Whether you clean out the bank while gambling at Monte Carlo, contract leukaemia, or are run over on a zebra crossing by a drunken driver, risk is an integral part of our daily lives
THOUSANDS of people died in the Armenian earthquake of 1988. We shall probably never know the precise total. Nearly 200 people died in the San Francisco ‘quake last year. When the Herald of Free Enterprise turned over in the cold waters outside Zeebrugge in 1987, the death toll eventually reached 193. Less headline catching is the routine death of 15 people, on average, every day on…
