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Meltdown 101: Why did GDP rise — and will it last?

Can growth in the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation's economy, be sustained?

Layoffs lead to fewer corporate blood donors in US

Before the recession hit, Jacksonville's blood bank would pull its buses up to the Anheuser-Busch brewery and pump 300 units of blood from employees.

NY engineer who allegedly let rider drive is fired

The Long Island Rail Road has fired an engineer accused of letting a passenger operate a rush hour train.

DA: NY engineer let passenger drive crowded train

A Long Island Rail Road engineer and the passenger he allegedly let drive a train carrying almost 400 riders during rush hour at speeds of up to 80 mph are facing reckless endangerment charges. The engineer has also been charged with official misconduct.

NY prosecutors probe whether passenger drove train

A prosecutor says criminal charges are possible after reports that a Long Island Rail Road engineer let a passenger operate a train bound for New York City.

Alleged police car joyride lands SC teen in jail

Call him the short arm of the law. Police in Dillon, a small town near the North Carolina border, say a 13-year-old with an interest in law enforcement twice stole a police cruiser and took it out to do some patrolling.

Dell Denies Report of Hard Drive Returns

Dell Inc. denies an analyst report claiming 20 percent to 30 percent of laptops with so-called solid-state drives are being returned.

Lighter laptops move to flash-based drives

With 500-gigabyte hard drives in laptops coming soon, why would you even consider buying a notebook with a seemingly paltry 32GB or 64GB solid state drive?

Line Blurs Between Flash, Hard Drives

The distinction between flash memory and hard disk drives are fading rapidly as the two storage mediums encroach one another's territory — including marked advances announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show Monday.

Hitachi: Hard Drives Are Getting Better

Multimedia stockpilers need not worry about laptops, digital video recorders or portable music players hitting a storage capacity ceiling any time soon.

Seagate to Unveil 750-Gigabyte Hard Drives

Seagate Technology LLC is beefing up the capacity of its hard disk drives to a whopping 750 gigabytes, offering consumers of digital media more storage for their computers than ever before.

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Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategy
Source: The Orange County Register

Same ideological pathologies that drive al-Qaida overpowered Hasan's American identity.

Fed-up passenger drives bus home herself
Source: paisleydailyexpress.co.uk

A PASSENGER on a bus got impatient of waiting on the driver to start his shift - so drove the vehicle herself. Chen Li decided to do the driver's job for him and kept to the 528's route through Hangzhou, eastern China - even dropping off and picking up passengers.

Drunk man drives home in a golf cart
Source: WAOW TV

RICHFIELD -- A South Milwaukee man drank at least 10 beers at a golf course on state Highway 167. And after being left behind by the relatives who brought him there, he decided to drive himself the nearly 40 miles back to his home...in a golf cart.

Springs toddler takes car for a spin
Source: The Denver Post

COLORADO SPRINGS — You're supposed to be at least 16 to drive a car in Colorado, but age didn't stop Maria Martinez's grandson from getting behind the wheel of her car.

Woman Survives Driving Through Lightning Strike
Source: kcci.com

An Ames woman is telling her story after surviving a crash involving a lightning strike along Interstate 80/35.

Security: Properly Erase Your Physical Media
Source: Lifehacker

A whopping 40% of the used hard drives on eBay contain easily recoverable personal data. Use the following guide to ensure your personal data never makes it out into the wild.

Dad Allows Boy, 8, To Drive Van - Vehicle Strikes 2 Trees, Nearly Hits 2 Pedestrians, Police Say
Source: clickorlando.com

BRADENTON, Fla. -- A Sarasota man was arrested after allowing his 8-year-old son to drive a van, police said. Police arrested Mark A. Belanger, 34, just before midnight Sunday on charges of child abuse and permitting an unlicensed driver to drive.

Missing 90-Year-Old Found In Indiana
Source: wisn.com

Milwaukee police said that a missing 90-year-old has been found in Indiana. Officers said that Carl Einsiedel was last seen at 10 a.m. Thursday but has turned up safe in Indiana.

RADIO: K-Rock - Booker - Afternoons 2pm-7pm
Source: 923krock.com

From K-Rock site: Chris Booker is back on 92.3 K-ROCK and will take over afternoon drive (2pm-7pm) starting Wednesday, January 7, it was announced today by 92.3 K-ROCK's PD, Mark Chernoff.

Video - Consequences: Impound Lot's Twisted Wrecks Tell Stark DUI Tales
Source: WGAL.com - Local News

Joe May talked to about some of the wrecked cars in his impound lot.

Ontario wide effort promotes 'smoke free rides'
Source: thepost.ca

Excerpt: Local smokers are being asked to take a deep breath and resist the urge to light up in their vehicles, especially when children are riding with them.

Smoking - tips on how to quit
Source: Usnews.healthline.com

Below are some tips to help you quit smoking. First and foremost, set a quit date and quit COMPLETELY on that day. To prepare for that day:

Amy Fisher and Michael Lohan link: No fighting allowed
Source: Newsday.com

For Lindsay Lohan's father, the fight's off. Michael Lohan's New York State parole supervisor has denied him the chance to put up his dukes in Monday's planned celebrity boxing match against a Long Island businessman.

Dog drives van through cafe window
Source: Telegraph

While some dogs may be content with a walk, one mutt in Long Island is more inclined to go for a drive.

Man accused of urinating on arresting officer
Source: AOL

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -A 35-year-old man faces charges after allegedly driving drunk and then urinating in the back of a squad car and on the arresting officer.

Do the poor drive farther than the rich, as McCain claims?
Source: factcheck.org

McCain used this anecdote to explain why the gas tax is regressive: The people that drive the furthest in America are the lowest income people. The least wealthy live the furthest away and drive many, many miles.

What will you sacrifice to get a "Green" hard drive?
Source: PC World

The question isn't really if you will sacrifice something to be more green-friendly; the question is what you will sacrifice, and how much? For example, reducing a drive's rotational speed will have the greatest direct impact on performance vs. energy consumption.

Woman drives through puddle (pic)
Source: poetry.rotten.com

Thats a huge freaking puddle.

Mom Accidentally Drives Over Daughter
Source: local6.com

Mom Accidentally Drives Over Daughter

5 Reasons to buy a U3 Drive... and 5 Reasons not to.
Source: GearFire.Net

You have probably heard of Portable apps on USB drives, and U3 smart drives. The differences and advantages of each are pretty confusing, but this review should help you understand U3 and if it is right for you.

2007 Top 10 weirdest USB drives!
Source: gadgets.fosfor.se

#1 deserves to be #1.

Inside Seagate's R&D Labs
Source: Wired News

PITTSBURGH -- As Gordon Moore is to transistors, Seagate CTO Mark Kryder is to "areal density" -- a measure of how tightly data can be packed onto the surface of a disk. In a conference room overlooking the Allegheny River, he describes the coming storm in magnetic technology.

AC Tech Celebrates New Space, Ships Its Millionth Product

The 250 employees at AC Technology Corp. marked a couple of milestones recently, completing the move into a 75,000-square-foot addition and manufacturing their millionth product.

Drives Optimise Food Process Pumping Efficiency

Lenze smd drives have been specified by Seepex pumps for supply with its range of innovative progressive cavity pumps. Simplicity of installation and operation was key to the company's decision to specify the range of smd drives varying from 0.75 up to 22kW.

Hybrid DVD/HD DVD discs arrive
Source: Ars Technica

The battle between the two competing next-generation optical disc formats, HD DVD and Blu-ray, is shaping up to be this generation's VHS versus Betamax.

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