Weather Girls. You’ve gotta love em. Rain or shine, they’re always radiant – and how is it they manage to make pointing out whatever weather’s headed our way so goddamn sexy? A gesture here, a sweep of the hand there, and they may as well be beckoning drooling male viewers quietly to the boudoir. It [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wilma’
10 Cute Cartoon Characters We’d Secretly All Like to Screw
March 30th, 2010 |
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We’ve all thought about it – which female cartoon characters we’d secretly most like to get animated with in animal fashion. In all honesty, many of them are hotter than the real thing, and odds on they’d be up for it. Did Scooby ever give Daphne a bone? Did Fred ever satisfy Wilma with his [...]
Great claims
March 16th, 2010 |
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Insurance losses from catastrophes
THE final bill in terms of the death toll and economic loss is still being calculated after massive earthquakes hit Haiti and Chile this year and will far outweigh the 15,000 people who died or went missing as a result of natural and man-made catastrophes in 2009. Last year, the total losses from catastrophes hit $62 billion, of which only $26 billion was covered by insurance, according to Swiss Re. (The insurance firm considers events “catastrophes” if insured claims, total economic losses or casualties exceed a certain threshold.) Insured natural catastrophes accounted for $22 billion and man-made disasters $4 billion. The most disastrous year for insurance companies was 2005. Insurance losses totalled some $117 billion after Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma and Rita struck America. Hurricane Katrina alone claimed 1,836 lives and resulted in insured losses of some $71 billion.
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Balloon Boy Alive! Falcon Heene Found Safe In Attic
October 15th, 2009 |
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Falcon lives! Yay — we love happy endings.
The boy thought to have traveled thousands of feet in the air in a homemade balloon has been found alive, according to authorities. A massive search for the child was launched this afternoon after one of the boy’s brothers reported that he’d climbed into a homemade helium-filled balloon [...]