King is a native of Boston and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Rhode Island.

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Arment, hired by Nisbet straight out of the University of Rhode Island, says the two have no plans to cover other sectors.

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"This is really a story about how people unintentionally impact ecosystems, " explained co-author Autumn Oczkowski from the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography.

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Born in Iran and raised in England, Amanpour came to the U.S. to study at the University of Rhode Island and in 1983 began work as a desk assistant at CNN, where she would remain for 27 years.

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Leonard Lardaro, also of the University of Rhode Island, thinks the temporary clean-up jobs (3, 000 at Warwick Mall, for instance) and the remodelling and reconstruction needed in many Rhode Island homes may help the state out of the recession.

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In order to understand how things could have gone so wrong, I spoke with two prominent epidemiologists, who have both been investigators and advisors on the NCS: David Savitz of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and Nigel Paneth of Michigan State University in East Lansing.

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In the 1970s, he became a union leader, said Luiz Valente, chairman of the department of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

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It is so potent that a tablespoon of it could taint an entire year's wine production in the United States, according to Christian Butzke, a former oenologist at the University of California, Davis, and now director of winemaking at Sakonnet Vineyards in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

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