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Solar Projects May Be Slowing in New Hampshire Despite New State Rebate
By David Darman on Tuesday, August 4, 2009.New Hampshire’s rebate program for residential solar electric and wind projects has been taking applications for a couple of weeks.
The program gives homeowners who have installed systems as much as 6,000 dollars.
But the number of projects could be slowing down, because some solar array installers are getting fewer customers than anticipated.
NHPR’s David Darman has more.
August 4, 2009
Today on Word of Mouth Dubai’s dizzying downturn. We find out how the city’s indoor ski slope and ex-pat communities are faring now that funds are drying up. And we’ll hear about why IT and security professionals are at loggerheads over web-based cloud computing. Plus, African fashion designers prepare for the global catwalk. Also, a human guinea pig on the front lines of the campaign for better medicine says getting paid to take experimental drugs is worth it.
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Wilbur The Freedom Pig
By Todd Bookman on Tuesday, August 4, 2009.
Here's an important news bulletin: there’s a wild pig on the loose. Residents of Panama City, Florida are encouraged to steer clear of this 150-pound swine, who may be aggressive.
Saving the Cypress
By Andrew Stelzer on Tuesday, August 4, 2009.Backyard gardens are making a comeback. That’s bumping up demand at garden stores for red mulch, which keeps weeds down and soil moist.
Cypress mulch could have some unintended consequences.
The Front Line of Drug Testing
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, August 4, 2009.Twenty million Americans are recruited into clinical trials each year. Some participants have cancer or other life threatening illnesses, but many are perfectly healthy. These healthy volunteers are often the first humans to test the safety of a new drug, years before it hits the market.
They face days and sometimes weeks of blood tests and monitoring, but they are rewarded for their time, in cash. Officially they are only paid for giving up their time for science, but some in the U.S. can make as much as $34,000 a year.
By some estimates, there are as many as 10,000 people in the United States who make their living primarily through phase one clinical trials. There’s a growing debate over whether or not volunteers should be paid. Some argue that paying volunteers puts the poorest members of society unfairly at risk, and could produce misleading data that would allow questionable treatments to enter the market.
Alison Motluck wrote about the "perils of the professional lab rat" in the most recent issue of New Scientist magazine. We're also joined by Brandon, who asked that we not use his last name. He was featured in Alison's article and has been participating in clinical trials since 2005.
New Scientist: Perils of the professional lab rat
(Photo by Ana C. via Flickr/Creative Commons)
African Fashion Hits the Catwalk
By Anna Boiko-Weyrauch on Tuesday, August 4, 2009.
Did you hear the news? Tribal is in this season. The New York, Paris, Milan and shows presented Louis Vuitton doing grass skirts! Galliano’s cheetah prints! Ralph Lauren’s Egypto-sheaths!
African themes come and go on the runways. Some fashion watchers think African designers will soon be starting their own trends.
In Accra, Ghana, Anna Boiko-Weyrauch takes us through the world of up-and-coming African designers.
(Photo by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch)
