Word: risking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the sport's stark metaphor--a human leaving safety behind to leap into the void--may be a perfect fit with our times. As extreme a risk taker as McGuire seems, we may all have more in common with him than we know or care to admit. Heading into the millennium, America has embarked on a national orgy of thrill seeking and risk taking. The rise of adventure and extreme sports like BASE jumping, snowboarding, ice climbing, skateboarding and paragliding is merely the most vivid manifestation of this new national behavior. Investors once content to buy stocks and hold...
...change jobs, leaping into the employment void, imagining rich opportunities everywhere. The quit rate, a measure of those who voluntarily left their most recent job, is at 14.5%, the highest in a decade. Even among those schooled in risk management, hotshot M.B.A.s who previously would have headed to Wall Street or Main Street, there is a predilection to spurn Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble in order to take a flyer on striking it rich quickly in dot.com land. "I didn't want someone in 20 years to ask me where I was when the Internet took off," says Greg Schoeny...
...behave in other times--the way people spend money, change jobs, the quit rate, day trading, and people really thinking they know more about the market than anyone else," says Peter Bernstein, an economic consultant and author of the best-selling Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. "It takes a particular kind of environment for all these things to happen." That environment--unprecedented prosperity and almost a decade without a major ground war--may be what causes Americans to express some inveterate need to take risks...
...anti-fat ingredients other than those found in alcohol - was responsible for relatively low rates of heart disease among the French, whose diets often contain high amounts of animal fats and dairy products. The new study found that men who had two to four drinks per week lessened their risk for sudden cardiac death by 60 percent. Those who had even more - five to six drinks per week - lowered their risk by 79 percent...
...Based on the data, I wouldn't recommend that nondrinkers start drinking," said Christine M. Albert, M.D., pointing out that according to the study, rates of sudden cardiac death went back up when one had more than two drinks each day. "One has to consider all the risks and benefits of drinking alcohol." Sure, you may get hooked on the bottle, but heart disease is the nation?s biggest killer, and sudden cardiac death (SCD) is responsible for about half of all those deaths. If a drink or two every day keeps heart rhythms regular - decreasing the risk...