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Auto insurance and your age

Posted on 16. Jul, 2010 by admin.

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There are many people out there who still don’t know how insurance providers calculate their rates for insuring their autos. It comes to the point when people ask their insurance agents why their neighbors have lower rates while driving the same car and getting insurance form the same provider? Unfortunately, it’s quite common for insurance [...]

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Health insurance through Health Savings Accounts

Posted on 16. Jul, 2010 by admin.

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Health Savings Accounts (or HSAs) have become a very popular form of health coverage these days because of their tax deduction policy and the ability to accumulate additional funds as a retirement plan. However, despite the numerous benefits customers get with HSAs, the main reason for thousands of Americans to choose this form of insurance [...]

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Cycling in cities: Shifting up a gear

Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by admin.

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Rent-a-bike projects are cropping up in unlikely places THIN air, thick smog and bad drivers make Mexico City hard going for cyclists. But a new fleet of 1,200 smart red “Ecobici” pay-as-you-go rental bikes, at 85 docking stations, marks the most ambitious recent addition to a global trend of municipally endorsed cycling. Since February 7,000 people have signed up, and between them they have taken more than 200,000 trips. A low-tech scheme started in the French town of La Rochelle in 1974. Copenhagen launched the first big automated project in 1995. German cities, including Berlin, have tried versions paid for by mobile phone. But the most successful is the “Velib” in Paris, with 20,000 bikes available for users with swipe-cards. In London the transport authority and Barclays Bank will launch a 6,000-bike programme on July 30th. Users can pay at one of the 400 docking stations, or use a key with a chip. …

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The quality of death: Grim reapings

Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by admin.

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An attempt to rank end-of-life care in different countries CUSTOMER-SATISFACTION surveys are commonly used to improve the service in hotels and shops. Alas, they are unsuitable for rating the quality of death. So the Lien Foundation, a charity, commissioned the Economist Intelligence Unit, our sister company, to devise a ranking of end-of-life care. The report, published on July 14th, rates 40 mostly rich countries by how well they care for the dying. Britain tops the table. For all the health-care system’s faults, British doctors tend to be honest about prognoses. The mortally ill get plentiful pain killers. A well-established hospice movement cares for people near death, although only 4% of deaths occur in them. For similar reasons, Australia and New Zealand rank highly too. …

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Spycraft: A tide turns

Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by admin.

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Technology used to help spies. Now it hinders them DEPENDING on what kind of spy you are, you either love technology or hate it. For intelligence-gatherers whose work is based on bugging and eavesdropping, life has never been better. Finicky miniature cameras and tape recorders have given way to pinhead-sized gadgets, powered remotely (a big problem in the old days used to be changing the batteries on bugs). Encrypted electronic communications are a splendid target for the huge computers at places such as America’s National Security Agency. Even a message that is impregnably encoded by today’s standards may be cracked in the future. That gives security-conscious officials the shivers. …