Abstract
I'M WRITING THIS ON THE THURSDAY OF what has been a long week. The ACS national meeting began late last week, ran through the weekend, and is coming to an end today I love ACS meetings, but they are grueling. And the news of increasing despair in the wake of Hurricane Katrina weighed heavily on all C&EN staff. We're closing a terrific issue of C&EN today, but it seems many people here at the magazine are exhausted. Looking at e-mail during a spare moment this afternoon, I opened a press release from the National Aeronautics & Space Administration titled NASA's Durable Spirit Sends Intriguing New Images From Mars and clicked on one of the images. A rocky, barren, red landscape came into view. Robin Giroux, C&EN's assistant managing editor for editing and production, came into my office with changes to the letters pages, and I said, Hey look at this. ...
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