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In This Issue
October 2011 - Departments
- Up Front
- How to boost your memory
- New tests find glitch with dishwasher detergents
- Close up: CD rates
- Hidden caffeine in food
- When do you need a paper receipt?
- Red wine blends
- What is 'the cloud'?
- Taste test: Fruit cups for kids
- Recalls & safety alerts
- CR Health
- How to haggle with your doctor
- Water, not hydrogen peroxide, is best for cuts
- CR Money
- Timing your Social Security benefits
- Viewpoint
- Guarding your credit score
- From our president
- What's mined is yours
- Selling It
- Your Letters
- Ask our experts
- Browse issues
- Saving energy
Important things to consider to cut your energy costs. - Energy-saving bulbs
Our first Ratings of LED lights.
- Alternative energy
We test-drive a wind turbine. - Updates on solar and other energy systems
Lab Tests 
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Tires
Best choices in ultra-high performance treads for all seasons. -
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Blood-pressure monitors
Some wrist models shine in our latest tests.
- More Tests: Computers, Energy claims fall short, TV fine-tuning, and Shattered glass
Cars
What's coming down the road for the next model year.
New technology creates new concerns about driver distraction.
New technology creates new concerns about driver distraction.
Road tests of the Fiat 500, Honda Civic Hybrid, Lexus CT 200h, and Volkswagen Jetta TDI.
Consumer Reports October 2011 provides recommendations, expert buying advice, and Ratings on hundreds of consumer products. Consumer Reports is one of the most trusted sources for information and advice on consumer products and services, with more than 7 million
print and online subscribers. It conducts the most comprehensive testing programs of any U.S. publication or Web site, and
the magazine's experts have decades of experience in testing and reporting. To become a subscriber, consumers can call 1-800-234-1645.
Updated information and reports from the magazine can be accessed online at www.ConsumerReports.org.
