Homeowners decked by Katrina still wait for insurers to pay up (USA Today)
A year after Hurricane Katrina flattened her ranch-style brick house on Washington Avenue here, Tina Lee has received only $2,500 from her homeowner's policy for living expenses.

Life Insurance Settlement Association Announces the Release of the Organization's First White Paper (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) today announced the release of a white paper entitled "Cashing in on Unneeded Life Insurance Policies: How Seniors Are Benefiting from Life Settlements." The 16-page document provides an overview of the industry, an explanation of the life settlement product along with case scenarios illustrating the advantages of a life settlement for qualifying

September GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights (EurekAlert!)
Boulder, Colo. - Topics include: paleoseismology of Yucca Mountain, Nevada; impact of magnetic anomalies in Earth's oceanic crust on plate tectonics; evidence of episodic regional and possibly global glaciation during the Neoproterozoic; insights into Paleocene-Eocene global warming; impact of subduction on Earth's surface characteristics; records of environmental change in Black Coral specimens;