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Chip material shortage spooks Silicon Valley / Rare substance vital to 2 booming sectors, making prices rise 
Silicon Valley has weathered business cycles and foreign competition, but in recent months, a cloud has appeared on its horizon — a shortage of the highly purified form of silicon essential to making most computer chips and solar cells. Produced by a…

Read our advancer on the downtown Metric show in the pages of Thursday Ticket 
Two police raids this week have netted $215,000 in cocaine more than half the amount seized by the London drug squad in all of 2005.

RASIRC Introduces the RainMaker Humidifier to Control and Purify the Water Vapor Added to a Carrier Gas Stream 
SAN DIEGO—-Sept. 18, 2006–RASIRC, the steam purification company, introduces the RainMaker Humidifier, a device that controls the transfer and purification of pure water or ammonia hydroxide directly into a carrier gas stream.

European spacecraft slams into moon 
European scientists say they’re delighted after their satellite crashed on the moon, throwing up a cloud of debris and dust that they hope will give a better idea of the its composition and origin.

Sun worship dries up global silicon supplies 
Californias Silicon Valley is suffering acute shortages of the very material that gave it its name.

MRIs Made Safe For People With Modern Defibrillators And Pacemakers 
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have painstakingly figured out how to safely perform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans on men and women who have any one of 24 modern types of implanted defibrillators and pacemakers.

Scientists take first steps to high yield, purity cryptoxanthin 
9/11/2006 - A team of researchers from Mexico have reported a process to produce the carotenoid beta-cryptoxanthin at high yields and purity for use in dietary supplements.

Chip material shortage spooks Silicon Valley / Rare substance vital to 2 booming sectors, making prices rise 
Clarification: A story Monday about a shortage of highly purified silicon used in computer chips and solar cells noted that the material was 99.99999 percent pure, a level referred to as “seven-nines.” But an analogy that used tennis balls to illustrate the “…

BangChak launches biodiesel initiative 
Local refiner Bangchak Petroleum Plc yesterday launched a project to buy used vegetable oil as raw material for its biodiesel plant and called for a clear government policy on alternative fuels.