcamp
When words fail.General interestJo Barney
When your doctor doesn't know: don't give up if your illness is a mystery.General interestAnne Paillard
Who, me? Lost? (people who have poor sense of direction)(includes related article)General interestAnita Manning
Why couples quarrel: how they can stop.General interestFred P. Piercy, Norman M. Lobsenz
Why I've had it with multiculturalism.General interestSonja Sinclair
Why marriage quizzes miss the mark.General interestMary Arnold
Why, oh why, do I love Paris? (a man's love for Paris, France)General interestMichael Mewshaw
Why we're losing the war on drugs.General interestMario Possamai
Wildlife vet.General interestDavid Taylor
Yabba-dabba-doo! (filming of 'The Flintstones')General interestJoe Barbera
Year of torment, year of grace. (adapted from Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, February 19, 1995)General interestWilliam Ecenbarger
"You are my samurai." (man saves another during the Los Angeles riots)General interestGregory Alan-Williams
Zoo with a mission. (Calgary Zoo, Canada)General interestEleanor Ward
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