Reader\'s Digest Australia & New Zealand - June 2018

June• 2018 | 39 READER’S DIGEST August 2017 to ight ac lympho blastic leukemi children and young ad In a clinical trial, 83 cent ...

40 | June• 2018 6 NEW TREATMENTS THAT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE Breast Cancer In 2018, an estimated 18,235 new cases of breast cancer w ...

June• 2018 | 41 READER’S DIGEST the body,” says medical oncologist Dr David Shiba. “Cancers that have spread to the lymph nodes, ...

Thelanguageintoday’s most popular novels is far simpler than it was just a few decades ago BY BEN BLATT FROM THE BOOKNABOKOV’S F ...

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44 | June• 2018 HAVE BESTSELLERS BECOME DUMBER? soundoutwordsratherthanhaving tomemorisethem.Healsohelpedto create a mathematica ...

June• 2018 | 45 READER’S DIGEST 2014 and ran the Flesch-Kincaid test on all 563 of them. Most books meant for a general audience ...

HAVE BESTSELLERS BECOME DUMBER? 46 || June• 2018 including Stephen King, Danielle Steel and Harlan Coben, rank at or below the s ...

READER’S DIGEST June• 2018 || 47 are not complex – by deinition, pop- ular means they appeal to the masses. For what it’s worth, ...

Life’s Like hat SEEING THE FUNNY SIDE 48 | June• 2018 he cleverness of this 50-year-old anecdote from June 1968 has well and tru ...

June• 2018 | 49 year-old cousin Nathan on the gravelpatiowhenIspottedthem throwing stones. I called them both over and told them ...

ART OF LIVING N ot long ago, when out-of-town relatives wouldstaywithmefortheweekend,my favourite part of each visit happened af ...

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52 | June• 2018 CAN WE TALK? resigned to the fact that sometimes our companions prefer to use their devices instead of fully eng ...

June• 2018 | 53 READER’S DIGEST each person staring at a phone. his has impacted the genera- tion’s communication skills. “Young ...

54 | June• 2018 CAN WE TALK? middle-aged women have the highest levels. Why? Middle-aged women may have more opportunities to le ...

June• 2018 | 55 READER’S DIGEST Joël Billieux, who studies the addic- tive use of information and com- munication technologies. ...

YFATHERDIEDUNEXPECTEDLYof cardiacarrestinhisbedinthespring of2008.Hewas80.henextday,weall gotthephonecall.ButmysisterKatharine, ...

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58 | June• 2018 OPENING HEAVEN’S DOOR She sensed a presence in her bed- room.“Ifelthandsonmyhead,and experiencedvisionaftervisio ...