She said she was stepping down to "take a holiday, develop a project for TV drama and get involved in some more training overseas".

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In a research project conducted during last year's holiday season and posted on YouTube, Bill Hammack, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, concluded that a single-file line leading to three cashiers is about three times faster than having a separate line for each cashier.

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At a keynote address at the massive Consumer Electronics Show, Bach announced that Microsoft's gesture-reading gaming system, called Project Natal, will be for sale by the next holiday season.

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Use the Thanksgiving holiday to talk with your team about doing or sponsoring a social service project together (again on an optional basis).

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