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Our America: Why You Can Count On Us
Reader's Digest — By Carl Cannon From Reader's Digest Share your ideas and stories about what it means to be an American. The ramshackle Oldsmobile that carried me between my parents' home in Virginia and the University of Colorado had 150,000 miles on it, burned . ...More…
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Jungle Escape: A Tale of Abduction and Rescue
Reader's Digest — By Steven Dudley From Reader's Digest Oscar Lizcano lifted himself off his bed of leaves and struggled to his feet. He couldn't see his own hands in front of his face, but he felt the humid jungle air around him. Crossing the rebel encampment ...More…
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11-year-old Survivor of Floodwaters Saves Her Family
Reader's Digest — By Tamara Jones From Reader's Digest Like most Oregonians, Stephanie McRae was used to driving in foul weather. Although rain still pelted the windshield of her SUV, the worst of the day's storm seemed to have passed as she drove her 11-year-old . ...More…
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Two Boys, Five Tons of Ice
Reader's Digest — By Jeff Rennicke From Reader's Digest "Can anybody hear me?" Like everyone else on the mountain that day, firefighter Terry Cushman could feel hope beginning to fade. The golden hour-those 60 precious minutes that give trauma victims the ...More…
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Drama: Lost at Sea
Reader's Digest — By Kenneth Miller From Reader's Digest Travis Wright had another half hour before going on night watch, but the choppy sea below the cabin kept him from sleeping. At 11:30, he swung off his bunk and stepped into a puddle. He expected puddles on a ...More…
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Reader's Digest — Connect with the Reader's Digest community on Facebook. Share our most talked about stories, enter contests, read our blogs and download our latest widgets. Plus, find our most popular photos and videos or upload your own. Connect with the ...More…
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Heroes: Runaway-Rig Rescue
Reader's Digest — Howard stopped, and when the truck rumbled past him, he saw that the driver, who was frantically glancing over his shoulder as he swerved toward the lanes of traffic, was young. "This guy," Howard muttered to himself, "should have his ...More…
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Northern Exposure: A Deep Sea Diver's Story
Reader's Digest — As looming icebergs blotted out the low sun, Lewis Gordon Pugh thrust his tiny craft into the Arctic pack ice 60 miles north of Norway. Spray kicked up by his paddles froze instantly against his wet suit, but the piercing chill didn't faze Pugh: ...More…
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The Manager Who Couldn't Write
Reader's Digest — What launched Amy Tan's career was not a big break, but a kick in the butt. Before the million-copy sales of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan was a writer. A business writer. She and a partner ran a ...More…
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What Causes Stress?
Reader's Digest — From Looking After Your Body Regardless of the cause, stress sets in motion certain automatic changes in the body that are designed to give it a quick burst of energy. The pattern of changes has been called the "fight-or-flight" response because ...More…
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An Ominous Sky
Reader's Digest — The sky over the 50-acre farm, deep in the Canadian countryside, had turned a strange murky green, like pea soup. Albert Eschlboeck stared out the window in astonishment. He'd seen a sky like that only once before, 20 years earlier, right before ...More…
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Hell on Wheels
Reader's Digest — Last August 4, 2000, was a normal commute for Michael Eck. He'd allowed more than two hours for the afternoon drive from his Baltimore home to his job as a forklift operator at an East Petersburg, Pennsylvania, trucking company. A quiet family ...More…