Editorial roundup (AP via Yahoo! News)
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

'The Memons - Important Muslim minority of Sri Lanka' (Daily News)
Community : The Memons of Sri Lanka constitute a small but important minority community in the island, numbering a mere 7000 persons in a nation of over 20 million. Their contribution to the national life of the country has nevertheless been significant.

Drought worsens China water woes (BBC News)
As a drought hits northern China, the BBC's Daniel Griffiths looks at the water supply challenges facing the nation.

Suicide bomber had led a frustrating, unpromising life (Miami Herald)
Samir Hammad's childhood playground was a tiny patch of grass and dirt on the hilltop behind his family home where he could watch twin Israeli settlements expanding on the ridges above his remote West Bank village.

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Agent: Britt notebook had information about guns, insurance (The Herald-Sun)
A notebook seized from Myron Britt's home after his wife was shot to death contained notes about places to buy guns and ammunition and life insurance quotes, a former agent with the State Bureau of Investigation testified Tuesday.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

Insurance can cushion long-term care's cost, Village agent tells Lions (Hot Springs Village Voice)
The guest speaker for the Evening Lions' meeting on May 17 was Manny Machuca, district manager for the Genworth Life Insurance Co.

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Insurance Strategist to Lead New Mass. Health Plan Agency (Insurance Journal)
Jon Kingsdale's life is about to get a whole lot more complicated. The Romney administration has announced that Kingsdale will head up the new Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, t

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Carmi Times)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

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Profile: Ariel Sharon (BBC News)
The BBC News website profiles Israel's former prime minister, Ariel Sharon.

Mexico's Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa Goes Mobile with Nortel (SYS-CON Media)
Students and faculty of Mexico's Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa can now access the Internet for e-mail, instant messaging and other Web-based applications virtually anywhere, anytime on its 25-acre campus using an advanced wireless mesh network solution from Nortel(x) (NYSE: NT ; TSX: NT).

Money Tips: Letting strangers bet on your demise (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
NEW YORK -- There's a secondary market for everything these days -- including your own life insurance policy.

University of Tsukuba Creates Campus 'Hotzone' with Nortel Wireless Mesh Network Enabling Wireless Broadband Access to (SYS-CON Media)
The University of Tsukuba, one of Japan's major national universities, is creating a 'hotzone' to provide seamless and secure anywhere, anytime communications for students and faculty using a wireless mesh network solution from Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT).

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RANDY COHEN: THE ETHICIST: Life insurance: Place your bet (Contra Costa Times)
Q: My former stepfather has a $200,000 life insurance policy. He can no longer afford the $2,000 annual premium and would like his children and stepchildren to take over the payment in return for being beneficiaries, cutting out his estranged wife. He is 56, overweight, smokes three packs of cigarettes a day and is beginning to encounter serious health problems. This feels unseemly, but he is

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

Simplify Your Life ... Insurance Online (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - Purchasing life insurance online is one of the easiest decisions you'll ever make when it comes to protecting your family's financial future.

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Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Ridgecrest Daily Independent)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

Bradesco launches 2 new life insurance policies - Brazil (Business News Americas)
The life insurance and private pension plan unit of Brazil's largest private bank Banco Bradesco (NYSE: BBD) has launched two new life insurance policies, Vida Mais Segura Bradesco and Vida Max Bradesco, the insurer said in a statement.

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Term Life Insurance -- As Easy As A-B-C (Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch)
(ARA) - There are some things in life that will always be confusing. Like why the same meals prepared at your children's friends' houses always taste better. Why you can run out of gas when the gauge still shows one-eighth full.

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

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A legal bind (Express and Star)
Why bother getting married? Even before yesterday's landmark divorce settlements, marriage in Britain was an institution dying on its feet. Once it was the bedrock of stable families and a solid society. Today, almost one-half of marriages end in divorce.

Exploitation and abuse awaits Zimbabwe's migrant children (ZWNEWS.com)
Maputo - Save the Children-UK (SCF-UK) has raised the alarm over increasing numbers of Zimbabwean children illegally entering Mozambique to escape poverty at home. Many are AIDS orphans or unaccompanied, hoping to find a better life in better-off neighbouring Mozambique.

Israel to allow arming of Abbas presidential force (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Israel has decided to allow third countries to deliver light weapons and ammunition to the presidential guard of moderate Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas amid an ongoing power struggle with Hamas.

Weekend Linkfest (TheStreet.com)
All the links that are fit to click.

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Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Southwest Daily News)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

Assured Guaranty Corp.'s Dan Bevill, Managing Director, Structured Credit, to Present at the Citigroup Life Insurance (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----May 25, 2006--Assured Guaranty Corp. has announced that Dan Bevill, Managing Director, Structured Credit, is scheduled to present at the Citigroup Life Insurance Securitization Seminar in New York City on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 10:15 a.m.

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Postal life insurance interest to be put in equity (rediff.com)
The government cleared Department of Post initiative on Wednesday to invest the interest earned by postal life insurance scheme to invest in the equity market, IT and Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran said in New Delhi.

Term Life Insurance -- As Easy As A-B-C (Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch)
(ARA) - There are some things in life that will always be confusing. Like why the same meals prepared at your children's friends' houses always taste better. Why you can run out of gas when the gauge still shows one-eighth full.

Assured Guaranty Corp.'s Dan Bevill, Managing Director, Structured Credit, to Present at the Citigroup Life Insurance (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----May 25, 2006--Assured Guaranty Corp. has announced that Dan Bevill, Managing Director, Structured Credit, is scheduled to present at the Citigroup Life Insurance Securitization Seminar in New York City on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 10:15 a.m.

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Advocate Tribune)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

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Life Settlement Institute Strongly Opposes ACLI Proposed Excise Tax on Life Settlements (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Life Settlement Institute sharply criticized the American Council of Life Insurers' proposed anti-consumer and anti-competitive excise tax on life settlements.

Wives win big in UK divorces (The Age)
BRITAIN'S highest court has ruled in favour of substantial settlements for ex-wives in two high-profile divorces, setting a precedent for big-money separations.

Association Provides Information on Possible Settlement Taxation (SYS-CON Media)
The Life Insurance Settlement Associationannounced a new public information service that addresses proposed taxationof investment in life settlements. As a public service, LISA will offerregular updates 'on proposals which would sharply conflict with the valueconsumers have found in the settlement of their life insurance,' such asthat being proposed currently in Congress.

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Postal life insurance interest to be put in equity (rediff.com)
The government cleared Department of Post initiative on Wednesday to invest the interest earned by postal life insurance scheme to invest in the equity market, IT and Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran said in New Delhi.

First Pet Life Outlines Branded Insurance Certificates (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS----May 24, 2006--First Pet Life announced today details regarding the First Pet Life branded line of insurance certificates.

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Hope Star)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

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Postal life insurance interest to be put in equity (rediff.com)
The government cleared Department of Post initiative on Wednesday to invest the interest earned by postal life insurance scheme to invest in the equity market, IT and Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran said in New Delhi.

Term Life Insurance -- As Easy As A-B-C (Benton Evening News)
(ARA) - There are some things in life that will always be confusing. Like why the same meals prepared at your children's friends' houses always taste better. Why you can run out of gas when the gauge still shows one-eighth full.

MapInfo Introduces New Location Intelligence Application for IBM Core Life Insurance Solution (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LAS VEGAS & TROY, N.Y.----May 23, 2006--MapInfo Corporation , the leading global provider of location intelligence solutions, today announced that IBM has selected MapInfo technology to power the new Prospecting portlet in IBM's Core Life Solution for the insurance industry.

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Association Provides Information on Possible Settlement Taxation (SYS-CON Media)
The Life Insurance Settlement Associationannounced a new public information service that addresses proposed taxationof investment in life settlements. As a public service, LISA will offerregular updates 'on proposals which would sharply conflict with the valueconsumers have found in the settlement of their life insurance,' such asthat being proposed currently in Congress.

Fred Schulte on his malpractice series (Baltimore Sun)
Reporter answers readers' questions about disclosure of claims, settlements Patricia Helfrich, Baltimore: Why are they [the state Board of Physicians] permitted to operate in secrecy? If they are so far behind, get some more people or get some people who can get it done. Pain, suffering and life is involved. Why don't they have statutory deadlines?

Life Insurance - One of Seniors Greatest "Unknown" Financial Asset in Their Time of Financial Need (PR Web via Yahoo! News)
(PRWEB) May 23, 2006 -- Life insurance provides financial solutions to meet various needs of businesses and families.

President Bush Holds a Joint Press Conference with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel (Washington Post)
Read a transcript of President Bush and Prime Minister Olmert's remarks about Israel's relations with the Palestinian government.

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SASid Develops GreatStart Insurance.com Site for Guarantee Trust Life Insurance (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
JANESVILLE, Wis.----May 22, 2006--SASid Insurance Development, leaders in the development of customized platforms for online insurance products, announces the launch of GreatStart Insurance, a new juvenile life insurance product for Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Company.

Simplify Your Life ... Insurance Online (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - Purchasing life insurance online is one of the easiest decisions you'll ever make when it comes to protecting your family's financial future.

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Life insurance policies for HIV positive attract attention (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News)
_ Life insurance policies designed for people infected with HIV have been attracting attention from various quarters in the world since the Johannesburg-based AllLife (Pty) Ltd. began marketing them last December in South Africa.

Simplify Your Life ... Insurance Online (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - Purchasing life insurance online is one of the easiest decisions you'll ever make when it comes to protecting your family's financial future.

Term Life Insurance -- As Easy As A-B-C (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - There are some things in life that will always be confusing. Like why the same meals prepared at your children's friends' houses always taste better. Why you can run out of gas when the gauge still shows one-eighth full.

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Is There Life After Debt? (Kiplinger Magazine via Yahoo! Finance)
Presents letters from readers about stories in the October, November, and December issues.

Bishop apologizes after abuse victim scolds him over letter (Boston Globe)
A South Burlington man who was abused by a Catholic priest as a boy is harshly criticizing a comment by Bishop Salvatore Matano, who said victims' lawsuits are an "unbridled, unjust and terribly unreasonable assault" on the church.

Victim in priest abuse case blasts Matano (The Burlington Free Press)
Michael Gay thought the waves of emotion rippling inside him would subside after he accepted $965,000 to settle his priest sex abuse lawsuit with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington last month.

They Bet on Your Life (Kiplinger Magazine via Yahoo! Finance)
Looks into the relatively new market for life settlements, which are offshoots of viatical settlements but are for life policyholders who no longer need or want the protection. Discusses the criteria for candidates and factors that determine the settlement amount.

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Life insurance policies for HIV positive attract attention (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News)
_ Life insurance policies designed for people infected with HIV have been attracting attention from various quarters in the world since the Johannesburg-based AllLife (Pty) Ltd. began marketing them last December in South Africa.

Insurance-murder scheme suspected (Duluth News Tribune)
LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles police detectives are scrambling to locate several men who may have fallen victim to a pair of elderly women accused of taking out large life insurance policies on two homeless men later killed in suspicious hit-and-run accidents.

Term Life Insurance -- As Easy As A-B-C (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - There are some things in life that will always be confusing. Like why the same meals prepared at your children's friends' houses always taste better. Why you can run out of gas when the gauge still shows one-eighth full.

Why You Can't Depend on Group Life Insurance (Ionia Sentinel-Standard)
(ARA) - If you have a full time job, you may also be fortunate enough to have a free term life insurance policy through your employer. For most people, it's the equivalent of a year's salary. If you're lucky, it might even be as high as three times your annual salary.

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When to Hold, When to Fold That Insurance (New York Times)
When my father asked me for help with his life insurance, I na vely assumed it would be a straightforward matter of dollars and cents.

L.A. police: Elderly women befriended homeless, cashed in on two men s life insurance policies (Helena Independent Record)
LOS ANGELES (AP) Two women took out millions of dollars in life insurance on two homeless men who later died in mysterious hit-and-run crashes, and investigators want to know whether the women were behind the wheel.

Simplify Your Life ... Insurance Online (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - Purchasing life insurance online is one of the easiest decisions you'll ever make when it comes to protecting your family's financial future.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

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Zurich Financial Reports Rise in 1Q Profit (WJLA-TV Washington D.C.)
ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss insurance company Zurich Financial Services AG on Thursday reported a 1 percent increase in first-quarter net profit despite a heavy charge linked to bid-rigging settlements in the United States.Net profit for the three months ending March 31 was $785 million, compared with $779 million in the same period of last year.

Israeli rules cripple life in West Bank (Detroit Free Press)
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Fadi Shawneh is a fugitive in his own land. Like thousands of men between the ages of 15 and 30, Shawneh is barred by Israeli restrictions from traveling far from his northern West Bank home in Jenin.

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Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

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Simplify Your Life ... Insurance Online (Hope Star)
(ARA) - Purchasing life insurance online is one of the easiest decisions you'll ever make when it comes to protecting your family's financial future.

In China, insurance stocks find a market (International Herald Tribune)
Ping An Insurance Group and China Life Insurance are among the most expensive insurance stocks in Asia, and investors looking to buy them at a lower price may have to wait.

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Simplify Your Life ... Insurance Online (Wellsville Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - Purchasing life insurance online is one of the easiest decisions you'll ever make when it comes to protecting your family's financial future.

Pros and cons of permanent life insurance (Market Watch)
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- With term life insurance rates so cheap, why would anyone want to buy a permanent policy? After all, premiums can be four, five or 10 times higher than with term insurance and comparing permanent plans isn't easy.

Applying for Life Insurance? Be Sure to Tell Them Everything! (Ridgecrest Daily Independent)
(ARA) - The last time you filled out a job application, did you maybe stretch the truth a little about your responsibilities? A lot of people do it to make a better impression on a potential employer, but you better not do it on an application for life insurance!

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