Boomers' hep C tests may torpedo insurance

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Boomers' hep C tests may torpedo insurance
A government proposal that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C may be getting high praise for its potential health benefits, but it?s also raising questions about the unintended consequences of screening for those seeking insurance.

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Posted on: Tuesday, Jun 19, 2012, 8:44am
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New Lawsuit Fights Oil Spill Amnesia

Today?s post is co-authored with my colleague Jamie Friedland. If we don?t learn from our catastrophic oil spills, we are doomed to repeat them.? That?s why on Monday, NRDC and a coalition of conservation groups filed a lawsuit pressing the Obama administration to learn from the mistakes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.? The suit challenges Lease Sale 216/222, a new round of offshore drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico, planned by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).?

This lease sale is in the Mississippi Canyon, ground zero for Deepwater Horizon.? You?d think the oil spill would?ve been on their minds, but the environmental impact statement for the sale boldly ignored the spill?s catastrophic effects on wildlife.? Instead, it relied on incomplete information from before the BP spill, in clear violation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).? ?

It is dangerously wishful thinking to believe that Gulf ecosystems and fisheries still reeling from the oily onslaught two years ago could withstand a second avoidable ecological disaster.? For example, as my colleague Michael Jasny has documented, coastal dolphin populations have been decimated.? The survivors are ?severely ill? and, instead of recovering, are still undergoing an unprecedented die-off.? But as far as BOEM is concerned, nothing has changed.?

To ignore this reality and ?evaluate? potential environmental impacts as if the Gulf were pristine defies logic.? Yet this voluntary amnesia appears to be an official position.? The new round of leases includes treacherous deepwater sites in the exact same area and conditions of the first Deepwater Horizon spill, and would allow the same reckless drilling to resume ? without new and fully-tested procedures in place to guard against future blowouts and improve post-spill containment.? As I?ve written before, the new underwater containment systems the oil industry and BOEM are relying on have not been tested at the depth and pressure of deepwater wells.? What works on paper does not always work at depth.? The rest of the country learned that lesson watching the ?junk shot? and ?top hat? fail two years ago.? Even the design flaw identified in the Cameron-style blowout preventers still exists in most oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico today.?

Our challenge this week addresses a drilling as usual mentality our government continues to apply to the Gulf as though BP?s 200 million gallon spill never happened.? This lawsuit joins NRDC?s ?suit in December 2011, seeking the same common sense environmental review for Lease Sale 218, the first lease sale after the drilling moratorium was lifted.? A third suit in June 2010 sought to combat the use of seismic surveys in the Gulf.? This oil exploration technique uses arrays of air guns to blast the water with sonic pulses billions of times more intense than noise levels known to compromise the feeding, breeding, and basic communication of endangered whales in the area.? The Gulf of Mexico is under assault, and we must stand up for the region?s wildlife and coastal communities.

Washington has too quickly forgotten, but many of us still remember what happened in the Gulf.? NRDC President Frances Beinecke served on the presidentially appointed commission investigating the Deepwater Horizon tragedy.? Their investigation uncovered serious flaws in oil industry and regulatory practices.? These accidents-waiting-to-happen remain unaddressed, with the Gulf?s battered ecosystems and vital billion-dollar tourism and fisheries hanging in the balance.? If drilling is to continue, more must be done to improve drilling safety and safeguard our natural resources.? The largest oil spill in America?s history should have been a wakeup call.? If we refuse to learn from that mistake, it will become a recurring nightmare instead.

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How to Plan a Trip on a Whim?and Save - Carry On | Travel + Leisure

06.19.12

When it comes to trip-planning, I tend to get serious: My husband E. would tell you that I sometimes spend too much time on pre-trip research and packing deliberations, but recently, I tried a different approach: I used a travel auction site to book a trip to Mexico?s Riviera Maya 12 days out and left the planning to chance. While E. and I briefly entertained Istanbul and Rome, one of our favorite cities, we quickly agreed that what we really needed was four or five days of sleeping, eating, reading, a little walking, a lot of unplugging, and a beach?without our three kids.

We spent a couple of nights on hotel websites, checking out reviews and photos on TripAdvisor, trolling everything from travelandleisure.com to Priceline and Inspirato to Jetsetter. Then we tapped our way around LuxuryLink and Vacationist. (Full disclosure: the latter is Travel + Leisure?s members-only flash sale travel site through a partnership with LuxuryLink, but I booked my trip and paid my own way the same way you would.) By night two we had narrowed our choices to Jamaica (Rockhouse Hotel is hard to beat for value); Harbour Island; Turks & Caicos; and Mexico?s Riviera Maya.

And then, there it was on LuxuryLink, a deal worth splurging for:

? Five nights in an Ocean View room for $2167 (nearly 30 percent off the usual rate with taxes included) at Maroma Resort & Spa, 20 minutes north of Playa del Carmen and 35 minutes south of Canc?n airport (bonus: a direct flight).
? Daily breakfast and coffee service
? One dinner for two with a bottle of wine
? Two 50-minute massages at the Kinan Spa
? A morning of snorkeling on the nearby reef
? Aromatherapy at turndown, nightly

I logged on to the hotel?s website to check availability and compare pricing. There appeared to be rooms available for the dates we wanted (beginning the day after low season rates kicked in), but the room rates were, not surprisingly, quite a bit higher.

So, in the same casual way you tap to buy most things these days, I officially registered to become a LuxuryLink member; read (well, scanned) the fine print (a.k.a. ?Booking Conditions?); worried for a minute about them; and then tapped again to pay the $40 fee to bid on the Maroma package at the auction price. (Your credit card is refunded the $40 if you are not the winning bidder.)

Our auction was scheduled to end at 8:00 A.M. the following day. During the next 18 hours, E. and I logged in to see if we had competition and wondered if they were tracking my I.P. address and upping the bid. Then we waited some more. Just before 8 A.M. on Saturday morning when our auction was supposed to end, we logged in to track our bid again. There was a suggested new bid price set at $30 higher than our original offer but we were still the highest bidder. 8:00 A.M. passed?8:05?Nothing happened. (Beware the fine print: LuxuryLink auctions are conducted on Pacific Daylight Time.)

Then at exactly 11:00 EST, I received an email letting me know I had won the bid for the package. At 11:16 A.M. I emailed our preferred dates; at 3:18 P.M. our reservation was confirmed by the hotel, much to my relief, and E. booked the flights.

I confess that next time around I might consider paying slightly more for the ?Buy Now? option to avoid the suspense (and potential hassle had our preferred dates not been available) or to lock in the fixed price right away. But in the end the process was kind of exciting, even if ?winning? meant paying up no matter what.

Here?s what to know before you place your bid.

Travel Auction Site Booking Tips

? Do read the fine print and know what you're signing on for prior to bidding or booking.

? Make sure you look closely at the valid travel dates for the package you are bidding on and have the dates you want to travel in mind.

? Check for flight availability during your ideal time frame and call the hotel or try the hotel website in advance for availability; it might help you avoid disappointment, especially during high season.

? Auctions are non-refundable, but there is a ?Buy Now? option that costs slightly more if you want to lock in a rate and have more flexibility on making date changes.

? Trust your instincts. If a deal seems too good to be true, that may very well be the case.

The Splurge: Five nights at Maroma Resort & Spa

The Location: Solidaridad, Mexico, 35 Minutes south of Cancun Airport (CUN); 25 minutes north of Playa del Carmen by taxi. My husband E. and I flew out of JFK on JetBlue direct at 7 A.M. and were having fish tacos, ceviche, and Dos Equis on the beach at 1:30.

Hotel Vibe: One&Only Palmilla meets the Rockhouse.

Daily Reminder That You Really Are on Vacation: It?s a toss-up between the beach beds and the local fauna (including a red macaw and a fleet of iguanas) that cross your path when you?re en route to the beach, pool, and spa.

Favorite Meal: Breakfast: Chaya-pineapple juice, hot chocolate with lemongrass, fresh mangos, yogurt, the organic egg-white omelette with chorizo, green tomatoes, and locally grown fresh herbs. And the fresh corn tortillas delivered to the table by the lady who made them.

Jennifer Barr is Travel + Leisure's executive editor.

Photo courtesy of Jennifer Barr

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The Aesthetics and Culture of 8-Bit Art, Adorably Explained [Video]

Almost all members of Generation Y, aka the 'Millenials,' have some sort of relationship to, or remembrance of 8-bit. PBS delves into the distinct style in their latest Off Book video. More »

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Foursquare now suggests your next check-in

Foursquare is getting a snazzy redesign. On Thursday, brand-new versions of the location-based social networking service's apps are being released. What's changing? Well ... a lot. The app's basically been torn apart and rebuilt from the ground up. It no longer simply helps you share your location, but now actually guides you to new places.

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