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Quote of the Week
"Will the wheels on the nanotruck
be rotating in the direction that the
truck is going? . . . I'm sure the
C60 wheels will be spinning around
like crazy on a surface." James M. Tour, chemistry
professor, Rice University page 54
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
CHEMISTRY NOBEL: 12
Zewail honored for work on femtosecond-scale reactions. MEDICINE NOBEL: 13
Blobel honored for wide-ranging
work in protein signaling. PHYSICS NOBEL: 13
Mathematical model of quark and
lepton interactions takes the prize. RESEARCH DATA: 14
OMB sets rules for access to
scientific data. FINNISH SPIN-OFF: 15
Neste Chemicals is being sold to investment firm for $535 million. WRITING ON A NANOSCALE: 15
Excerpt from Feynman speech clearly
legible when magnified. ROCHE RECOUPS: 15
Plan to sell 17% of its stake in Genentech may bring in $3 billion. TEST BAN REJECTED: 16
Senate refuses to ratify international
nuclear test ban treaty. INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE: 16
Five of the 55 new IOM members
work in chemistry-related areas. BUSINESS
BUSINESS CONCENTRATES: 19
PAINTS & COATINGS: 22
Material suppliers and formulators try
to maintain product performance
while meeting increasingly stringent
environmental regulations. TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE: 33
Industry execs ponder the financial,
environmental, and social performance of the global economy. CELANESE: 35
On its own once again, German chemical firm faces difficult circumstances. ASIA-PACIFIC
AGROCHEMICALS: 38
Struggling agrochemicals industry
looks to China for boost, but finds
high hurdles to market success. GOVERNMENT & POLICY
GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES: 43
ENVIRONMENT: 46
EPA and New Jersey team up on
project to improve environmental
compliance of batch chemical firms. GOVERNMENT INSIGHTS: 49
Saga of MTBE in gasoline shows how
good intentions don't always make
good government policy. SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES: 52
BUCKY'S BUILDING SUPPLY: 54
Fullerenes turn out to be versatile construction materials for making molecular and supramolecular structures. ACS NEWS
TEACHER AWARDS: 64
Four high-school chemistry teachers
receive regional awards. OFFICIAL REPORTS: 66
Society, board, and council committees summarize actions taken in New
Orleans. THE DEPARTMENTS
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