10/08/08 - The middle of the Pacific Ocean makes an unlikely setting for a coming of age story- but it's treacherous business manning a sailboat, and grappling with the unknowns of the ocean forces you to grow up fast. For Roy Disney and Leslie DeMuse, executive producers of the forthcoming Disney Pictures documentary "Morning Light," the open ocean was the perfect test for 15 young sailors.
10/08/08 - Way before Americans were driving SUVs, agricultural practices of Indian tribes in North and South America were causing global climate change, such as the Medieval Warming period and the Little Ice Age. Charles Mann, author and journalist who has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, and the Law and Order television series, explained habits of pre-industrial cultures and their effects on the climate in the Fall 2008 Honors Colloquium last night.
10/08/08 - Morgan Fielder and Wendy Baker, two students in the doctorate of physical therapy program at the University of Rhode Island, decided to use their leadership project as a way to improve the livelihood of geriatric patients. "Morgan and I looked into the benefits both physiologically and emotionally in participating in a therapeutic garden," Baker said.
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