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09/07/2008

James Calenza: Mass transit and health
THE JOURNAL’S July 15 editorial “RIPTA’ s rationality” was an audacious and welcome plea for the importance of public transit, especially to our state’s economic vitality.

Rita Watson: Neuro-imaging and love lies
LYING FOR LOVE is becoming as commonplace as lying for a business or political advantage. From candidates to couch potatoes, everyone hiding a love secret squirms when allegations of infidelity surface. But what happens if you are accused of cheating, the stakes are high, and you need to prove your innocence? For about $10,000 there is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that can trace a lie by pinpointing an area of the brain where lies originate and truth prevails.

Theodore L. Gatchel: Serious questions about sanctuary in Pakistan
BOTH BARACK OBAMA and John McCain claim to be a new type of politician who will eschew the partisan demagoguery of the past and explain his position on important issues in a straightforward way. You would never know that, however, by the way both candidates have run their campaigns so far.

Chris Powell: Transforming Eastern Conn. University
MANCHESTER, Conn.

09/06/2008

Jacqueline Kiernan MacKay: Colleges, students and ‘helicopter parents’
EACH FALL, thousands of first-year college students descend on campuses ready to unpack belongings, rearrange room furnishings and meet roommates. This move-in ritual can be an emotional experience for students and parents. For students, it brings the excitement and anxiety that accompany change.

Tim Sgouros: City vs. suburb: Deconstructing R.I.’s local costs
AFTER POINTING OUT such state budget trivia as the fact that poor people and immigrants can hardly be the cause of our fiscal woes, I am often asked, “Well, where does the money go?”

Harris McDowell; They don’t know Joe
DOVER, Del.

Lessons from field and street
EACH OF THE PAST FOUR years we have spent a weeklong summer vacation in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region, drawing strength from bald eagles; inspiration from towering hemlocks, and serenity from clear waters.

09/05/2008

Society’s alarming ignorance of childbirth
THE MASSACHUSETTS legislature has dropped the ball on women’s health care. A bill to provide an “umbrella” for all three groups of professional midwives (Certified Nurse Midwives, Certified Midwives and Certified Professional Midwives), with enhanced standardized regulations and oversight made no progress through either house before the session ended.

Chip Benson: Our unchallenged fatuity
We have met the enemy and he is us.

Lawrence G. Proulx: Revel in a sick pleasure
PARIS

Daniel P. Egan/Irving Schneider: A knowledge-based economy for R.I.
WHAT DO RHODE ISLAND and Michigan have in common besides the nation’s highest unemployment rates? We both are moving toward a knowledge-based economy. For two states built on manufacturing, this transition can be achieved only with the full commitment of business and education working closely together. Rhode Island is well poised to successfully execute this significant economic paradigm shift because of our greatest resource: our students.

Matthew D, Ritter: Hartford is learning from hard knocks
Regarding the Aug. 5 editorial “Hartford needs help”: Long-time Hartford resident Mark Twain was well-known for his literary wit. While I embrace his homage to Hartford, I find myself thinking also of his thoughts on San Francisco: The coldest winter he ever spent was a summer there.

09/04/2008

Ann McFeatters: After Palins, who owns family values?
ST. PAUL

Robert D. Stacey: Thuggish Russia is acting from weakness
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.

09/03/2008

Erik J. Chaput: Parochial lifeline to public schools: The R.I. textbook war continues
SYRACUSE, N.Y.

Frida Ghitis: America quickens European hearts
LONDON

09/02/2008

Matthias Krug: Ex-RISD chief helps lead Qatar culture
DOHA, Qatar

Edward Achorn: Kindling the demise of books
I HAVE SEEN the future, and it doesn’t look good. A world without books would be a terribly diminished place. But it feels like we are being pushed there.

Amanda Hitt: Some unpleasant things in your meat
WASHINGTON

Thomas R. Bender/Gerald C. DeMaria: Unjust attack on R.I. Supreme Court
LAWYER AND PATRIOT John Adams once argued: “Facts are stubborn things, . . . and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictums of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and the evidence.”

09/01/2008

Stanley M. Aronson: Number the days of September
The Psalmist instructs us to number our days “that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”

Rick Brooks/Linda McDonald: A union that works for your health
IT HAS BECOME fashionable to disparage labor unions as self-interested and hostile to the public good. Perhaps a word or two about the United Nurses & Allied Professionals, Rhode Island’s largest health-care union, might help to dispel this misconception.

Stanley M. Aronson: The craft and science of staring into space
STARING INTO DEEP SPACE is not necessarily a sign of cognitive impoverishment. Many undertake this rigorous task, and some, such as astronomers, meteorologists and horoscopists, are even paid for it. At the advanced age of 31, Charles Darwin retired to his rural estate in Down, England. And from his desk there came a series of monumental texts that revolutionized human thinking.

Lllewellyn King: Georgia on my mind
WASHINGTON