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Getting a decent night's sleep shouldn't be such a crapshoot. But for the estimated 30% of American adults who suffer from at least occasional insomnia, nightfall is no guarantee of slumber...
...experiencing this frustration first-hand. “Basically by the time I’d find out if I got the fellowships [for culinary school], I’d need to have a job lined up,” he says. “Do I take a crapshoot and maybe not have any good opportunities out there or do I not follow what I love? It’s a position I don’t want to be in.”While OCS attempts to prepare students professionally, the Culinary Society tries to provide adequate recreational...
...though, trying to gauge the best timing - and angle - for books about the crisis is as much a crapshoot as the market itself. "If I had had an epiphany and went with the title Damn, It FELT Good to Be a Banker, I might have been on The Today Show," says Chatwani. Still, the way the markets have been swinging, he'll probably have another shot...
...Sept. 15, the Dow fell 504 points. Pretty drastic. The next day it gained 142 points. The lesson: these are volatile days and weeks, and timing the market is a crapshoot, even for the pros. The ability of ordinary investors to move in and out of investments at the right moment tends to be pretty bad anyway. A longitudinal study by the research firm Dalbar shows that as mutual-fund investors increase the length of time they hold their funds, they do better relative to stock and bond indexes. "Our emotions are backward-looking, but the market is always about...
...What do the candidates' gambling proclivities tell us about who they are? Politicians talk of their campaigns as grand contests of ideas. But in practice, the political battle is both a crapshoot and a poker game, a study in managing risk and in manipulating people. And there is no bigger gamble than a presidential run, which both candidates have conducted very differently this cycle. McCain's campaign, like his life, has been marked by its embrace of living dangerously and by clear runs of fortune and disappointment. Obama, meanwhile, has succeeded, no less remarkably, by diligently executing a premeditated strategy...