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...income, are correspondingly huge. Yet the insurers' financial crisis is partly self-inflicted, and raises serious questions about the security of an industry whose very job is to manage and mitigate risk. How did insurers get into this mess? Holger Dock, the chief executive of AP Pension, a small Danish insurer with 47,000 clients, has a typical explanation: his company's problems stem from the high life insurance payouts that consumers were guaranteed twenty years ago. Back then, interest rates were in double digits and a Danish life policy carried a 4.5% after-tax rate. That...
Fuzzy math and scare tactics might help green groups raise money, but when they, abetted by an environmentally friendly media, overplay their hand, it invites scathing critiques like that of Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg, whose book The Skeptical Environmentalist debunks environmental exaggerations...
...lanky Danish vegetarian who wears T shirts to important meetings and votes only for left-wing politicians become the great Satan of environmentalism? By telling everyone he is an environmentalist but sounding like the opposite. "We are not running out of energy or natural resources," writes Bjorn Lomborg, 37, an associate professor of statistics at Denmark's University of Aarhus and a former member of Greenpeace, in his 1998 book The Skeptical Environmentalist. "Air and water around us are becoming less and less polluted. Mankind's lot has actually improved in terms of practically every measurable indicator...
...bound and gagged young girl last November. It was on a kiddie-porn website, and Albinsson, an investigator for Save the Children Sweden, was determined to shut down the site. Next to the girl was a man in a blue shirt with a logo that Albinsson traced to a Danish Internet company. He tipped off the local police, and the man was arrested. The girl was the daughter of the man's girlfriend--part of an international pedophile network specializing in father-daughter incest. U.S. Customs Service Commissioner Robert Bonner announced last week that 20 people in the case...
...Number of studies reviewed by Danish analysts last fall, leading them to claim there was no evidence mammograms are beneficial...