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We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Diabetes
Other
Statistical
Seeing
Risk
Variety
Clear
Between
Becoming
Very
Links
Disease
Diseases
Cancers
Common
Shortness
Certain
Groups
Cardiovascular
If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.
Elizabeth Blackburn
You
Possible
Would
Would-Be
Risk
Factors
Take
Had
Red
Look
Test
Flag
Shortening
Should
Suggesting
Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease.
Elizabeth Blackburn
You
Together
Heart
Diabetes
Picture
Medicine
Once
Way
Has-Been
Emerging
Risk
Gives
Tend
Factors
Overall
Occur
Been
Lot
Heart Disease
Very
Disease
Diseases
Done
Length
Successful
Now
Specific
Damage
Treating
The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. Their expeditions are complicated, exhausting, often life-threatening. Risk is the fuel that keeps them going.
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Complicated
Design
Difficult
Unprecedented
Risk
Life-Threatening
Almost
Mission
Exhausting
Climber
Very
Mountain
Going
Often
Achieving
Them
Fuel
Professional
Livelihood
Based
Keeps
I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Myself
Dangerous
Made
Risk
Having
Documentaries
Kosovo
Conditions
Afghanistan
Africa
Stranger
If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system.
Elizabeth Warren
System
Securities
Risk
Nobody
Overall
Instruments
Dollars
Lot
Sell
Less
Based
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
Ella Maillart
Time
You
First
Meal
Down
Unknown
Enter
Laughing
Risk
Columbus
Feel
Tibetan
First Time
Boy
Climbing
Brave
Pub
Chinese
Lane
Full
Meat
Rotten
Starting
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
Emily Mortimer
Time
You
Yourself
Thought
Bad
Unattractive
Boring
Risk
Being
Exposing
Actor
There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.
Emily Oster
You
Gardening
Increase
Birth
Outdoor
Some
Rates
Risk
Lot
Pregnant
Defects
That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance.
Emory Cohen
Risk
Take
Performance
Any
Separates
Actor
Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.
Emraan Hashmi
You
Fear
Losing
Perception
Somewhere
Lose
Beginning
Few
Nothing
Films
Easy
About
Risk
Got
Very
After
In The Beginning
Successful
As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.
Eric Ries
Financial
Entrepreneur
Try
Ruin
Possibility
Risk
Only
Exceeded
Could
Lifetime
Knew
True
Failed
Felt
Insurance
Always
Real
Limits
Due
Came
Covered
Often
Either
Again
Plans
Company
Illness
Serious
When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.
Eric Schneiderman
Trust
Police
Down
Everyone
Risk
Between
Breaks
Communities
Serve
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
You
Risk
More
Anything
Even
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.
Erin McKean
Words
Word
Criticism
Doubt
Distance
Run
Would
Hoping
Risk
Writers
Arisen
Perhaps
Know
None
Real
Unfamiliar
Where
Informal
Hedge
Themselves
Creating
Use
Naturally
Who
You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
Ernie Els
You
Lie
Out
Risk
Take
Calculated
Calculated Risk
Know
Read
How
Hit
Your
Rough
I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.
Ethan Hawke
You
Job
Looking
Nothing
Think
One Of The Things
Something
Risk
Foolish
Never
Learned
Get
Anything
Worked
Special
Actor
Things
Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.
Eula Biss
Me
Research
Our
Citizens
Some
About
Risk
Like
Most
How
Handle
Did
Irregular
Ordinary
Interesting
Assessment
If your child's going to ride in a car or go swimming or play soccer, all of those things involve risk. And if your child doesn't do any of those things, then they're probably sitting too much, and that involves risk, too.
Eula Biss
Ride
Car
Too Much
Swimming
Too
Those
Risk
Involve
Involves
Go
Child
Sitting
Any
Going
Soccer
Then
Much
Your
Your Child
Play
Things
The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.
Eula Biss
Side
Risk
Blood
Effects
Than
Getting
Tiny
Bigger
Vaccine
Number
One of the mysteries of hep B immunization is that vaccinating only 'high risk' groups, which was the original public health strategy, did not bring down rates of infection.
Eula Biss
Health
Mysteries
Down
Strategy
High
Rates
Risk
Only
Infection
Did
Which
Public
Public Health
Original
Groups
Bring
If, by demanding revolutionary change, I run the risk of accomplishing nothing on behalf of the public, then I'm not sure that's a responsible course of action.
Evan Bayh
Change
Demanding
Nothing
Action
Run
Responsible
Risk
Course
Sure
Accomplishing
Behalf
Revolutionary
Public
Then
Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in an attempt to avoid accountability and put American lives at risk, including those of my former colleagues. She fails the basic tests of judgment and ethics any candidate for president must meet.
Evan McMullin
Ethics
Judgment
Accountability
Politician
President
Meet
Recklessly
Those
Colleagues
Must
Corrupt
Classified
Classified Information
Risk
Attempt
Put
Fails
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
She
Tests
Clinton
Handled
American
Any
Candidate
Information
Former
American Lives
Avoid
Who
Including
Lives
Basic
Career
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.
Evgeny Morozov
Culture
Internet
Inevitable
Own
Others
Ways
Find
Risk
Having
Shape
Shaped
Most
Accepted
Narratives
Korea
Accord
Governments
Authoritarian
North
North Korea
Little
Aside
Choice
Growth
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.
Evgeny Morozov
Smart
Somewhere
Become
Our
Intrusive
Someone
Risk
More
Suppressing
Undermining
Undesirable
Behaviors
Autonomy
Deemed
Technologies
I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
Fabrizio Moreira
Failure
Mistakes
Back
Back Up
Correct
Dares
Runs
Someone
Risk
Failing
Learn
Learned
Understood
Up
Get
Afraid
Grew
Anywhere
Who
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