Word: rural
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...suburbs and rural areas, summer is Lyme-disease season, prompting the flurry of instructions now issuing forth from doctors' offices on how to avoid the illness. It's wise to pay attention: the symptoms can range from joint pain and lethargy in mild cases to debilitating arthritis and even heart damage. But thwarting Lyme disease is not so easy, as anyone knows who has ever searched for the poppy seed-size tick that carries it, or for its unmistakable rash -- which sometimes never appears at all. Tests sometimes don't reveal an infection, and symptoms may not show...
...crisis manager, but questions persist about whether Ramos has what it takes to move beyond mere survival to inspired leadership. As armed forces Chief of Staff, he correctly assessed the lengthy insurgency by the communist New People's Army as a political, rather than military, problem rooted in the rural poverty that stifles 70% of the population. But Ramos has yet to show that he can mobilize resources to relieve the country's misery on a scale that will make a difference...
...spare time, Thomas will be producing a film version of Zora's Kitchen, a mystery-thriller-farce-revenge tragedy written by his friend Orion Ross '92. He also plans to writea book about Lucille Hart, a wonderful woman from rural Oregon who disguised herself as a man for 40 years. And then there's Paulo...
Wofford's friendship with King proved invaluable in the 1960 presidential election: When King was jailed in rural Georgia for driving without a license a week before the election, Wofford convinced then-Senator Kennedy to offer Coretta Scott King his help in securing King's release...
...Some experts say a better reform would be for more states to establish public-defender offices, in rural as well as urban areas, and provide them with sufficient funds. Though the $2.2 million annual budget of the Reno office, financed by Washoe County, is far from lavish, it is still enough to afford a permanent staff of 19 attorneys, six of whom are qualified by training and substantial trial experience to handle capital cases...