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A New Use for Old Printers: Treating Burn Victims Researchers in the US are using old inkjet printers to produce sheets of human skin to be used on burn victims. They think that this 'skin-printing' method will minimize rejections by patients and reduce post-operative complications. In this article, the Wall Street Journal (paid registration needed) writes that while the technology is still in its early stages, it could be used clinically within two years. This could be a life-saving technology for the 20% of burn patients who have the most extensive burns. Considering that each year, some 45,000 people...

<p>An Interview With Hugh Hendry -- As you enter the Odey Asset Management conference room in London, you'll see a large painting of a fog-enshrouded skiff that a lone figure is piloting toward a dull and faraway light. It goes a long way to explaining the firm's attitude toward investing. Hedge-fund manager Hugh Hendry happily concedes that he's an apostate from fundamentalism, uses technical analysis liberally, and hasn't met with a company management in "five years, thank God." The Scotsman with Glasgow working-class roots admits to having no friends beyond the Reuters mini-terminal he carries in his pocket. He eschews the focused-fund approach and what he calls Taliban-like fundamentalism in the market.</p>

Nation's Public Printer, From Nevada, Instituting Changes At GPO (July 4) -- Before taking over as the nation's public printer, Bruce James promised the White House and Congress he would retool and modernize the historic Government Printing Office. After six months, he noted he has recruited six of 12 top GPO managers from the private sector, and kept just two of the other six in the same jobs as when he took over in December. "We now have square pegs in square holes," James said. James, 60, a Nevada resident who in 1998 abandoned a short-lived candidacy for U.S....

The Washington Prowler, always on the move at the Amercian Spectator Magazine, drops a news nugget in todays offering-an internal memo from Hillary's publishing house virtually admitting that they produced the 'leak' (about her gasping reaction to the Monica Lewinsky lying) to jump start the book.We are adding this to a statement we recieved from deep inside the mighty publishing house from an executive in a position to know (always trust the working bees in life): 'No way we would publish 1,000,000 copies of anything. It's only necessary to say that we did. Besides where would we put them?'Asked about...

1.1 million copies total, after Simon and Schuster said they were printing 100,000 more copies after last nights supposed 'record' night at Barnes and Noble.He probably wont have to actually eat his shoe on Inside Politics, Begala will probably buy him a cake in the shape of one..

Quad/Graphics was founded on July 13, 1971, by Harry V. Quadracci, president, who initiated operations in an abandoned millwork factory in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, using a $35,000 second mortgage on his home and capital raised from a handful of associates. Our beginnings were humble: 11 employees, a rented press and a borrowed binder housed in a 20,000-square-foot building.   As with most new concerns, the first years were lean. Establishing rural Pewaukee as a printing mecca was no easy task. An occasional customer would trickle in, but usually only because no other printer would take the work. "We were pretty much...