Dell, ACS eye health IT growth Nov 17, 2009
Currently about 200,000 members get their insurance through the Connector, said Richard Powers, a spokesman for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector Authority. Even with the uncertainties swirling around federal health care reform, numerous states are already establishing health information exchanges. (Dallas Business Journal, TX)
Holder to Speak at CAIR Event Nov 11, 2009
"During that trial, evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders...and the Palestine Committee," FBI Congressional liaison Richard Powers wrote in an April letter to Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz. (Newsmax)
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL SPEAK TO CONTROVERSIAL MUSLIM CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP... Nov 10, 2009
Until we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS, the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner, FBI Congressional liaison Richard Powers. The Justice Department referred questions about Holder s speech and CAIR s involvement to the FBI s field office in Detroit which, in turn, referred the questions to FBI headquarters in Washington. (The Drudge Report)
DNA Leads to Arrest in 1990 Texas Assault Nov 5, 2009
Houston FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard Powers said because of new DNA technology not available when the crime occurred, Dickinson police investigators resubmitted evidence in July 2008 for testing at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Va. The lab found DNA on male underwear recovered at the scene and ran it through the FBI's national Combined DNA Index System. (Time.com)
Tycoon tales and Darwin get award nominations Oct 15, 2009
But judges also omitted such widely publicized releases as Lorrie Moore's "At the Gate of the Stairs," Richard Powers' "Generosity" and Blake Bailey's biography of John Cheever. Five books from university presses were among the 20 chosen in four competitive categories. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Costa Living: Hand me those pliers, I'm on vacation Oct 7, 2009
I may try something current and fashionable like Richard Powers new novel, Generosity. That way, when I return to the water cooler on Monday, I can gain the most-enviable position of all as a person with enough time to read an entire book. (Westford Eagle, MA)
How Nice Are We? Oct 6, 2009
What Richard Powers' new novel gets wrong. Peter D. Kramer | Sept. 28, 2009. (Slate)
A Novel About People Who Are Genetically Immune To Stress Sep 30, 2009
Richard Powers' Generosity: An Enhancement ... The Secrets of SerotoninWhat Richard Powers' new novel gets wrong ... by Richard Powers, suffers a milder version of this bad karma. (Slate)
James Wood: The scientific fictions of Richard Powers. Sep 30, 2009
The scientific fictions of Richard Powers ... The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music and science; below, a pair of spindly legs strain to support the great weight of the ambitious brain ... That novel tells the story of Richard Powers, a thirty-five-year-old American novelist who is spending a year at the science research center of a Midwestern university. (New Yorker)
Short Cuts, Michael Wood, London Review of Books Sep 17, 2009
LRB Michael Wood: Short Cuts. I dont know what its like at your end of the global village but I keep coming across extraordinary instances of evolutionary good cheer. (Harper's Magazine)
New Fall Books Penned by Prizewinners Aug 28, 2009
New fiction is due from Richard Powers, Alice Munro, E.L. Doctorow, Diane Gabaldon, Stephen King, John Grisham, Audrey Niffenegger, Jonathan Lethem and Lorrie Moore. Other highlights: Barbara Kingsolver's "The Lacuna," Ha Jin's "A Good Fall," Wally Lamb's "Wishing and Hoping," essay collections by Chinua Achebe and Zadie Smith, and a memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Voice of the Century Apr 6, 2009
In Richard Powers s novel The Time of Our Singing (2003), a magisterial fantasia on race and music, the concert becomes nothing less than the evocation of a new America a nation that, for a few measures, in song at least, is everything it claims to be. Fittingly, when Barack Obama became President, My Country, Tis of Thee floated out over the Mall once more, from the mouth of Aretha Franklin to a crowd of two million. (New Yorker)
Mass. health system is being tested by recession Feb 24, 2009
"We said from the outset that we are looking to insure people, not penalize them, and the general and flexible process has reflected that philosophy," said Richard Powers, a spokesman for the Connector. A report by the Revenue Department in December found that in 2007 only 1. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
