Editor’s Note
4 | October• 2018
LOUISE WATERSONGroup Editor
WHO HASN’T WOKEN UP IN THE MORNING of an important
examination, performance or presentation and wished something
dramatic had taken place overnight – that you’d become smarter than
you were when you went to sleep? I certainly have. ‘he Amazing
Science of Instant Savants’ (page 24) looks at the mystery of the sudden
turnaround of the lives of four people with astonishing abilities, each
one born with an average level of intelligence.
Coincidence plays an important role in so many rescues, but theunexpected yet unbreakable common thread that ran through the
events of this month’s Drama In Real Life, ‘Find My Son’ (page 42) is
what makes this a particularly compelling rescue. With
the clock ticking, three dads set out to search for a
young driver feared lost in the Australian bush.
his month also marks a giant milestone for acompany known to us all – Pilot Pen. Back in
October 1918, the company launched its irst
personal pen. his month, it celebrates its
100th anniversary and speaking as a fervent
journal writer since the age of eight, where
would we be without our pen?
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