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A lighter touch

June 26, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 26

"Fiends in lab coats" (C&EN, feb. 13, page 92) was one of the best things I've read in quite a while. It was right-on, informative, nicely breezy, and really fun to read. Can we have more, please?

Sure, it's a tougher job to get a chuckle from a story about a new petroleum cracker coming on-line. Still, if you could forget every now and then that you're writing for the members of the largest professional society and the heads of Fortune 500 companies, and that the readers are actually people who could use an occasional respite from the daily grind, it would be a good thing. Perhaps more readers would greet the arrival of C&EN with anticipation, rather than the feeling it was one more package of facts to be plowed through.

I am aware that when they get a chance, some of your writers do indeed apply a lighter touch, and I am very grateful for that. More power to them! And thanks for taking this in the good-humored way it was meant.

Stephen J. Weininger
Worcester, Mass.

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