Times Square is a favorite hangout for many city teens, but Consumer Affairs Commissioner Gretchen Dykstra is warning young New Yorkers to watch their wallets when they go. The former President of the Times Square Business Improvement District wants them to know that scams and identity theft can happen anywhere at any time.
Palliative Pow-wow
Thomas Murray, President of The Hastings Center, on pain management and the ethics of the drug companies' role and Cassandra Snyder, Director of Pain Management at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania and past president of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses and Dr. Joe Sacco, ...
Fiscal Responsibility 101
Gretchen Dykstra, New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, on efforts to educate teens to be better consumers.
Cold War, Hot War
James Carroll, Op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe and National Book Award-winning author, on his recent columns on the war in Iraq, and his new novel set in East Berlin as the wall is going up: Secret Father (Houghton Mifflin 2003)
Prescription Benefit Costs
Robert Hays, President of the Medicare Rights Center, on proposed changes in the National Association of Homecare and Hospice on medicare reform's cost for hospice and home care.