Word: hybrids
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...m.p.g. and $5,000 if they buy a U.S. car with at least 30 m.p.g. Crucially, the new cars have to be made in the U.S. - foreign brands can qualify, but only if they're manufactured on U.S. soil, which would disqualify super-efficient vehicles like Toyota's Prius hybrid, made only in Japan. (See the history of the electric...
...households to increase the use and production of solar energy. Japan will also outfit schools with solar panels (with a goal of installing panels on 36,000 schools over three years) and pay consumers to buy greener electronics. Subsidies will also be put in place too encourage purchases of hybrid and electric cars...
...Tanks for Traveling offers from B&Bs around the U.S. The various deals give you anything from $75 to $150 in gas vouchers (participating B&Bs include High Haven House Inn in Vineyard Haven, Mass., and Black Bear Inn in Bolton Valley, Vt.); and 10% discounts for driving a hybrid car (at the Craftsman in Pacific City, Ore.); to free picnics for guests who ride bikes instead of driving (at the William Seward Inn in Westfield...
...unnecessary costs in treating patients in whom the infection would have resolved itself, a particularly important factor to consider when attempting to get cervical cancer prevention programs off the ground in the developing world and among lower-income women, Sankaranarayanan says. Indeed, the current standard in HPV tests, the Hybrid Capture II, which was used for this study, is already too costly for wide-scale application, running as much as $30 per test. Realistically, in order to be used on a grand scale, tests would have to cost about $1 each, Sankaranarayanan estimates...
...hope on the horizon. A Chinese study, funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (as was the current study) and published in 2008, reported that a new HPV test, called careHPV, is easier to use, produces results faster and is just as effective as the Hybrid Capture II. Researchers say that when careHPV becomes available - Sankaranarayanan anticipates it will be on the market within two years - it will cost a fraction of the price of the Hybrid Capture...