Word: agrarian
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...pointed political parable. It portrays a giant rock creature, born of a volcano, awaking to a barren, grey world. Klutzy and unskilled, he takes command of a tribe of tiny laborers by virtue of his might. Still unsatisfied, he makes war on another tribe of little agrarian wood people, exploiting their forests to fill his fireplace. But this act has a costly and unexpected price. Using themes that echo the Old Testament, and a language as ancient as pictograms, Kuper creates an allegory whose current political associations are impossible to miss...
...meeting. Leaving a group of aides waiting outside, the 55-year-old former four-star general strode into one of the institute's classrooms, a laptop tucked under one arm, to face six university professors. For the next three hours, he parried questions about his recently completed Ph.D. thesis: Agrarian and Rural Development as a Strategy to Eradicate Poverty and Unemployment. "We thought it was just going to be a few token questions," says Yudhoyono adviser Rachmat Witoelar. "He was, after all, probably going to be elected President in a few days. But they really grilled...
...VILLAGE In filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan's spooky tale of a 19th century agrarian community with Bryce Dallas Howard, the elders (read: Bush?) use a color-coded warning system to keep the populace in a state of fear...
...damage. And so at 12:39 p.m., the electricity sputtered off in Athens. Thousands of people, including Transport Minister Michalis Liapis, were stranded in the city's glittering new metro; hundreds more were stuck in elevators for up to four hours. The blackout soon spread to the country's agrarian south and the Ionian Islands, the worst power outage in Greece in decades. Authorities did their best to reassure the public, but on Thursday a fresh power cut caused by a faulty cable struck the Acropolis and two neighboring districts for an hour. Pantelis Kapros, president of the Greek Energy...
...centuries, travelers have depicted Burma as an agrarian paradise so fertile that, as one saying goes, a farmer tickles the earth with his hoe and it laughs a harvest...