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Too Few Qualified Machinists, Auto Repairers Replacing Retirees, Experts Say.

By Victor Godinez, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 12--Traditional tech industries are still losing jobs, but experts say technology jobs are popping up in one of the industries hardest hit by the economic slowdown: manufacturing.

"The average age of a machinist in the U.S. is 54. An auto technician is 49," said Tom Applegate, president of the Association for Career and Technical Education (www.acteonline.org). "Now both of those are highly skilled, highly trained technical jobs. What happens to that profession as they c

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