"21st-century-insurance" Articles & Blogs:
Tips from 21st Century Insurance: Have a Safe Holiday Season!
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The holiday season is full of family, fun, and goodwill, but it has a darker side. The number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities skyrockets faster than eight tiny reindeer.
Spirited Statistics:
On average from 2001 to 2005 (the last year that co...[Read on] |
You can’t avoid paying for car insurance, but you can avoid paying too much
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Unless you want to take the bus, you need car insurance. If you’re going to drive, it’s the law in all 50 states. But you can avoid paying too much for it. Here are three ways you can help keep your rate low when it comes time to renew your auto...[Read on] |
Paramount Pictures has a gender (and race) problem
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The folks at Racebending who advocate for just and equal opportunities in film and TV, have been tracking race issues related to the recently released film The Last Airbender. While doing their research they have revealed some disturbing trends at Pa...[Read on] |
Keep your car insurance premium under control
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Car insurance premiums can be unruly. And unless you keep your premium under control it can take over your budget in no time at all. Pretty soon, you’re paying hundreds of dollars a year more than you should be for car insurance, and there’s no m...[Read on] |
Tips for parents to save money on car insurance for teen drivers
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A mix of pride and fear is
what most parents feel when their teen begins to drive. During this important time,
parents and teens need to address a number of auto insurance and safe driving issues.
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The cost of auto insurance
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Cannes Can’t – Where are the Women Directors?
| So the Cannes lineup in finalized and the abysmal showing for female directors is now set in stone. The festival added two more films to the competition lineup and not surprisingly, both were by men. That’s now 18 films competing for the Palme D’O...[Read on] |
Top 10 tips for senior drivers
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As the baby
boomers head en masse into their senior years, they have more options than ever
to help them stay on the road longer and safer. It's not just about protecting
drivers, either: Other drivers and pedestrians are also at risk. Auto insurance pr...[Read on] |
Q&A;: Marianne Faithfull Doesn’t Like to Talk About the Rolling Stones
| Marianne Faithfull. By Patrick Swirc.Depending on the era in which your playlist resides, you know Marianne Faithfull as a beautiful, blonde pop ingenue on the arm of Mick Jagger (60s), a strung-out New Waver with a cigarette hanging from her lips (80s), ...[Read on] |
Mad Men Q&A;: January Jones
| January Jones is now in her third season on Mad Men playing Betty Draper, the seemingly perfect wife to Don Draper’s seemingly perfect husband. Of course, beneath the well-maintained exterior, everything is not so perfect for Betty, which Jones capt...[Read on] |
Oprah Joins Twitter, Tweets to Demi Moore
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Oprah Winfrey tweets on the social-networking service twitter.com; Ashton Kutcher beat CNN and will have to donate 10,000 mosquito nets for World Malaria DayOprah, Ashton, Demi on Twitter | 04/17/2009 1:20 pm
Oprah Winfrey opened an account on Twitter F...[Read on] |
A 300,000 Square-Foot Room of One’s Own: Scientology Buys a Production Studio
| A Scientology center in Boston. Photo by “Cryptic C62”/Wikipedia.
The Church of Scientology, the historically litigious and totally normal and non-scandalous religious organization, has purchased a 300,000 square-foot studio on Sunset Boulevard, in Lo...[Read on] |
'Witches' Burned in Kenya
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An angry mob killed five people, four of them women, accused of practicing witchcraftPost | Today 9:45 am
Turns out some people haven’t quite made it to the 21st century.
Five people were burned at the stake in Kenya last week because their ne...[Read on] |
Hard Targets: Sport & Art at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio
| The Wexner Center, on the campus of Ohio State University, is hosting Hard Targets, a gorgeous exhibit of contemporary art centered on images of men and sport curated by Christopher Bedford (who gives me a run for the money in terms of fanaticism)...[Read on] |
Moving and Your Auto Insurance
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Moving to a new place is both an exciting and stressful time. There's packing, the move, and so many other details to handle that letting your insurance company know about your new address probably isn't high on your list. But where you live can impact ...[Read on] |
Insurance Company: Rape Survivor? Nope, We Won't Take Her
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by Amanda Stone, Volunteer, National Women's Law Center
“Nope, we won’t take her.” This is what insurance companies in Florida said when asked whether they would provide insurance coverage to a hypothetical applicant who had survived rape. Let...[Read on] |
Time to Fix—or Scrap—the Confirmation Hearings
| Having now sat through the biggest part of my third Supreme Court confirmation hearing, I feel I have earned the right to say this: they have become an utter sham, a travesty upon truth and enlightenment and insight and knowledge, and they ought to be com...[Read on] |
MoMA: Cartier-Bresson, Visionary
| Hyères, France. 1932. More than half a century ago, New York’s Museum of Modern Art planned a "posthumous" exhibition of photographs by the then-little-known French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. At the time, MoMA’s first curators ...[Read on] |
Comparison shop for cheap car insurance
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Just because the economy is in a slump doesn’t mean we should cut the things we need. Take car insurance, for example: car crashes and accidents don’t stop just because the economy is down. There are easy ways to find a cheap car insurance policy, but...[Read on] |
Her Ovaries, His Cigarettes: Which Costs More in the Individual Health Insurance Market?
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by Brigette Courtot, Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
For most of their lives, women are charged more than men for health plans in the individual insurance market. This is a consequence of “gender rating,” the common insurance industry pr...[Read on] |
Rental Car Insurance Coverage: Do You Need It?
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When you rent a car do you automatically buy rental car insurance? Did you know your rental car may already be covered through your car insurance policy?
Avoid Buying Duplicate Car Insurance CoverageWhen you are thinking about renting a car, say for y...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Shohreh Aghdashloo
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First things first. If you haven’t seen The Stoning of Soraya M. you must. It’s a very intense and well done film about a young woman who is accused of adultery and is put to death in the town square. The stoning scene is very hard to watch bu...[Read on] |
Car Insurance: 5 ways to stretch your dollar
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Let’s face it: a dollar simply doesn’t go as far as it used to. Where we used to spend $25 to fill up our gas tank it now costs $35 or $40. That half-gallon of ice cream is now 1.5 quarts and costs double. What is a financially savvy woman to do? Well...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day Katie Couric
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Princeton invited Katie to be its first female Class Day speaker and she made sure they knew how unacceptable that is:
But, actually, I do have a bone to pick with you. I have discovered I am the first female Class Day speaker in Princeton’s history. O...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Women Pay The Price For Health Insurance
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NPR's Morning Edition takes on women and health insurance.
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Softball Players to the Media: “We Are Not Lesbians, Damn It”
| I don’t want to go back over the whole “Is Elena Kagan is a lesbian because she played softball 17 years ago” conversation, but I do want to note that the whole goofy discussion has, unfortunately as I feared, tapped in the homophobia that lurks jus...[Read on] |
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