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The Monday Blog Alert from IEN Connects features direct links to items of interest or concern to the greater manufacturing and industrial community, written by IEN's editors. The Blog Alert is designed to raise issues, introduce technological advancements, invite reader comment, establish community dialogue and, at times, even generate a few laughs! New this week...

GM, Banks, Bailouts and the Money Pit
By Mike Botta, IEN Staff
Our politicians can’t fix anything without throwing more money at it. The problem is, it’s our money not theirs...

Getting a Leg Up
By Mary O'Hara Smith, IEN Staff
Legs been letting you down lately? Joints getting creaky? Honda may have the answer, with its newly developed experimental walking assist device. And considering the state of the auto industry, walking may be the way to go...

Pack Expo Went Green This Year. No, Seriously.
By Mark Devlin, IEN Staff
I’m still not buying some ‘green’ initiatives. Often, they don’t strike me as very well thought-out, and some are often nothing more than laughably transparent public relations ploys. BUT, here’s at least one exception: Pack Expo 2008...

Mini Nuclear Proliferation
By Debbie Maskin, IEN Staff
Hot tub-sized nuclear reactors, capable of powering industrial facilities, military installations, or up to 20,000 homes, should be on the market by 2013. Said to be inherently safe, they require minimal oversight...

120 Days
By Mark Devlin, IEN Staff
That’s about how long it’ll be before U.S. manufacturing giant General Motors drops below the level of liquidity required to do business. If GM goes bankrupt, what then? To bail out or not to bail out, is that the question?...

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