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Copyright © 2007 American Chemical Society
October 22, 2007 Cover
Volume 85, Issue 43
COVER: Inmate Randall Countryman attends chemistryclass at California�s San Quentin State Prison.
Volume 85, Issue 43
CHEMISTRY CLASS IN PRISON
While balancing equations, inmates at San Quentin learn to balance their lives
COVER: Inmate Randall Countryman attends chemistryclass at California�s San Quentin State Prison.
Credit: HeatherRowley
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October 22, 2007 Issue
Volume 85, Issue 43
October 22, 2007 Issue, Vol. 85 | Iss. 43
While balancing equations, inmates at San Quentin learn to balance their lives
(pp. 17-22)
Features
Business
Increased product outsourcing and busier plants make custom manufacturers feel more prosperous at CPhI (pp. 34-38)
Career & Employment
Three top companies share their strategies for producing happy employees (pp. 67-72)
Departments
Business
Dow's R&D leadership directs a global army pursuing lower raw material and energy costs
(pp. 29-32)
Increased product outsourcing and busier plants make custom manufacturers feel more prosperous at CPhI
(pp. 34-38)Concentrates
(pp. 25-26)
(pp. 25-26)- Perstorp to Buy Solvay Caprolactone Unit
- Fired Exec Wants JPMorgan Named in Dow Suit
- Olin To Sell Metals Business
- Frutarom Buys Gewurzmuller
- Air Products, Matheson Form Helium Venture
- Pfizer LeadsR&D Spending
- Cray Valley Opens Lab
- Basell Closing Canadian Plant
- Teijin Boosts Carbon Fiber
- Genencor Unveils Cellulose Enzyme
- Chemical Prices Rise In September
- Technology Incubator Launches Biopolymer Venture
- BASF and G24i Develop Solar Cells
- Arkema Cuts Jobs, Expands Plant
- BUSINESS ROUNDUP
Government & Policy
Construction of critical chemical weapons destruction facility at Shchuch'ye is back on track
(pp. 42-44)
Changes at the health agency are sharply criticized at congressional hearing
(pp. 45-47)Education
While balancing equations, inmates at San Quentin learn to balance their lives
(pp. 17-22)
Science & Technology
Design of coaxial nanostructures yields stable, powerful solar cells
(p.11)
Crystal structure of a gold-thiolate cluster reveals surprising surface chemistry
(p.13)
Specialty conference highlights the benefits of supercritical fluids for chiral drug development
(pp. 49-50)
Impending environmental lab closure generates protest, even while scientists prepare to move on
(pp. 52-53)
Method yields tunable materials that diffract visible light selectively
(pp. 54-55)
An NMR study enables analysis of a protein while it's still busy being born on the ribosome
(pp. 56-57)
First core samples from deep inside the fault zone promise new earthquake understanding
(p.58)Career & Employment
Three top companies share their strategies for producing happy employees
(pp. 67-72)