Word: islanders
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...Rhode Island's unemployment rate is at 8.8%, the highest in the country and well above the national average of 6.1%, according to the most recent data available from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. But Rhode Island's situation is hardly unique as the effects of the nation's economic downturn gather pace amid the ongoing financial turmoil. Twenty-one states have unemployment rates above the national average, with Michigan and Minnesota showing rates near Rhode Island's to make up the top three. Unemployment figures are certain to rise when the bureau releases its next set of figures...
...With a little help from those stinky, stuper-ruper Bears over in Rhode Island (help in the form of stinking it up, like it usually does) the Crimson could run the table and win the Ivy title...
Finally, last September, I went on an eco-trip of my own (on assignment for this magazine) to Madagascar, the utterly unique and fascinating island off the southeast coast of Africa. Madagascar has wildlife that is found nowhere else on Earth and a prodigious variety of climates and vegetation that makes it virtually a planet unto itself. Ecology is what defines Madagascar - and what I discovered there, among other things, is that ecotourism when properly managed is not only not a scam, but a boon to conservation...
...rollicking tale of a Labour grandee and a toffy Tory involving the betrayal of secrets and the lure of obscene wealth is adding considerably to the nation's gaiety as each day brings fresh revelations about a series of encounters that took place on and around the Greek island of Corfu this summer...
...hardly seems immune himself. Five weeks before his speech to the Conservative conference, he had enjoyed the hospitality of Rothschild, an old university chum, in Corfu and attended, with Mandelson and a heady mix of the powerful and the outrageously loaded, Elisabeth Murdoch's 40th birthday dinner on the island. That's exactly the sort of high life former Prime Minister Tony Blair notoriously enjoyed during his tenure in Downing Street. Blair's vacations with well-heeled new best friends, from Italian media magnate-turned-premier Silvio Berlusconi to Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, played badly back home...