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...went on to host The Money Club at CNBC before moving to Fox in 2000—but not without a major pitstop along the way. While reporting a story on female motorcycle riders in 1988, Buttner decided she had to learn how to ride in order to better understand her subjects...
...very important after an earthquake. Wu Xia, a mother who came with her 11-year-old daughter, said the explanation "seemed strange" because children currently attend classes for three hours a day in tents set up just outside the school, which was damaged but remained standing. "I don't understand why they had to cancel today," she says. The likelihood is that the government decided to minimize the number of large public gatherings in the town...
...Yeah, sometimes. Not too much. My friends and family are really cool about it. They don't even really talk about it much with me. They understand that's part of what I do, and that there's a confidentiality agreement...
...programmed with basic survival skills. When frightened, we get a shot of performance-enhancing hormones, and the blood pumps to our limbs to help us outrun whatever enemy we face. But in modern times, we're hardly aware of such natural skills, and most of us do little to understand or develop them...
...knowledge is out there. Risk experts understand how we could overcome our blind spots and more intelligently hedge our bets. In laboratories and on shooting ranges, there are people who study what happens to bodies and minds under extreme duress. Military researchers conduct elaborate experiments to try to predict who will melt down in a crisis and who will thrive. Police, soldiers, race-car drivers and helicopter pilots train to anticipate the strange behaviors they will encounter at the worst of times. Regular people can learn from that knowledge, since, after all, we will be the first on the scene...