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...This definition makes risk crucial to setting and understanding prices in financial markets. But we humans aren't so great at gauging risk. We pay too much heed to the recent past. We obsess over gruesome possible outcomes while ignoring the mundane but dangerous. And we often cannot envision what will happen next...
...crucial for Lebanon, the Middle East and the U.S. that Siniora succeeds in safeguarding Lebanon's independence and guiding its political and economic reconstruction. In a struggle between a rare Arab democratic movement supported by the West and parties backed by authoritarian regimes in Syria and Iran, his defeat would shatter a model for other Arab states to follow and dash the Bush Administration's only realistic hope for a Middle East success story. Victory for Iran, Syria and its allies, on the other hand, would probably doom the country to future conflicts with Israel and trigger a new exodus...
This definition makes risk crucial to setting and understanding prices in financial markets. But we humans aren't so great at gauging risk. We pay too much heed to the recent past. We obsess over gruesome possible outcomes while ignoring the mundane but dangerous. And we often cannot envision what will happen next...
...much money it costs, you should do whatever you can to get it,” Molly C. Tarrant ’10 said. And Dr. Eric Rubin, an associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the school of public health, said yesterday that the vaccine was a crucial tool in the fight against the spread of sexually transmitted infections. “I don’t know that Harvard students’ sexual behavior will be wildly influenced by the presence of a vaccine,” Rubin said. “But it will make whatever...
...violence like the one that helped foster al-Qaeda. "This is the main battle in the war on terrorism," says Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai's former Foreign minister. "Al-Qaeda lost its capital in Afghanistan, and they are creating a perception that they are getting it back. It is crucial for the U.S., for Afghanistan, for Pakistan and for the whole world that we prevent this from happening. Our shared goal should be to do whatever it takes to build Afghanistan as a peaceful state...