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...diseases. Fellow Republican lawmaker Charles Bass of New Hampshire gave her a chapter from Hatch's 2002 memoir Square Peg, in which the Senator explained his own conversion on the stem-cell issue. But the most compelling appeal, Wilson says, has come from a House Democrat--James Langevin of Rhode Island, an abortion foe who is also a quadriplegic as a result of an accidental gunshot wound suffered when he was a teenager. "When Jim Langevin talks to you about this," says Wilson, "he speaks with a certain understanding that the rest of us don't have...
...Microsoft thinking. "Guess how you get great design?" he asks. "You don't try to do it with computer scientists from M.I.T. You don't try to do it the conventional way one would think about from a Microsoft point of view." Instead, Allard hired a sculptor from the Rhode Island School of Design and gave him a long leash. The sculptor turned around and hired a dozen extremely expensive boutique design firms to each come up with a design for the new Xbox. He then picked two winners, one from San Francisco and one from Osaka, Japan, and made...
Annual injuries from backyard trampolines have nearly doubled in the past decade, according to researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital. Nearly 75,000 kids now end up in emergency rooms each year because of such injuries, more than 2,000 of which are serious enough to require hospitalization...
...northeast continues to get pounded by a weather storm that belongs somewhere in the middle of March rather than the first week of May, the Harvard men’s golf team finished sixth in a 12-team field at the rain-shortened University of Rhode Island spring invitational...
...sixth inning, Harvard’s offense seemed to revive. First Vance led off the inning with a double. Brendan Byrne then grounded out, followed by Farkes, who singled, putting runners at the corners with only one down. The Crimson seemed poised at least to put a dent in Rhode Island’s lead...