10-30-08

10-30-08—Striking new evidence has emerged of a widespread gap in the cost of health insurance, as women pay much more than men of the same age for individual insurance policies providing identical coverage... Some insurance executives expressed surprise... NYT A1

--Iraqis insist on changes to long-delayed security pact with US –NYT A15

--Conceding it needed outside help in figuring out why the suicide rate among service members was rising, the Army.... NYT A17

--“A revolution [in France] comes when what was taboo becomes mainstream.... when you have images in the Metro of a woman paying for sex who could be the middle-aged woman next door, and a single pregnant Muslim justice minister and no one seems to care, the certainties are in trouble.” Pascal Bruckner, French intellectual, NYT E6