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November 8, 2010 - Volume 88, Number 45
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Speedy Homemade-Explosive Detector
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Solar Panel Makers Cry Foul
Trade: U.S. companies complain of market dumping by China.
Novartis To Cut 2,000 Jobs
Layoffs follow similar moves by Amgen, AstraZeneca.
Nations Break Impasse On Waste
Environment: Ban to halt export of hazardous waste to developing world.
New Leader For Lawrence Livermore
Penrose (Parney) Albright will direct DOE national lab.
Hair Reveals Source Of People's Exposure To Mercury
Toxic Exposure: Mercury isotopes in human hair illuminate dietary and industrial sources.
Why The Long Fat?
Cancer Biochemistry: Mass spectrometry follows the metabolism of very long fatty acids in cancer cells.
William Simpson
Celebrants Roy Olofson (from left), a professor emeritus of chemistry at Pennsylvania State University; Ronald Blatchley, a retired chemistry teacher and Joseph Priestley interpreter; Robert Minard, a senior lecturer emeritus of chemistry at Penn State; Tom Bresenhan, president of the Board of Friends of the Joseph Priestley House; Stephen Miller, director of historic sites at the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission; and Stewart Stabley, director of development at the American Chemical Society, cut the ribbon for the Nov. 7, 2010, opening of the newly renovated Pond Building at the Joseph Priestley House in Northumberland, Pa.
On Nov. 7, the Joseph Priestley House celebrated Fall Heritage Day and the rededication of the newly renovated Priestley museum, now known as the Pond Building.
Located in Northumberland, Pa., the site includes the U.S. home and laboratory of English scientist Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), who discovered oxygen in 1774. The Pond Building commemorates the late Pennsylvania State University chemistry professor George G. Pond, who raised funds to purchase the house in 1919.r
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