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Getting some Z's in 2005

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Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Millions of Americans can’t get a good night’s sleep, but 2005 promises to change all that. Three new prescription anti-insomnia drugs are set to debut next year, provoking euphoria in some and anxiety in others.

Suffer the Little Children

Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF, on UNICEF's relief efforts for the victims of the tsunamis
» UNICEF calls for disaster relief

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On The Waterfront

Julie Satow, Real Estate reporter for the New York Sun, on new developments along the Brooklyn waterfront
» The New York Sun

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Counting Sheep

Linda Marsa writer, Mother Jones Magazine and author, Prescriptions for Profits (Scribner 1997) says sleeping pills are an easy out for people with sleep disorders

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Child Safety

David Elkind Professor of Child Development at Tufts on the importance of free play for children
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Peter Stearns Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University and author, Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America (NYU Press) on the anxiety parents feel to raise ...

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Going Strong After 213 Years

Jack Burnett, a research editor of the Old Farmer's Almanac, share homespun wisdom from America's oldst publication
» The Old Farmer's Almanac

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Waves of Grief

As the death toll of the devastating Asian Tsunami reaches unfathomable heights, the main thing on the minds of New Yorkers and those far from the danger zone is how can we help. As UNICEF director Carol Bellamy said on today’s show, monetary funds are much more useful than ...

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