NU Online News Service, July 16, 1:00 p.m. EDT

NEW YORK–The criticism in calculating terrorism risk had been the perception that analysts could not predict human behavior, but a new approach by Risk Management Solutions (RMS) avoids the factor altogether, focusing on the way we communicate with each other to determine terrorist success rates.

The manner in which we network with each other is "a law of human existence," said Gordon Woo, a catastrophist with RMS, at the catastrophic risk management firm's annual terrorism seminar in New York City.

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