High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are now a mainstay in many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any company to obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a reasonable cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known deficiency of SATA disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what [...]

Here’s what’s not in dispute: The United States spends 16 percent of its national income on health care, more than any other country in the world. In return, we get lower life expectancy than most other Western countries, uneven care, and enormous anxiety about how to pay for it.
Who’s to blame? Not the hospitals and [...]

So where the “bloody hell” have all the tourists gone? Australia.
The controversial and recently axed Where The Bloody Hell Are You? tourism campaign appears to have paid off with Australia posting its strongest tourist spending in close to a decade.
Holidaymakers injected A$85 billion ($NZ102 billion) into the A$1 trillion economy in 2006-2007, with overseas visitors [...]

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Recent years have brought a sweeping new revolution in solar system astronomy. The Earth still orbits the sun, as Copernicus declared 400 years ago, but the planetary system in the textbooks most of you studied is now out of date.
“The entire view of astronomy you learned in high school has changed dramatically,” [...]

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Tests in 2007 of lake water collected more than a mile offshore found detectable amounts of prescription medications, as well as carbadox - an antibiotic and growth-promoting drug added to swine feed - caffeine and cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine, said Lon Couillard, water quality manager for the Milwaukee Water Works.
The prescription [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. housing market crash has exposed the mortgage industry’s suspect lending standards, and investors now fear credit cards, car loans, and student debt could be the next sectors to unravel.
If proof of income was shrugged off as a nuisance on home loans, lenders may have been even less scrupulous in [...]