| Reader's Digest (Canadian) 1996 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| 5 easy ways to increase your reading power: handy tips for people who wish they had more time to read. | General interest | |
| 7 steps to healthy-looking skin. | General interest | |
| A boy and his cat. (adapted from AP Newsfeatures, November 27, 1994) | General interest | Judith S. Johnessee |
| A brutal collision of kids and booze. | General interest | Tamara Jones |
| A child to lead us. (rearing a child with Down's syndrome)(adapted from 'The Scotsman,' 1994) | General interest | Kenny Kemp |
| A coyote named Promise. | General interest | Penny Porter |
| Aerobic exercise Q & A. (includes related article on determining target heart rate) | General interest | |
| A family like no other. (how one family dealt with cancer) | General interest | Edna Buchanan |
| A feeling for priorities. (condensed from Newsweek) | General interest | Arnold Benson |
| Alarm bells in the desert. (Saudi Arabia and Islamic extremism) | General interest | Fergus M. Bordewich |
| All our lives long. (married couple celebrates 50th wedding anniversary) | General interest | Jeanne Marie Laskas |
| Alone in a swirling sea. | General interest | William M. Hendryx |
| Along the pilgrim's path. (Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage) | General interest | Cowley Deborah |
| America's billion-dollar man. (investor Warren Buffett)(condensed from 'Buffett') | General interest | Roger Lowenstein |
| An African experience. (animal life at the Mala Mala Game Reserve, South Africa)(adapted from 'An African Experience,' 1993) | General interest | William (American government official) Taylor |
| An encounter with the orca. (killer whale)(adapted from Arts and Auto, Issue 3, 1995) | General interest | Berend Schaeffner |
| Answers to everyday mysteries. (condensed from 'The Handy Science Answer Book') | General interest | |
| A pause for the veranda: there's no better place to keep in touch with the world. (adapted from The New Brunswick Reader Magazine, Sept. 30, 1995) | General interest | Leslie Childs |
| A perfect match. (blind person's relationship with her guide dog) | General interest | Anita Bartholomew |
| Are we alone in the universe? (discovery of new planets) | General interest | Paul Davies, Michael D. Lemonick, Leon Jaroff |
| Are you getting enough sleep? If not, you are paying a price. | General interest | Jane E. Brody |
| Are you making these money mistakes? (adapted from Money, July 1995) | General interest | Gary Belsky |
| Are you suffering from an energy crisis?(Lifestyle Digest: A Special Advertising Feature) | General interest | |
| "Are you trying real hard?". (condensed from 'Succeeding Against the Odds,' 1989) | General interest | John J. Johnson, Lerone Bennett Jr. |
| A sister's helping hand. (placing twin babies in same bed) | General interest | Nancy Sheehan |
| A sticky subject. (chewing gum) | General interest | Roy Rivenburg |
| Attacked by a mountain grizzly. | General interest | Kathy Cook |
| A VCR for $50. (adapted from the Detroit Free Press Magazine, May 28, 1995) | General interest | Chris Hardy |
| A very tall tale. (short stature) | General interest | Michael Sokolove |
| Baby pigeon sighted! (The New York Times Magazine, July 23, 1995) | General interest | John Tierney |
| Bed wetting: a common problem for older children.(Lifestyle Digest: A Special Advertising Feature) | General interest | |
| Before you kill yourself.... (suicide facts) | General interest | Renee T. Lucero |
| Beneath the cold, cold river. (rescue story) | General interest | Jim Hutchison |
| Beware the big worriers. (condensed from 'All the Trouble in the World,' 1994) | General interest | P.J. O'Rourke |
| Be your own lawyer, win your own case: small-claims courts are a legitimate and effective way of "taking the law into your own hands." | General interest | Laureen Sweeney |
| Bluff your way through any conversation. | General interest | Tim Clark |
| Calcium: the miracle nutrient. (condensed from 'Family Circle') | General interest | Bill Lawren |
| Childhood diseases are back.(Medical Alert) | General interest | Alison Ramsey |
| Chile, "the fourth amigo." (North American Free Trade Agreement) | General interest | Charles Magill |
| Cleansing ... from the inside out.(Lifestyle Digest: A Special Advertising Feature) | General interest | |
| Closing in on breast cancer. (adapted from Self, October 1995) | General interest | Monika Guttman, Shannon Brownlee |
| Cobra attack! | General interest | Mike Thomas |
| Confessions of a hired seducer. (condensed from Classic FM) | General interest | David Pearl |
| Crime and punishment: a compilation. (irrationality of the criminal justice system) | General interest | |
| Curing vaginal infections.(Lifestyle Digest: A Special Advertising Feature) | General interest | |
| Detecting Parkinson's. (Parkinson's Disease)(News From the World of Medicine) | General interest | |
| Dinner for two. (Valentine's Day) | General interest | Shannon Roe |
| Does prayer heal? | General interest | Larry Dossey |
| Does your child have dyslexia? | General interest | Anne Paillard |
| Dogs to the rescue! | General interest | Richard Burnett |
| Don't let your period get you down. (Lifestyle Digest: A Special Advertising Feature) | General interest | |
| Duel of the cybergiants. (Tsutomu Shimomura and John Markoff vs. Kevin Mitnick)(condensed from 'Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw - By the Man Who Did It,' 1996) | General interest | |
| Eden in the south of France. (adapted from National Geographic, September 1995) | General interest | William Bryson |
| Emergency on Flight BA 032. (collapsed lung operation in midair) | General interest | John Dyson |
| Faster than a speeding bullet. (Blackbird aircraft) | General interest | Leo Janos, Ben R. Rich |
| Field of my dreams. (reconciling with one's heritage)(condensed from 'Viking') | General interest | Arnold Berwick |
| Fighting city hall from inside. (Frances Nunziata, mayor of Canadian town of York) | General interest | David MacDonald |
| Flatten your tummy - forever. | General interest | Sue Browder |
| Foods that boost your moods. (adapted from Ladies' Home Journal, November 1995) | General interest | Jennifer Reid Holman |
| Forgotten menace on our highways: something you might never suspect causes untold numbers of accidents each year. (includes related article on safe driving) | General interest | Anne Paillard |
| General MacKenzie at the wheel. (Maj. Gen. Lewis MacKenzie test-drives cars) (The Financial Post Magazine, Dec. 1995) | General interest | Mark Anderson |
| 'Gen-X' entrepreneurs. (entrepreneurs below 35 yrs. old) | General interest | Julie Barlow |
| Get ready for the boom. (when the first of the baby boomers turn 50) | General interest | Riley E. Moynes |
| Gun control way off target. (Canada's Bill C-68)(condensed from 'The Next City') | General interest | Karen Selick |
| Heroes for today. (modern heroic acts) | General interest | |
| Hero for a forgotten people. (Timorese Bishop Carlos Belo) | General interest | Paul Raffaele |
| Home-buying traps to avoid. (condensed from 'The 106 Common Mistakes Homebuyers Make') | General interest | Gary W. Eldred |
| Hotheads and heart attacks. (adverse effects of anger on health)(includes quiz on level of hostility) | General interest | Edward Dolnick |
| How a thief stole my name. (credit card crimes)(includes related article) | General interest | Marcia Vickers |
| How safe is your Canada pension? (proposed reforms to the Canada and Quebec pension plans) | General interest | Charles W. Magill |
| How to be a busy body ... with less stress.(Lifestyle Digest: A Special Advertising Feature) | General interest | |
| How to handle irregularity. | General interest | |
| If cancer strikes: what you do can save your life. | General interest | Claudia Cornwall |
| "I have not forgotten." (caring for elderly schizophrenic women) | General interest | Hilary Leidolf Lohrman |
| Interior resigner. (redecorating rooms) (The Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 19, 1992) | General interest | John Ibbitson |
| John Paul II and the hidden history of our time. (condensed from 'His Holiness') | General interest | Carl Bernstein, Marco Politi |
| Just being there. (helping friends deal with tragedy)(adapted from Princeton Alumni Weekly, October 11, 1995) | General interest | James M. Kennedy |
| Justice in a small town. (Spring Township, PA: condensed from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) | General interest | Michael Carmody |
| Keeping fit with arthritis. | General interest | |
| Keeping fit with arthritis.(Lifestyle Digest: A Special Advertising Feature) | General interest | |
| Kitchen and bath remodeling: you can do it! | General interest | |
| Kitten in the wilderness. (story of an abandoned kitten) | General interest | John Thurston |
| Last mystery of the Czar. (execution of Russian Czar Nicolas Romanov and his family) | General interest | Rudolph Chelminski |
| Letting go: how should it feel when a child leaves home? | General interest | Art Hister |
| Lies men tell women. | General interest | Joyce Brothers |
| Lightning from Kladno. (Pittsburgh Penguin hockey player Jaromir Jagr) | General interest | William Gildea |
| Little things do mean a lot. (attention to details) | General interest | Alison Ramsey |
| Living with diabetes. | General interest | |
| Living with diabetes.(Lifestyle Digest: A Special Advertising Feature) | General interest | |
| Lost in an arctic sea. | General interest | Lynne Schuyler |
| Lost in the Iraqi desert. (story of British soldier who fought in the Persian Gulf War) | General interest | Chris Ryan |
| Love beyond all understanding. | General interest | Suzanne Chazin |
| Magic in a storm. (having fun on a stormy night) | General interest | Christopher De Vinck |
| Make the rich pay? This inevitably means whack the middle class too. (tax system in Canada) | General interest | Lorne Gunter |
| Making history with Motown. (condensed from SMithsonian) | General interest | Marian Smith Holmes |
| Master of illusion. (filmmaker George Lucas) | General interest | Randall Lane |
| Me and the box queen. (living with pack-rats)(adapted from 'All I Know About Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room,' 1995) | General interest | Erma Brombeck |
| Meat loaf s'il vous plait. (English restaurant in Lyons, France) | General interest | Tom Higgins |
| Miracles of the brain. | General interest | Joel L. Swerdlow |
| Must our prisons be resorts? | General interest | Celeste McGovern |
| My Cinderella dress. (teenage memories) | General interest | Karen G. Dorman |
| My father's son. | General interest | Bill Heavey |
| My first job. (personal narratives) | General interest | Victor Malerek, Loreena McKennitt, Jim Pattison |
| My girl, my wife. (excerpt from 'In the Arena,' 1995) | General interest | Charlton Heston |
| My son, the dinosaur. (fatherhood)(condensed from 'Dave Barry's Greatest Hits') | General interest | Dave Barry |
| Mysteries of the agile beluga. (condensed from National Geographic) | General interest | Kenneth S. Norris |
| My turn to ride. (childhood memories of a train ride that never was) | General interest | Claire McGuire |
| My unforgettable pop. (a man's personal relationship with his stepfather) | General interest | Albert DiBartolomeo |
| Newfoundland's phantoms of ice. (icebergs from Greenland) | General interest | Jim Hutchinson |
| News from the world of medicine. | General interest | |
| No life for a child: the small slaves to Pakistan's carpet trade cry for help. | General interest | Jonathan Silvers |
| Notes of a cliche hunter. (adapted from the Orlando Sentinel's Florida Magazine, December 11, 1994) | General interest | Mike Berry |
| One billion rice bowls to fill. (lack of peasant farm workers threatens rice supply)(adapted from Newsweek International, May 15, 1995) | General interest | George Wehrfritz |
| On the cancer front.(News from the World of Medicine) | General interest | Ron Kotulak, John Van |
| Osteoarthritis & the knee. (benefits of 'viscosupplementation') | General interest | |
| Pacific cyclone! (crisis at sea) | General interest | Tony Farrington |
| Planting this fall for flowers next spring. | General interest | |
| Power of a great idea. | General interest | Karen Evoy |
| Protecting your eyes from within. (bilberries help maintain visual acuity)(adapted from 'Alive Journal of Health and Nutrition,' Apr. 1996) | General interest | |
| Protect your child from crime. | General interest | Sharlene King Johnson |
| Protect your skin from sun damage. | General interest | |
| Quest for the kouprey. | General interest | Steve Hendrix |
| Relief for osteoarthritis pain.(Lifestyle Digest: A Special Advertising Feature) | General interest | |
| Relief for painful heels. (causes and remedies of heel problems) | General interest | |
| Reversing the effects of sun and time. (combatting aging through skin creams) | General interest | |
| Rheumatism and blindness. (adapted from Gannett Suburban Newspapers)(News From the World of Medicine) | General interest | Marie Cortissoz |
| Rude awakening. (condensed from The Washington Post magazine) | General interest | Jeanne Marie Laskas |
| Salt of the earth. (southern Poland's Wieliczka Salt Mine) | General interest | John Robert Dornberg |
| Sam Sullivan's gift of freedom: he has inspired hundreds to help make life easier for the severely handicapped. | General interest | Jim Hutchison |
| Say what? (collection of misstatements, doublespeak and idiocy) | General interest | Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras |
| Schooner dreams. (adapted from This Country Canada, Spring 1994) | General interest | Tom Gallant |
| Search-and-rescue mom. (volunteer Caroline Hebard) | General interest | Hank Whittemore |
| Seven things smart parents never say. | General interest | Harriet Webster |
| Sex in the workplace. | General interest | Dianne Hales |
| Should our schools be more like Japan's? | General interest | Nicholas D. Kristof |
| Singing with Mom. (condensed from The Wall Street Journal) | General interest | John R. Carter |
| Son for a season. (condensed from The Wall Street Journal) | General interest | Jo Ann C. Nahirny |
| Soy far, soy good. (adapted from the New York Times)(News From the World of Medicine) | General interest | Natalie Angier |
| Stalking evil. (tracking serial killers and rapists) | General interest | John Douglas, Mark Olshaker |
| Stefania's choice. (Stefania Podgorska; Nazi death camps) | General interest | Thomas (American writer) Fleming |
| Steven Spielberg's close encounter with the past. | General interest | Linden Gross |
| Stress-proof your home. | General interest | Kristin Von Kreisler |
| Tasty foods to boost your health. | General interest | Jennifer Reid Holman |
| Thanks for everything. (gratitude) | General interest | Fred Bauer |
| That little china chip. (romantic souvenir) | General interest | Bettie B. Youngs |
| That "other woman" in my life. (dating one's mother: condensed from Smithsonian) | General interest | David C. Farrell |
| The arthritis report: learning to live well with arthritis. | General interest | |
| The basic facts about warts. | General interest | |
| The best years of my life. (story of Canadian naturalist Farley Mowat) | General interest | |
| The boy who talked with the dolphins. (dolphin trainer Jeff Siegel) | General interest | Paula McDonald |
| The connection. (work and spousal relationship) | General interest | Thom Hunter |
| The delegate: he's 95 percent sure he picked the right Romeo. (political candidates with the same name) | General interest | Douglas How |
| The doctor and her painkilling koalas. (Family Practice, Nov. 15, 1993) | General interest | Anna Mary Burditt |
| The garden letters. (condensed from the book 'The Garden Letters') | General interest | Elspeth Bradbury, Judy Maddocks |
| The good-luck charm of feng shui. (Chinese geomancy) (Smithsonian, Aug. 1993) | General interest | Susan Hornik |
| The good ol' hockey game. (Imperial Oil Review, Winter 1994) | General interest | Martin (American politician) O'Malley |
| Their passport to adventure. (Tony and Maureen Wheeler, writers of "Lonely Planet" guidebooks) (Smithsonian, Oct. 1994) | General interest | Jon Krakauer |
| The jock within her. (adapted from Canadian Living, April 1995) | General interest | Barbara Yaffe |
| The legacy: the good doctor taught his son more than the art of healing. (adapted from 'Down From Troy,' 1992) | General interest | Richard Selzer |
| The littlest pet. (mouse) | General interest | Faith McNulty |
| The man who wouldn't die. (plant worker survives after being drenched with bitumen) | General interest | Siobhan McMahon |
| The myth of a loving murder. (euthanasia case) | General interest | Tom Koch |
| The people time forgot. (the Korowai of Irian Jaya, Indonesia) | General interest | Paul Raffaele |
| The plague of pessimism. (condensed from Imprimis) | General interest | Michael Medved |
| The real choice facing Canada. (separatist movements in Quebec) | General interest | Frank McKenna, Donald Savoie |
| The school of hard talks. (learning a new language)(adapted from Equinox, May/June 1995) | General interest | Jim Cormier |
| These are the Neanderthals. | General interest | Rick Gore |
| The sexual revolution's next goal. (condensed from 'Saturday Night') | General interest | David Frum |
| The sinbuster of Smoky Burn. (book condensation) | General interest | Hugh W. McKervill |
| The social cost of single parenthood. | General interest | David Frum |
| The true path to enlightenment. (Canadian clothing firm Turnbull and Asser) | General interest | Michael Coren |
| The white sneakers. (doctor-patient relationship) | General interest | Edwin Dobb |
| They don't hate me in Sandpoint. | General interest | Ben Stein |
| They're going to kill me! (kidnapping victim) | General interest | Bonnie Munday |
| This precious gift. (handmade cutting board)(condensed from 'Moving Violations') | General interest | John Hockenberry |
| Thomas Bata, shoemaker to the world. | General interest | Sonja Sinclair |
| Toronto's toughest cops. | General interest | Robert Kiener |
| Trapped under a train.(Drama in Real Life) | General interest | Tess Redgrave |
| Triumph of an Olympian. | General interest | Doug Small |
| Tune up your senses. (condensed from Men's Health) | General interest | Stephen C. George |
| Two simple energy-saving tips. | General interest | |
| Understanding the pain of osteoarthritis. | General interest | |
| Waging war on allergies and asthma. (condensed from Mclean) | General interest | Mark Nichols |
| Waiter from hell. (adapted from Arizona Highways, September 1995) | General interest | Gene Perret |
| Wangari Maathai: Kenya's voice of courage. | General interest | John Borrell |
| Wardens of the wilderness. (Canada's mountain parks) | General interest | Roberta Walker |
| Weather's unseen power. (condensed from Outside) | General interest | Sallie Tisdale |
| Weed it and reap. (weeding as a means of easing worries) | General interest | Susan Sarver |
| What makes a marriage last. (Cosmopolitan, May 1992) | General interest | Catherine Houck |
| What supermarkets know about you. (condensed from The New York Times Magazine) | General interest | Jack Hitt |
| What's your emotional IQ? (intelligence quotient) | General interest | Daniel Goleman |
| What to do about an irresistible itch.(Lifestyle Digest: A Special Advertising Feature) | General interest | |
| What to do about corns, calluses & bunions. | General interest | |
| What we moderns miss. (morality and society) | General interest | Robert Nielsen |
| What women don't understand about guys. (adapted from 'Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys') | General interest | Dave Barry |
| What you can do about stomach upset. | General interest | |
| What you can do about stomach upset.(Lifestyle Digest: A Special Advertising Feature) | General interest | |
| What you didn't know about risk. (risk assessment) | General interest | John F. Ross |
| What you need to know about cellulite. | General interest | Salley Shannon |
| When taxes are toxic. (Canada) | General interest | Diane Francis |
| When TV bought the Jackson jive. (Diane Sawyer's interview with Michael Jackson)(Interview) | General interest | Maureen Orth |
| Why am I so tired? | General interest | Patricia Long |
| Why humans love horses. | General interest | Lawrence Scanlan |
| Why is the funny fruit so funny? (bananas) (New York Times Magazine, May 9, 1993) | General interest | William Safire |
| Why peacekeeping doesn't work. (UN peacekeeping operations)(adapted from Saturday Night, November 1995) | General interest | Charles Krauthammer |
| Will they lose control today? (air traffic controllers) | General interest | Darcy Frey |
| Wimbledon of the backwoods. (South Cowichan Lawn Tennis Club) | General interest | David MacDonald |
| Woman in the mirror. (undergoing mastectomy)(condensed from 'You Don't Have To Be Your Mother') | General interest | Gayle Feldman |
| Words that don't heal. (The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1993) | General interest | Linda Burton |
| Yeast infections: questions & answers. | General interest | |
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