A rescue worker risked his life saving two tourists who have been trapped in the mountains for two days.

According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, we'll continue to hit the mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool.

As the quality of risk-taking was passed from on ration to the next, humans ended up with a sense of adventure and a tolerance for risk.

But Simon decided to risk his life and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope.

By feeding the ponies, tourists increase the risk of them getting hit by a car, and make them harder to gather during the area's annual pony drift (迁移).

Dr Dominoni, who is putting cameras inside nesting boxes to track sleeping patterns, said lack of sleep could put the birds' health at risk.

Everyone enjoys the life-saving benefits vaccines provide, but they'll exist only as long as everyone shares in the risks.

For the risk-seekers a part of the brain related to pleasure becomes active, while for the rest of us, a part of the brain related to fear becomes active.

However, we are not all using the same reference standard to weigh risks and rewards.

I ran the risk of losing those students who had a different style of thinking.

Jacob Sattelmair from Harvard University has done a study into how much exercise is needed to lower the risk of heart attacks.

Maybe I was taking the risk of never coming back home.

Mean taking some risks, so your brain raisers your tolerance for risk as well.

New experiences often mean taking some risks, so your brain raises your tolerance for risk as well.

No matter where you are on the risk-seeking range, scientists say that your willingness to take risks increases during your teenage years.

Once when I was facing a decision that involved high risk, I went to a friend.

Risk-takers were better at hunting, fighting, or exploring.

She said social media firms were exposing children to major emotional risks, with some youngsters starting secondary school ill-equipped to cope with the tremendous pressure they faced online.

Sometimes we decide that a little unnecessary danger is worth it because when we weigh the risk and the reward, the risk seems worth tasking.

Still, the people who exercise 150 minutes a week did pretty well, too, lowering their death risk by 14%.

The measure to reduce risks from social media.

The reason why any of us take any risks at all might have to do with early humans.

The report found that youngsters felt their friendships could be at risk if they did not respond to social media posts quickly, and around the clock.

The resistance to vaccine has continued for decades, and it is driven by a real but very small risk.

The study showed that people who put in 300 minutes a week of exercise had a 20% lower risk of death due to heart disease.

They were not well prepared for emotional risks.

This is despite evidence that a dollar spent on risk-reduction saves at least two on reconstruction.

Those who refuse to take that risk selfishly make others suffer.

Though the relationship may not be causal, helping divided communities to prepare for disasters would at least reduce the risk that those disasters are followed by killing and wounding people.

Two of the authors of the review also made a study published in 2014 which/that showed a mere five to 10 minutes a day of running reduced the risk of heart disease and early deaths from all causes.

You may drink, smoke, be overweight and still reduce your risk of dying early by running.

Your identity has been formed; you've built up your resources; and now you have the chance to take the big risks precisely because your foundation is already secure.

They choose purpose over happiness—having a clear sense of purpose even reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

I can no longer ignore that risk.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

People suffering from sleep loss are at an increased risk from obesity, psychological problems and car crashes.

It requires no equipment, everyone knows how to do it and it carries the lowest risk of injury.

Our risk of cancer rises dramatically as we age.

And clearly, people over age 75 who have other risk factors for cancer, such as a family history or prior personal experience with the disease, should continue to get screened regularly

But for the remainder, the risk of cancer, while increased at the end of life, must be balanced with other factors like remaining life expectancy（预期寿命）.

With the percentage of people over age 65 expected to nearly double by 2050, it's important to weigh the health benefits of screening against the risks and costs of routine testing.

Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households, Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes.

If you'd rather hide your actions, that's an indication that you're taking a risk and rationalizing it to yourself.

Evaluating Risks To decide whether a risk is worth taking, you must examine the consequences, in the future as well as right now, negative as well as positive, and to others as well as to yourself.

We must learn to recognize risks, because if we can't see the risks we're taking, we can't make responsible choices.

But Everybody Does It Most people who get in trouble do know the rules and facts but manage to fool themselves about the risks they're taking by using excuses: Everyone else does it

Those who take risks they later regret usually focus on immolate benefits and simply haven't considered what might go wrong.

This slippery slope of eroding ethics and bigger risks leads only to disaster

why must we learn to identify the risks we are going to take?

Those who take risks they regret later on are usually very aggressive

It was challenged by some climate and risk experts.

The effect was first noted in 1858 by William Farr, who wrote that widows and widowers (鳏夫) were at a much higher risk of dying than their married peers.

Getting a divorce means risking a reduced life span.

Being taller is associated with longer life expectancy, he said, This is largely due to a lower risk of dying of cardiovascular (心血管的) disease among taller people.

One of the risk factors for premature deaths is the air we breathe, over which individuals have little control, he said.

Although in-flight infections thrive in dry environments like airplanes, your risk of getting sick from an airplane is actually low because of the air filters used.

But a new study finds that the risk of divorce among older couples rises when the wife——not the husband一becomes seriously ill.

given the increasing concern about health care costs for the aging population, Karraker believes policymakers should be aware of the relationship between disease and risk of divorce.

On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more.

Researchers found that only people who were seated in individual - had a high risk of catching the illness.

Should the cars be programmed to avoid hitting a child running across the road, even if that will put their passengers at risk?

Skipping breakfast has been associated with a 27% increased risk of heart disease, a 21% higher risk of type 2 diabetes in men, and a 20% higher risk of type 2 diabetes in women.

Students risk health and well being,as well as performance in other end-of-term work, when faculty offers take-home exams without clear, time-limited boundaries.

Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.

They are more likely to be at risk of dying.

Greenhouse gas emissions, if not properly dealt with, will pose endless risks for mankind.

Flack said it was too early to know whether the benefits of plentiful food outweighed the risks of feeding on landfills.

Failure to address comprehensively the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, however, exposes all generations, present and future, to incalculable risks.

But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.

Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.

Research now says adding fiber to the teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.

While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.

Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

Its risks cannot be overestimated.

In most cases, the human waste is used on grain crops, which are eventually cooked, minimizing the risk of transmitting water-borne diseases.

But Pay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks.

Mothers have been warned for years that sleeping with their newborn infant is a bad idea, because it increases the risk that the baby might die unexpectedly during the night.

A lot of times people are not really aware of the impact they have, or the fact that taking them in combination with other medications might put you at increased risk for something that you wouldn’t otherwise being countering or be at risk for.

This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.

They are unaware of the potential risks they are confronting.

Their aim was to determine the relationship between these risk behaviors and mental health issues in teenagers.

The group that scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors was most likely to show symptoms of depression; in all, nearly 15% of this group reported being depressed, compared with just 4% of the low-risk group.

The study's authors surveyed 12,395 students and analyzed nine risk behaviors, including excessive alcohol use, illegal drug use, heavy smoking, high media use and truancy ( ' , 逃学 ).

Teenagers at risk of depression, anxiety and suicide often wear their troubles like a neon ( ' , 霓虹灯 ) sign.

Some 13% scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors.

Learning how to take risks in an ever-changing world.

In some ways they're at greater risk of falling through the cracks, says researcher Vladimir Carli.

Because their behaviors are not usually seen as a red flag, these young people have been dubbed the invisible risk group by the study's authors.

And 29%, the invisible risk group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

About 58% of the students demonstrated none or few of the risk behaviors.

A battery-powered world comes with its own risks, too.

99 Occupational stress increases the risk of heart attack and diabetes, accelerates the aging process, decreases longevity, and contributes to depression and anxiety, among numerous other negative health outcomes.

There is no doubt that spaceflight entails risks, and to pioneer a new mode of travel is to face those risks, and to reduce them with the benefit of hard-won experience.

It is worth promoting despite the risks involved.

He said doctors risked losing the trust of patients if they told patients, I'm not going to do what I think is best for you because 1 think it's bad for the healthcare budget in Massachusetts.

But the Food and Drug Administration has not approved Avastin for use in the eye, and using it rather than the alternative, Lucentis, might carry an additional, although slight, safety risk.

But in practice, our brain discounts the risks — and benefits — associated with issues that lie some way ahead.

For investors who desire low risk and guaranteed income,U.S. Government bonds are a secure investment because these bonds have the financial backing and full faith and credit of the federal government.

Thus, like all investments,bonds have a degree of risk

The second question is \How can I assess the investment risk of a particular bond issue

Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service rate the level of risk of many corporate and government bonds

And naturally, the higher the market risk of a bond,the higher the interest rate

A recent article in The Harvard Crimson noted the shocking growth of Harvard's public relations arm in the last five years and it questioned whether a focus on risk management and avoiding controversy was really the best outward-looking face of this great institution

For the first time in American history, there is the risk that the rising generation will be less well educated than the previous one.

What is the risk facing America

If you say no, even politely, you risk inhibiting further ideas, not just from that reporter, but from others who heard that you turned down the idea.

The author's second warning is that we should avoid running a greater risk by challenging our boss's anthority

Behind the differences in sex, skin tones and mother tongues, there are common attitudes, expectations and ambitions which risk creating a set of clones among the business leaders of the future.

Older societies may be less innovative and more strongly disinclined to take risks than younger ones.

Compared with younger ones, older societies are less inclined to be innovative and take risks than younger ones

Don't risk injury or death beacuse of over-confidence or lack of knowledge.

The WCRF has estimated that 19,000 cancers a year in Britain could be prevented if people lost their excess weight with growing evidence that excess body fat increases the risk of various cancers.

If you are having these types of coffee regularly then they will increase the chances of you becoming overweight, which in turn increases your risk of developing cancer, as well as other diseases such as heart disease

And, by contrast, the loss of hope, is turning out to be a stronger sign that a person may commit suicide than other factors long thought to be more likely risks.

A lot of times people are not really aware of the impact they have, or the fact that taking them in combination with other medications might put you at increased risk for something that you wouldn't otherwise being countering or be at risk for.

According to a report from the Harvard School of Public Health, many everyday products, including some bug sprays and cleaning fluids, could lead to an increased risk of brain and behavioral disorders in children.

And 29%, the \invisible risk\group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

Apple argues that it is fighting to preserve a principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk weakening all iPhones for any govern

As Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz have written, if you have too much time in the performance zone, you need more time in the recovery zone, otherwise you risk burnout.

But poor diet and physical inactivity also each increase the risk of heart disease and have a role to play in the development of some cancers.

But telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age, that's a powerful message.

Dehydration is also a risk when you eat too much protein.

Even the Harvard study did not prove a direct correlation but noted strong associations between exposure and risk of behavioral issues.

Governments should set safety requirements and then let insurers price the risk of the robots based on the manufacturer's driving record, not the passenger's.

high-fiber diets are also linked to a reduced risk of heart disease and diabetes.

In 2009 an old Russian craft slammed into a communications satellite, creating a cloud of hundreds of pieces of debris and putting other hardware at risk.

In order to achieve a successful outcome or reward, some level of risk is almost always essential.

In some ways they're at greater risk of falling through the cracks,\says researcher Vladimir Carli.

It turns out that those who consumed the highest levels of fiber during adolescence had a lower risk of developing breast cancer, compared to the women who ate the least fiber.

Love, who is director of Weather and disaster risk Reduction at the World Meteorological Organization, says most of the deaths and economic losses were caused by weather, climate, or water-related extremes.

Occupational stress increases the risk of heart attack and diabetes, accelerates the aging process, decreases longevity, and contributes to depression and anxiety, among numerous other negative health outcomes.

Once armed with a method for gaining access to iPhones, the government could ask to use it proactively, before a suspected terrorist attack—leaving Apple in a bind as to whether to comply or risk an attack and suffer a public-relations nightmare.

Our findings suggest that even more modest attention difficulties can increase the risk of negative academic outcomes.

right now, to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that mothers not sleep in the same bed as their babies, but sleep in the same room.

risk taking in an educational context is a vital skill that enables progress and creativity, wrote Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, in a review published last year.

So there is no health risk whatsoever.

Some 13% scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors.

Such wariness is well founded: statistics show, for example, that a teenage driver with a same-age passenger in the car is at higher risk of a fatal crash than an adolescent driving alone or with an adult.

Teenagers at risk of depression, anxiety and suicide often wear their troubles like a neon sign.

That's not to say that risk is always good, but it is related to taking action, whereas decision fatigue assuredly leads to inaction and the possible chagrin of a decision maker who might otherwise prefer a new course but is unfortunately hindered.

The bottom line here is the more fiber you eat, perhaps, a lower level of hormone in your body, and therefore, a lower lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.

The finding points to longstanding evidence that fiber may reduce circulating female hormone levels, which could explain the reduced risk.

The group that scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors was most likely to show symptoms of depression; in all, nearly 15% of this group reported being depressed, compared with just 4% of the low-risk group.

The risk is of course that innovation may frequently lead to imitation.

The study's authors surveyed 12, 395 students and analyzed nine risk behaviors, including excessive alcohol use, illegal drug use, heavy smoking, high media use and truancy(逃学).

There have been some indications that extra protein makes the kidneys work harder, which could be problematic for individuals with a history of kidney disease and for them, the supplements may increase the risk of kidney stones, the says.

They must determine the risk of jeopardizing a job offer or a collaboration proposal from those who are wary of— or unfamiliar with—open science.

This important study demonstrates that the more fiber you eat during your high school years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer in later life.

We have to find a way to qualify more people and not put ourselves at risk.

We should assure such students that risk, and even peer pressure, can be a good thing—as long as it happens in the classroom and not in the car.

When considering risk factors associated with serious chronic diseases, we often think about health indicators such as cholesterol, blood pressure, and body weight.

The Bilski case involves a claimed patent on a method for hedging risk in the energy market.

The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more ( ' , and more diverse) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways.

If that happens, passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott products, putting the reputation of the target company at risk.

But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come.

The principle of British welfare is no longer that you can insure yourself against the risk of unemployment and receive unconditional payments if the disaster happens.

jobs are at high risk of being automated, according to a University of Oxford study, with the middle class disproportionately squeezed.

\Hugging protects people who are under stress from the increased risk for colds that's usually associated with stress,\ notes Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie.

A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman's risk of breast cancer.

A number of studies have concluded that normal-weight people are in fact at higher risk of some diseases compared to those who are overweight.

Immersive reading, by contrast, depends on being willing to risk inefficiency, goallessness, even time-wasting.

That's only a small share of the total acreage that could benefit, about half a million acres in all, so it will be vital to prioritize areas at greatest risk of fire or drought.

The bilski case involves a claimed patent on a method for hedging risk in the energy market.

The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways.

This allows the TSA to focus on travelers who are higher risk, saving time for everyone involved.