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Your report on recent american hurricanes included a large photo of an evacuation from Houston with the highway clogged with suvs, trucks and large cars in long lines. When are Americans going to realize that their extravagant way of living and their reckless consumerism are prime culprits for many environmental catastrophes in the world? We should thank God that there is only one U.S.; otherwise the human race would have been wiped out a long time ago. Ramin Akbari Tehran...
...Your report on recent American hurricanes included a large photo of an evacuation from Houston with the highway clogged with long lines of SUVs, trucks and large cars. When are Americans going to realize that their extravagant way of living and their reckless consumerism are prime culprits for many environmental catastrophes in the world? We should thank God that there is only one U.S.; otherwise the human race would have been wiped out a long time ago. Ramin Akbari Tehran...
Julian English is a man who squanders what fate gave him. He has a country-club membership and a loving wife. His decline and fall, over the course of three days around Christmas, is a matter of spending, liquor and a couple of reckless gestures. That his calamity is petty only makes it more powerful...
...recent years Bennett had improved Refco's record, but his handling of Refco's IPO may have been reckless in more ways than one. Not only did Bennett fail to disclose $430 million--more than double last year's net income--that would never be collected (believed to be the result of hedge-fund clients who didn't pay up after bad trades), but he also went ahead with the IPO even though his top lieutenant, Santo Maggio, was under investigation by the SEC in connection with a stock-manipulation scheme that had driven software firm Sedona into the ground...
Taking care of the body means different things at different stages in life. For example, accidents are major causes of death and disability in people in their teens and 20s, often the result of thoughtless or reckless behavior, such as riding motorcycles without helmets, diving headfirst into murky bodies of water and using drugs and alcohol unwisely...