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Best wishes for the holidays from Hot Neuron.

In this issue:  Questionable R&D, a loss for intelligent
design, and diluted drugs.

---Business---
Companies that pump more money into R&D do not show better
results, in terms of growth or profitability, according to
Inc.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=232090
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=232090
Bank Systems & Technology points out the need for business
continuity plans to prepare for the possibility of a major
flue outbreak.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=231945
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=231945
Faulty spreadsheets and poor spreadsheet practices have been
implicated in a wide variety of business and financial
problems, according to Science News.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=231979
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=231979
The American Prospect tells how one Wal-Mart true believer
was excommunicated for his faith in doing what he thought
the company expected of him: crying foul.  Today Lynn is one
of several prominent whistle-blowers suing the company in
high-profile unjust-termination cases.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=232263
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=232263
The Motley Fool says DuPont paid the largest civil fine ever
levied over a chemical used to make Teflon.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=231926
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=231926

---Education---
A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover Area School
District's science curriculum, which required the
presentation of intelligent design as an alternative to
evolution, is unconstitutional, according to Geotimes.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=232389
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=232389

---Money---
Why pay for things like doctors' bills, disability
insurance, and baby-sitting if your boss is willing to pick
up the tab?  The Motley Fool explains how to milk your
employer for every last penny that is rightfully yours.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=232434
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=232434

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---Movies---
In King Kong, Peter Jackson's most significant triumph in
our age of visual oversaturation is that he creates images
worth falling in love with, according to Eye.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=231904
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=231904
Culture Vulture reviews Memoirs of a Geisha, a film set in
pre-World War II Japan that relates the tale of how a poor
young girl from a fishing village became the most renowned
geisha in all Kyoto.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=232095
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=232095
The film adaptation of The Producers, starring Matthew
Broderick and Nathan Lane, strikes a perfect balance between
silliness and levity, according to Culture Vulture.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=232214
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=232214

---Shady---
The Motley Fool reports that a scandal involving the biggest
gem-certifying lab, the Gemological Institute of America,
has the diamond industry fretting over the potential impact.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=232392
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=232392
When fakes of a GlaxoSmithKline anti-malarial drug turned up
in Africa, authorities assumed the company would want to
know.  Instead, The American Prospect says they learned
about a huge, evil trade in fake drugs -- and about an
industry that doesn't want the truth to get out.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=232252
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=232252

---Space---
So far, NASA's plan to reach Mars has been short on detail. 
Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step
proposal to Popular Mechanics for mankind's next giant leap.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=231894
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=231894

---Technology---
Information Age describes a high resolution visualization
room that helps Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers
simulate large nuclear explosions, replacing the need for
live nuclear testing.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=232356
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=232356