Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be decided in places like Kinshasa and Curitiba. Faster than ever before, the human world is becoming an urban world. Near the end of this decade, mankind will pass a demographic milestone: for the first time in history, more people will live in and around cities than in rural areas...
...Leap of Faith scoops out plenty of wry humor, such as when Martin orders the "KKK omelette, white only" at the diner in Kansas. Unfortunately, kneeslapping at the expense of rural folks wears thin. True, Martin holds the record for starring in movies with quaint, happy angles on life, but this one has half the humor without the angle. Martin tires. He bores...
When the Harvard women's basketball team travels this weekend to Amherst to play the Minutewomen, the hopes of the small rural campus will fall on Gurile's freshman shoulders. Coming into the match she is averaging 16.5 points and 7.5 rebounds a game. Not bad for a frosh...
...inexperience on the world stage. Characteristically, Lake was not hanging around Little Rock or jockeying for West Wing office space. He had already returned to his cows, his close-knit family and his students at Mount Holyoke College. Friends tease him about being Cincinnatus, but his love of rural independence is no act. "I moved up here because I did not want to spend the next however many years of my life trying to get some job in Washington," he says. "I just have a very happy life here." But high office -- National Security Adviser is often mentioned -- may breach...
...physicians who owned imaging centers were deemed unwarranted, in contrast to 28% requested by independent doctors. Another study of Florida radiation-therapy centers concluded that self-referral increased the frequency and cost of treatment. Moreover, researchers found that none of the centers were located in inner- city or rural areas, though service to these communities is a major rationale offered for doctors' ownership of health-care facilities...