NEWS OF THE WEEK
			CHEMICAL SECURITY PLAN EPA backs voluntary antiterrorism measures at plants.
			ACRYLAMIDE EXPLAINED Heating asparagine with sugar yields chemical found in cooked foods.
			FDA'S APPROACH TO ACRYLAMIDE Action plan calls for assessing dietary exposures, gathering toxicological data.
			PHARMACEUTICAL SHOW Fine chemicals firms announce new commercial offerings and business units at annual conference.
			HUNTSMAN RESTRUCTURES Firm gains a partner and cuts debt, but family retains control.
			ELECTRONIC MATERIAL Simple UV method converts metal oxides to transparent conductors.
			A CHEMICAL'S TRAITS EPA's new online tool predicts persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity.
			MALARIA GENES DECODED Sequences of parasite and mosquito genomes are published.
			CHEMICAL WEAPONS Activist group says U.S. nonlethal program violates Chemical Weapons Convention.

COVER STORY
			SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Chihiro Kanagawa, president and CEO of the Japanese firm, has made it the world's fifth most valuable chemical company.

BUSINESS
			BUSINESS CONCENTRATES
			NUTRACEUTICALS In the absence of strict federal regulations, seals of approval for dietary supplements can mean different things.
			INSIGHTS Firms are growing by fixing up slow businesses instead of selling them.

GOVERNMENT & POLICY
			GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES
			DOE'S CHEMICAL SCIENCES New division head Walter J. Stevens plans to expand catalysis, computational, and nanoscience research.
			NUCLEAR WEAPONS Government reviews plans for new factory to manufacture plutonium "pits."

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			NOBLE-GAS CHEMISTRY Forty years after the first noble-gas compound was discovered, scientists still make surprising discoveries in the field.
			CLEANING UP FOSSIL FUELS Energy R&D programs focus on low-emissions electricity generation and ultraclean gasoline.

BOOKS
			"CRADLE TO CRADLE" Chemist and architect authors offer their vision of a world without waste.

ACS NEWS
			2001- 02 ACS STUDENT AFFILIATES CHAPTER AWARDS

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