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Associated Press August 2, 2006
Oregon ranks high in e-government study
An annual survey conducted by researchers at Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy ranked Oregon third for the quality and quantity of its online services. Last year, Oregon finished outside the top 10 in the e-government study. Professor Darrell West comments about how important it is for state governments to improve their e-government offerings. This wire service article appeared in newspapers and on web sites throughout the Northwest.

Cosmopolitan August 1, 2006
Cosmo beauty
Rachel Herz, visiting assistant professor of psychology who specializes in olfactory research, conducted a study in which women ranked how men smell as being more important than how men look.

WGBH radio August 1, 2006
Open Source with Christopher Lydon
James Der Derian, professor of international studies (research) at the Watson Institute for International Studies, participates in a roundtable discussion on “The Optics of This War” - how media are covering the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting, and whether media are being manipulated in order to enhance public opinion of one side or the other.

Providence Journal August 2, 2006
Storm zaps power to thousands
In an article about the recent heat wave, Steven Hamburg, associate professor of environmental studies, notes that although "any single weather event can't be attributed to a broad phenomena like climate change ... this type of phenomena is completely consistent with what you would see" with a major climate change.

The Korea Herald August 3, 2006
New technology gives paralyzed the power to move
A paralyzed man who received a brain implant system called BrainGate has learned to use his thoughts to operate a computer, turn on a TV set, open e-mail, play a video game and manipulate a robotic arm. The BrainGate system was developed by scientists at Brown University.

Providence Journal August 1, 2006
Dying in dignity
This article by Michael Gonda is one in a series written by Brown students in an advanced feature writing class taught by Tracy Breton, visiting professor of journalism. The students were assigned to write a story that conveyed a sense of place. They drew from a hat names of Providence streets and were told to search for someone or something on their designated streets that had never been written about in the same way before. The project, in its eighth year, presents aspects of city life from the perspective of college journalists.

National Public Radio August 2, 2006
News and Notes with Ed Gordon
Economics Professor Glenn Loury participates in a roundtable discussion about activists asking black businessmen to support civil-rights leaders, and the ACLU accusing the black mayor of Jackson, Miss., of racial profiling.