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Forget the terrorism advice

How will you react to a State Department warning of a possible terrorist attack at an unspecified location sometime in the next 30 days?  Your options are basically two:

1. cancel your travel plans and hunker down in what you think is a safe place;
2. ignore the warning and go about your business.

Before you decide, consider this:  on the order of a dozen Americans are killed in terrorist acts each year, out of 300 million or so.  Most die in Kabul and other far away places where the risks are higher.  Even in 2001, when almost 3000 Americans were killed on 9/11, your odds were very good:  less than 1 in 100,000 of being a victim.  You and I take risks on that order every day:  the odds of being killed in an automobile accident in any given year are at least 10 times higher. Read more