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Risky Business
Risky Business is a 1983 American comedy-drama directed by Paul Brickman, starring Tom Cruise as a high school senior who turns his parents' house into a brothel.
Risky sexual behavior
Risky sexual behavior, also called high-risk sexual behavior, is sexual activity raising the chance of STIs, HIV, or unintended pregnancy, including condomless sex, multiple partners, and sex while intoxicated; measured mainly by imperfect self-reports and reduced through counseling, condoms, vaccination, and PrEP.
Risorgimento literature
Risorgimento literature is the Italian poetry, fiction, drama, memoir, and journalism connected with the Risorgimento, the movement that unified Italy as a kingdom between 1815 and 1870.
Risotto
Risotto, best known as risotto alla milanese with saffron, is a northern Italian dish of short-grain Arborio, Carnaroli, or Vialone Nano rice cooked with gradually added, stirred-in stock until released starch makes it creamy, first documented around 1809.
Risperidone
Risperidone (Risperdal) is a benzisoxazole atypical antipsychotic from Janssen that blocks 5-HT2 and D2 receptors; its active metabolite is paliperidone, and it treats schizophrenia, bipolar mania, and autism-related irritability.
Risshō Ankoku Ron
Risshō Ankoku Ron is a treatise Nichiren submitted to the Kamakura shogunate in 1260, blaming Japan's disasters on slander of the Lotus Sutra and urging refuge in it.
Risshū revival
The Risshū revival was the movement, beginning in the late 12th century, to restore the Ritsu school of Buddhist precepts, centered on Eison and Ninshō.
Rissoa
Rissoa (Desmarest, 1814; ITIS: Freminville, 1814) is a genus of small marine rissoid gastropods in Rissooidea, with species such as R. parva and R. membranacea in shallow European waters; synonym Zippora.
Rissoidae
Rissoidae (spire-shells) is a family of minute marine caenogastropod snails in Rissooidea, Littorinimorpha, with taenioglossate radula and operculum; Ponder's 1985 review recognized 31 genera, and molecular work shows the family is one of six Rissooidea lineages.
Rissole
Rissole (French rissole, from Late Latin russeola "reddish"): a small fried or baked food. In France a filled pastry turnover (meat, fish, or fruit); in English usage a minced-meat patty; variants include Portuguese rissóis, Brazilian risoles, and Indonesian risoles.
Risto Laakkonen
Risto Laakkonen (Risto Juhani Laakkonen), Finnish ski jumper born 1967 in Kuopio; 1992 Albertville Olympic team large hill gold, 1989 Lahti world team gold, and 1988-89 Four Hills Tournament overall winner without an individual win.
Risto M. Nieminen
Risto M. Nieminen, born Risto Matti Nieminen in 1948, is a Finnish computational condensed-matter physicist, emeritus professor at Aalto University, known for his pioneering theories of positrons in solids.
Risto Miikkulainen
Risto Miikkulainen is a computer scientist, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and VP of AI Research at Cognizant AI Lab, best known as co-inventor of the NEAT neuroevolution method.
Ristocetin
Ristocetin is a glycopeptide antibiotic, sold as Spontin, that was withdrawn from clinical use because of toxicity and now serves as a laboratory reagent for testing von Willebrand factor.
Ristretto
Ristretto (Italian for "restricted") is a short espresso shot pulled at roughly a 1:1 coffee-to-yield ratio, about 15-20 mL in 15-20 seconds; sweeter, more concentrated, and lower in total caffeine than a standard 1:2 espresso, the opposite of a lungo.
Risvutatug rezetecan
Risvutatug rezetecan (HS-20093, GSK5764227, Ris-Rez) is a B7-H3-targeted antibody-drug conjugate from Hansoh Pharma, licensed to GSK; its phase 3 ARTEMIS-008 trial showed 18.5 vs 10.3 months overall survival versus topotecan in relapsed SCLC.
Rita (TV series)
Rita is a Danish comedy-drama series created by Christian Torpe, starring Mille Dinesen as a bold, unconventional teacher, which ran five seasons from 2012 to 2020.
Rita Bennett
Rita Bennett, later Rita Morgan, is a fictional character by Jeff Lindsay in the Dexter novels and Showtime series, Dexter Morgan's wife played by Julie Benz, murdered by the Trinity Killer in the season 4 finale.
Rita Bhaduri
Rita Bhaduri (रीटा भादुड़ी), Indian film and television actress (1955-2018), FTII 1973 graduate, star of Gujarati cinema and Hindi supporting roles in Julie, Sawan Ko Aane Do, Raja, Beta, Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa; last seen as Imarti Devi in Nimki Mukhiya; not Jaya Bachchan's sister.
Rita Casadio
Rita Casadio is an Italian computational biologist at the University of Bologna, founder of its Biocomputing Group in 1990, known for PhD-SNP, BENZ WS, and MultifacetedProtDB.
Rita Chatterton
Rita Chatterton (born Rita Filicoski, 1957), appearing as Rita Marie, became the WWF's first female referee in 1984; in 2022 she settled a rape allegation against Vince McMahon.
Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidge, American two-time Grammy-winning singer born 1944 in Lafayette, Tennessee; backup vocalist for Clapton and Cocker, platinum 1977 album Anytime...Anywhere, founder of the Native American trio Walela.
Rita Crundwell
Rita Crundwell, Dixon, Illinois comptroller and treasurer 1983-2012, embezzled about $53.7 million via a secret RSCDA account and fake invoices; sentenced to 235 months, released after Biden's 2024 commutation.
Rita Dove
Rita Dove is an American poet who won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Thomas and Beulah and served as US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995.
Rita F. Lin
Rita Faye Lin is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of California since 2023, appointed by President Biden.
Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino, 1918–1987), also known as Rita Cansino and Princess Aly Khan, American actress and dancer, Columbia Pictures star of Gilda (1946), WWII pin-up icon, died of Alzheimer's disease in 1987.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is Stephen King's 1982 novella from Different Seasons, narrated by inmate Red about wrongly imprisoned Andy Dufresne, basis of the 1994 Frank Darabont film The Shawshank Redemption.
Rita Huang Zhen
Rita Huang Zhen (黄珍) is a Chinese entrepreneur and former Huawei and Alibaba executive who founded iMile Delivery in Dubai in 2017, a logistics company covering 30 countries.
Rita Indiana
Rita Indiana, full name Rita Indiana Hernández, is a Dominican writer and musician born in 1977 in Santo Domingo, known for fronting the band Rita Indiana y Los Misterios.
Rita Júdice
Rita Alarcão Júdice is a Portuguese politician who serves as Minister of Justice of Portugal, with priorities including reducing judicial delays, fighting corruption, and digitalizing the justice sector.