July 5, 2004 Vol. 82, Iss. 27

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	Table of Contents July 5, 2004 Volume 82, Number 27 p. 1
	FACTS & FIGURES Chemical industry data for 2003 do not look very different from those of 2002--yet cost-cutting reorganizations of the previous few years are affecting the bottom line.
	COVER: Clariant photo

	WELL CONNECTED Nanowire's alternating metallic and semiconducting segments lead to nanoscale integrated circuits. GREEN CHEMISTRY Four companies and two individuals garner presidential honors for their innovative technologies. PHARMA PERSPECTIVES Report urges industry to reassess its pricing policies. NEW JOURNAL EDITOR George Schatz is named editor-in-chief of ACS's Journal of Physical Chemistry. FATAL TRAIN WRECK Three people die as chlorine leaks in rural Texas derailment. FLUOROTELOMERS EPA and industry can't agree, so agency will study degradation of fluorinated alcohols. PLANT NITRIFICATION Nitrogen-cycle process thought to occur only in microorganisms is found in some plants. IN SATURN'S ORBIT Safely passing through rings, Cassini spacecraft begins four-year study of the giant planet. CHEMICAL WEAPONS Origin of mustard agent leak at Aberdeen Proving Ground is being investigated.

	BUSINESS CONCENTRATES PHILADELPHIA STORY Regional growth plan focuses on chemical industry. INSIGHTS Is the biotech industry ready for a public dialogue?

	GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES EARLY-CAREER GRANTS Workshop seeks ways to help investigators obtain their first major NIH grants.

	SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES RNA INTERFERENCE New mechanistic insights may help improve this biologically important tool. MICROREACTORS Technology allows precise reaction control, better product quality control for fine chemicals. HOST-GUEST BEHAVIOR Supramolecular interactions in the gas phase can be studied using tandem mass spectrometry. NICKEL-BASED CATALYST Structural images show how a novel superoxide dismutase sops up harmful radicals.

	CRITTER CHEMISTRY For the Heliothis subflexa caterpillar, picky eating makes perfect sense.

	LETTERS AWARDS PEOPLE NEWSCRIPTS