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
» UNICEF calls for disaster relief
On The Waterfront
Julie Satow, Real Estate reporter for the New York Sun, on new developments along the Brooklyn waterfront
» The New York Sun
» The New York Sun
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
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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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 ...
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
» The Old Farmer's Almanac
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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