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Guess who will foot the bill for this

Telegraph.co.uk

Housing crisis: Fears for 100,000 jobs as sector suffers ‘worst conditions for 50 years’

By Harry Wallop and Jonathan Russell
Last Updated: 11:40pm BST 11/07/2008

Up to 100,000 jobs could be lost in the house building sector, according to industry figures, who have described conditions as “worse than at any time since the Second World War.”….(Full Story)

Who will be affected the most by this? Men and their families, of course!

Woman with 5 dead spouses obsessed by cash

Associated Press

By Mitch Weiss

Charlotte, N.C. (AP) - Jeff Carstensen was spooked when he learned his grandmother planned to buy him a $100,000 life insurance policy - and name herself the beneficiary.

“She told me that people of our stature have insurance policies on each other,” he said. “That way, if something happens to you, you take care of me, and if something happens to me, I take care of you. It was all too suspicious. So I got out of there any way I could, as soon as I could.”

…[The grandmother, Cecilia Flynn,] was charged last month in North Carolina with solicitation of murder in the July 14, 1986 shooting death of her fourth husband, Harold Gentry…..(Full Story)http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gHG3MzunhA7wcxcqqxhtTf4tUfzQD91TJCC00

Protecting yourself from paternity fraud

The News & Observer
July 14, 2008

Ask Mr. Dad: Protecting yourself from paternity fraud

By ARMIN BROTT, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Dear Mr. Dad: My wife and I are about to get a divorce. We have a 1-year-old boy and she’s pregnant with our second. Here’s the problem: She’s been having an affair for the last two years and I’m concerned that the children aren’t actually mine. What can I do to protect myself?…
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Update 2008 08 03: The link to the location of the article at The News & Observer no longer functions.  However, Armin Brott’s article is accessible at his website.

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