To make sure the data it's entrusted with are safe, EDS performs a dozen or more recovery drills a month, sometimes switching a client's entire data processing operation from one computer center to a backup on the fly.

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Shifts in entire body shapes, leading to the foundation of whole new groups of animals or plants, sometimes take place.

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But sometimes, despite the odds, it happens - and a new idea or product transforms the way an entire industry works.

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