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Quote of the Week
"There's not been a lot of publicity
in the U.S. [about the arsenic
poisonings in Bangladesh and
West Bengal], but it ranks up there
with the major tragedies." Willard R. Chappell, University of
Colorado, Denver page 27
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE URGE TO MERGE: 8
Clariant and Ciba combine to form
$13.8 billion specialty chemicals giant. ORGANIC LETTERS'
EDITOR: 9
Penn's Amos Smith chosen to run
new ACS publication. GRADUATE STUDIES: 9
Training researchers is still raison
d'être for Ph.D. programs, asserts
Association of American Universities. ANTITUMOR DRUGS: 10
Structure shows how fumagillin and
analog interact with target protein. SILICONE IMPLANTS: 10
Latest price tag to get Dow Corning
out of bankruptcy is $4.5 billion. MOLECULAR WIRES: 11
Whether electron transfer occurs by
hopping or tunneling depends on
molecule bridge length. BUSINESS
BUSINESS CONCENTRATES: 12
CHEMICAL EARNINGS: 15
Drops in demand and pricing, effects of Asian economic crisis drive
down third-quarter earnings. DRUG FIRM EARNINGS: 20
Healthy product sales swell the bottom
line of pharmaceutical companies. GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES: 22
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS: 23
Elections had little effect on makeup
of committees in charge of science
and technology funding. SCIENCE APPOINTMENTS: 24
Senate confirms a number of Clinton
nominees to executive branch. 1999 ENERGY BUDGET: 25
DOE science funding gets a boost,
especially for basic energy sciences. GOVERNMENT INSIGHTS: 26
Report proposes more equitable way
to set greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements. INTERNATIONAL:
BANGLADESH CRISIS: 27
Nearly 70 million people are endangered by arsenic-contaminated well
water. SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES: 30
HARVARD'S ICCB: 31
Institute for Chemistry & Cell Biology to provide a chemical interface
between genomics, biology, and
medicine. WHAT'S THAT STUFF?: 35
Ink is a pervasive material that is
essential to our everyday lives. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SCIENCE MENTORS: 36
Society for Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in Science
focuses on mentoring. BOOKS
POLYMERS: 38
History of macromolecular chemistry
delves into the lives of Hermann
Staudinger and Wallace Carothers. THE DEPARTMENTS
4 LETTERS
7 EDITOR'S PAGE
40 PEOPLE
56 NEWSCRIPTS
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