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Daniel talks with Robert McKinley of the RAM Research Group who says that consumer credit card debt has tripled in the last decade. McKinley says many credit card issuers are now offering seemingly great "teaser rates" that draw more people into getting credit cards, but then people forget those rates double and even triple after a certain amount of time and therefore more and more people are getting loaded down with debt.

- Daniel talks with clinical psychologist Dr.Sherry Turkle about how the Internet has transformed the way people define themselves. Because people are able to take on code names and virtual personas on-line, they are able to take on roles they may have never explored before. Although some people may argue that this is unhealthy, Dr.Turkle insists that it can actually be therapeutic. Her new book on the subject is called "Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet" (Simon & Schuster).

Linda Wertheimer travelled to northeastern Ohio last week, driving along the shores of Lake Erie, talking to voters about the Presidential campaign. She met with the types of voters candidate Dole is courting and needs to win over -- fiscal conservatives, people concerned with familiy values and the moral center of this country, people who have voted for Republicans in the past. But Linda Wertheimer found that many people who one might expect to vote for Dole AREN'T, and they tell us why.

International aid workers pour food and supplies into a small town in western Sudan, hoping to persuade some 30,000 people not to flee to eastern Chad. The United Nations is trying to keep Sudanese people from joining overburdened refugee camps in Chad. Arab militia have forced over a million people from their homes in Darfur. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.

HIV remains a problem in the U.S. because people don't use life-saving prevention and treatments. COVID is heading down the same path. Here are insights from people fighting on the frontlines of HIV.

Some people exposed to tainted steroid injections in last year's meningitis outbreak had slow-moving spinal infections that escaped detection until they had MRI scans. Many of the people didn't have symptoms, or thought the pain was due to their longstanding back problems.

With online health-insurance markets set to open this week, it's still unclear whether healthy people will sign up. Yet the success of the program depends on them.

The agency argues that vaccinated people are safe without masks. But the guidance leaves room for plenty of unvaccinated people to mingle dangerously, and many argue that this is fueling case surges.

It's an anxious time for people in Puerto Rico. Saturday's 5.9 magnitude earthquake was the latest of both large and small tremors that have rattled the island for more than two weeks.

The International AIDS Conference is going on this week in Washington, D.C. It's the first time in 22 years the conference is being held in the U.S.