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...Proponents of the ballot should cease their well-meaning campaign to push for a vague measure simply on the grounds that it will “send the right message.” In doing so, the EAC undermines the credibility of its own cause—and the likelihood of actually finding a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 11 percent...
...likelihood of winning the election is “one in 100...to the second power,” Gillis says, echoing his statements from the UC debate. “I have a lot of crackpot ideas and hopefully one of them will actually stick...
...Harvard’s fencers were quick to point out the likelihood of history repeating itself...
...That falls in line with what Princeton professor Daniel Kahneman coined "the availability heuristic": the concept that if people can think of an incident in which a risk has come to fruition, they will exaggerate its likelihood. "Somehow the probability of an accident increases [in one's mind] after you see a car turned over on the side of the road," says Kahneman, who won a 2002 Nobel prize for his work. "That's what availability does to you: it plants an image that comes readily to mind, and that image is associated with an emotion: fear...
...obvious and not-so-obvious pitfalls of their diet. Frequent bacon consumption may increase the risk of bladder cancer—and so could the skinless chicken served in dining halls. Men and women who eat bacon five times a week or more have a 59-percent-higher likelihood of developing bladder cancer than those who never eat bacon. Consuming, with similar regularity, chicken cooked with the skin taken off makes one 52 percent more likely to develop the disease, according to the study, published in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. There...