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A Push to Root Out Industry-Financed Ghostwriting From Medical Journals (New York Times) - Influential editors and members of Congress are pressing medical journals to adopt tougher disclosure policies on industry-financed research.

Obama Derivatives Bill May Raise Costs, Industry Says (Update1) (Bloomberg) - Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Company costs and consumer gas and electric prices will increase if Congress imposes higher capital and margin requirements on hedging as part of legislation meant to rein in over-the-counter derivatives, industry leaders said.

Coal Industry (Zacks.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Our near-term outlook for the coal industry has improved somewhat from our previous neutral sentiment to a more positive undertone.

Govt-backed gambling industry slammed (The New Zealand Herald) - A Reefton woman who defrauded two small clubs to feed her gambling habit was the victim of a government sanctioned industry that encouraged people to gamble, a judge has said.Judge Christopher Somerville made the comments in Westport...

Luxury auto sector defies industry crash (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Auto manufacturers are laying on the luxury at the Frankfurt motor show depite the industry crisis, with one example being a new blood red Mercedes with 571 horses under the hood and gull-wing doors.

Govt-backed gambling industry slammed (The New Zealand Herald) - A Reefton woman who defrauded two small clubs to feed her gambling habit was the victim of a government sanctioned industry that encouraged people to gamble, a judge has said.

Netbooks: Saving, Destroying the PC Industry (PC Magazine) - The emergence of the low-priced netbook has meant two things for the PC industry: an increase in the number of consumer notebook PCs, and a corresponding drop in PC revenues.

Emissions to impact airline industry (BigPond News) - Britain is considering placing a cap on emissions generated by the aviation industry.

Emissions to impact airline industry (Sky News Australia) - Britain is considering placing a cap on emissions generated by the aviation industry head of the December's climate change conference in Copenhagen.

"Special safeguard" to cause overcapacity in China's tire industry (People's Daily) - Although the special safeguard tariff will not be a catastrophe for China's tire industry, it will nevertheless significantly impact it, said analysts. Overcapacity will be inevitable and the competition situation for China's domestic tire enterprises will accordingly change. In 2008, tires exported from China to the U.S. accounted for one third of China's total tire output. Once tire exports to ...