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NEWS OF THE WEEK 10 ORBITAL IMAGING Using ultrafast lasers, researchers can make 3-D images of molecular orbit als. 11 BUSH APPOINTEES
Administration hires in clude chemical engineer Samuel Bodman to head Energy Department.
COVER STORY
2004 CHEMISTRY YEAR IN REVIEW From biochemistry to nanotechnology R&D made significant achieve ments in a year in which industry at last saw a recovery PAGES 26,53
13 ACS PUBLICATIONS ACS sues Google for trademark infringement and gives nonsubscribers access to more online ACS journal content. 14 GATES FIGHTS MALARIA
11 DSM BUYS NEORESINS Acquisition of Avecia's coating resins business is an almost $680 million transaction. 12 PHOSPHATE DONOR
Scientists find a second cellular molecule that donates phosphate groups to proteins. 12 SUSPECT NANOMATERIALS
Purchasers of nanomaterials may be getting contaminated product, at best. 13 UKRAINIAN MYSTERY
Was presidential candi date Viktor Yushchenko poisoned with a dioxinlike compound?
WORLDS
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding research to develop an antimalarial. 14 SPHERES WITH PORES
Supercritical fluid emulsion technique yields hollow spheres of mesoporous silica. BUSINESS
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34 CONCENTRATES 36 C02 SEQUESTRATION Carbon dioxide storage and clean-coal research define government's approach to greenhouse gas reduction.
64 "CHASING THE MOLECULE " Development of new substances synthesized in the mid-1900s is related in full social, cultural, and institutional context.
43 CHEMICAL LASER WEAPON
Revolutionary approach faces significant technical hurdles. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
16 CONCENTRATES 19 PHARMA CONTRACT MANUFACTURING At C P h I 2 0 0 4 in Brussels, fine and custom chemical manufacturers say the market is not fully revived.
47 CONCENTRATES 48 STABILITY THEORY Studies of conjugated polyynes yield unexpected results. 49 GENOME FINGERPRINT SCANNING New bioinformatics tool finds region of genome most likely to have en coded unknown proteins.
23 MEDICHEM'S PROGENY
50 MULTIDISCIPLINARITY
Former employees of contract research firm have yielded numerous companies and ventures.
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New buildings physically connect chemistry and other science departments as a way of fostering interaction.
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Economics rules. Coal is literally cheaper than dirt? SCOTT KLARA, technology manager, National Energy Technology Lab, Pittsburgh PAGE 36
