Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realization that man can shape neither history nor society by Five-Year Plans, and that attempts to contradict this truth must end in the grotesque. The revulsion with politics reflects the view that when politicians go about tinkering with something as organic as a poor family or a rural community by means of a federal welfare program or an enormous dam, the law of unintended consequences prevails...
...allowed vast amounts of topsoil to be blown away by wind or washed into the rivers and lakes. Chemical fertilizers, insecticides and weed killers have contributed to harvests that make U.S. agriculture the most productive in the ! world. But they have also leached into groundwater, contaminating wells in rural communities across the nation. "Not every well is polluted, and not every farmer has an erosion problem," says Ernest Shea, executive vice president of the National Association of Conservation Districts. "But we realize that we'll be better off if we admit that we're part of the problem...
Nowhere are farmers more primed for change than in Iowa, proud producer of 20% of the nation's corn. In 1988 and 1989, the state's natural resources department and the University of Iowa sampled groundwater quality in 686 rural wells. Nearly 15% of them were contaminated with one or more pesticides. For Iowa State University weed biologist Jack Dekker, the survey marked a turning point. "What we had," he says, "was a one-way arrow pointing to a problem...
...many other cultures, men often get more satisfaction from sex than women do, especially in rural areas. In Liu's survey, 34% of the couples living in the countryside (as opposed to 17% in the cities) said they engaged in less than a minute of foreplay or none at all. Partly as a result, 37% of the rural wives reported having pain during intercourse. Observes Liu: "The males are so rude as to give their partners no time to warm up." Pan found that men reached orgasm about 70% of the time, in contrast to 40% for women...
...women who dream of becoming agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This year about 500 trainees will attend classes in frisking, lectures on handcuffing, armed-arrest laboratories and seminars on interrogating witnesses at the 20-acre academy site, nestled amid the pine and birch trees of rural Virginia, 40 miles south of Washington...