CONGRESS WRAPS IT UP:  8
Mammoth bill provides 14% increase for NIH, implements chemical weapons treaty, extends R&D tax credit.

LAND-MASS CO₂ SINK:  9
U.S. and Canada absorb about as much of the greenhouse gas as they produce, study finds.

METHYL BROMIDE:  9
Congress delays phaseout of pesticide just enlisted to fight Asian beetle.

ALTERING VANCOMYCIN:  10
Modifying terminal sugar segment could lead to more effective antibiotics.

AIRCRAFT INSULATION:  11
Scientists are testing possible safer substitutes.

LIFE SCIENCES:  11
Monsanto, Rhone-Poulenc are committed to growth through biotechnology.

BUSINESS CONCENTRATES:  13

COVER STORY

PROGNOSIS FOR EUROPE:  21
Chemical marketing group sees restructured producers in good shape for uncertain future.

MALAYSIA:  23
Economic controls are having little effect on chemical industry--for now.

GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES:  24

FBI'S DONALD KERR:  25
Crime lab's director discusses changes during his tenure, bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa.

LAB MANAGEMENT:  31
Collaborations, electronic data management, and shrinking funds make managers' jobs tougher.

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES:  36

ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS:  37
Harnessing chemical systems that mimic natural processes could lead to a virtually infinite renewable supply of energy.

VANCOMYCIN:   46
Aglycon of this antibiotic is synthesized by two routes.

RESTORED VAN GOGH:   47
Restoration of dark-palette painting was aided by chemical analysis.

SCIENCE INSIGHTS:   48
Requirement to give Nobel Prize to no more than three people stirs up controversy.

CHEMICAL LANDMARK:   49
Columbia University's Havemeyer Hall celebrates its centennial and is declared a landmark.

4 LETTERS

5 EDITOR'S PAGE

47 SOFTWARE/DATABASE UPDATE

64 NEWSCRIPTS

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