Here is the latest American Chemical Society (ACS) News Service Weekly press package (PressPac) with reports selected from 35 major peer-reviewed journals and Chemical & Engineering News. With more than 160,000 members, ACS is the world's largest scientific society.

ACS NEWS SERVICE Feb. 21, 2007
Weekly PressPac - ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, Feb. 26, 2007)

PressPac Archive: http://www.chemistry.org/news/presspac.html

Contact: Michael Woods
202-872-4400
m_woods@acs.org

In This Edition:

• Coffee: Aroma, taste and dietary fiber
• Toward tapping the potential of "stranded" natural gas
• Transforming "yellow grease" into therapeutic cosmetics
• Toward powerful new anticancer drugs with new ways of targeting tumors
• A new target in the war on cancer
• Journalists' Resources
  1. "Huh, a what?" Find out "what" in a Chemistry Glossary
  2. An Editor Comments on the New Climate Change Report
  3. Earth Day, April 22:
     • ACS Video Contest for College Students
     • Earth Day Poetry Contest for grades K-12
     • ACS Earth Day Fact Sheet
     • Research in one hot field: ACS Chemical Biology
• Mark Your Calendars: ACS National Meeting, March 25-29, Chicago
• Special Event: Chicago News Media Tour/Briefing/Reception
• On the Horizon: ACS Regional Meeting, May 16-19, Philadelphia

ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Coffee: Aroma, taste and dietary fiber
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Already recognized as a source of healthful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds, coffee also contains significantly higher levels of soluble dietary fiber
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Contact: Michael Woods
m_woods@acs.org
202-872-4400
American Chemical Society
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