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Mom Should Get Laci Peterson's Insurance Money Posted: 2 years ago by Proverb
Everyone remembers the Laci Peterson murder in the bay area a few years back. Well a panel decided to give the $250,000 life insurance payout to her mom instead of her husband who murdered her.
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Health, life insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks Posted: 6 months ago by stinkobinko
U.S., Canadian and U.K.-based insurance firms hold at least $4.4 billion of investments in companies whose subsidiaries manufacture cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and related products.
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Google gives online life to Life mag's photos Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
*this is great*
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Half Life 2: Episode Two increased game duration Posted: 3 years ago by whi73rav3n
Apparently each episode of Half Life 2 will be longer then the previous one.
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Mars robots may have destroyed evidence of life Posted: 6 months ago by bornbad
Have Mars landers been destroying signs of life? Instead of identifying chemicals that could point to life, NASA's robot explorers may have been toasting them by mistake.
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Marine Fakes Death To Collect Insurance Money Posted: 3 years ago by musicgirldani
He planned on leaving the country and becoming a different person. His brother was to wire him the insurance money once he faked his death.
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Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of the chemical elements that make life possible.
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Man Gives Insurance Premium To Church Then Gets Hit By Truck Posted: 1 year ago by pocksucket
South African Absolom Morifi canceled his life insurance to pay his church tithe. A few hours later he was being cut out of the remains of his car after it had been crushed in an accident.
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Timely Cancer Diagnosis Linked to Insurance Status Posted: 2 years ago by mahler87
People who either have no health insurance or rely on Medicaid are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancers than people who have private health insurance, researchers from the American Cancer Society report.
We need a "No s**t?" category.
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Insurance Rates To Be Socialized? Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Fact: Women tend to use more medical services than men even if you factor out childbirth. This means that women pay more for insurance the same as any other group that has a higher risk pays more for their insurance. Unfair says some who think the costs should be spread to those who don't use the services.
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Life Magazine to stop publishing print edition, again. Posted: 3 years ago by suebe
Life's collection of 10 million images will be available online, with "the most important collection of imagery covering the events and people of the 20th century" available for free for personal use.
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Virtual Terror Strikes Second Life Posted: 3 years ago by MaskedWriter
EVERYBODY VIRTUALLY PANIC
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Prize established for creating planet's first artificial life form Posted: 3 years ago by michelleroberts
The purpose of the A-PRIZE is to put development of artificial life forms in the open where it should be. Today, many efforts at developing artificial life are not well publicized. The A-PRIZE will serve as a clearing house for information about the race to "Break the Carbon Barrier". With mega-universities and companies racing to create nonbiological life, now is the time for such a clearing house.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 36 [+].
Free Boobs If You Get Insurance Quote Posted: 2 years ago by Techted
Two men in Gastonia N.C have opened a gentleman’s club that will let you in free if you sit down with them first and get a free auto insurance quote. This is the oddest new way I have heard to get an easy free captive audience.
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4-Year Old Starved To Death For Insurance Payout By Grandmother Posted: 1 year ago by DoggyLives
The sick irony of the story is that the insurance policy, which would've paid $10,000, was free from Gerber Baby Foods .
*Thumbnail is of the obviously well fed Grandmother
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Woman's Son's Insurance Premium tops $100,000 Posted: 2 years ago by muppet
Barbara Wellensiek knew her son's insurance bill would be steep because of his driving record, but when the renewal notice arrived she was shocked to see the annual premium was $104,566.63.
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 225 [+].
Mushroom Life Posted: 1 year ago by pjanaway
A Mushroom perspective on John Conway's Game of Life:
1) Click on grid to sprout mushrooms.
2) Click Start button to begin life process.
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Venus Comes To Life At Wavelengths Invisible To Human Eyes Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
A pale yellow dot to the human eye, Earth’s twin planet comes to life in the ultraviolet and the infrared. New images taken by instruments on board ESA’s Venus Express provide insight into the turbulent atmosphere of our neighbouring planet.
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50 of the most outrageous insurance claims ever put to paper Posted: 6 months ago by fogowar
Every year insurance companies have to deal with lots of bogus claims. Sometimes the claims are just too bizarre to be false. We take a look at 50 of the most outrageous insurance claims ever put to paper.
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Wisconsin homeowner bets his life he can sell the house Posted: 2 years ago by Fanatic
Sixty-nine year old homeowner is offering a ten year, $500K policy on his own life as an incentive--if he dies before age 79, you get his house for free. His realtor says he's an "out of the box thinker." Pine box, apparently.
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