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How to Make Up Your Mind to Succeed
Reader's Digest — Well-intentioned parents have unwittingly left their kids defenseless against failure. The current generation of millennials (born between 1980 and 2001) grew up playing sports where scores and performance were downplayed because "everyone's a .. ...More…
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How to Find a New Job
Reader's Digest — Additional reporting by Neena Samuel and Kathryn M. Tyranski From Reader's Digest Also in this article: If you're willing to do your homework and use common sense, you can find real toil-from-your-dining-table jobs, ranging from telemarketing and ...More…
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A Mortgage You Can Pay
Reader's Digest — Sandra Graves broke her leg in spring 2007, just as the adjustable-rate loan on her $85,000 home spiked to 11 percent. By summer of the following year, the 52-year-old contractor and home decorator had burned through her savings and fallen months ...More…
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Stay Connected with Reader's Digest
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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How to Get Cold Cash in Tough Times
Reader's Digest — By Cathie Gandel These days, it seems as if the U.S. economy is circling the drain, just waiting to enter the pipes. Headlines warn of tightening credit markets, more foreclosures, fewer jobs, and higher prices. It's not surprising that people ...More…
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How to Avoid A Scam
Reader's Digest — The economic crisis has left many Americans deep in debt and looking for a deal-or a savior-to get them through tough times. But instead of a white knight, many are getting a shady scammer. Inspired by the headlines, con artists slap new stories ...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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How It Works: Sunburn
Reader's Digest — From Reader's Digest It's a little more complicated than a simple heat-and-char process. Immediately after sun exposure, you'll see some pink skin: That comes from dilation of the capillaries in reaction to ultraviolet B rays. "The actual ...More…
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Redo a Room (on No Budget!)
Reader's Digest — From Reader's Digest Fixes for common decorating problems that can really transform your family room, from HGTV's FreeStyle host Aaron Foster: Mat them and use similar frames. Consolidate in one or two spots, say, atop the TV cabinet and a table, ...More…
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Steals and deals on gas, food, phones and more.
Reader's Digest — Was there ever a time when any one of us turned our backs on a bargain? Probably not. But today there's even more reason to hang on to your dollars. The U.S. economy is cooling down, according to the Federal Reserve Board. At the same time, ...More…
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Charge It -- and Save
Reader's Digest — By Patricia Curtis From Reader's Digest With Bank of America's Keep the Change program, every time you use your debit card, the price is rounded up to the nearest dollar and your change is put in a savings account. Example: You charge a $2.25 cup ...More…