Examining their CVs and the years in which they graduated undergraduate university, I estimate the average age of the task force members to be around 62 with none under 50.
A state task force has advocated replacing the aging Tappan Zee with a wider, $4 billion bridge and rail system.
He said there appeared to be a small benefit in women starting at 50, and so he agreed with the task force for that age group.
MySpace announced a similar settlement with state officials in January and joined a new Internet safety technical task force to develop age and identity verification tools for social networking sites.
Mr. Cuomo assigned to one of his staff members the task force on teen-age suicide that Mr. DelBello had headed, and to another the study of emergency communications.
MySpace, the world's largest social network with more than 117 million monthly users, also created a task force to develop age and identity verification technology to protect minors from inappropriate behavior and content.
Some of the task force's recommendations centered on the aging state of storage sites.
But the task force is now recommending that men aged 55 to 69 talk to their physicians about whether to get the test.
In 2008, state attorneys general concerned about child predators helped set up a task force to research online age verification.
They're generally created by a task force appointed by the state's Board on Aging.
In addition, women now are advised to begin screening at age 21 regardless of sexual history, and the task force specifically recommends against screening women younger than 21.
