Vandals Wreck Dozens Of Cars (The Boston Channel) GARDNER, Mass.

Vandals Wreck Dozens Of Cars (The Boston Channel)
GARDNER, Mass. -- About 50 cars in a used car lot were destroyed by vandals who used front-end loaders to fling and flatten the automobiles. "It looked like a tornado, a hurricane, something went through here," Michael Rahaim, co-owner of LaJoies Used Auto Parts, said. "It's amazing."

BASF Significantly Strengthens Polyurethanes Business in North America: Expands Polyol Production at Geismar Site in (ChemPoint)
LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, April 5, 2006 -- BASF plans to increase the existing production capacities for polyols at its Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana. Polyols are propylene oxide-based materials used to manufacture polyurethane products.

Measuring Electrical Arcs At The Micrometer Scale (Science Daily) A

Measuring Electrical Arcs At The Micrometer Scale (Science Daily)
A new device and technique have been developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers for measuring "breakdown" voltage -- the voltage required to produce electrical arcs when electrodes are 400 nanometers to 45 micrometers apart. The advance could be useful in microelectronics, such as in the design of microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS), in which arcing could cause