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...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...
...Texas, last year created a 12-piece collection featuring the stone to raise money for Tanzanite Foundation projects because they looked to the future. "The discovery of tanzanite changed the way the nomadic people there live forever. In 15 years when that supply runs out, what's going to happen to them?" says Anthony Camargo, half of the Anthony Nak team...
...During the Academy Awards ceremony, the announcer said The Departed was a remake of a Japanese movie. It's such a big joke! How can that happen? Nobody checked...
...erroneous understanding of history." Flanked by politicians and journalists, he announced that he'd produce his own film, provisionally entitled The Truth about Nanking, to refute it. "There was a war, and thousands of Japanese soldiers and guerillas died. But an organized rape and massacre of civilians did not happen," Mizushima insisted to TIME. The subject also receives more than its share of official whitewash. In 2005, Japan's Ministry of Education sparked outrage in China by approving a high school textbook that referred to the massacre merely as an "incident...
...Mizushima, for one, won't be building any bridges between Japan and China. He says he has already raised half of the $2.5 million he needs for his film, which he vows will prove "the massacre did not happen." Few outside observers expect him to succeed. As Guttentag puts it: "There's an extraordinary amount of evidence that shows that it did. There's forensic evidence, there's photographic evidence, there's film evidence, there's eyewitness testimony. I mean, what else do you need...