Editor's comment: End of the world as we know it?

- Lynn Rouse
- 12 Dec 2012
- Indicative reading time: 1 minute

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As 2012 draws to a close, the latest confident prediction from the doomsayers is upon us: the world will apparently end on 21 December 2012, marking the terminus of a 5125-year cycle in the ancient Mayan calendar, which abruptly ceases on that date.

But 21 December 2012 also marks the end of another lengthy process, albeit one of slightly shorter duration and less sensational origins: the insurance industry's fight against a ban on using gender

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