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		<title>Adieu, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/04/15/adieu-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come the end of April, I will be retiring after 30 years with National Underwriter. (And yes, Virginia, it is a voluntary retirement, thank you.)
So, this will be one of my last pieces as NU Life &#38; Health’s Editor-in-Chief and the first of two parts of a farewell to the business I’ve been fortunate to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Little Secret</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/02/11/dirty-little-secret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was originally going to headline this piece “Run, Sarah, Run.”  But then I realized what a joke it was—and a one-liner at that—so I had to turn to something else to fill the space.
And then I thought: How about the American Council of Life Insurance’s February 3 statement regarding life settlement securitizations, which uses the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying On Message</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/12/03/staying-on-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe that not only are we drawing close to the end of another year, but also closing in on the end of the first decade of the Third Millennium. 
(I already expect to hear from pedants and calendar officials informing me that in strict terms a decade goes from a year beginning with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ouch!</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/05/ouch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That things are bad is no secret.  But every once in a while, as we slog through this meltdown, a statistic or set of data just pops out and reminds you that no matter how bad you thought things were, they&#8217;re worse.
What did it for me this week was reading through LIMRA International&#8217;s release on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tantalus Redux</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/03/tantalus-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember for a fact, but it seems to me that I&#8217;ve already used the mythic image of Sisyphus to describe the life insurance industry&#8217;s seemingly doomed challenge of getting Congress to approve an optional federal charter.  Just when the king of Corinth gets the stone almost to the top of the hill, down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge For A Day</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/05/11/judge-for-a-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 14:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again I had the privilege of being a judge in the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education&#8217;s RealLIFEstories program. (To call it a ‘contest&#8217; makes it seem a little too tawdry, although there is a definite competitive element involved.)
There a few things that bring you so close to the noble calling that so [...]]]></description>
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