NEWS OF THE WEEK
			G-QUADRUPLEX IS IN HUMAN DNA Structure occurs naturally in a promoter region of an oncogene called c-Myc.
			TRADE SECRET THEFT ALLEGED Glaxo says bacterium used by competitors to produce drug was stolen.
			HOW THE GECKO HANGS ON Van der Waals bonding, not capillary adhesion, is at work.
			GLOBAL SUMMIT Nations are at loggerheads over practical measures to improve lives of all people.
			UP, UP, AND AWAY Largest balloon ever flown measures cosmic electrons entering Earth's upper stratosphere.
			NEW PLAYERS IN GREEN CLEANING ICI and Linde have developed and are marketing a new CO2-based dry cleaner.
			NEW LEADER FOR ACC CHOSEN Gregori Lebedev will head the American Chemistry Council come November.
			PUSHING DNA DETECTION LIMIT Silver-coated gold nanoparticles provide sensitive DNA Raman assay.
			A LAB FOR THE COMMUNITY Biogen facility in Cambridge, Mass., will teach high school students about biotechnology.

COVER STORY
			NIH EXPANDS Twenty-seventh institute, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering, will focus on cross-disciplinary research and technology.

BUSINESS
			BUSINESS CONCENTRATES
			FOREIGN RESEARCH Contract chemistry firms begin to outsource discovery work to labs outside the U.S. and Western Europe.
			INITIATIVES FOR BEST PRACTICES Nonprofit agency helps chemical innovators develop their ideas.
			INSIGHTS New accounting system could bring method to the madness of corporate financial results.

GOVERNMENT & POLICY
			GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES
			NEW TWIST ON ANTHRAX Rockefeller University scientists take advantage of a highly specific viral enzyme that attacks the bacterium's cell wall.

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY In libraries that are mixtures of organic compounds, template molecules bind tightly to and stabilize fittest hosts.
			DESTROYING PESTICIDES ACS symposium spotlights methods for safe disposal of toxic chemicals.

EDUCATION
			AMBITION REALIZED Bernhard Tschulnigg is the first blind student in Austria to complete experiments for an organic chemistry course.

ACS COMMENT
			A ‘THIRD NATIONAL MEETING?’

MEETINGS
			17TH ACS ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGIONAL PROGRAM Information, including registration form and special events, is provided for meeting in Albuquerque, N.M., Oct. 12–15.

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