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Box Making CEOs Tackle Industry Challenges (Packaging OnLine) - What keeps them up at night? What's their definition of sustainability? They answered these questions and more. What does sustainability mean to you? The word is on the lips of many executives in the corrugated container industry nowadays. But trying to pinpoint a definition can be difficult.

Unions Struggle With Auto Industry Cuts (ABC News) - Across Midwest, U.S. Auto Industry's Struggles Accelerate Drop in American Union Membership

Recording industry group says piracy students are settling (WPRI 12 Providence) - UNDATED A recording industry group that has been offering settlements to college students suspected of sharing music online says more than a quarter of the alleged music pirates have accepted the offer.

Recording Industry Says Piracy Students Are Settling (The Boston Channel) - A recording industry group that has been offering settlements to college students suspected of sharing music online said more than a quarter of the alleged music pirates have accepted the offer.

German Auto Industry Group To Name Wissmann President - Source (Nasdaq) - FRANKFURT -(Dow Jones)- Germany's former transport minister Matthias Wissmann will be named the new president of the country's auto industry association, VDA, a person familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires.

AMD Promotes Industry Standards and Interoperability with New Testing Tools for Desktop and Mobile Manageability (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Working to free the industry from the constraints of proprietary architectures and making it easier than ever for customers to manage today's increasingly diverse IT environments, AMD today announced new interoperability testing tools, codenamed "SIMFIRE," to help speed the adoption of the recently announced Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware specification.

Unions Struggle With Auto Industry Cuts (CBS 13 Sacramento) - Struggles of the U.S. auto industry have accelerated a drop in American union membership that is helping transform communities across the Midwest. As foreign automakers eat away at the market share of their U.S. counterparts, unionized plants run by General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., DaimlerChrysler AG and their former parts operations have closed or downsized and some jobs have moved overseas.

Unions struggle with auto industry cuts (AP via Yahoo! News) - Fastened to the wall of a florist shop a block from where thousands of autoworkers once toiled is a black foil balloon splashed with musical notes and the words "Good Luck."

Ethanol industry races to establish national identity (The Des Moines Register) - The fuel industry is using its ties to auto racing in a new ad campaign to establish a nationwide identity - and consumer appetite - for the biofuel.

Drop in Ad Revenue Raises Tough Question for Newspapers (New York Times) - Industry watchers are wondering whether the decline is part of a short-term slump or whether it signals a deepening systemic problem.