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...This definition makes risk crucial to setting and understanding prices in financial markets. But we humans aren't so great at gauging risk. We pay too much heed to the recent past. We obsess over gruesome possible outcomes while ignoring the mundane but dangerous. And we often cannot envision what will happen next...
...afar on your computer or a Cingular wireless phone. For $200 to start up and $10 a month, you can watch your pets or spy on the nanny while you are at the office, or turn your lights on and off to make the home seem occupied when you aren't there. You can turn your heat or air-conditioning on as you drive home. And the system can even be set to send a text message to your mobile phone if the motion sensors detect that a door or window has been opened or there is a water leak...
...Pirates of the Caribbean visual effects guys tell us the third Pirates movie, due this summer, has close to 2,000 effects shots, more than the first two Pirates films combined. Clearly these fellas aren't resting on their laurels...
...into Iraq lack the latest armor for their Humvees. Their tanks and helicopters are wearing out far faster than the Pentagon planned for. So, sadly, it should come as little surprise that, according to the nation's largest group of mental-health experts, soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan aren't getting all the help they need from the government that sent them off to fight...
...into space. We don't know that yet," says Alex Tai, Galactic's chief of operations - and the man who will pilot first Virgin's first spaceship. One possibility is a ride in a centrifuge to see how passengers will react to the g forces. For now, however, there aren't a lot of requirements other than deep pockets...