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Quote of the Week
"Most people recognize now that the
submarine volcanic environment,
which we don't understand very well,
is a potential site on any planet for
life to evolve." John R. Delaney, University of
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
SHELL REVAMPS: 6
Company to sell 40% of chemical operations, cutting back to core businesses. DISAPPEARING LINK: 7
Solid-phase reaction products
cleaved cleanly from support media. BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE: 7
Monsanto has sold 100 million doses
of its bioengineered product, but consumer groups ask FDA to halt its sale. STEREOCHEMISTRY: 8
Contributions of single atoms, groups
of atoms to molecules' chirality are
mapped. NUCLEAR CLEANUP: 8
DOE will shell out $6.25 million so
its critics can monitor its efforts. OUTSOURCING R&D: 9
Hoechst contracts out its U.S. drug
development work to Quintiles
Transnational. BUSINESS
BUSINESS CONCENTRATES: 11
CAPITAL SPENDING: 13
C&EN poll of chemical firms finds
spending on new plants and equipment projected to drop in 1999. FINE CHEMICALS: 17
Pharmaceutical ingredients producers highlighted new products, capacity at annual exhibition. POLYCARBONATES: 20
Producers are adding capacity to
meet forecast rise in global demand. COOLING WATER: 21
Two companies find ways around
persistent treatment problem. GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES: 23
DATA LAW: 24
Provision in federal appropriations
bill may change availability of experimental data. GOVERNMENT INSIGHTS: 26
Too many studies manipulate data to
support an agenda. ENVIRONMENT
OZONE LAYER: 27
Meeting on Montreal protocol takes
further steps toward phaseout of
ozone-depleting substances. INTERNATIONAL
EU RESEARCH: 29
European Union launches 5th
Framework Program for funding science and technology research. SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
CONCENTRATES: 33
COVER STORY HYDROTHERMAL VENTS: 35
Geochemists probing the ocean subfloor find dynamic chemistry and
hints of microorganisms at work. UNUSUAL CLUSTER: 40
Hydrogenase crystal structure may aid
design of industrially useful catalysts. STUDENT JOURNAL: 41
National Journal of Young Investigators, in electronic format, gets
undergraduates involved. THE DEPARTMENTS
2 LETTERS
3 EDITOR'S PAGE
42 SOFTWARE/DATABASE UPDATE
44 ACS NEWS
55 AWARDS
56 NEWSCRIPTS
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