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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stock Market Rediscovers Risk | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...filmed, with the other writers planning out the new season. “We view ourselves as making a character show first, and the mythology is sort of the icing on the cake,” he said. “We try not to have the characters obsess about the mythology because it’s hard for the audience to become attached to them.”A PLAN IN MINDCuse said he leaves the obsessing to the audience. After the screening, fans had a chance to ask questions about the episode and the show in general...

Author: By Claire J Saffitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Lost' Creator Drops Hints at Film Screening | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...reel for someone who could have starred in Australia's Brainiest Kid or It's Academic: from bush school to the Australian National University ? and beyond! Learning is at the "kitchen table" of middle Australian families, to quote the vanquished Beazley; the self-employed and middle-income parents who obsess about education and private-school fees and have lately voted for Howard will take a very close look at Rudd's education policies in the coming months. Of course, if Labor does not cost them properly, or is too cosy with the academics or slipshod about standards, Howard will flay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Won't Fool the Voters of the Revolution | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Clinic and Research Unit at Mass. General Hospital, is currently recruiting subjects for the second phase of a clinical study testing the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in treating body dismorphic disorder (BDD). People with BDD often obsess over their physical appearance to an unhealthy extreme. Unlike eating disorders, which show a disproportionate incidence among women, BDD­ is evenly represented between the genders. According to Wilhelm, recent studies have found that a whopping four to five percent of college students may suffer from this condition. In extreme...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall.... | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Response plans may be important to have, but perhaps you (and your mom) shouldn’t obsess over what...

Author: By Jessica M. Luna, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Terrorism at Harvard? | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

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