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Quote of the Week
"They mucked things up royally." --A financial expert in Zurich
commenting on the failed merger
of Ciba and Clariant page 14
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
WEAPONS TRITIUM: 5
Energy Department decides to use
civilian reactor to produce nuclear
arms component. ANTIBIOTICS: 5
Novel drug screening approach may
yield potent new agents. ACADEMIC R&D PIE: 6
Medical and engineering research
slices getting larger, physical sciences smaller. ACCOUNTING FRAUD: 7
SEC crackdown results in charges
against W.R. Grace and Foster
Wheeler. ROHM AND HAAS BUYING: 7
Company to acquire electronic
chemicals firm LeaRonal for
$460 million. ACS PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
COVER STORY THE 1900s AND BEYOND: 2
ACS President Ed Wasserman reflects
on 20th-century chemical advances. BUSINESS
BUSINESS CONCENTRATES: 8
DRUGS VIA ENZYMES: 10
Fine chemicals producers increasingly introduce chirality through fermentation or biocatalytic methods. MERGER NO-GO: 14
Ciba and Clariant call off merger and
draw harsh criticism. BUSINESS INSIGHTS: 15
When large oil companies make major strategic changes, chemical businesses get dragged along. GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES: 16
DATABASE BILL: 17
Legislation to protect databases
could be devastating to scientists. CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES: 19
Institute produces new report, redefining its role in serving Congress. SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES: 20
UNKNOWN MICROBES: 21
Researchers are gaining access to
the chemical diversity of soil microorganisms that can't be cultured. IONIC LIQUIDS: 23
Room-temperature systems can be
used as replacements for volatile
organic solvents. BARTON CHALLENGE: 24
Competition established in name of
late chemist Derek Barton. ACS NATIONAL AWARDS
1999 WINNERS: 25 (PDF FILE)
Adams, Armstrong, Baldwin,
Beauchamp, Bercaw, Bhasin, Pankow,
Bidleman, Boger, Bose, Venegas,
Showell, Graycar, Estell, and Bott. MEETINGS
ACS EVENTS and C&EN CALENDAR: 33 (PDF FILE)
Calls for papers and ACS meetings
calendar 1999-2008 and listing of scientific meetings for 1999.
THE DEPARTMENTS
4 LETTERS
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ACS NEWS (PDF FILE)
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