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Quote of the Week
"There are a lot more people that are afraid of food than who are enjoying it. There's so much nutrition nonsense out there." Robert L. Wolke, professor emeritus of chemistry, University of Pittsburghpage 27
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
EPA MOVES ON MBTE: 5
EPA panel recommends reduction in use of fuel additive, which only worsens situation for producers
MTBE REPERCUSSIONS: 5
Situation would go from bad to worse for producers, but new window would open for ethanol
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: 6
Efficient new catalytic process for ethylene production could reduce large source of industry CO2 emissions.
CHEMICAL EARNINGS: 7
Second quarter company earnings continued to slide downward.
ELF VERSUS TOTALFINA: 7
Fate of chemical operations is focus of takeover fight.
CANCER BIOCHEMISTRY: 8
Reseachers identify pathways that normal human cells take to malignancy. BUSINESS
BUSINESS CONCENTRATES: 9
INORGANICS FROM CHILE: 11
Despit e its small chemical industry, Chile is a global player in lithium, iodine, and potassium nitrate.
CIIT PLANS
: 16
Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology's new head aims to broaden support base.
DUTY-FREE DRUGS: 16
Trade agreement lifts tariffs on 642additional pharmaceutical chemicals.
BUSINESS INSIGHTS: 11
Although economically things looked very bad for a while, Asia is anything but static, and the crisis is about over.
GOVERNMENT & POLICY
GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES: 19
CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE: 20
Tax cuts and security at national labs are Congress' focus.
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES: 23
THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY: 24
DNA behavior, water's hydrophobic effects, and dynamical information in spectra are hot topics in the field.
ROBERT WOLKE: 27
C&EN talks with a chemist turned food writer.
COVER STORY
1999 SALARY SURVEY: 28
Chemists post second year of solid salary gains, but unemployment remains relatively high.
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