Warwick, Rhode Island-based ICOA provides Wi-Fi broadband for public locations such as airports, universities, marinas and restaurants in 45 states.

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Tim Corcoran of Warwick, Rhode Island, said his sister-in-law, Celeste, had lost both legs in the attack and that her 18-year-old daughter's legs had been "ripped open" by shrapnel.

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His father was a door-to-door salesman of household items like dishes and blankets and, eventually, saved enough to buy a ranch house in the working-class community of Warwick, Rhode Island.

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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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