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"This so-called chemistry has to be developed much before actors come in front of the camera," says Kunal who can be credited for some crackling chemistry he brought alive between his actors in films like HUM TUM and FANAA, "It is also the function of the script because in order to get those lovey-dovey encounters come alive on screen, you first need to get them right on paper."

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Kunal worked on that by writing the characters of Shahid and Priyanka in such a manner that they turned out to be extremely endearing.

"The thing is that today's ever demanding audience wants something different from its actors all the time. They want Shahid to do different things and push the envelope. This was the demand of TERI MERI KAHAANI as well as we are indeed doing something altogether different in the film. That made me zero in on Shahid," divulges Kunal, "As for Priyanka then well, she hasn't done too many love stories; especially a film like TERI MERI KAHAANI which is an out and out romantic entertainer. I felt that it was about time we bring her and Shahid together in a quintessential music love story like this."

Also starring Neha Sharma and Prachi Desai in principal roles, TERI MERI KAHAANI with music by Sajid-Wajid releases all over on 22nd June.

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SOLON For Stephen Tang, a junior at Solon High School, life is all about discovery.

I feel like we take a lot of things for granted, he said. Even plastic bags at the grocery store are a result of very complicated engineering and specialized processes.

In many ways, Tang sees the world as a big science experiment. Now he will have the opportunity to gather with some of the nations brightest students who share his interest in chemistry.

Tang earned the title of national chemistry champion and in doing so has qualified to compete for one of only four spots on the U.S. Chemistry Team. He originally competed against more than 12,000 high school students, taking a series of tests that led to the final 20 individuals.

Although he hopes to get a spot at the international competition, Tang said he has a bigger goal in mind of just having fun and meeting new people.

Im looking forward to meeting these other students who share my passion, he said. I just want to have fun and enjoy this opportunity.

The final four students will be selected as a result of their performance at a two-week intensive study camp at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. Students will compete at the camp June 5-20.

Every morning well get up, have breakfast, have four hours of chemistry lectures, have lunch and then have four hours of lab work, Tang explained.

The group will have a short break in the evening, and then after dinner they will have a daily assessment.

The camp ends with a comprehensive assessment, and that determines who will make it through, Tang said.

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LINCOLN Ryker Fyfe and Sam Foltz know each other pretty well.

The two former Grand Island Senior High athletes played football together for four years. Now, theyre heading as walk-ons to play for Nebraska this fall in Lincoln.

But before that, they have one more chance to hook up on a long pass or maybe a slant across the middle as teammates on the North team at the 2012 Shrine Bowl at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.

Definitely the slant, Foltz said when asked about his favorite play Thursday at the Shrine Bowl Media Day at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Its hard to defend the slant.

Fyfe had a different favorite.

The deep ball is pretty nice, Fyfe said. I like that route. He can run fast. He can catch. Hes big and strong.

How about the slant?

The slant? Fyfe said. Our timing is good, so that works, too.

Just about everything worked for Fyfe and Foltz during their senior season last fall. The two were key players in the Islanders 9-2 season that ended in the second round of the state playoffs.

The 6-foot-5 Fyfe finished the year as one of the top passers in Class A, completing 120-of-204 passes for 1,921 yards and 20 touchdowns.

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Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 202-872-6042 American Chemical Society

WASHINGTON, May 31, 2012 The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series explains that meeting current biofuel production targets with existing technology would require devoting almost 80 percent of current farmland in the U.S. to raising corn for ethanol production or converting 60 percent of existing rangeland to biofuels.

Based on a report by W. Kolby Smith, Ph.D., and colleagues in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology, the new podcast is available without charge at iTunes and from http://www.acs.org/globalchallenges.

Smith and colleagues explain that the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) set a goal of increasing U.S. biofuel production from 40 to 136 billion gallons of ethanol per year by 2022. They point out, however, that gaps exist in the ability to establish realistic targets for biofuel production, which the law fills with assumptions about technological developments and the availability and productivity of farmland. In an effort to establish more accurate estimates, they used satellite data about climate, plant cover and usable land to determine how much biofuel the U.S. could produce.

The satellite analysis found that meeting the EISA goals with current technology would require farmers to plant biofuel crops on 80 percent of their farmed land or plant biofuel crops on 60 percent of the land currently used to raise livestock. Both options would significantly reduce the amount of food U.S. farmers produce. The changes also could lead to more polluted freshwater and accelerate global climate change, the report indicated.

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Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions is a series of podcasts describing some of the 21st century's most daunting problems, and how cutting-edge research in chemistry matters in the quest for solutions. Global Challenges is the centerpiece in an alliance on sustainability between ACS and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Global Challenges is a sweeping panorama of global challenges that includes dilemmas such as providing a hungry, thirsty world with ample supplies of safe food and clean water; developing alternatives to petroleum to fuel society; preserving the environment and assuring a sustainable future for our children and improving human health.

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Attrition, as John Beilein puts it, is normal.

While statistics show that the Michigan basketball coach is probably right, there's nothing ordinary about having to replace five bodies inside every corner of your program.

Five new faces at practice, five new voices in the locker room, five new plates at the dinner table -- and five new personalities that need to be meshed together in an incredibly short amount of time for a program with extremely lofty immediate expectations.

Is Beilein worried?

Not really. He's the opposite, actually.

"My early sense for the younger guys coming in, I've watched some of them for three years, some for three months," Beilein told reporters earlier this month. "But I sense that they're all really good teammates, and they'll enhance team chemistry the minute they walk out here.

"Because they really have a great spirit about them."

Beilein expected to lose departed senior co-captains Zack Novak and Stu Douglass, the team's backbone, but didn't think he'd have to replace three other bodies.

That's exactly what happened, though, when Evan Smotrycz, Colton Christian and Carlton Brundidge left the program shortly after the season closed.

Michigan coach John Beilein believes his five incoming freshmen will enhance team chemistry because "they really have a great spirit about them."

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If you want to increase your cars gas mileage or build a more powerful handheld electronic device, dont bend steel or slice silicon chips. Manipulate nanomaterials and molecules instead.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, two University researchers will pursue more efficient methods of energy transmission and storage that involve maneuvering microscopic particles. Tina Salguero and Gary Douberly, assistant professors of chemistry in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, will each receive $750,000 for five years from the DOEs Office of Science Early Career Research Program for energy-related projects.

Gary Douberly

This is tremendous news that continues the very strong performance of the chemistry faculty in recent years, said UGA President Michael F. Adams. At a time when this country faces serious questions about the future of its energy supply, research focused on energy efficiency is a national priority. I am proud that Drs. Salguero and Douberly are being supported by the Department of Energy in their groundbreaking research.

Salguero will focus on increasing the energy capacity for compact electrical devices while Douberly looks to new technologies to improve fuel efficiency.

Tina Salguero

Our efforts will develop the first synthetic methods for creating these types of nanosheets, and the characterization studies will show whether they retain their important dielectric properties, she said.

Salguero plans to develop methodologies for preparing ceramics in nanosheet form and to gauge their properties. She will also test two ways to process the nanosheets-first via inkjet printing of liquid crystalline nanosheets and second by mechanically assembling alternating layers of conducting and non-conducting materials to build up dense, hybrid nanosheet structures capable of greater energy storage.

Devices using this technology would have an energy density far exceeding anything possible today, Salguero said. Ceramic nanosheets could enable technological wonders like handheld high-power lasers and mobile electromagnetic launchers.

Douberly will use his funding to capture short-lived molecules and free radicals-highly reactive molecules-that arise during engine ignition. He will use a method called helium nanodroplet isolation to hold molecule groups-or species-that form for brief moments during combustion. Douberly will capture the molecules inside drops of super-cooled liquid helium and subject them to infrared laser spectroscopy to determine their molecular structure and their unique combinations of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths, or spectroscopic signatures.

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UGA chemistry professors awarded $1.5 million to conduct energy-related research