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...time horizon and supreme confidence that they'll never need to raise money in a pinch. But how about the other 99% of humanity? For them, the market holds risk, and some sense of that risk is precisely what's missing today and, oddly, what may make the market riskier than ever...
...always had a crapshoot quality to it. Regular mammograms seem like a wise precaution, but the tests may be expensive and unreliable--and in a very small number of cases, may actually help stir up the very disease they're designed to spot. Neglecting mammography can be even riskier, giving an incipient tumor a chance to take hold and grow. This year the confusion only increased, with the medical community clamoring for clarity just as various cancer advisory groups issued conflicting guidelines...
...opportunity to earn more. After 60 years it may come as no surprise that the lesson that we learned in the depression has been lost. Of course some Americans will be better off with private pensions replacing Social Security. Those who can afford to put their retirement savings in riskier investments will earn higher rates of returns. Plus, those people will be freed of the burden of helping out other Americans. But as some earn more, we will surely see elderly poverty rates soar. Not everyone has the means or the know-how to make the market work for them...
There are both team and individual competitions in adventure racing, but according to Nagle, the individual events are riskier. In the team events, Nagle says, trust and communication are most important...
...1970s, artists have increasingly turned towards the human body as a subject, following years when criticism favored Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. Both "Herb Ritts: Work" and "Face and Figure" illustrate this trend, yet Ritts' photographs tend to stress formal considerations over content. His celebrity portraits and even his riskier homoerotic photographs are all highly aestheticized, easily consumable images-- perfect for the sides of note pads, tote bags and mugs...