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Ekstrom organizes what has the potential to be confusing scientific information around the principles of hazard and risk, making the class relevant to everyday life...
...same as putting a billboard in your front yard. The public realm is being visually polluted," says Jim Chappell, president of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, a Washington watchdog group, wonders if auto ads can be outlawed as a traffic hazard. "The advertising industry is in our face at every turn, and many of us feel assaulted...
...children's story - blockish and clunkish and exaggerated. All fashion is an aesthetic of distortion. But platform shoes have risen so high you could use them to drill for oil in the Gulf. They look spectacular, even crazy, and elevate foot fashion to the status of a major social hazard. A young woman in a car who tries to lift the great block on her right foot from accelerator to brake has become as dangerous as a gang member with a Glock...
...That issue has been raised, but not to the point where it's a hazard," he says...
...might be unable to pay their debts to lenders elsewhere--a cycle of defaulting loans would allow financial crises to spread uncontrollably, bringing down banks in Boston as well as Bangkok. On the other hand, however, there is a danger that the possibility of bailouts could create a moral hazard and encourage speculators to float high-risk loans, secure in their knowledge that the IMF will be there should the loans fail...