Word: rural
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...outside the U.S. and Western Europe. In India, researchers estimate that by the year 2000, anywhere from 15 million to 50 million people could be HIV positive. Half the prostitutes in Bombay are already infected, and doctors report that the disease is spreading along major truck routes and into rural areas, as migrant workers bring the virus home. In Central and Eastern Europe, countries that had largely escaped the epidemic are seeing an explosion in the number of cases, mainly among IV drug users and their heterosexual contacts...
...according to Ross, the two leaders could not agree on a plan for pulling out troops from the West Bank city. Other issues of contention: joint Israeli-Palestinian patrols, the right of "hot pursuit" for Israeli police into Palestinian territory, and a timetable for promised Israeli withdrawals from more rural areas of the West Bank. Israel was scheduled to remove soldiers from Hebron in March, but delayed the pullout after a wave of suicide bombings in Israel. Neither Netanyahu nor Arafat spoke to the press following their meeting at the Erez Crossing between Israel and autonomous Gaza. Ross told reporters...
...been slow to come. In 1994 it became the last state in the nation to enact a "probable cause" provision permitting police officers to arrest batterers on the spot, even when the victim refuses to press charges--a law that domestic-violence advocates consider essential. The state's rural nature makes it hard to get services to the women who need them. And though the laws and access to the court system are now up to, or even ahead of, those in other states, even some of the state's educated professionals, like a group of Boone County lawyers, still...
Though women in rural areas like Boone County are at no greater risk for domestic violence than other women, escaping the home or seeking help may pose unique difficulties because of poverty, lack of access to a car and psychological isolation. "Everything about reaching rural communities is harder," explains the Justice Department's Campbell. "There's very much a culture that says you don't discuss your personal affairs, maybe even a culture that a man's house is his castle and what happens in it isn't anybody's business." This year Congress appropriated $5 million in domesticviolence outreach...
...Which presidential candidate is currently under investigation by Whitewater Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr over allegations of involvement in shady real estate deals in rural Arkansas? (Oops--this question refers to a candidate in another presidential election...