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URI engineer invites ‘attacks’ on program

KINGSTON – As online shopping becomes more common, shoppers increasingly depend on consumer-based rating systems that vendors use to rate their products. Now, ...
CRUISING WORLD and Sailing World staff members, from left, Mark Pillsbury, CW senior editor; Elaine Lembo, CW managing editor; John Burnham, CW editor and SW editorial director; and Dave Reed, SW editor, aboard a boat at the Newport Marina. /

Sailing is this publisher’s world

In 1974, Murray Davis, an Australian writer and sailing enthusiast, washed up on Newport’s shore with an idea for a magazine aimed at serious...
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Axon Labs hires biotech veteran as CEO

PROVIDENCE - Bioscience startup Axon Sleep Research Laboratories has announced the appointment of David P. Dickinson as its CEO and as a member of...
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Justice Flanders to lead URI innovation panel

STATE HOUSE – Gov. Donald L. Carcieri this afternoon named lawyer Robert G. Flanders Jr., a former R.I. Supreme Court associate justice, to chair...
UNITEDHEALTHCARE of New England CEO Stephen J. Farrell agreed not to appeal the charges, as part of a settlement that reduced the fine from the original $75,000, said company spokeswoman Debora M. Spano.  'This is still a new law, and we're still trying to work our way through it,' she added. /

UnitedHealth faces $67,500 in R.I. fines

PROVIDENCE – A “market conduct” examination of UnitedHealthcare of New England has found the company failed to comply with Rhode Island’s small-group health insurance...

Poll ranks Providence among top arts destinations

PROVIDENCE – For the third year in a row, the city has been named a “Top 25 Arts Destination” by the readers of AmericanStyle...
DAVID DURAND, left, CEO of Tizra Inc. - at his East Side home and headquarters with fellow partners and co-founders Francisco Rosa, back, Abe Dane, right, and Anne Orens - is among the finalists announced today. /

R.I. Business Plan finalists announced

The business plans for a software company that aims to turn cell phones into personal security alarms connected to law enforcement offices, a manufacturer...

Amgen’s 1Q profit rises 11% to $1.1B

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Amgen Inc. (Nasdaq: AMGN) today said its first-quarter profit increased 11 percent to $1.11 billion from $1.01 billion in the...
RISD'S Fleet Library, carved out of the former Rhode Island Hospital Trust banking hall, has won an architectural award. /

RISD library earns AIA, ALA kudos<br> for historic preservation

Efforts made to preserve the historic architecture of Rhode Island School of Design’s year-old Fleet Library, which was carved out of a former banking...
ONE OF the panels at the April 12 conference on research collaboration included, from left, Brown University Prof. David Rowley, University of Rhode Island Profs. Bethany Jenkins and Robinson Fulweiler, and Brown Prof. Joseph Crisco. /

Scientists urged to change how they communicate

Having worked in public affairs in the executive office of Bill Clinton’s White House, Rick Borchelt is used to fielding questions about whether the...
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