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Health insurance market in emerging Asia set to grow

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“I thought I was gonna die.”

“Students gathered to watch people change frantically into each other’s clothing Thursday night at Paternoville, screaming at them to go faster.

“Let’s go, let’s go,” one student said, cheering. “Don’t rip the tent!”
At Gate A students watched the Survivor Paternoville competition unfold.

In the first round, participants voted on the candidates that would compete. Those participants then had to compete in a series of challenges, hoping to win the title of “survivor” and the $100 prize that came with it.

All participants received winter hats from the company that sponsored the event — Tundra Gear.

The first challenge the students faced was fitting their team of four into a tiny tent. “My head was crushed,” Cory Ingram (sophomore-actuarial science) said. “I thought I was gonna die.”
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Dr. Luzi Hitz named CEO of Perils AG

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Get Your Goat On

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World population growth through 2100

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South Pacific quake

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Longtop and Peking University Jointly Establish a Financial Risk Management Laboratory

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The Catastrophe Risk Modeling group

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Gustav loss estimates $2 billion to $10 billion

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Cuba Issues Hurricane Watch as Fay Approaches

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