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Chemistry World May 23, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	$500m fine over generics fraud for Ranbaxy A long-running investigation by the US Department of Justice and Food and Drug Administration has ended with a $500 million fine for generic drugmaker Ranbaxy.
Information Today May 23, 2013 Abby Clobridge	Dialogue Over Public Access to Scholarly Publications Continues in the U.S. The conversation surrounding OA and public access today is vastly different from 5 years ago when the NIH policy was passed. The conversation in general has shifted from whether OA is a good thing to how to best implement it
Chemistry World May 22, 2013 Rebecca Trager	US Supreme Court rules in favour of Monsanto The Supreme Court justices upheld a lower court's ruling that a farmer, Vernon Bowman, violated Monsanto's intellectual property rights by regrowing second-generation seeds.
Food Processing May 2013 Cameron & Ritter	Food Manufacturers: Are You Prepared for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? Given the complexities and tax consequences of the PPACA, employers need to keep the new health care law top of mind.
National Defense June 2013 Valerie Insinna	Defense Department Infrastructure Still Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks, Critics Say The Defense Department knows how to fight a kinetic war with bullets, bombs and boots on the ground, but it is still figuring out what a cyberwar would look like and how it would be fought.
National Defense June 2013 Insinna & Tadjdeh	Air Force Making Headway on Fuel Efficiency Goals The Air Force is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The service requires massive amounts of fuel to power its aircraft, but in a budget crunch, officials know they must curb consumption in order to save money and be less susceptible to a volatile oil market.
National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons	Spending on Army Aviation Rotorcraft to Start Downhill Slide After peaking in 2013, funding for Army aviation has begun a gradual descent that may last decades, according to analysts.
National Defense June 2013 Stew Magnuson	Defense Industrial Base Wary of Cybersecurity Laws That hackers are intent on stealing U.S. trade secrets -- particularly those pertaining to the military -- is a given. That the United States is capable of responding to this threat remains to be seen.
Information Today May 16, 2013 Peggy Garvin	Obama Administration Advances Open Data Policy The White House made major information policy last week, issuing an Executive Order and an Office of Management and Budget Memorandum that established "open and machine readable" as the new default for federal government information.
Chemistry World May 15, 2013 Rebecca Trager	Lawrence Livermore lab offers voluntary redundancy to 10% of employees The US Department of Energy's LLNL, which employs 6500 people, is offering these voluntary layoff packages to up to 600 of its workers, the national lab's director, Parney Albright, announced on 13 May.
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