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...Maps and Charts department, Rhode Island School of Design senior Jason Lee has used his knowledge of computer graphics to create illustrations, including a map of O.J. Simpson's estate. Marisa Campbell, a senior at New York City's Queens College, and Susanne Seinader, a recent graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, have researched and collected photographs for the Pictures department. Hakim Fajardo from the University of Vermont and Victor Nunez from Wesleyan University have worked on special projects...
...diameter -- is streaking in at 130,000 m.p.h., except that the target is not Jupiter but Earth. The mammoth chunk of rock and ice tears through the atmosphere and smashes into the ground with the force of 6 million H-bombs, gouging out a crater the size of Rhode Island and throwing so much pulverized real estate into the stratosphere that the sun is blocked for months and Earth goes into a worldwide deep freeze. If the comet hits an ocean, a pall of dust rises from underwarter sediment, and a tidal wave several thousand feet high races across...
...last year's Mississippi flood, which caused $12 billion in damages, Georgians had to reach all the way back to General Sherman's Civil War march to the sea to recall anything comparable. Some 10,000 sq. mi. were under water, an area the size of Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. Thirty-two people died and 40,000 were temporarily homeless. Thousands of acres of peanut, corn, soybean and other crops were destroyed, including Georgia's renowned peaches, which were almost ready for harvesting. Crop damage was expected to reach $100 million in Georgia alone. "I believe this...
...following the 1917-18 epidemic of viral encephalitis, when doctors observed that the infection left some children with impaired attention, memory and control over their impulses. In the 1940s and '50s, the same constellation of symptoms was called minimal brain damage and, later, minimal brain dysfunction. In 1937 a Rhode Island pediatrician reported that giving stimulants called amphetamines to children with these symptoms had the unexpected effect of calming them down. By the mid-1970s, Ritalin had become the most prescribed drug for what was eventually termed, in 1987, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
...Clinton plan, Moynihan stunned members by announcing that the committee would begin voting on elements of a new plan by early this week. The committee's senior Republican, Bob Packwood, nearly jumped out of his seat with surprise. Vote on what? he asked. Moynihan turned to John Chafee, the Rhode Island Republican who had been working separately on a proposal with some Democratic members. "What do you guys have?" Moynihan asked...