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9/11 Heroes

Five Years

Later

Secrets

That Can Save

Students

Your Life

Slimmed

down,

grown up

& in love

at last

Plus

■ Conan O’Brien

■ Jerry Seinfeld

■ Jeff Foxworthy

■ Nora Ephron

■ Bob Newhart

September 2006

$2.99 rd.com

of A+

One Vitamin

Drew

SEPTEMBER

2006

★

AMERICA IN YOUR POCKET

★

Our funniest issue ever is jam-packed

with so many jokes, cartoons and

hilarious stories, you’ll be

laughing yourself silly!

100 The Funny Factor

DAN FERBER, PHD

Why smart brains take

humor seriously.

106 Face to Face with

Drew Barrymore

SARA DAVIDSON

The famous funny girl on why

she feels so fortunate.

112 Did You Hear the

One About …

… the doctor, the lawyer, the blonde?

Here, they tell us their favorite jokes.

118 Humor Me

MARGOT DOUGHERTY

When it comes to being funny,

Conan O’Brien can’t help himself.

122 No Joke ANDY SIMMONS

A reluctant comic discovers

ﬁrsthand that doing stand-up is

easy. For some people.

127 What They Don’t

Teach in Comedy School

JERRY SEINFELD

The toughest crowd I ever faced

taught me the true meaning

of stage fright.

130 Out of Sight

NORA EPHRON

This writer-director can’t read

the ﬁne print—and still can’t

ﬁnd her glasses.

133 America’s

Dumbest

Criminals

WILLIAM BEAMAN

A lineup of bumbling crooks who

practically caught themselves.

136 Redneck’s Revenge

ALANNA NASH

Blue-collar humorist Jeff Foxworthy

is having the last laugh.

ON THE COVER

SUPER

STORM 192

CHRISTOPHER W. DAVIS

A tornado half

a mile wide was headed

straight for town.

148 Woman of the World

WILLIAM BEAMAN & CONRAD KIECHEL

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

talks about the many crises we face,

and what we need to do.

154 Lifeline TERRI ADAMS

In a small country hospital, a 3-year-

old boy’s life hangs by a thread—and

a long-distance phone call.

162 The Miracle

Vitamin PAULA DRANOV

Getting enough D may be the best

thing you can do for your health.

182 Secrets of A+

Students WILLIAM BEAMAN

Three very different families reveal

their keys to success.

9/11 FIVE YEARS LATER

170 The Hero

DEREK BURNETT

Port Authority police sergeant

John McLoughlin: “Our lives are

changed forever.”

175 The Survivor

GAIL CAMERON WESCOTT

Wall Street executive and burn

victim Lauren Manning: “I’m

moving forward.”

178 The Leader

WILLIAM BEAMAN

New York City’s Mayor Rudy

Giuliani: “Courage is about

managing fear.”

COVER: ( BARRYMORE) KENNETH WILLARDT/CORBIS OUTLINE; (O’BRIEN) JURGEN FRANK/CORBIS OUTLINE

BONUS READ

SEPTEMBER

2006

COLUMNS

43 That’s Outrageous! MICHAEL CROWLEY

61 My Planet ANDY SIMMONS

69 Health IQ MICHAEL F. ROIZEN, MD, & MEHMET C. OZ, MD

75 Food for Life DEAN ORNISH, MD

83 Money Makers MARIA BARTIROMO

97 Ask Laskas JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

236 RD Challenge WILL SHORTZ

99 Punch

lines

DEPARTMENTS

75 New! Dr. Dean Ornish

on how to eat smart for life.

13 You Said It

19 Only in America

33 Everyday Heroes

53 Word Power

87 All in a Day’s Work

90 Humor in Uniform

93 Turning Point: Bob Newhart

99 Quotable Quotes

142 Laughter, the Best Medicine

234 Life in These United States

215 RD LIVING

There’s no place like

home—especially when

you throw a spa party,

serve a fresh harvest

stew, get your vet to

make a house call, and

de-clutter with style.

216 Health

221 Food

224 Money

225 Yo u

226 Cars

228 Pets

230 Home

YOU SAID IT

LETTERS ON THE JULY ISSUE

12 DWI s. He

still drives. He

was supposed to be on

house arrest, but he went

riding on a moped, drunk,

and hit a broken sidewalk.

Ended up with multiple

injuries and broken bones.

He still had on his elec-

tronic ankle bracelet.

Do you think he had to go

back to jail for being drunk while on

house arrest? No. Do you think he

got into trouble for driving drunk?

No. He was planning to sue the city

for the broken sidewalk until it oc-

curred to him his probation ofﬁcer

might ﬁnd out he was still drinking

and driving (“That’s Outrageous:

Lawsuit Lunacy”).

the power to say

no, but awarded the

money. As long as

juries continue to

make such awards,

the plaintiffs will be

there, the lawyers

will be there, and the

courts will allow it.

C.P., San Francisco, California

With corporations

often acting reck-

lessly, and the fed-

eral government abrogating its

oversight responsibilities, it’s left

to the civil justice system to hold

wrongdoers to account. And it’s the

trial attorneys who guide the weak-

est among us through the system to

achieve justice. KEN SUGGS, President,

Association of Trial Lawyers of America

J.F., via Internet

Scam Alert

I received an unsolicited letter

I am a “recovering” defense

lawyer. I defended professionals

who got sued, many by plaintiffs

who claimed my clients should

have saved them from themselves.

I became frustrated with the

lawyers who accepted such cases,

the trial judges who refused to

dismiss them, the appellate and

supreme court justices who rein-

stated them when a trial judge did

have the courage to dismiss one, but

most of all with the juries who had

from a mortgage company I’d

never heard of. They knew how

much I owed on my mortgage and

that I had an equity loan as well.

Even though my husband and I have

excellent credit and both loans are

current, this company suggested

we’d soon be in ﬁnancial trouble

without their help.

Later that same day, I saw your

timely article about mortgage fraud

(“Cheated Out of House and

ILLUSTRATED BY VICTOR JUHASZ

Bad Lawsuits

M y father has

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