Reader's Digest May 2018 | Page 3

Contents MAY 2018 68 Cover Story CHOOSE HAPPINESS EVERY TIME Why it pays to go through life with a smile. SHIVANI SEN 76 IT’S A MAD, MAD WORLD Now, what was the world’s craziest law again? DAVID THOMAS 86 WHAT HAVE WE BECOME? No more ‘calmly sailing by’. It’s time to rage. A N U R A D H A R OY 94 THE PRISONER & THE GUARD One was a hardened criminal and the other a cynical prison warder. It was an unlikely friendship. BRUCE GRIERSON 1OO P. | 120 BACK TO THE WILD 1O8 Drama in Real Life THE DRIVE OF HIS LIFE The redeeming bond between a cabbie and his kidnapper. PAUL KIX 116 ON A CLEAR DAY … The tale of a jinxed traveller. SHEILA KUMAR Classic Read LAST TRIP OF THE HINDENBURG The end of a dangerously fragile behemoth. Hope for one of the most endangered animals on earth. MATTHEW SHAER 86 A. A. HOELING 128 BORDEAUX RISING Grandeur of a sleeping beauty in Southern France. PAUL ROBERT Bonus Read 136 WAITING FOR ALZHEIMER’S A woman finds new purpose in life. N. R. KLEINFIELD READER’S DIGEST | MAY 2018 | 3