Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Dangerous in the World Around YouHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002 - 485 sider An indispensable and timely guide, Risk is the authority for assessing threats to your health and safety. We continually face new risks in our world. This essential family reference will help you understand worrisome risks so you can decide how to stay safe and how to keeps risks in perspective. Expert authors David Ropeik and George Gray include information on: - 50 top hazards - your likelihood of exposure - the consequences - ways to reduce your risk They cover topics such as: - cancer - biological weapons - indoor air pollution - pesticides - radiation |
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... LIVE in a dangerous world . Yet it is also a world far safer in many ways than it has ever been . Life expectancy is ... lives has subjected us to new perils . We often react to this conflict , of progress on the one hand and risk on the ...
... LIVE in a dangerous world . Yet it is also a world far safer in many ways than it has ever been . Life expectancy is ... lives has subjected us to new perils . We often react to this conflict , of progress on the one hand and risk on the ...
Side 3
... live . While the numbers and exposure patterns we cite are focused on the United States , the details of most of the risks we explain are the same in Europe or Asia or South America . The effects of mercury , the science of genetic ...
... live . While the numbers and exposure patterns we cite are focused on the United States , the details of most of the risks we explain are the same in Europe or Asia or South America . The effects of mercury , the science of genetic ...
Side 4
... live on a hilltop . " If a substance is harmful to test subjects , but we're never exposed to it , it doesn't pose a risk . The risk of being eaten by a shark doesn't exist in Kansas . A hazard can't do you any harm if you are out of ...
... live on a hilltop . " If a substance is harmful to test subjects , but we're never exposed to it , it doesn't pose a risk . The risk of being eaten by a shark doesn't exist in Kansas . A hazard can't do you any harm if you are out of ...
Side 7
... lives than they take . Some peo- ple suffer serious side effects from vaccines , but vaccination's benefits far outweigh the risks . We leave that risk a benefit accounting out of our judgment . Since our definition or risk presumes ...
... lives than they take . Some peo- ple suffer serious side effects from vaccines , but vaccination's benefits far outweigh the risks . We leave that risk a benefit accounting out of our judgment . Since our definition or risk presumes ...
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... lives before all the scientific answers are in . There are also times when we think science has come up with " the " answer , and we're reasonably certain about just how precautionary to be . And then things change . Even for risks that ...
... lives before all the scientific answers are in . There are also times when we think science has come up with " the " answer , and we're reasonably certain about just how precautionary to be . And then things change . Even for risks that ...
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VI | 48 |
VII | 53 |
X | 64 |
XI | 70 |
XII | 76 |
XXXIII | 232 |
XXXIV | 241 |
XXXV | 247 |
XXXVI | 254 |
XXXVII | 270 |
XXXVIII | 283 |
XXXIX | 294 |
XL | 299 |
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Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really ... David Ropeik,George Gray Begrænset visning - 2002 |
Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really ... David Ropeik,George Gray Begrænset visning - 2002 |
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air pollution alcohol Americans antibiotics asbestos atoms bacteria bacterium blood body breast caffeine cause Center chapter was reviewed chemicals cholesterol contain crashes damage deaths diesel dioxin doses drinking drivers drugs effects emissions Environmental estimated exposed exposure to hazardous firearms foodborne illness hazardous levels CONSEQUENCES hazardous waste heart disease higher hormones human immune system implants incinerators individual levels indoor infection ionizing radiation killed lead levels will vary LIKELIHOOD of exposure Low Medium High lung lung cancer mammograms Medium High Population-wide mercury microwave million mobile phone molecules motor vehicle mutations National nuclear number of victims ozone particles percent pesticides plants poisoning problems public health radiation radon RANGE OF CONSEQUENCES RANGE OF EXPOSURES rays REDUCING YOUR RISK respiratory Risk Meter LIKELIHOOD safety belts skin cancer smoke studies symptoms tion tissue U.S. residents United vaccines victims Low Medium women X rays
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Side 3 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Side 8 - Mississippi will be only a mile and threequarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Side 1 - I've developed a new philosophy ... I only dread one day at a time.
Side 15 - September 2001, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington had immediate repercussions in South Asia. The Pakistani government agreed to assist the United States in 'a war against terrorism' which came right to its borders with neighbouring Afghanistan.