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VOLUME 79, NUMBER 22 • MAY 28, 2001
NEWS OF THE WEEK
COVER STORY
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EUROPE'S NEXUS
3-D IMAGES OF NANOPARTICLES
Tomography method yields 3-D structure of silica-supported nanocatalyst. 10 GLOBAL CHANGE Limits seen for forests as C 0 2 sinks. 10 NATURAL GAS Saudi Arabia opens three giant fields to for eign investment. 11 DESIGNED FOR ACIDIC LIVING Ulcer-causing bacteria use unique urease to sur vive in stomach's low pH.
11 DOW ADDS TO CONSTRUCTION LINE
Firm picks up bankrupt strawboard maker. 12 U.S. SIGNS POPS TREATY
Bush will seek quick rat ification of limits on use of 12 persistent organic pollutants. 12 ARSENIC IN DRINKING WATER EPA considers regulat ing element based on threshold model for car cinogenicity. 13 BACTERICIDAL SURFACES
Polymer coated on glass surface kills many air borne bacteria. 13 WELCH AWARD Stanford's Kornberg is recognized for research on DNA transcription.
Belgium and the Netherlands use their position as entry ports to Europe to build a chemical industry PAGE 18 Cover: Photo courtesy of Ruud Rozemejjer BUSINESS
14 CONCENTRATES 16 FIBER-RESIN COMPOSITES
30 HYDROGENATION
New media for this widely used process include supercritical car bon dioxide, room-tem perature ionic liquids, and solvent-free systems. 35 PATENT RIGHTS Chemist Srinivasan helped develop a laser method for vision cor rection surgery but was not named coinventor.
ACS NEWS 42 EDUCATION
German and American students meet in Boston, discuss ways to improve education in both countries. EMPLOYMENT 53 GLOBAL WORKFORCE
Working in foreign countries provides chemical industry professionals with opportunities for growth, development.
New applications and tighter environmental regulations spur interest in closed molding. GOVERNMENT & POLICY
THE DEPARTMENTS
24 CONCENTRATES 25 DIOXINS
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EPAs Science Advisory Board gives final approval to agency's controversial report on the health risks of these chemicals. 28 NASA BUDGET Funding for 2002 is evenly split between spaceflight and R&D. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 29 CONCENTRATES CENEAR 79 (22) 1-72 • ISSN 0009-2347
LETTERS EDITOR'S PAGE ACS COMMENT NEWSCRIPTS
38 QUANTUM CONTROL
Breakthrough occurred when researchers learned to tune intense laser pulses. 40 INSIGHTS Number of women in synthetic organic chem istry is low, as is their visibility.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Chemistry attracts chemistry—everything is linked to the petrochemicals." JEAN-MARIE BIOT, managing director, Fedichem, PAGE 18 §
