Brian Gongol
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Companies behind the "meat printer" say they'll have arteries and veins available for bypass surgery within five years, and hearts and livers within ten
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The new guy will be moving from one of the world's most cash-rich companies (Microsoft has $31 billion in cash on-hand, enough to run the government of the State of Iowa for five years) to one of the most cash-strapped in history. GM has pension obligations in the $85 billion range or more, underfunded by an estimated $20 billion. It's a pretty remarkable undertaking to jump from one to the other, to be sure. And GM isn't the only iconic company with a huge uphill battle just to stay in business: The legendary British Airways is struggling with a labor union that doesn't seem to understand that it can't just have whatever it wants. When air travel becomes a commodity (as it has been for a long, long time), then no airline can justify spending twice as much for cabin crew than others just because the union wants it.
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Companies in India think they're losing 12.5% of their ordinary productivity to social networking
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American forces went about upgrading to a pixelated-style camouflage in 2007
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