Word: perilously
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...Traditionally, human beings are not great at assessing this kind of risk - a peril that has not yet arrived and that is, in any case, hard to viscerally imagine. Witness people's reluctance to evacuate before hurricanes, and weather forecasts portend a danger far easier to comprehend than failing investment banks...
...With the fate of the bailout bill in peril, it's not clear whether the presence of the presidential candidates is doing more damage than good. Members of both parties emerged from that meeting accusing each other of playing politics with the crucial legislation. Both sides to some degree are right. Less than 40 days from the presidential election, this crisis has been anything but the shining moment where candidates transcend politics and come together for the good of the country - as McCain suggested it should be when he suspended his campaign and asked to postpone Friday's debate until...
...Worldwide Investigation Planet in Peril To watch more of Anderson Cooper's worldwide investigation Planet in Peril, tune in to AC360° on CNN, Mondays at 10 p.m. E.T., and visit CNN.com/planetinperil Also, don't miss the new documentary Planet in Peril: Battle Lines...
...health-care reform, I believe, but I couldn't tell you a thing about it. We all knew two things about him: he (like Biden) lost a child in an automobile accident, and his wife had inoperable cancer. (Now we know a third thing about Edwards, which illustrates the peril of drawing too many conclusions from a candidate's life story as framed by the candidate and his or her campaign.) And, of course, there was Hillary Clinton. She never made an explicit issue of her personal troubles. She didn't have to, since we lived through them with...
...Edinburgh Primate Peril A new report found that hunting and habitat destruction have left 48% of the world's 634 primate types vulnerable to extinction. Asian primates are in particular trouble, with 71% of species threatened. But amid the grim data, a bright spot emerged: researchers conducting a separate census said they had discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas in the Republic of the Congo, significantly boosting a population previously thought to be about...