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...When she’s on the mound, we’re just really confident behind her,” Bock said. “We have a really confident mentality at the plate or on the field.”Next up for the Crimson will be Rhode Island, who the team will take on at home.“It’s important to play at home before our first Ivy League game at home,” Bock said. “Getting a game on our field since fall will be huge...
...cost of treatment to uninsured patients who cannot afford to pay their bills. That amounts to as much as 8% higher premiums due to the lack of universal health care in the U.S. "So many Americans think that universal coverage is for the uninsured," says Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat who has been a vocal advocate of health-care reform. "This is the hidden tax we all pay for our failure to insure all Americans." (Read "The Health Crisis Hits Home...
...artists in the discussion.”The Creativity Discussion Group also incorporates monthly colloquia into its schedule, which makes the interdisciplinary application of creativity more concrete. The colloquia feature research conducted by students and faculty from Harvard and other institutions, such as Emerson College, Lesley University, and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Especially in the current state of economic decline, the colloquia have provided a relatively inexpensive platform for people to present their research.Last month at the inaugural colloquium, Eric Rosenbaum, a researcher at MIT, presented an interactive demonstration of technology that takes light from objects...
...Fortunately, America has more to sell than the U.K. Yellowstone was established as a national park in 1982. It has more than 2.2 million acres of land, making it larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. It is a logger's dream. International Paper recently announced that it would sell 143,000 acres of its land for $275 million. At that rate, Yellowstone should be worth over $4 billion. (Read a TIME story on Yellowstone...
There's no place left to hide from rising unemployment. Nationwide, of course, job losses have been mounting for quite some time. Four states - California, Michigan, Rhode Island and South Carolina - now have unemployment rates north of 10%. But until January, certain pockets of the country were bucking the national trend. In fact, in December, six metropolitan areas actually saw flat or falling unemployment rates from a year earlier...