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Reader's Digest HOURS OF GREAT READINGQ SPINE TINGLING TALESWEIRD COINCIDENCES IN REAL LIFE A HIDDEN CONDITION STEALING YOUR SLEEP ELVIS TEST YOUR TRIVIA IQ HEART EXPERTS’ HEALTH SECRETS LIVING THE EXOTIC SEACHANGE Hours of great reading Don’t miss out! Each issue packed HOURS OF with real-life GREAT READING | THE WORLD’S BEST LOVED MAGAZINE Q drama, laughs and SPINE inspiring stories. TINGLING SUBSCRIBE TALESWEIRD COINCIDENCES IN REAL LIFE AND SAVE A HIDDEN CONDITION STEALING | readersdigest.co.za YOUR SLEEP ON RETAIL ELVIS EXCLUSIVE EXTRA TEST YOUR TRIVIA IQ SUBSCRIBER PAGES HEART EXPERTS’ EVERY HEALTH SECRETS BONUS ISSUE LIVING THE EXOTIC FOR PRINT SUBSCRIBERS ONLY SEACHANGE For more details, head to: ASIA: rdasia.com/subscribe AUSTRALIA: readersdigest.com.au/subscribe NEW ZEALAND: readersdigest.co.nz/subscribe SOUTH AFRICA: readersdigest.co.za/subscribe Contents MARCH 2015 Extraordinary True Tales 32 WHAT ARE THE ODDS? Readers share their amazing real-life spine-tingling tales. Global View 40 COLOUR WHEELS The highly decorated rickshaws of Asia are works of art on the move – and a window into a different world. MOHAN SIVANAND AND GREG VORE 5-Minute Briefing 48 INSTANT ANSWERS: UKRAINE The regional conflict has roots P. centuries old. Our briefing will get | 40 you up to speed. HAZEL FLYNN Behind the News 50 REFUGEES IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY For three Ukrainian families, life in a country at war with itself is filled with heartbreak – and hope. ELEANOR ROSE Quiz 60 LONG LIVE THE KING In the year Elvis Presley would have turned 80, are you nothin’ but a hound dog or all shook up about the rock ’n’ roll legend? MICHAEL KALLINGER Health 66 WHAT’S STEALING YOUR GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP? Sleep apnoea is an under-diagnosed culprit for bleary mornings and ill health. Here’s how to P. | spot it and treat it. E.R. KING 60 Marchđ2015 | 3 Contents MARCH 2015 Living Language 74 THAT’S RESTRICTIVE! Our copy chief explains one grammatical rule everyone should know. 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This is what it’s like to be the ... accident survivors’ lives afterward, it is clear that some, if not all, suffer SOLE Survivor BY JEFF WISE from post-traumatic stress disorder ON JUNE 30, 2009, French schoolgirl Bahia Bakari, 12, and her mother, Aziza Aboudou, 33, were aboard a packed Airbus A310 on their way to Comoros, a group of islands off the eastern coast of Africa, to visit (“Sole Survivor”, January). As family for the summer Minutes from touchdown, Yemenia Flight 626 shook violently in the swirling 65km/h winds; the lights flickered, the engine stalled, The illuminated area and the plane, holding 142 passengers represents where passenger George Lamson Jr was seated a PTSD sufferer, I felt my heart break and 11 crew members, plunged into the when Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 Indian Ocean, breaking apart on impact crashed, killing 70 people as I read of the challenges they faced ILLUSTRATION BRYAN CHR STIE DESIGN and the ways in which their lives were derailed. Please spread the word that while the love of family and friends is important, ongoing professional help is also essential in such extreme cases. THERESA ROGERS Across the Divide Memory Tricks I was amazed by the story “Postcard I’ll certainly use the “Three Tricks for From Pakistan” (January) about the a Better Memory” in the health Partition of India in 1947. This story column (January). I also have a tip really defined the true meaning for recalling where you’ve put of friendship between the two something. For each item, remember neighbours. UMAR KASHIF three things about where you’ve put it. For example, I put a box under Behind the Scenes the stairs, so I remember it’s cold I thought “Medical Pros on the Road” under there, it’s under the shoe (February, Subscriber Bonus) was an stand and the box is pink. When it eye-opening read. I’ve been an avid comes to finding it, I’ll recall at least theatregoer since I was a little girl. one of the facts. 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