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Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., departs from his home Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 in Greenville, Del. Biden, Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine are believed to be on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's short list for a running mate. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower) Obama says he's made his veep choice
1 hr 37 mins ago - Barack Obama said Thursday he's chosen his running mate, but coyly kept all the details to himself as he campaigned with one leading contender and planned a major rally to present the Democratic ticket Saturday in Illinois.
In this Feb. 5, 2008 file photo, Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., watches Super Tuesday election returns from the kitchen area of his home in Phoenix, Ariz. Days after he cracked that being rich in the U.S. meant earning at least $5 million a year, McCain acknowledged that he wasn't sure how many houses he and his wealthy wife actually own. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) Obama raps McCain for ignorance of his own houses
54 mins ago - John McCain may have created his own housing crisis. Hours after a report that the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting didn't know how many homes he and his multimillionaire wife own, Democratic rival Barack Obama launched a national TV ad and a series of campaign stops aimed at portraying McCain as wealthy and out of touch.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Iraq's foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari, right, shake hands at a press conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Iraq's foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday that American and Iraqi officials agree that timetables should be set for a U.S. troop withdrawal, but conceded that nailing down a broader pact on future relations is difficult. (AP Photo/Ali Abbas, Pool) US, Iraq close in on deal for pullout of US troops
1 hr 46 mins ago - Iraq and the U.S. pushed close to a deal Thursday setting a course for American combat troops to pull out of major Iraqi cities by next June, with a broader withdrawal from the long and costly war by 2011.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks during a town hall meeting, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, at the Pan American Center on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Officials: Threats sent to McCain offices
1 hr 6 mins ago - Threatening letters containing an unidentified white powder were sent to John McCain campaign offices in Colorado and New Hampshire on Thursday, officials said.
Japan's Yukiyo Mine, right, and pitcher Yukiko Ueno celebrate after winning the gold medal against the USA in the gold medal softball game in the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) US softball team loses 3-1 to Japan, denied gold
5 hrs ago - Losing for the first time since 2000, the U.S. softball team was denied a chance for a fourth straight gold medal Thursday, beaten 3-1 by Japan in the sport's last appearance in the Olympics for at least eight years - and maybe for good.
This undated two picture combo provided by The Lancet, shows an unidentified 29-year-old man with tumors, left, and the same man, right, after a transplanted new lower face from a donor. Transplanting faces may seem like science fiction, but doctors say the experimental surgeries could one day become routine. In papers from two of the world's three teams that have performed partial face transplants, experts said their techniques were surprisingly effective, though complications exist and more work is still needed. In this week's British medical journal The Lancet, Dr. Laurent Lantieri and colleagues reported on their patient's status one year after the transplant. In 2007, Lantieri and colleagues operated on this 29-year-old man with tumors that blurred his features. They transplanted a new lower face from a donor, giving the patient recognizable cheeks, a nose and mouth. Six months later, he could smile and blink. (AP Photo/The Lancet/ho) Face transplant patient can smile, blink again
1 hr 39 mins ago - Transplanting faces may seem like science fiction, but doctors say the experimental surgeries could one day become routine. Two of the world's three teams that have done partial face transplants reported Friday that their techniques were surprisingly effective, though complications exist and more work is still needed.
This image provided by the Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio, taken July 25, 2008, shows a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a prominent glacier in northern Greenland. The crack, at center, right, is seven miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width of the 500 square mile floating part of the glacier. If the cracking continues, the floating part of the glacier could lose up to one third of its size. (AP Photo/Byrd Polar Research Center) At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
2 hrs 46 mins ago - In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.
In this Feb. 6, 2008 file photo, musicians Gavin Rossdale and his wife Gwen Stefani arrive at 'A Night to Benefit Raising Malawi and UNICEF' at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file) Gwen Stefani gives birth to second child
1 hr 43 mins ago - It's Love, Angel, Music, and Baby No. 2 for Gwen Stefani, who on Thursday gave birth to a boy. Zuma Nesta Rock weighed 8 pounds and 5 ounces when he was born Thursday afternoon, according to publicist Dave Tomberlin.
In this undated photo released by the N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission, David Hayes holds his state record-breaking channel catfish while his three-year-old granddaughter Alyssa holds the Barbie rod and reel that Hayes used to reel in the 21-pound, 1 ounce fish in Elkin, N.C. (AP Photo/N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission) Man uses Barbie fishing rod to make record catch
1 hr 10 mins ago - David Hayes' granddaughter just ask him to hold her Barbie rod and reel while she went to the bathroom. He did. And seconds later he landed the state record channel catfish at 21 pounds, 1 ounce.

Albemarle to Increase Prices of ADMA(R) and DAMA(R) Amine Products

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BATON ROUGE, La. (Map) - BATON ROUGE, La., May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Specialty chemicals maker Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) will increase the prices of its ADMA and DAMA amine products by between 10 and 20 percent effective worldwide July 1, 2008 or as contracts allow.

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New minimum delivered prices for some of the more common amine products follow. All prices are on a full-container shipment basis (approximately 20 metric tons).

    -- ADMA 12 Amine      $3.10/kg
    -- ADMA 14 Amine      $3.30/kg
    -- ADMA 16 Amine      $3.50/kg
    -- DAMA 1010 Amine    $4.80/kg
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The price increases are needed to help offset ongoing large increases in the costs of energy, raw materials and transportation.

Albemarle makes and markets amines used in the production of quaternary ammonium compounds for biocides, oilfield chemicals, amine oxides and betaines for surfactants. The amines product lines are part of Albemarle's Fine Chemicals business segment.

Albemarle Corporation, headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a leading global developer, manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered specialty chemicals for consumer electronics; petroleum and petrochemical processing; transportation and industrial products; pharmaceuticals; agricultural products; and construction and packaging materials. The Company operates in three business segments-Polymer Additives, Catalysts and Fine Chemicals, and serves customers in approximately 100 countries. Learn more about Albemarle at www.albemarle.com.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Albemarle Corporation's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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