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...game more one-sided than the 6-0 score would indicate, the Harvard women's lacrosse team won its opening game against the University of Rhode Island (URI) yesterday afternoon in Kingston...
When vicious snows hit the northeastern U.S. last month, tiny Rhode Island was struck badly enough to be declared a disaster area. This meant that many of those who lost money were eligible for food stamps: $7.6 million worth. All told, 105,000 households-roughly one-third of the Rhode Island total-got authorization to use the stamps, and an estimated 90,000 actually...
...that the disaster has receded, quite a few of the hardy Rhode Islanders are having second thoughts about taking handouts from Uncle Sam. Some 250 people who received written authorization have either returned the document or refunded the value of the stamps they used. Says Thomas Marcello, an overseer of the program in Providence: "We had a return of over $13,000. and returns are still straggling...
...representative American families, he concludes that about 2 million husbands and about the same number of wives commit at least one serious attack a year on their mates. These range from kicks, bites or punches to murderous assaults with knives and other deadly weapons. Says University of Rhode Island Sociologist Richard Gelles, another student of domestic combat: "Men and women have always been equal victims in family violence. Fifty percent of the killings are men. Fifty percent are women. That hasn't changed in at least 50 years...
...Duke 63, Rhode Island...