A few of the articles in this week's issue of Chemical and Engineering News:
- Cover: Why are there fluoropolymers in Wilmington, N.C.'s water? (article by Cheryl Hogue)
- Wood that's stronger than steel? (article by Stu Borman)
- Drug companies say "thanks for the tax cut cash!" (article by Ryan Cross)
- Anyone gotten a bonus recently?
- NSF addresses sexual harassment by grant recipients (article by Linda Wang and Andrea Widener)
- China cracking down on pollution doesn't mean good things for pharma supply chains... (article by Rick Mullin)
- Funny story by Melody Bomgardner on love and chemists, including Nick Uhlig's excellent cards.
It also seems that companies are generally giving bonuses and not pay raises (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2018/01/18/why-many-companies-are-giving-bonuses-not-raises-after-the-new-tax-cuts/?utm_term=.f29a349d3371) when they give anything. It is likely a combination of bonuses are one-time deals while pay raises are forever (they're hard and generally bad to take back), future bonuses (in some cases) may be indexed on pay scale (which is increased by pay raises) which increases the costs of pay raises, and (at least some) companies would like to boost the opportunities for Republicans in mid-term elections (because they will likely regulate and tax them less), and giving a benefit that can be tied to Republican actions is one way to do that (while not costing them lots of money).
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