The World's Marco Werman introduces us to Spanish musician Gecko Turner. By the way, Turner does a mean cover of the Bob Dylan song, Subterranean Homesick Blues.

For Technology Podcast #89, we focus on interesting science/technology/health stories surrounding President Bush's visit to India. First, we look at the agreement the two nations have reached on nuclear technology. Then, we talk about outsourcing to India, not of customer service jobs, but human drug trials. Also, HIV/AIDS is changing the way Indian couples are getting married. And we end with a much under-reported disease, tuberculosis. All that, plus some music from Ozone Cocktail and Gecko Turner.

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Host Lisa Mullins gets the latest on President Bush's visit to India, including reaction to a suicide attack in Pakistan the day before the President is scheduled to arrive.

The President is wrapping up his visit to India today, and many young Indian-Americans living in the US have been watching the news with interest. The World's Athena Desai reports on how many Indian-Americans have seen the relationship between the two countries change quite a bit in their lifetimes.

Writer Jennifer Kahn of Wired Magazine writes in this month's issue that pharmaceutical companies are now looking to India to run their drug trials. Her piece is titled, "A Nation of Guinea Pigs." Host Lisa Mullins speaks with her.

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A decades-long civil war in Colombia has pushed a quarter-of-a-million people over the border into Ecuador. The country is suffering from the overload and the ongoing violence that leaks across the border. Correspondent Chip Mitchell reports from an Ecuadorian jungle near the Colombian border.

Today is the first day that smoker's in the South American nation of Uruguay will have to find new places to light up. Government inspectors are enforcing a ban on smoking in public places. Host Lisa Mullins finds out how it's going from Carolina Moreira, a radio DJ in Uruguay's capital Montevideo.

Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Iran's top nuclear spokesman, Ali Soltanieh, about the controversial deal signed between the US and India today. He says that the US is showing a double-standard on nuclear policy when it comes to dealing with India over Iran.

Reporter Beth Accomando reports on the controversy over a film that's up for an Oscar in the best foreign language film category. "Paradise Now" follows two Palestinian suicide bombers on a mission.