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Wine industry graduates into single-serving plastics (Pittsburgh Live) - The next big thing for the wine industry could be small, screw-capped and shatterproof.

Fuel industry holds crisis talks (iafrica African News) - The Shell Petroleum Company said industry members held a crisis meeting on Saturday afternoon to address the jet fuel and petrol shortages, after fuel shortages at Cape Town International Airport grounded a number of flights on Saturday, delaying hundreds of passengers.

MoD seeks closer links with industry (Telegraph.co.uk) - Lord Drayson, the defence procurement minister, is to unveil a sweeping review of Britain's defence industry designed to promote closer partnership between the MoD and industry.

Condo fever sickens marine industry (Miami Herald) - Marine industry leaders in Broward County asked Thursday for the government's help in stopping the loss of commercial waterfront property, warning that thousands of jobs are at stake.

Industry Groups Page Helps You Find Sources Of Market Strength (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - When searching for new investment ideas, the industry groups page (today on Page B9) can serve as a good resource. It helps you track daily group performance, as well as which sectors produce the most new highs each day.

Ministry of Industry-2 donates 40 bags of rice (The New Light of Myanmar) - YANGON, 10 Dec — Under the aegis of Minister for Industry-2 Maj-Gen Saw Lwin and wife Daw Moe Moe Myint, staff of the Ministry of Industry-2 held the ceremony to donate rice to Dhammethaka Nunnery in Mayangon Township this morning.

Software Industry Shifting Piracy Strategy (Slashdot) - Sensible Clod writes "The U.S. software industry's strategy against global software piracy is shifting to focus on claimed economic benefits of copyright protection in response to a new study released by the BSA, according to an article at Internet News. The study concluded that countries with high software piracy rates have more to gain economically by protecting intellectual property rights.

Music industry victorious in song-downloading appeal (Houston Chronicle) - A federal appeals court late Friday upheld the music industry's $22,500 judgment against a Chicago mother caught illegally distributing songs over the Internet. The court rejected her defense that she was innocently sampling music to find songs she might buy later and compared her downloading and distribution to shoplifting.

Banning the prom could hurt prom industry (UPI) - NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- After two Roman Catholic high schools in New York canceled their proms, there are concerns in the prom industry the idea may be gathering steam.

Storms compromise poinsettia industry (Bradenton Herald) - It won't be such a merry Christmas this year for poinsettia florists and growers. An unusually active storm season has damaged half of the poinsettia crop produced in South Florida, according to an industry expert.