This week's C&EN

A few of the articles from this week's issue of Chemical and Engineering News:

• Cover story: It's the World Chemical Outlook issue, written by C&EN's business unit
• Prognosis: mostly okay, sounds like. Hope that's true! 
• A really interesting article about lint by Melody Bomgardner. 
• Alex Tullo writes about C&EN's Company of the Year for 2016: Evonik. 
• Opens with stories about tattoos and beards - did not know Alex's hipster game was that strong. 
• Pretty fun phosphorus analog of cyanuric acid. (article by Stephen K. Ritter) 
• Short article about both Chinese pollution and the Chinese business cycle and their interconnectedness by Jean-François Tremblay
• "In November, China had ordered the temporary suspension of production in the northern part of the country. Among those affected were some major Chinese drug manufacturers, including CSPC Pharmaceutical." First I heard of this. One wonders if various CMOs were caught up in this. 
• Interesting writeup of NOBCChE 2016 by Jeff Huber. 
• The mock crime scene/trial is a pretty interesting idea!