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Readers Digest FEBRUARY 2006 ★ AMERICA IN YOUR POCKET ★ * 172 Confidence GUARNACCIA STEVEN How to Get It, How to Use It SALLY KOSLOW Surprising secrets that tap your inner strength. * 92 What Your 126 Charting a Dreams Really Mean New Course LAWRENCE ELLIOTT MICHAEL J. WEISS In a boat-building shop on the Science reveals that what happens Potomac River, teens in deep in your head at night is more trouble are launching new lives. important than you think. TIM TADDER * 108 Face to Face * BOOK BONUS With Geena Davis SARA DAVIDSON She’s playing the first female MY President—and winning the popular vote. WAKEUP * 116 The New Game Killing Kids MARY A. FISCHER They’re taking risks in shocking C LL and dangerous new ways. A 123 RD NEED TO KNOW Better Than a Pill? 180 MIMI GUARNERI, MD NEENA SAMUEL Every one of my patients More and more medicines was a heart attack waiting come in a patch. Are they to happen. Turns out right for you? I was too. 2 * ON THE COVER 100 Three Hours of Fear and Hope KENNETH MILLER The inside story of JetBlue’s harrowing Flight 292. 132 Greatest Show 154 Hunt for the on Earth Green Mountain Killer PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERNHARD EDMAIER ROBERT KIENER Natural wonders as you’ve For 13 years, Ann and David Scoville never seen them. made it their mission to solve their GILLES MINGASSON/GETTY GILLES daughter’s murder. 138 Knockout! DAVID MARGOLICK 160 Buff Your Shoes The prize fight lasted only two With a Banana ANDY SIMMONS minutes, but it stayed with me … and 17 other extraordinary uses for a lifetime. for ordinary things. 144 A Healing Force 164 Spirited Away LYNN ROSELLINI RANDALL SULLIVAN How one heroic doctor is helping Kids near death report surprisingly her hurricane-ravaged town get similar experiences. What can back on the map. we learn from them? COVER: (DAVIS) ANDREW ECCLES/JBGPHOTO.COM; (PADLOCK) IAN MCKINNELL/IMAGESTATE/PICTUREQUEST 3 FEBRUARY 2006 COLUMNS 42 That’s Outrageous! MICHAEL CROWLEY 45 My Planet MARY ROACH 57 Money Talks MARIA BARTIROMO When Money Comes Between You 87 Ask Laskas JEANNE MARIE LASKAS 32 Attorney Michael Taub, a fighter for forgotten vets. 224 RD Challenge GUNNAR JOHNSON ZAVE SMITH ZAVE DEPARTMENTS 17 You Said It 23 Only in America 32 Everyday Heroes 39 Word Power 49 Medical Update 51 Turning Point 61 All in a Day’s Work TIMMONS BONNIE 65 Humor in Uniform 45 How to load 79 Unforgettable a dishwasher 91 Quotable Quotes 152 Laughter, the Best Medicine 199 Editors’ Choice 221 Life in These United States 201 RDLIVING 202 Health Flu-proofing Fido, body lotions 205 Food that multi-task, a no-budget 208 Pets family room makeover, your 210 Cars own doc in a box, and the best treats for your 212 Home sweet—and you. 214 You OUR CONTRIBUTORS Kenneth Miller is a writer based in Los Angeles. He fre- quently contributes to RD, and his work has also appeared in TIME, Rolling Stone, Discover and LIFE. Sara Davidson is a bestselling novelist, jour- nalist and radio host. She has interviewed many actors, including Tom Hanks, Angelina Jolie, Meg Ryan and Ray Romano, for RD. She can be reached at saradavidson.com. David Margolick’s Beyond Glory was recently named a New York Times Notable Book for 2005. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and was national legal affairs editor at The New York Times. He lives in New York. Michael J. Weiss is an award-winning journalist and market researcher who has written for The Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek and The New York Times Magazine. He lives with his family in North Potomac, Maryland. RD contributing editor Lynn Rosellini is a prize-winning journalist. Her sto- ries have appeared in The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report and Newsday. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and daughter. 5A EDITORS’ NOTE Do You Ever Dream? ot the “someday I’ll win the lottery” kind of daydream. But the kind that taps into the hidden Npart of your brain. The kind that comes out only in the still of the night. These are the dreams that can overtake you. They can cause you to sweat ice pellets or prompt you to make love in the middle of the day. And even when they fade as consciousness looms, they can cast a spell on your day. People have speculated about dreams since primitive humans drew pictures on the walls of caves. Because dreams couldn’t be controlled, they were attributed to the gods and the supernatural. Shakespeare used dreams as a dramatic device. Remember the sleepwalking Lady Macbeth who rubbed her hands repeatedly in an effort to cleanse the blood from her hands? “Out, damned spot!” But it wasn’t until Freud came up with what is now thought of as a highly flawed theory (that dreams repre- sent latent desires) that analyzing and demystifying dreams became a credible area of study. Not much changed since Freud. Until now. Our cover story on page 92 shows how researchers are unlocking the hidden meaning of dreams and how these nocturnal videos impact our lives. Now if they could only figure out why we need to sleep in the first place ... THE EDITORS PHOTOS: (MILLER) JULIE RIES; (DAVIDSON) VALARI JACK; (MARGOLICK) ELENA SEIBERT; (WEISS) ROBERT SHERBOW ROBERT (WEISS) ELENA SEIBERT; (MARGOLICK) JACK; VALARI (DAVIDSON) JULIE RIES; (MILLER) PHOTOS: 5B RD Presents Give Us Your Best It’s that time of year again! Our third annual Best of America issue (May 2006) is well underway, and we’d love to know what’s tops by you. We’re especially looking for the best sandwich Check This Out! in the country. Got a great one? If so, Have you rush your recipe to seen our digital edition yet? It’s [email protected] by delivered right to February 20, 2006, your computer each along with a month—no waiting at the picture of mailbox—and includes your sand- all the RD content you’ve wich, your name, come to rely on. Click on address and phone. a hyperlinked table of If we pick your recipe, contents, and use digital you may be featured in our Best of Amer- features to search and high- ica issue. It’s a tantalizing prospect—so light stories. To learn more, hurry! For details, go to rd.com/boa06. go to rd.com/digital. Winning With WORDS ▲▲SUBSCRIBE ▲ Give a gift or subscribe to Join the Reader’s Digest National Word Power the magazine with the Challenge—a program dedicated to building vocab- touch of a button. ulary skills for kids in grades 4-8. Students are SIGN UP Get the competing now for the titles of state champ and RD Insider, a free all-expense-paid trips with their teacher-escorts to monthly e-mail that the national competition this spring. Contestants highlights our newest will be guests at the Portofino Bay Hotel at Univer- offerings online. sal Orlando®, A Loews Hotel and sponsor of the SAVE TIME ERIC ANTHONY JOHNSON/NONSTOCK RIGHT: MICHAEL SLOAN; LEFT: program. The top three winners earn a Payments, changes total of $50,000 in college scholarships. of address and other To register for the 2006-07 pro- inquiries can be made gram, call 866-523-6388 or visit at rd.com/help. wordpowerchallenge.com. 6 GO AHEAD: MAKE US LAUGH veryone has a funny story. Just send us yours, and Eif we publish it in Reader’s Digest, you’ll be laughing all the way to the bank. Here’s how it works: WE PAY $300 for true, never-before- published stories we print in Life in These United States, All in a Day’s Work, or Humor in Uniform. WE PAY $100 for the submission of a previously published or original item we print in Laughter, the Best Medicine; in Quotable Quotes; or elsewhere, as a short item. THE RULES Please note your name, address and phone number with all submissions. Previously published material must include the name, date, page number, Web address or other source identification. Original items should be less than 100 words, and if we select and pay for your item, we will own all rights. All contributions may be edited and cannot be acknowledged or returned. We may run your item in any section of our magazines, or elsewhere. If we receive more than one copy of the same or a similar item, we pay only for the one we select. HOW TO SUBMIT JOKES AND ANECDOTES ■ Go to rd.com to submit original material (Click on “Submit a Joke”) ■ To enclose funny items clipped from other sources, mail to: Humor, Reader’s Digest, Box 100, Pleasantville, New York 10572-0100 Rates are subject to change; for current information, please visit rd.com. 10 ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE B. ABBOTT YOU SAID IT LETTERS ON THE DECEMBER ISSUE Silent Epidemic an ferber’s article, “The Checkup That Can Save DYour Life,” compellingly reinforces dentistry’s long- held tenet that the mouth is the window to the body. On- going scientific study is adding rapidly to our knowl- edge base on possible associa- tions between oral health and systemic health issues such as car- diovascular diseases, diabetes and premature births. Losing Our Edge? The American Dental Association s an american, I am saddened and its more than 152,000 members by the state of our education salute Dan Ferber for bringing this Asystem. Kathryn Wallace’s important aspect of oral health into report on why our scientists are dis- focus, and unveiling why “the den- appearing tells it like it is (“Amer- tist may be the most important doc- ica’s Brain Drain Crisis”).
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