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IEEE Spectrum July 2012 G. Pascal Zachary	Solar for All? Not in My Lifetime The U.S. solar industry is down and out. What will it take to bring it back?
Chemistry World June 28, 2012 Patrick Walter	FDA green lights new obesity drug Lorcaserin, which has been developed by US-based Arena Pharmaceuticals, in conjunction with Japan's Eisai, is the first obesity prescription medicine approved for 13 years.
CIO June 28, 2012 Stephanie Overby	Texas State CIO Bets Big On Controversial Outsourcing Deal After a multimillion-dollar outsourcing deal with IBM went bust, the state of Texas appointed a new CIO who hopes to turn things around by placing one outsourcer in charge of several others to manage data centers and other public-sector IT
National Defense August 2012 Corrigan & Kaprove	Defense Bill Shows Importance of Ethics and Compliance Programs At one hearing held by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in November, Committee Chairman Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., criticized agencies for using suspension and debarment "all too rarely," and thereby permitting millions of dollars of waste, fraud or abuse.
Sports Central June 27, 2012 Diane M. Grassi	Schilling's Rhode Island Hoodwink Now Officially Bust 38 Studios, LLC, the video gaming entity belonging to former MLB pitcher Curt Schilling now resides in Chapter 7 bankruptcy. This is what could happen when a non-business person of celebrity joins forces with a state government that tries to morph itself into a Wall Street venture capital firm.
Chemistry World June 25, 2012	US GM Labelling Rule Quashed A US proposal that would have given individual states a mandate to set whether food manufacturers should have to communicate information about genetically modified organisms directly to consumers has been quashed by the Senate.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2012	Why is Tennessee a Hotbed for Manufacturing? Incentives and a focus on workforce training, leadership and innovation position Tennessee for continued manufacturing growth. They are cashing in on the trend of non-U.S.-based companies to produce locally for the huge U.S. consumer market.
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2012 Austin Carr	From HHS To The USA: CTO Todd Park Brings Tech Innovation To DC Data United States CTO Todd Park brings Silicon Valley wisdom to the U.S. government.
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2012 Colleen Oakley	Why New York's Plans For The Nation's Biggest Convention Center Might Be A Decade Too Late Is the recession to blame? Partly. But University of San Antonio professor Heywood Sanders, who studies the economics of convention centers, says larger forces are at work.
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2012 Laura Turner Garrison	Red, White, Blue, And Gold: Should America Revert Back To The Gold Standard? For more than three decades, Ron Paul has advocated for returning the U.S. economy to the gold standard. Now the idea is starting to take hold.
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