Reader’s Digest International — August 2017

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August• 2017 | 1 Contents AUGUST 2017 Drama in Real Life 32 ONE BREATH AWAY Pinned beneath a three-tonne excavator that plunged ...

AUGUST 2017 Contents Who Knew? 68 LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE COUNTING Kids are often stopped from using their fingers to do maths. ...

August• 2017 | 3 SEE PAGE 31 THE DIGEST Health 18 How to boost self-esteem; understanding the basics of antibiotics; easy ways t ...

4 | August• 2017 BeLikedintheRealWorld I read with interest the Dalai Lama’s article ‘Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unne ...

August• 2017 | 5 adopting an orphan is like giving someone hope, a name and a family. SEEMAK BIJJAR Good for the Brain Ienjoyedy ...

6 | August• 2017 Vol. 193 No. 1147 August 2017 Letters to the editor, caption competition and other reader submissions Online Fo ...

August• 2017 | 7 NORAH WOOD HAS A HEART OF GOLDand the special ability torecognise when a stranger needed her most. What makes N ...

8 | August• 2017 OUR SON JACK,aged five, is one of Australia’s biggest Bruce Springsteen fans. He has cerebral palsy, which affe ...

August• 2017 | 9 . another time! Not today!” We tried to reassure him, “Just give it a try,” but he was insistent. I started to ...

10 | August• 2017 “And Nils?” And so we name-checked the whole E Street Band as we crossed the railway yards, on the one-kilomet ...

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12 | August• 2017 ILLUSTRATION: iSTOCKPHOTO AS HUMANITY TEETERS on the edge of annihilation, take comfort from the fact that som ...

August• 2017 | 13 them. Tell them they have a stupid haircut or you don’t like their cooking and they go on smiling. Cool. Secon ...

14 | August• 2017 AHelperSteps OutoftheCrowd Amidst the commotion, I really needed assistance KINDNESS OF STRANGERS THIS INCIDEN ...

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16 | August• 2017 ILLLUSTRATIONS: (POSSUM) EDWINA KEENE; iSTOCK JEMMA LUCICH I walked into my dining room with my toast and coff ...

August• 2017 | 17 babies outside that needed feeding. Either way, the possum, when it woke, was so fast that we lost it twice in ...

18 | August• 2017 We allhave an ‘inner critic’ who second- guesses our choices, and lobs insults about our perceived shortcoming ...