2000 R&D BUDGET:   8
Overall budget down 1%, but support for basic work grows substantially.

POISON FROGS:   9
Two alkaloids in animals' skin appear to come directly from their diet of ants.

ROHM AND HAAS BUYS AGAIN:   9
Company becomes a top specialties player with $4.9 billion acquisition of Morton International.

DIAGNOSTIC MASS SPEC:   10
Simple assay uses electrospray ionization method to detect enzyme deficiencies.

COMPARING SCIENTISTS:   11
NSF data provide demographics on Ph.D. chemists, other scientists.

1999 WOLF PRIZE:   11
Sugar pioneer Raymond Lemieux wins chemistry award.

BUSINESS CONCENTRATES:  14

COVER STORY

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY R&D:   17
Restructuring is not enough to create shareholder value and long-term growth.

RESEARCH SPENDING:   21
Chemical producers' investment in R&D has increased in the past three years and will go up again this year.

METHANOL INDUSTRY:   23
Worldwide oversupply and low prices are closing down U.S. methanol plants.

GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES:  25

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:   27
Federal research proposal aims to make computing faster, more powerful.

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH:   29
Program fosters research in states identified as receiving little funding from mainstream sources.

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES:  32

MOLECULAR TREES:   33
Metal nanoclusters encapsulated in dendrimers promise to advance catalysis and other fields.

PHOTON SPLITTING:   37
One photon of vacuum UV radiation is converted into two visible photons using new phosphor material.

NANODUMPLINGS:   38
Hydrophilic shell/hydrophobic core structures may be able to deliver DNA in gene therapy applications.

WORLD OF CHEMISTRY:   38
ACS luminaries speak on chemical literacy and the importance of chemistry at AAAS meeting.

CHEMICAL HINDSIGHTS:   41
Credibility of science supporting arms control should not be undermined.

"INVESTING IN INNOVATION":   42
Grab bag of observations and ideas is a search for a research and innovation policy that works.

1999 WINNERS:   47
Hirschmann, Bertozzi, Ghadiri, Hamilton, Janda, Katzenellenbogen, Kiessling, Lansbury, Rich, Saunders, and Stoddart.

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