Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some domestic cats in the rural Southwest have become carriers of human plague. A new report says the cats can pick up the disease from rodents or fleas and transmit it via licks, bites or scratches. Only 15 cases of plague have been traced to cats, however, and such simple precautions as removing trash where rodents thrive can limit risk to humans...
Song also discussed improvements for rural Chinese, saying that the number of rural industries has increased, creating 110 million new job opportunities...
...rural industries allow peasants to move from the farmland without leaving their native towns," he said...
...native Americans had so much TB in early colonial times," speculates Aufderheide, "because they were crowded into towns and had much poorer living conditions than before." TB spreads rapidly among people with immune systems weakened by malnutrition and poor sanitation. Among the mummies of rural Chiribaya, few showed any sign of TB infection, and the woman from whom TB DNA was isolated did not die of the disease...
Edzard substitutes corporate intrigue in the City of London for the back-stabbing court, and life on the streets, down-and-out, for the rural idyll of the play. This revision provokes not only the normal irksome inconsistencies of contextual changes, like holding a boxing match in the foyer of the Bank of England, or finding shepherds and their flocks roaming the squats of central London, but also more serious thematic contradictions. In the play, the Forest of Arden represents our collective escapist fantasy--the dream of a life free from complication or care. Homelessness does not play the same...