Reader's Digest

In this era of information overload, Reader’s Digest offers something unique: the very best advice, information and inspiration from multiple sources, condensed into an easy-to-read digest. In each issue you’ll get trusted, time-saving insights about Health, Personal Finance, Work, Family, and National issues, PLUS exclusive book excerpts, news-making interviews, and humor.

Family Secret

LETTERS • NOTES ON THE April ISSUE

Forgiveness Is Job One • The boss had every reason to turn his back. Instead, he befriended a troubled man—and hired him.

Medal of Fellowship

The FLYCASTING World Championship

Use Supplements Like a Doctor Does • Which vitamins, minerals, and over-the-counter treatments do medical professionals rely on for themselves?

LIFE • IN THESE United States

GET ME A REWRITE! • All of these headlines are real—except one. Can you spot which is from the humor site fark.com?

QUOTABLE QUOTES

Surprising Facts About Skyscrapers

WE FOUND A FIX • 9 TRICKS TO Improve Your Life*

Humor in UNIFORM

My Dad’s Greatest Lesson • Comedian Jay Leno knew that his father had heart, but one woman’s memory revealed just how big it was

How a Weed Grew into a Health Hero

News From the WORLD OF MEDICINE

EVERYDAY MIRACLES

YOUR TRUE STORIES • IN 100 Words

LAUGHTER • THE BEST Medicine

YOUR Amazing BODY • Your fingerprints can predict some health issues. Looking at the sun can make you sneeze. You grow a new skeleton every ten years. Science hasn’t uncovered every mystery, but what it has discovered will blow your mind.

VETS HELPING VETS • When the men and women who served our country are in need, who do they turn to for a helping hand? The same people they relied on back on the battlefield.

GIGGLING SIBLINGS! • The first set of brothers was Cain and Abel, and we know how that ended. Don’t worry—these tales of rivalry and love from RD readers and others have happier (and funnier) endings.

What Your Birth Order Means

Lies My Siblings Told Me

Tricks We Played on Our Siblings

LAUGH LINES

the TV DOCTOR who saved a LIFE • A man with special needs is determined to meet the star of his favorite medical drama. (The finale is a real tearjerker.)

Let’s Do the TIME WARP • The calendar doesn’t lie, but these surprising historical mash-ups show why the years can fly by one day and crawl the next.

The Old Man Versus the Mountain • It wasn’t the first time Bill McDonnell had blazed his own trail in the wilderness. But at 92, he had slowed a bit. And this time, he was really lost.

All in a Day’s WORK

RESCUE DOG • I was morbidly overweight and disconnected from the world. So was Peety. Then we found each other.

FIGHTING TRAUMA THE MILITARY WAY

BRAIN GAMES

WORD POWER • June is high season for poets and songwriters, given all those perfect rhymes: moon, tune, croon, etc. We have lots more—a whole platoon of them! For the answers, turn to the next page.

PHOTO FINISH • Your Funniest captions