How To Spin A Catastrophe
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Sudan's leader dismisses talk of genocide
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Here's a little trick that can make all the difference.
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Martin Rees is a new breed of doomsayer. He doesnât just move the hands of an imaginary and inscrutable clock, he offers to bet on disaster.
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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Rolling, rolling, rolling. Keep those Mars rovers rolling. You can almost hear the crack of a Martian whip. Since January, NASAâs Spirit and Opportunity robots have been wheeling and dealing with the red planet.
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Set phasers to "puke"? The military works on a weapon that makes people so dizzy they fall over and throw up. It can supposedly shoot through walls, too. In Danger Room.
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How do you cap an evening of pure magic? With more magic. Perhaps a quick coup de theatre.
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Imagining hundreds of outage-related micro-dramas unfolding simultaneously.
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When something right can do you wrong.
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Options, options, options -- when will the madness end?
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The importance of keeping personal matters personal Comment Sometimes I hear a story that is simply breathtaking in its stupidity and potential for disaster. For your delectation, horror, and amazement, here is one relayed to me by a good friend a few days ago.â¦
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Check out the most ridiculous way to lose a bundle.
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This organization fell victim to what can be described as the Achilles' heel of storage infrastructure - the intersection of technology bugs and human error. This is a highly unpredictable type of risk, and unfortunately the opportunities for prevention and avoidance are few.
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe  Sep. 11--THE NEW CENTER OF ATTENTION: Millions of us flip on the TV set  after a hard day's work.    But a large and growing number reach instead for the power buttons on  their home computers.
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Ask yourself whether you live on the brink of financial disaster.
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Prepare for an odd kind of financial disaster.
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What happens when you fall into quicksand? How was electricity discovered? Why does water spin one way and not the other? The answers might surprise you. By Aria Pearson from Wired magazine.