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• In Nature’s Casino

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  New York Times Magazine | August 2007

  With the cost of natural disasters far beyond the insurance industry’s ability to pay, a new market has sprung up to spread the risk. But how do you calculate the odds of catastrophe?

• The Ballad of Big Mike

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