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Dean bears down on Mexico's oil industry (AP via Yahoo! News) - Hurricane Dean swept across the Yucatan peninsula Tuesday, toppling trees, power lines and houses as it bore down on the heart of Mexico's oil industry. Glitzy resorts on the Mayan Riviera were spared, but vulnerable Mayan villages were exposed to the full fury of one of history's most intense storms.

Delta names airline industry veteran Anderson as CEO (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Delta Air Lines said Tuesday its board had elected industry veteran Richard Anderson as chief executive officer, succeeding retiring Gerald Grinstein who brought the carrier out of bankruptcy.

Dean Bears Down on Mexico's Oil Industry (ABC News) - Hurricane Dean Heads Toward Mexico's Oil Industry After Toppling Trees, Homes Across Yucatan

Music Industry Pays Lobbyist $100,000 (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - The Recording Industry Association of America paid the Alpine Group Inc. $100,000 in the first half of 2007 to lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure form.

TechTurn Launches Industry's Most Comprehensive IT Asset Recovery Service For Value Added Resellers (ITResellerOnline) - TechTurn, a trusted leader in technology recovery, refurbishing and resale, recently announced the industry's first large scale, private label IT asset recovery service for value added resellers (VARs). VARs can now offer an economically advantageous method for recovering their customers' outdated electronics, while also providing residual monies back for new technology deployments.

Recent recalls have toy industry worried (The Florida Times-Union) - When millions of boxes of potentially poisonous Barbies and Batmans were pulled from shelves this month, it left Mattel - and to a certain extent, the entire toy industry - scrambling to polish its reputation.

Dean Bears Down on Mexico's Oil Industry (The Houma Courier) - Hurricane Dean swept across the Yucatan peninsula Tuesday, toppling trees, power lines and houses as it bore down on the heart of Mexico's oil industry.

Dean Bears Down on Mexico's Oil Industry (The Daily Comet) - MAJAHUAL, Mexico Hurricane Dean swept across the Yucatan peninsula Tuesday, toppling trees, power lines and houses as it bore down on the heart of Mexico's oil industry.

Local tourism industry weathers the firestorm (Sun Valley Central) - As fire crews battle the Castle Rock Fire just a few peaks away from Ketchum, the tourism industry in the valley is scrambling to get information out to visitors.

Publishing industry chief says conservative readers just want slogans (Boston Globe) - Liberals read more books than conservatives. The head of the book publishing industry's trade group says she knows why -- and there's little flattering about conservative readers in her explanation.