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Researchers, led by Dr Richard Beasley, of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, warn the widespread use of computers in so many aspects of modern life may put many people at risk of developing DVT.
BBC: Health threat from computer use
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Banks have developed solutions to some of these challenges, but their work-arounds are expensive and expose them to the risk of competitors with modern systems that were designed for mobile, ATMs, and real-time views of customers and their accounts.
FORBES: Outmoded IT Could "Evaporate" Big Retail Banks - Temenos
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Like a lot of modern academic historians, Kamen and Rawlings risk turning history into all nuance and no news.
NEWYORKER: Inquiring Minds
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As far as we can tell, in general, antidepressants don't increase the risk for any of the major modern killers (i.e. heart disease, cancer, dementia).
CNN: What are antidepressants' long-term effects?
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The business managers of a modern enterprise should not have to take that risk either.
FORBES: 10 Quotes on Cloud Computing That Really Say it All
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Nearly 800 million people lack dependable access to clean water and about 2.5 billion people lack access to modern sanitation, putting them at risk of disease.
FORBES: Is CSR as We Know It Obsolete?
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The workshop aims to provide attendees from Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and China with some of the modern tools and techniques needed to estimate seismic hazard, and to turn these into estimates of seismic risk.
UNESCO: ICTP seismology workshop in Nepal focuses on Himalayan hazards | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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Despite the uncertainty, Bricken says companies are still rushing to join what she calls the "secondary risk market, " the modern-day equivalent of Seattle's early entrepreneurs selling pickaxes, supplies, and services to prospectors seeking their fortune during the Yukon Gold Rush of the 1890s.
CNN: Seattle's budding economy: Pot tourism
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It triggered fears that modern cartoons and even video games could be putting children at risk of fits.
BBC: Scientists probe cartoon seizures
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The performance bonus from minimizing risk for a given level of return (a key tenant of modern portfolio theory) has also been reduced.
FORBES: Benefits From Asset Allocation Are Harder To Come By
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The notion that owning high-risk stocks will yield high returns over the long haul is a bedrock of modern finance.
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