Table Of Contents: Volume 83, Number 50: December 12, 2005
Cover Story
Chemistry At Play
ACS volunteers of all ages explore the "Joy of Toys" with glittering slime, bouncy balls, and other playthings during National Chemistry Week 2005.
News of the Week
ACC Launches A Revamping
American Chemistry Council to eliminate 41 jobs and focus on selected issues
EPA Analysis Called Faulty
Congressional researchers say agency's methods skewed toward Bush emission plan.
Biocompatible Polymer Vesicles
Vesicles formed from copolymer precursors could have potential biomedical applications.
U.S., Industry Plan Clean-Coal Plant
Zero-emissions power plant will produce hydrogen as well as electricity.
Ozone Hole Recovery May Be Delayed
Scientists predict that 15 extra years may be needed for CFCs' effects to disappear.
Action Urged On Science Education
Science board gathers input to direct newly formed education commission.
Shifting Light Into Reverse
A new material with a negative index of refraction could lead to new optical technologies.
German Industry
Wacker sells a stake to Morgan Stanley; Degussa may be considering restructuring.
Business (Suscriber Content)
Sharing Drug Data
Research chemists and clinicians hammer out a 'bench-to-bedside' information support network.
Aiming For Number One
Planned cracker will place SABIC's European arm among region's top polyolefin makers.
Government & Policy (Suscriber Content)
First In The Nation
New Jersey mandates chemical plant security measures to guard against terrorist attacks.
Science & Technology (Suscriber Content)
Lawsuit and Turmoil At Florida State
Generous chemistry professor is pitted against the university in a building deal gone sour.
Purge And Trap Turns 30
Analyte concentrator for gas chromatography enabled part-per-billion analysis of volatile organics.
Inside Instrumentation
Technology and Business News for the Laboratory World.
Career & Employment
Genomics And Clean Energy
Developing biotechnology area is attracting more than just biologists; there's a place for chemists, too.
ACS News
Petroleum Research Fund Returns to ROOTS
New director steers grant program back to its mission in funding petroleum research
Awards
Obituaries
Nobelist Henry Taube Dead At 89
Stanford inorganic chemist was a pioneer in the study of electron transfer.
Meetings
The Departments
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