NASA hit the challenge hard. The space agency built a bird radar to scan for flocks that could fly through a shuttle?s launch path and pose an impact risk.

NASA下定决心要解决这一问题，宇航局建立了一座鸟类雷达，以扫描航天飞机发射路径上是否有可能造成冲撞的鸟群。

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Although there is always some risk that a large impact could occur, careful study shows that this risk is quite small.

尽管总是有发生大的冲击的风险，但谨慎的研究表明这种风险是相当小的。

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Nicholas Lardy, an economist and senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute, says China's unwillingness to adopt derivative loans and other high-risk financial products helped to shield it from the impact of the world economic downturn.

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There will be more transactions and fluidity in the marketplace with increasing attention to how patents impact risk and revenue, and more insightful intelligence will be required for key decisions.

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And in the U.S., the extended and unresolved fiscal crisis and now the debt ceiling will impact global risk appetite for corporate and portfolio investors.

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One surprising result of the new study was what factors were predictors of high-risk impact.

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