On a science park, workers in spotless white overalls are making screens for mobile phones.

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Within seconds a small army of men in spotless white jellabiya robes arrived, whisking me and my bags to a one-story villa split into two guest rooms.

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Which it does: serene views of Little Narragansett Bay and Block Island Sound, spotless white-sand beaches, and a newly rebuilt, grand inn atop a scenic bluff, the Ocean House, which for decades had stood as a neglected sentinel, a reminder of grander times past.

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Construction workers push carts on rail tracks, left over from mining days, through seemingly endless tunnels carved through metamorphic rock, while scientists head straight to their lab spaces, spotless and chilly in their fresh coat of white paint.

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