Experience has demonstrated that even when spills do occur, the affected areas recover rapidly.

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In the short term, that brush with reality will mean more unemployment and more pain, but the economy is likely to recover more rapidly as a result.

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People and systems need to be able to better withstand, respond, adapt, and rapidly recover from disasters.

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Industrial producers and land planners should draw some lessons from the natural disasters of 2011 about where to site factories and supply chain partners as well as making plans to detect and rapidly recover from the risks of future shortages of critical products for our modern digital world.

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And particularly, given the fact that so many of the victims were young, it is a great blessing to see how rapidly they're able to recover from some pretty devastating injuries.

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