This week's C&EN

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

• Cover: rare earths from coal waste (article by Britt E. Erickson)
• Good times for electronic materials suppliers (article by Jean-François Tremblay)
• I enjoyed this profile of BioVectra (article by Rick Mullin) 
• Solid profile of Jeremy Berg by Andrea Widener 
• I like the bit about "should find a way to take pride in and credit for" the widespread use of chemistry by people who don't consider themselves chemists....
• ...have chemists found a way to take actual credit* for that?  
• *credit: TBD*
• *meaningful credit to me: people devoting more actual funding to chemists or chemistry
• I really enjoyed this Mitch Jacoby piece on the actual boron structure in "slime"
• Air Liquide suing The Carlyle Group (article by Marc Reisch) 
• Fascinated to see a IP theft case actually go to the lawsuit stage when it appears that the main means of IP theft was 1) hiring a person and 2) the person walking off the boat with the maps
• Cool story by Carmen Drahl on single-atom Suzuki coupling
• Honestly, we're about at the "wave the Strem bottle at the reaction" phase, aren't we?