Japan ex-PM to testify on Fukushima disaster - Aljazeera.com
27 May 2012, 11:54 pm
Naoto Kan, Japan's former prime minister, will testify to a parliamentary commission investigating the Fukushima nuclear disaster, with the focus expected to be on early efforts to contain the crisis. His testimony to the parliamentary inquiry ...

OIL DRILLING IN THE ARCTIC: AN ECOLOGICAL disaster WAITING TO HAPPEN - American Reporter
27 May 2012, 11:26 pm
DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- Are we so desperate for one last big fix of oil, that we're willing to destroy one of the world's last pristine and unspoiled regions? The answer seems to be yes. The U.S. Geological Survey released a report last week stating that the ...

Survey Reveals Significant Gaps in Small Businesses’ disaster Preparedness - Yahoo Finance
27 May 2012, 5:53 am
Half of small businesses have not taken action to prepare for disasters that are prone to happen in their areas, according to a new survey from FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX - News) and the American Red Cross. In addition, slightly more than half (51 ...

Facebook’s Brilliant disaster - New York Times
26 May 2012, 11:38 am
So I guess you’ve heard about the recent initial public offering that didn’t turn out the way it was supposed to. The company’s Wall Street advisers misjudged the market, and, on its first day of trading, the stock went a little haywire.

Sex, a celebrity astrophysicist, and the Columbia disaster—great stories about space. - Slate
26 May 2012, 5:47 am
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WILS: Virtualization, Clustering, and disaster Recovery - Soa Wolrd
25 May 2012, 7:57 am
There are two levels of reliability for an application. There’s local and there’s global. We might want to consider it more simply as “inside” and “outside” reliability. Virtualization enables local reliability – the inside kind of reliability.

Sawyer Water Filters Now Available at disaster Relief Supply - YAHOO!
25 May 2012, 7:00 am
Products from Sawyer, manufacturer of world-class survival products, can now be found at disaster Relief Supply. Although Sawyer makes a variety of survival products like insect repellents and sunscreens, disaster Relief Supply will primarily offer Sawyer ...

The JPMorgan disaster: A Great Buying Opportunity, Just Not In JPMorgan - Seekingalpha.com
24 May 2012, 2:54 pm
Wow, just a year ago Jamie Dimon was the White House's poster for good management. Today, with JPMorgan's (JPM) nearly 2 billion dollar loss already made public, and many analysts already projecting the loss has grown to between 6-7 billion dollars, with ...

OnRamp’s Data Center disaster Recovery Solutions Help Coastal Companies Prepare for Hurricane Season - YAHOO!
23 May 2012, 5:47 pm
Austin-based Data Center operations company, OnRamp Access, is helping businesses in hurricane-prone regions protect their IT infrastructure with disaster recovery solutions designed to keep online operations up and running in the event of a natural disaster.

OxyNEO another prescription for disaster? - Calgary Herald
22 May 2012, 7:39 am
More than two months after one of the most abused drugs in modern medicine - OxyContin - was taken off the market, there are signs that Canadian drug users are trying to adapt and to fill the void that's been left. On websites, drug users are sharing ...