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THE NEXT DISASTER No Pain How Bad Are We No Pills! Lawsuits Prepared? NEW RESEARCH Hurt YOU UMA on 10 WAYS TO breaking up & bouncing back Are You Rude? Take Our Quiz NEVER GIVE UP Inspiring 6Stories 10800 July 2006 $2.99 rd.com JULY *76 2006 The Next Disaster ARE WEH AMERICA IN YOUR POCKET H READY? FEATURES * ALICE LIPOWICZ A special report * 116 How Rude Are You? on 10 high-risk NEENA SAMUEL & JOSEPH K. VETTER cities. Courtesy is kaput. Or is it? Our global survey will surprise you. * 84 ‘They Said I Couldn’t’ 122 Dam Break! GARY SLEDGE WILLIAM M. HENDRYX Six inspiring stories of people The family was fast asleep. who never gave up. The next moment they were 109 You Be the Judge fighting for their lives. ROBIN GERBER * 130 Face to Face with If you jump in the ocean, you Uma Thurman LAURA YORKE swim at your own risk. Right? On breaking up, bouncing back, 112 Starstruck and why it’s great to vent. PETER LESCHAK When I finally bought a fancy telescope, I saw the universe in a whole new light. * Summer Weight-Loss Special GOLDMAN SUSAN (BACKGROUND) MILCHAN; (THURMAN) YARIV COVER: 92 Control 98 When It Pays Your Cravings to Play PAULA DRANOV KATHRYN CASEY Go ahead, take a bite. Remember how active Ten new ways to we used to be? Here’s how outwit your weight. to get back in the habit. MANGO PRODUCTIONS/CORBIS 4 102 Why Me? LISA COLLIER COOL Heather was only 33 and had never smoked. How could she have lung cancer? 136 Cheated Out of * 154 No Pain, No Pills House and Home “MAYO CLINIC ON CHRONIC PAIN” MAX ALEXANDER How to keep your aching back Don’t let these latest scams or trick knee from ruining happen to you. your life. 143 Stray From 162 BONUS READ the Heart ALANNA NASH PHOTOGRAPHED BY SHONNA VALESKA BY PHOTOGRAPHED Jordie the cat came into our lives at exactly the right time. SHIPWRECKED 146 Secrets and Lies KENNETH MILLER LAWRENCE OTIS GRAHAM A family’s dream trip around To claim his inheritance, he’d have the world suddenly turned to reveal his true identity. into a nightmare. * ON THE COVER 5 JULY 2006 COLUMNS 33 That’s Outrageous! ILLUSTRATED BY KIRSTEN ULVE KIRSTEN BY ILLUSTRATED Bad Lawsuits MICHAEL CROWLEY 45 My Planet ANDY SIMMONS 51 Health IQ MICHAEL F. ROIZEN, MD, & MEHMET C. OZ, MD 57 Money Makers MARIA BARTIROMO 75 67 Ask Laskas JEANNE MARIE LASKAS All-American 200 RD Challenge WILL SHORTZ DEPARTMENTS 15 You Said It 19 Only in America 27 Everyday Heroes 41 Word Power 60 Humor in Uniform 63 All in a Day’s Work 19 Feeling jammed yet? IMAGES BANK/GETTY IMAGE MCALISTER/BURKEY/THE 75 Quotable Quotes 152 Laughter, the Best Medicine 197 Life in These United States 179 RDLIVING This Fourth of July, get away without leaving home. Picnic on firecracker fried chicken, sip a healthy new iced tea, and play a round of Qolf while Fido puzzles over Molecuball. 180 Health 188 Home 192 You 184 Food 190 Cars 194 Pets IMAGES BANK/GETTY IMAGE LWA/THE RD Presents Picnic Time! (great, free recipes) Reader’s Digest is proud to announce a new partnership with Allrecipes.com, the world’s largest online community of home cooks. The site features 30,000 great American recipes, each created, tested and reviewed by users. And just in time for summer, Allrecipes.com is offering a collection of its Top Ten 5-star (★★★★★) picnic recipes—exclusively for you. This 12-page gift to RD readers is avail- able for free download at allrecipes.com/picnic. So take a look, grab your shopping list, and put together an outdoor feast your family can really dig into. WARD SCHUMAKER WARD Summer Slim-Down RD DIGITAL Ready to put on that swimsuit? If not, Check out our high-tech offerings. 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Here’s how it works: WE PAY $100-$300 for material we print in Life in These United States, All in a Day’s Work, Humor in Uniform, and $100 for material we print in Laughter, the Best Medicine, Quotable Quotes or elsewhere. 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/joke to submit original material ■ 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. 12 ILLUSTRATED BY BENITA EPSTEIN YOU SAID IT LETTERS ON THE MAY ISSUE The air tent (#36, America’s Best Cover-Up) caught 100 Best my attention. When my husband and I were than berman, honeymooning in Spain, head of Risk- we rented a tent from EMetrics Group, is an elderly British cou- an example of what a ple and camped on the leader should be (#93, beach. The small tent Best Payback). In this had crisscross “air age of scandals, huge beams” with an exten- bonuses and corporate sion pole in the center. bankruptcies, he is unique for ac- Five minutes with a foot pump, and knowledging his “overly generous we had it standing. raise” was “due more to his workers’ Well, what goes up must come efforts than his own.” down. When we finally emerged KATHLEEN HOOVER, Holtwood, Pennsylvania from the collapsed tent the next morning, sweating, disheveled and The giant peach water tower in looking like a couple of newlyweds Gaffney, South Carolina (#46, Best who’d made a night of it, we were Skyscrapers) isn’t just a water tower greeted by our highly amused hosts. to my family. Our youngest is treated We suspected they’d unscrewed at Shriners Hospital for Children in the valve and had a little fun at our Greenville, and the drive there is expense. They predicted that with over six hours. The giant peach is our sense of humor and knack for our landmark for “almost there!” teamwork, we’d have a long, happy SUSAN JACKSON, Columbia, North Carolina marriage. And we certainly did— 35 years. SHIRLEY KUKTA, Lake Forest, California I’ve got more entries for #10, Best Street Names: Avenue Avenue in A Promise Kept White Oak, North Carolina; Street Street in Anoka, Minnesota; Way om hallman’s story about An- Cool Way in Wishon, California; tonio Seay, the young man who Losers Loop in Sula, Montana; and Tgot legal custody of his siblings, the “last” street in the country— was incredible (“Brotherly Love”). ZZZZ Street in Kearney, Nebraska. With many of our young people JOE SNYDER, Nipomo, California falling victim to drugs and lack of 15 RD I JULY 2006 guidance or motivation, here is a used to it. But it’s smart to check with family who is going against all odds. your doctor. DR. ROIZEN AND DR. OZ Antonio’s willingness to un- selfishly sacrifice his plans and be- Best Fish Tale come a “father” to four teens is a tribute to their mom and the values was crying by the time I finished she instilled in her children. “Whale of a Rescue” about the CONNIE MAYFIELD, Spokane Valley, Washington I50-ton humpback that got tangled in ropes and nearly drowned. If Antonio has a business degree I, too, have looked eye to eye with and has shown the initiative and or- a humpback, while on a whale watch ganizational skills to have a job, care in Hawaii. It is truly a never-to-be- for a family and inspire his siblings forgotten moment! That whale knew to achieve, why aren’t Miami com- those men were trying to help her. panies breaking down his door to TERRY WESTDYKE, Sussex, New Jersey hire him for a better-paying manage- ment position? Come on, Miami, HOW TO good deeds should be rewarded. REACH US FLO SAMUELS, Hayward, California Letters to the Editor ■ [email protected] Grapefruit Concern ■ You Said It, Reader’s Digest, Box 200, Pleasantville, New York 10572-0200 n “the buzz” section of “Health Include your full name, address, e-mail IQ ,” it says that a grapefruit a and daytime phone number.