American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 24, 2009

ARTICLE #5 EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, June 29, 2009
"Dental anesthetics"

This story will be available on June 29 at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/87/8726sci3.html

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Green Chemistry conference on sustainability now under way
Jean-Michel Cousteau, noted explorer, film-producer and environmentalist, and Len Sauers, Ph.D., Vice President of Global Sustainability for The Procter & Gamble Company, are the featured keynote speakers at the upcoming 13th annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference in June in College Park, Md. The focus of this year's conference, June 23-25 at the Marriott Inn and Conference Center, is on progress made toward research objectives identified in the National Academy of Sciences' 2006 report, "Sustainability in the Chemical Industry: Grand Challenges and Research Needs." Sauers will address the convention on June 24, Cousteau on June 25. For more information on the conference, please visit www.gcande.org.

Writing on Green Chemistry?
Here is a treasure trove of some of the most significant scientific research articles published in 2008.
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Press releases, briefings, and more from ACS' March National Meeting
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Must-reads from C&EN: Chemistry featured in the comics
We now have evidence that chemistry has a foothold in popular culture: It appeared in the popular newspaper comic strip, "Mark Trail." In the episode, polluters have illegally dumped waste into a ravine. An outdoorsman and environmentalist, Trail is closing in on the perpetrators. "I'll check the samples I got, and then notify the proper authorities," Trail declares, after discovering that something seems environmentally wrong in Lost Forest, a fictitious nature preserve featured in the strip. He ultimately tracks down the offenders and confronts them. For a copy of this item, send an e-mail to .