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By Andy Humm
NYC Plus presents a monthly round-up of news and events that have the greatest impact our lives.
HUMOR
"Spandex After 50”
By Kent Doyle
At 25, spandex puts your body on display. At 50, you learn to appreciate its girdle-like qualities. Should it even be legal to wear spandex after 50?
MEDICARE
“Ready or Not, Here Comes the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit”
By Andy Humm
Medicare recipients must now decide whether or not to sign up for the new prescription drug benefit, and choose among competing plans. It's complicated.
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In This Issue
EXCURSION
“Going to Auschwitz for the Day, and Coming Back”
By Patricia Fieldsteel
Former New Yorker Patricia Fieldsteel visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in Oswiecim, Poland with a group of Provencal Jews. Some in the group had been there before, as emprisoned slaves. Others were making a first trip. By the time the group returned, nobody's life was quite the same.
FEATURE
Dr. Casino: How Atlantic City Plays Caretaker
By Ariella Cohen
In Choosing to spend their time and money at the slots, some 70 percent of American senior citizens say they gamble. Are casinos preying on the vulnerabilities of our elders, or is it more of a two-way street?
FITNESS
“Fit Over 50: Six Experts Show and Tell”
By Judith Stiles
Six 50-plus fitness experts explain how they stay in shape and reveal secret health and nutrition tips that might work for you, too. <more, page 2>
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WORK
“'I Get the Picture' - Harry Benson”
By Janis Turk
Whether or not you've heard of Harry Benson, you can't help but know his work. At 75, the celebrated photographer who shot The Beatles when their first hit went to No. 1, the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, and every president since Eisenhower continues to get around.
BOOKS
“Would Atlas Shrug at Corporate Misdeeds?”
By Nan Goldberg
In her first book column, Nan Goldberg looks back at the novels of Ayn Rand and tries to clarify Rand's pro-capitalist “philosophy of selfishness” in the context of recent corporate abuses.
POETRY
Three Poems
By Richard Hendricks
Richard Hendricks has had a rough-and-tumble life, from U.S. Marine gone AWOL to bartender to bouncer in Times Square nude shows. He also was graduated from Columbia University last year, at 54, with a degree in English Literature. And he writes poems. Like these.