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...sign up more boomer customers--a generation ripe for coverage but still classically in denial about its age--insurers are echoing the "lifestyle" planning that has been so successful in the mutual-fund industry. Only instead of a fund that automatically shifts to conservative investments as you age, they're providing long-term-care insurance that allows you to start small and add coverage as you near the time in life when you'll most likely need it. Allianz, for example, lets you lock in a good-health discount and make adjustments every five years. With MetLife...
...This is unequal, institutional discrimination and a denial of government protection at its clearest," Williams added...
...Campaign is a step in the right direction. Too often greens have relied on shocking the public with the threat of catastrophic climate change. That was necessary until recently - breaking through the barrier of denial built by climate change skeptics required all the subtlety of a hammer. But it's become increasingly rare to find Americans who still don't believe climate change is real, at least to some degree - now the question is what to do about it. And here again the We Campaign has the right message. Global warming won't be solved through small-scale changes...
...airlines' unwillingness to offset the entire cost of rising fuel prices directly is part of air travel's 40-year, post-deregulation descent into denial. Long after the friendly skies became a lot less special, long after multiple bankruptcies and the demise of TWA and Pan Am, the airlines continued to delude themselves, and us, with the idea that flying is glamorous...
...Indian politicians haven't offered much beyond pro forma calls for calm. India is a proudly secular state, and acknowledging the friction between Hindus and Muslims could offend the millions of Muslims who have nothing to do with extremist groups, domestic or otherwise. "Our politicians are still in denial mode," says Raman, the counterterrorism expert. "To be able to solve this problem, they have to understand its real nature." The rift between India's Hindus and Muslims is real. Until India acknowledges that fact, the country can't begin to mend...