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Go Figure Northeast News Bureau begins orchesOME JULY, MY HUSBAND AND I BEcome possessed by theTburde Fiance. trating the work in mid-May To collect the It starts innocently enough, just data, Storck calls upon the expertise and watching the highlights each evening on reporting skills ofAssistant Managing Edthe Outdoor Life Network. Soon we're itor Michael McCoy, Senior Corresponplanning our own weekend bike rides dent Marc Reisch, and Associate Editor around Saturday's and Sunday's live broad- Alexander Tullo, all also in the Northeast a News Bureau; Senior Corcasts from France. Ulti§ respondent Patricia Short mately, I end up sneaking I in London; and Asia-Papeeks during the workday, cific Bureau Head Jeanfollowing each sprint and FrancoisTremblay in Hong breakaway on the Web Kong. through the real-time reports on velonews.com or To get the material in the BBC. the final form you see in print, Storck works closely We never paid much atwith Assistant Managing tention to the Tour until Lance Armstrong began Editor Robin Giroux and capturing stage wins in her dedicated editing and 1999, the year he returned production staff: Assistant to bike racing after battling Editor Melissa Braddock, cancer. I was baffled by the whole idea of Senior Editor Janet Dodd, Senior Editor cycling as a team sport back then. The pelo- Arlene Goldberg-Gist, Associate Editor ton made no more sense to me than did Deanna Miller, Associate Editor Stephen the polka-dot jersey The three-week race Trzaska, and Assistant Editor Linda Wang. was fun to watch, but not nearly as much C&EN's talented designers, Art Directors as it is now that I can appreciate the strat- Nathan Becker and Robin Braverman and egy behind the top performances and know Associate DesignerYang Ku, lay out the some of the history of the Tour. pages. Staff Artist Linda Mattingly creates As with baseball, the other sport I'm the charts and graphs. Two years ago, we reorganized Facts & crazy about, fans keep track of all kinds of bicycling performance stats. Burrow into Figures to better reflect an increasingly the Tour's official website, www.letour. globalized chemical industry. This year, com, and you'll find that only two cyclists we're adding a functionality to the posted from Japan have ever competed; three Ital- feature: All of the tables can be downians have earned the green jersey reserved loaded. Users can go towwwcen-online.org for the top sprinter; and in 1986, when and opt to view the tables in PDF (Portable Greg LeMond became the first American Document Format) or to pull them into to win, the cyclists raced 4,094 km around their own computers as Excel files. VCfe're France at an average speed of 37.02 km per able to bring you this new, free feature hour. Access to such a fertile lode of data through the efforts of C&EN Online Ediputs the current race in perspective and tor Melody Voith, Production Manager deepens appreciation ofthese amazing ath- Luis Carrillo, Production Associate Wes Lindamood, and Associate Editor Rachel letes' accomplishments. EachJuly, C&EN brings its readers our Pepling. own rich set of statistics: the collection of "Readers will now have access to the industry data we call Facts & Figures for the numbers so they can manipulate them any Chemical Industry This year it begins on way they want," Storck notes. "They can page 41. With this compilation of finance, copy numbers, graph them, or make comemployment, production, and trade data parisons between countries.'' from the major chemical-producing counLet us know what you think of these tries around the world, we aim to help you new downloadable tables and howyou are put the chemical enterprise's accomplish- using them. For years we've brought you ments in perspective. the facts; now it's up to you to go figure. Like circumnavigating France on a bicycle, putting this annual feature together requires a massive team effort. Senior Correspondent William Storck in C&EN's Managing editor,
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