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Over the past two decades, wall street and the rest of the financial ecosystem became obsessed with the quantification of risk. Assigning numbers to the chance of something bad happening is a centuries-old endeavor--mortality tables have been used to devise insurance premiums since the 18th century. With modern computing power, though, financial engineers captured, packaged and sold risk exposure in startlingly new ways. Buying protection against a bad corn harvest or a spike in interest rates was just the beginning. Over time, as instruments became more complex, a huge shift occurred. Risk itself became the thing to trade...
...meatless lifestyle never really caught on in the West, although it would sometimes pop up during health crazes and religious revivals. The Ephrata Cloister, a strict religious sect founded in 1732 in Pennsylvania, advocated vegetarianism - as well as celibacy. The 18th century utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham believed that animal suffering was just as serious as human suffering, and likened the idea of human superiority to racism...
...prisoner in Pakistan, and it shows. All seven works in his newly translated Selected Plays share extreme sensibilities, depicting a universe of overcrowded jail cells, slums and parched villages in which the blackest of deeds are committed. The most ambitious work, a historical drama chronicling the life of the 18th century Sufi poet Bulleh Shah (spelled "Bulha" in the play) grapples, in the words of one character, with the "dark side of the human self" - exile, fatwas, persecution, genocide. There's murder in The Third Knock, forced abortion in Acquittal, sex trafficking in Woman of Sorrow and extortion in Black...
Minutes before halftime, BC took the lead on another unassisted effort by Dirks. This time, the senior received the ball at the top of the circle, sprinted toward the left post, and backhanded a shot into the far corner for her 18th goal of the season...
...Rhodes said. “So we were definitely coming into today’s game with a lot of intensity and emotion.” This intensity was apparent on the field, as Harvard came out strong with the first goal and never relinquished the lead. In the 18th minute, Hagner scored the game’s initial goal with an effectively placed shot that bounced over the head of the Bears’ goalie into the bottom left corner of the net. The score marked the fourth game in a row in which the junior has notched...