• Dream a Little Dream:
  Creative individuals in the arts and sciences sometimes get a boost in problem solving from their dreams. Do you know what your dreams are trying to tell you?
  by Joan Stephenson

• The Promise of Nanotubes — Carbon and Beyond:
  First made of carbon and now out of a wide variety of metals, nanotubes are creating a revolution in materials science. by Joe Alper

• Extreme Textiles:
  Gone are the days when synthetic polymers such as polyester elicited visions of 1970s disco clothes. Today's polymer-based textiles not only keep their wearers cool in a fashion sense, but also protect them from the extremes of modern life.
  by Barbara Maynard

• Editorial 
   
• Global Perspectives — A New Perspective: Over the past four years, Global Perspectives has offered advice and insights on the joys and trials of working overseas. With this issue of Chemistry, this column introduces both a new focus and a new writer. BY TOM BURROUGHS
  
  
• From the Desk of the Executive Director — Become an evangelist for the ACS and spread the good news about the benefits of membership. BY MADELEINE JACOBS
  
  
• Newsblast — A drug development truism gone bad, fire's secret is out, making sense of scent, finding nut traces, infrared vision on the cheap, teaching real-world chemistry.
  
  
• Chem.WWW — Witty chemistry, making things nano, the straight dope on alternative medicine, rock hounds, a biochemistry classic, Stonehenge and others, disorder central, national parks, and more. BY KRISTIN KILI LAY
  
  
• CareerView — Writing Through the Ink-Splattered Ceiling: Only rarely are good writers born. The vast majority of good writers, including chemists, get that way through effort, practice, reading, and hard work. BY CYNTHIA WASHAM
  
  
• Student Affiliates — The World Beyond: Student Affiliates chapters provide a gateway into the professional community.  The valuable skills that students learn will help them thrive when they leave school behind. BY RACHEL SMOLKIN 
  
  
• Lifestyles
  • Personal Health — Fitting in Fitness: For many chemists, finding the time and motivation to work out regularly can be a challenge.  But chossing the right activities, along with some strategic planning, can make fitness a part of your daily life. BY JOAN STEPHENSON
    
    
  • Personal Finance — Insurance Options Abound: Health Savings Accounts offer benefits for employees and the self-employed, but understanding how these accounts work is the key to a happy experience with them. BY KARL THIEL
     
• Quick Read — Blurring the Boundaries of Chemistry: Everyone agrees that science is increasingly interdisciplinary and that academia needs new approaches that enable — rather than hinder — research spanning multiple disciplines.  Perhaps industry can help. BY RANDY WEDIN 
   
• Crossword: Try the Chemistry crossword, and check out the solution. BY MARK S. LESNEY
  
  
• Ask the Lab Rat: Batteries power an increasingly cordless world, but their finite lifetime leads to a discussion of what to do with them when they run out of juice. BY A.K.A MURIDAE
  
  
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• For Closers: Chemistry and chemical engineering led the energy revolution that defined the twentieth century. But with oil production set to peak in the near future, what role will these fields play in defining the twenty-first century? BY JAMES F. RYAN

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