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Listeners Talk About Affordable Housing

By Jon Greenberg on Thursday, July 12, 2001.

A number of people have sent emails about our coverage on the rising cost of housing in New Hampshire. Our web site has a special section with an executive summary on housing and a list of key resources. There’s also a place for people to share their ideas. In this audio segment NHPR’s Jon Greenberg and Trish Anderton read a few of them. You can see all the comments in full at www.nhpr.org/static/programs/exchange/housing/

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Life on Mars: The Red Planet in Science and Literature

By John Walters on Thursday, July 12, 2001.

For centuries, humans have speculated about the existence of life on Mars. Jay Buckey is Research Associate Professor at Dartmouth Medical School, and a former astronaut who flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1998, and was of three instructors who taught an interdisciplinary course at Dartmouth called ?Life on Mars.? The Mars course has a web site: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humbio01/index.html

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Sharks!

By Laura Knoy on Thursday, July 12, 2001.

These ferocious looking creatures have inhabited the earth for about four hundred million years. Contrary to popular belief, they aren't out to eat us. Many shark attacks on people are a case of mistaken identity. We'll talk about shark habits and biology. Laura's guest is Holly Martell-Bourbon, senior aquarist at the New England Aquarium www.neaq.org.

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State Rips Velcro

By Dan Gorenstein on Thursday, July 12, 2001.

The state of New Hampshire has reached an agreement with the fastener company Velcro. The Manchester facility did not stick to its agreement with the state to regulate its own air emissions. As a consequence, Velcro received the state's largest civil penalty in state history, $700 thousand dollars. The violations, discovered in 1999, came after a Department of Environmental Services investigation.

NHPR's Dan Gorenstein spoke with Senior Assistant Attorney General Maureen Smith.

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