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Last week's earthquake was large enough to create a tsunami, but it didn't. That may have been a matter of pure luck...
This time around, when the call came down in its favor, Harvard couldn’t help but feel confident and wonder if perhaps its luck had changed...
...down when the retiree needs the money in the private account? And what if it stays down? Most individual investors’ portfolios have still not returned to where they to where they were when the dot-com bubble burst five years ago. A system that relies on good luck and bad luck doesn’t provide a true safety...
...accident back in 2002, when the company started testing its new stretch-mark cream. Says Klein-Becker's Gay: "There were no directions on the tube. So some of the testers used it on their face and discovered that it smoothed out their skin. It was just dumb luck." Many products throughout the ages, of course, have promised to reverse the aging process. StriVectin's particular solution relies on peptides--strings of amino acids that stimulate enzymes in skin cells to produce more collagen, a protein that restores the skin's structure and keeps it from sagging...
...WARNING Finally, the report sounds the alarm about a biological warfare attack on the U.S., saying the country has so far avoided such a potential catastrophe mostly by luck. "The threat is deeply troubling today; it will be more so tomorrow," the report declared in some of its most pointed language. "The intelligence community, and the government as a whole, needs to approach the problem with a new urgency and new strategies...