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Healthy, Wealthy and Wise
Your average teen uses the internet to research school papers or update her myspace page. But a growing number are visiting “pro-ana” pages—websites that promote anorexia as a lifestyle choice, not a disease. What does the proliferation of these sites mean, and what can parents and schools do? Also: a summit convenes to combat the high school dropout crisis, and out-of-state telecommuters rise up against New York State’s commuter tax.
Strange Bedfellows
At least 20 states are considering mandatory vaccination of young girls against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. But the backlash has been fast and furious--and has led to some unlikely alliances. Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, and Moira Gaul, director of women's and reproductive health at the Family Research Council, talk about their opposition to mandatory inoculation. Sheila Krumholz, executive director, Center for Responsive Politics, talks about the lobbying efforts and legislative influence of the pharmaceutical industry.
Anti-Social Networking
Lynn Grefe, CEO of the National Eating Disorders Association talks about the proliferation of "Pro-Ana" websites.
Tune In, Don't Drop Out
Robert Jackson, member of the New York City Council (D-Manhattan), Malaika de Jesus, a high school junior, and Elizabeth de Jesus, a high school senior, talk about the high school dropout epidemic and the LINK Directions for Our Youth summit convened to create a prevention campaign.
Does Not Commute
Rob Plattner, a tax attorney in Albany and the author of the New York State Tax Handbooks, and attorney Nicole Belson Goluboff, advisory board member of the Telework Coalition, a Washington-based advocacy group for telecommuters and the author of The Law of Telecommuting (American Law Institute, 2001), explain why telecommuters pay taxes to New York for money they earn working from their out-of-state homes.
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
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Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
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From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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