NEWS OF THE WEEK
			GLOBALIZATION Sustainability is key to growth in the chemical industry.
			OLED INVESTMENTS Firms hike their stakes in display technology.
			EUROPEAN FLOODS Chemical firms escape largely unscathed.
			CHIRALITY Tiny impurities may have induced the left-handed nature of biological molecules.
			ENGINEERED FAUNA NRC report explores potential problems posed by biotech animals.
			UN SUMMIT Meeting focuses on developing resources to alleviate poverty.
			DNA-DIRECTED Templates steer multistep syntheses of small organic molecules.
			CANCER KILLER Compound delivers therapeutic amounts of boron to tumor cells.
			CHEMICAL ACCIDENT Explosion at Korean adhesives plant kills three, injures 12.
			ACS NATIONAL MEETING Presidential symposia highlight diversity.

COVER STORY
			DRUG DELIVERY Scientists are refining old materials and exploring a wide variety of new ones to address next-generation drug delivery needs.

BUSINESS
			BUSINESS CONCENTRATES
			COSTLY CATALYSTS Suppliers of catalytic converters struggle with the high price of precious metals as one newcomer stirs up the industry.
			CHINA'S LEGAL SYSTEM Foreign firms learn to thrive within the country's rule of law.
			REACHING OUT Chemical industry will seek a role in alleviating Third World poverty through sustainable development at the Johannesburg summit.

GOVERNMENT & POLICY
			GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES
			STATE BUDGET CUTS AT UNIVERSITIES Though cutbacks aren't as bad as projected, many public schools wrangle with deficits in wake of reduced state dollars.
			BUDGET CRUNCH Congress has yet to pass a single spending bill for fiscal 2003.

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			DUKE'S FIRST-YEAR STRUGGLE Experimental freshman chemistry course is put on hold after a frustrating launch.
			WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY Valerie Sheares at Iowa State University balances teaching, service, and research.
			INSIGHTS New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, is developing a forward-looking chemistry program in its high desert environs.

BOOKS
			AN INTERWOVEN TALE OF BHOPAL

ACS COMMENT
			IT'S TIME FOR A CENTER FOR THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF CHEMISTRY

MEETINGS
			CALL FOR PAPERS Topics, abstract submission instructions for ACS national meetings.

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