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Focus Rhode Island airs on WRNI 3-4p.m. every Friday, Saturday 6-7 p.m., and Sunday 8 - 9 p.m. Audio of the entire show is archived on the web two hours after the end of Friday's broadcast. The archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format.
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Innovation in Education
This week on Morning Edition, WRNI presented a series of reports on unique approaches to education taking place in Rhode Island. On this edition of Focus Rhode Island we talk about trends in education with Warren Simmons, executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, and Julia Steiny, education consultant and columnist for the Providence Journal.
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Political Roundtable
Host Deborah Becker speaks with Maureen Moakley, chair of the political science department at The University of Rhode Island and Scott MacKay, political writer at The Providence Journal.

Fruit Fly Research
We tour a lab at Brown University where scientist Marc Tatar studies fruit flies to uncover secrets of the human aging process. His experiment about the role of insulin in aging is featured in the current issue of Nature.

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