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In this issue:

FRONT PAGE

FEATURES

• Director's Corner

• Hunting the Penguin During BABAR's Long Run

• E-158 Makes AIP Top Stories for 2005

• Czech Named Ashley Fellow for 2005

ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPDATES

• The Evolution of the SLAC Web

• New Look for ES&H

• Holiday e-card

• Counterfeit Parts and Circuit Breakers

• Medical Care during Holiday Shutdown

• Computer Security Tips for the Holidays

• Tax Treaty 8233 Form for 2006

• Address Changes Should be Reported to HR

• TIP Publication Schedule

• Welcome New Employees

• SLAC Emergency Hotline Number

• Milestones

EVENTS

• SLAC Colloquium Series Presents: Twistor Spinoffs

• SLAC Holiday Party Tuesday, Dec. 20

• DOE Science Bowl Needs You

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Director's Corner

As the year comes to a close, and we look forward to taking full advantage of the annual Laboratory closure, please accept my and my family’s warm seasonal greetings. However you celebrate the year’s end, may it be joyful and may it herald a healthy, happy and successful 2006 for you and your loved ones.

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Hunting the Penguin During BABAR's Long Run

By Heather Rock Woods

BABARians are hot on the trail of penguins.

The BABAR collaboration is hunting for signs of new physics—perhaps supersymmetry, or perhaps the Higgs particle—in ‘penguin modes,’ rare channels of decay from B mesons to other particles.

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