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Second, the actual risk of being a terror victim is not merely small--it is unknown and unknowable. Economists make a distinction between "risk" and "uncertainty." Risk refers to hard mathematical odds. Uncertainty refers to situations in which the odds are anybody's guess...
...mindless entertainment, but has there ever been a better time for a bit of farcical fluff? The economy's shaky, we may be headed off to war in Iraq, and as we near the one-year anniversary of September 11, we are all being forced (either by our own actual experiences or by an omnipresent media campaign) to revisit the pain and horror of that day. We could all use a break. The executives at Fox were lucky enough to have hit on the perfect programming to capitalize on our emotional exhaustion, providing us with a glorified talent show...
India did. The iron law of the nuclear age is this: nuclear weapons are instruments of madness; their actual use would be a descent into madness, but the threat to use them is not madness. On the contrary, it is exceedingly logical...
...into thinking that all people who commit suicide have carefully worked out a plan in advance. Studies of suicide survivors, says Thomas Simon, a behavioral scientist at the Centers for Disease Control, show that often just five minutes elapse from the time someone thinks about committing suicide until the actual attempt. This sometimes impulsive nature of the act is often facilitated by drinking alcohol...
...free fall is attracting a lot of research attention. Some experts believe that kids are being tipped into bipolar disorder by family and school stress, recreational-drug use and perhaps even a collection of genes that express themselves more aggressively in each generation. Others argue that the actual number of sick kids hasn't changed at all; instead, we've just got better at diagnosing the illness. If that's the case, it's still significant, because it means that those children have gone for years without receiving treatment for their illness, or worse, have been medicated for the wrong...