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Group Effort • A mentorship program that helps vulnerable youth succeed

GOOD NEWS • FIVE REASONS TO SMILE

Lebanon’s English-Teaching Sisters

Can I Learn to Like Poetry? • We quiz poet and professor Sonnet L’Abbé

POINTS TO PONDER

Fire in the Belly • More stress brings more heartburn, but there are easy ways to beat it

STRENGTH TRAINING BENEFITS EVERYONE

Something in the Air • If it wasn’t bed bugs or allergies, why was she waking up with her eyes swollen shut?

DEMENTIA WARNING SIGNS • A guide to 13 symptoms you should never ignore

Dementia, but What Kind?

LIFE’S LIKE THAT

Ping & Gaston • Fostering a pair of ducklings brought new joy to our home—until I discovered what awaited them back at the farm

LAST BREATH • Two friends dove into the dark underwater tunnel. Only one came out.

LAUGHTER the Best Medicine

THE BEST JOKE I EVER TOLD

10 LIFE-SAVING INNOVATIONS COMING TO A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU • How health-care workers and institutions are revolutionizing surgery, patient care, cancer treatment—and more

AS KIDS SEE IT

NATIONAL TREASURE • A CLOSER LOOK AT THE BUTTER TART, FROM ITS FASCINATING ORIGINS TO ITS CROWNING AS CANADA’S MOST FAMOUS DESSERT

THE POWER OF NO • Why it’s okay to turn down favours

BEARING WITNESS • In his latest assignment for UNICEF, photographer Roger LeMoyne captures the resilience and determination of people displaced by ethnic conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

WORD PLAY

GOLDEN YEARS • My mom’s 80th birthday tattoo is just the latest example of her wild, newfound independence

CATCHING UP • I hadn’t seen my childhood best friend in 20 years. Would we finally talk about that terrible night from so long ago?

READER’S DIGEST BOOK CLUB • Every month, we recommend a new must-read book. Here’s what you need to know.

BRAINTEASERS

TRIVIA

WORD POWER • The human brain is amazingly complex. Make some new connections in yours with this cerebral quiz.

SUDOKU

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