Bruce Greenwood, Noel Fisher and Linda Emond have begun work on A Dog Named Christmas, a TV movie filming in Saskatchewan, Canada, CBS said. The holiday movie is about a developmentally challenged young man, with a penchant for caring for animals in need, who sets out to convince his family -- and their whole rural community -- to participate in a local shelter's inaugural Adopt a Dog for Christmas Program. Fisher plays the main character, while Greenwood and Emond portray his parents. The TV movie is expected to air on CBS as a Hallmark Hall of Fame production.

By Volkert, Lora Carbon Valley may not have the same ring to it as Silicon Valley. But researchers at AMI Semiconductor and Idaho State University are looking at ways for carbon to be used as an inexpensive substitute for silicon in semiconductors.