AIDS education is required in the NYC schools, but sex education is not. Hear the case for mandatory sex ed with an advocate, a teenager, and a Unitarian minister. Also, your favorite books of 2007, the ethics of regifting. Amy Eddings sits in for Brian.
Wall Street and the Subprime Mess
Kevin Connor, author of a recent study on the link between Wall Street and subprime lending, and Jamie Johnson, East Tremont resident and member of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, discuss the effects of subprime foreclosures on local neighborhoods.
Best Books
With 5 day shoppings days left before Christmas, what's a good book to buy for someone? Sarah McNally, of McNally Robinson NYC, Susan McHenry, of Black Issues Book Review, and Dwight Garner, of the New York Times Book Review, give us their recommendations from 2007.
Listeners and guests ...
Listeners and guests ...
Let's Talk About Sex
Nancy Biberman, president of Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDCO) in the Bronx argues that sex education should be mandatory in New York's public schools. She is joined by Estephania Paredes, a 9th grade student activist in the WHEDCO program. Then Reverend Debra H. Haffner, a Unitarian Universalist minister ...
Present Tense
Don't forget to scribble out the other person's name. We look at the dos and don'ts of regifting, and whether it's kosher at all, with Dayana Yochim, consumer finance expert at the Motley Fool
Brian Lehrer Show's Best Books of 2007
Listeners and guests shared their favorite reads, just in time for gift-giving season.
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Blown Sideways Through Life: a Hilarious Tour de Resume by Claudia Shear
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Dias
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