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	Table of Contents January 3, 2005 Volume 83, Number 01 p. 1
	PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE ACS President William F. Carroll addresses the future of the chemistry enterprise.

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	TITANIC PROSPECTS Cassini spacecraft successfully deploys Huygens probe. PAINKILLER QUALMS FDA to review Pfizer's Celebrex and other drugs. ASTRAZENECA OVERHAUL Changes in clinical processes follow bad news for two of the British company's drugs. HERBERT C. BROWN Nobel Laureate, dead at age 92, will be remembered for pioneering work in boron chemistry. GULF WAR AIR Exposure to combustion products might be linked to veterans' lung cancer. TAXOL & ALZHEIMER'S Cancer drug shows promise for treating neurodegenerative disorders. LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS RISKS Tanker breach could result in heavy losses more than one-quarter mile from ship. BIO-OLEFINS Catalytic method converts soy-based biodiesel to valuable chemicals. MONSANTO BLINKS Biotech seeds producer sets up $285 million reserve to cover spin-off Solutia's liabilities.

	BUSINESS CONCENTRATES CROMPTON New CEO champions ambitious reorganization. BASF AGREEMENT Plans are under way to ensure competitiveness of operations at headquarters site. START-UP PHILANTHROPY Amyris Biotechnologies focuses its energies on a nonprofit venture to develop a malaria drug.

	GOVERNMENT CONCENTRATES NIH CHEMISTRY PROGRAMS Two new research initiatives highlight agency's commitment to chemical research.

	SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES MEETING HIGHLIGHTS Advances abound at Materials Research Society's annual fall meeting. NANOCAPSULES Supramolecular chemists focus on arrangement, control of encapsulated guest molecules. ORIGINS OF WINE New evidence suggests fermented beverage was first produced in China. BATTLING PARKINSON'S Targeting of an interfering protein and caloric restriction offer new ways to combat neurogenerative disease.

	SHARK REPELLENT Compounds isolated from dead sharks help researchers formulate a new shark repellent.

	ACS NATIONAL AWARDS 2005 WINNERS Alivisatos, Arnold, Brown, Chandross, Dervan, DeSimone, Hapkiewicz, Hawker, and Hirota.

	INSTRUMENTATION Chemists in instrumentation companies, many at the B.S. and M.S. levels, are finding satisfying careers.

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