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ACS NATIONAL MEETING: 10
ACS Board rebukes Kansas on evolution stance; 11,700 attendees brave
New Orleans heat. CHEMICAL WEAPONS: 11
U.S. must destroy its stocks by 2007,
but available technologies can't meet
deadline, NRC says. SEMICONDUCTORS: 11
New method for measuring dopant
profiles is quick, inexpensive, and
nondestructive. QUAKE AFTERMATH: 12
Some chemical manufacturing facilities in Turkey were damaged, but
firms say relief efforts will come first. BIODEGRADATION: 12
Advanced Light Source is used to
monitor reduction of toxic Cr(VI) to
less harmful Cr(III). STEM CELL RESEARCH: 13
In a draft report and at a public forum
AAAS tries to build the case for federal support. RIBOSOME STRUCTURE: 14
X-ray crystallography yields structure
of complex biological machine. BUSINESS
BUSINESS CONCENTRATES: 15
COVER STORY BIOPHARMACEUTICALS: 19
Business is booming as scientists find
ways to diagnose, monitor, and identify genetic markers for disease. CONTRACT MANUFACTURING: 29
Scale-up and production of pipeline
biopharmaceuticals is a job firms are
vying for. ISP'S NEW MANAGEMENT: 36
President and CEO Sunil Kumar--first new CEO since 1982--plans for
growth. GERMAN EARNINGS: 38
First-half results for five major chemical producers are down, but business
conditions are improving. GOVERNMENT & POLICY
GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES: 39
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE: 41
Justice Department's Environment &
Natural Resources Division is the nation's environmental lawyer. SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
BIOCHEM ENGINEERING: 53
Biennial conference explores how
engineers' tools can be applied to issues of molecular diversity. PROTEIN NMR: 57
Novel techniques that determine how
subunits orient in solution help shed
light on protein function. SCIENCE INSIGHTS: 65
Kansas Board of Education decision
to eliminate evolution from state standards reveals a lack of faith. BOOKS
"MAKING MICROCHIPS": 67
Growth in the semiconductor industry has left environmental policy
behind. THE DEPARTMENTS
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69 ACS COMMENT
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