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Life's Too Short and Fat
A new study says that, despite medical advances, life expectancy for the next generation of Americans will fall. Dr. Jay Olshansky, the controversial study’s lead author, says that increasing obesity rates will reverse the current trend toward longer lives.
Whatever Way the Wind Blows
Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Reporter, on if Democratic mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer's recent comments on the Diallo shooting represent a change of heart
» WNYC News
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Jamal E. Watson, Executive Editor of the Amsterdam News
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Maggie Haberman, City Hall Reporter for the New York Daily News
» New York Daily News
Life's Too Short and Fat
Dr. Jay Olshansky, Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago and Research Associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago, on his report predicting a decline in American life expectancy rates and the role of obesity in the trend
» New England Journal of Medicine article on life expectancy
It's Unsettled
Uzi Landau, Member of the Israeli Knesset and opposition leader in the Likud Party, on divisions within the Likud Party and why Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan is premature
» Uzi Landau's website
Open Phones
Listeners call in with their "weapons of everyday survival" and describe how they get back at the world for the little annoyances of everyday life.
» New York Times article on coping with annoyance
NY 51: District 19
Tony Avella,
New York City Council Member (D) representing the 19th District (Bayside, College Point, Auburndale, Beechhurst, Whitestone, Bay Terrace, Robinwood; parts of Flushing, Douglaston, Little Neck)and Chair of Zoning & Franchises Committee,
on life and politics in his district
» District 19
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