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Comics industry draws on diversity (International Herald Tribune) - In the comic book industry, an effort is under way to introduce heroes who are not cut from the usual straight white male supercloth.

WHO accuse tobacco industry of continuing misleading labels (AFP via Yahoo! News) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has accused the global tobacco industry of continuing to use misleading labels to lure millions of people, including children, to take up smoking.

ExploreLearning.com Wins Software and Information Industry's Highest Honor (The Auto Channel) - ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 30, 2006 -- ProQuest Company announced today that ExploreLearning.com is a winner of a Software and Information Industry Association's (SIIA) Codie Award. ExploreLearning won the software and information industry's highest honor for the "Best Instructional Solution: Science."

Australian beef industry enjoys mad cow disease-free status (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) - The Cattle Council of Australia says the nation's beef industry will benefit from official confirmation that Australia is free of mad cow disease.

Energy industry braces for hurricane season (Market Watch) - WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Severe storms are likely to result in reduced energy production and at least temporary spikes in gasoline prices this summer, energy industry officials said Tuesday ahead of the official start of the 2006 hurricane season.

Production value of IC industry rises 27.6 percent year-on-year (Chinapost.com.tw) - The production value of Taiwan's integrated circuit (IC) industry amounted to NT$307 billion in the first quarter of 2006, down 6.3 percent from the previous quarter but up 27.6 percent over the same time last year, according to tallies released yesterday by the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Poaching may destroy paua industry (TVNZ) - The paua industry says its $50 million a year resource could be destroyed by poaching, because penalties are like "a slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket" it says.

Australian beef industry enjoys mad cow disease-free status (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - The Cattle Council of Australia says the nation's beef industry will benefit from official confirmation that Australia is free of mad cow disease. President Bill Bray says Australia is one of just four countries which have been recognised with BSE-free status by the World Animal Health Organisation.

InMage And Xiotech Announce Partnership To Provide Industry First In Disaster Recovery, Push-Button Application Failover (ITResellerOnline) - InMage Systems, the pioneer in event-based continuous data protection for the enterprise, and Xiotech Corporation, a provider of data storage and data discovery solutions, today announced the industry's first application-level push-button recovery technology for midsize enterprises.

Industry groups meet to form beef checkoff taskforce (Agriculture Online) - A broad coalition of beef industry leaders plan to study the strengths and weaknesses of the beef checkoff, according to a press release by the Industry-Wide Beef Checkoff Task Force.