risks

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.

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

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.

Prior to the new study, little was known about the risks of getting directly infected by common respiratory viruses, such as the flu or common cold, on an airplane, the researchers said.

Regardless, the World Health Organisation has launched a review into the potential health risks of drinking water from plastic bottles.

So, to evaluate the risks of infection, the study team flew on 10 different flights in the US.

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.

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

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.

"The presence of peers makes adolescents and youth,but not adults, more likely to take risks," Steinberg and Gardner concluded.

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

As he and other researchers examined the question of why teens were more apt to take risks in the company of other teenagers,they came to suspect that a crowd's influence need not always be negative.

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

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.

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

But that's the negative side, with risks that must be balanced against the benefits of sharing.

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

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

However, as the cost of getting your own satellite in orbit drops sharply, the risks of irresponsible use grow.

It requires one to take risks and experience failures.

Some of our research is to do with the likely impacts of climate change and all of the associated risks.

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.

This contributed to the deterioration of the company's once-spirited culture, which had motivated employees to take risks and make miracles.

This is where a culture of social responsibility around CubeSats becomes important 一 not simply to ensure that physical risks are minimized, but to engage with a much larger community in anticipating and managing less obvious consequences of the technolog

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.

When an exhausted student goes to school, he risks hurting everyone on the road with his impaired driving; he doesn't have the cognitive resources to do well on his English test; he has lower self-control with his friends; and at home, he is moody with hi

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.

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.

While we didn't want to create any unnecessary panic, we did find some concerns that were troublesome, and we thought that parents or at least physicians should be aware of those potential risks.

Yet, she noted, many young people are especially unwilling to take risks at school—afraid that one low test score or poor grade could cost them a spot at a selective university.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

They were not well prepared for emotional risks.

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.

However, their campaign risks coming across as exhortation and nannying.

The Food Standards Authority FSA has issued a public warning about the risks of a compound called acrylamide that forms in some foods cooked at high temperatures.

They're more productive, more creative, and willing to take greater risks.

When education becomes one-size-fits-all, it risks overlooking a nation's diversity of gifts.