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...open to fashion forces from the wider world. After all, the city once known as Constantinople has been on trade routes since Byzantium. But Istanbul has experienced years of economic uncertainty, including Turkey's financial collapse in 2001, which analysts equate in severity to the U.S.'s Wall Street Crash of 1929. Fortunately, by 2005, inflation was brought into line and the Turkish currency?the lira?was revalued, offering a new stability...
...Think of them as kites instead. It's not so easy to get a kite to fly. They crash back to ground a few times before getting up there. Then they soar...
...practice, we’ve been focusing on specific breakouts to beat their fore-check,” Sifers said. “They like to crash down on the wings, and we want to make sure we’re open so that we can do a variety of things...
...number is up. Consequently, any single measurement assigned to the risk of driving a car is bound to be only the roughest sort of benchmark. Adams cites as an example the statistical fact that a young man is 100 times more likely to be involved in a severe crash than is a middle-aged woman. Similarly, someone driving at 3:00 a.m. Sunday is more than 100 times more likely to die than someone driving at 10:00 a.m. Sunday. Someone with a personality disorder is 10 times more likely to die. And let's say he's also drunk...
...terrorism - rather than everyday dangers that kill thousands. John Graham, who spent four years as administrator of the federal Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, says news of SUV tire failures left him besieged with demands for tire pressure warning systems even though government reports listed 41 car-crash deaths per year due to under-inflated tires, versus 9,800 deaths from side-impact crashes. "People's capacity to visualize a risk is an important part of the attention they give to it," says Graham. "If you're within six months of a Three Mile Island, a Love Canal...