Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to Valerie Craig, the 3,000 residents of rural Norfolk, Conn., where she lives, have not been supportive since her daughter's death...
...taken him through a range of styles. After an early phase of neat, metrical poems, and a later bout with surrealism, his poetry has more recently developed certain regular characteristics: the use of ordinary diction; an engagement with certain issues, especially family history, the difference between urban and rural life and the approach of death; and, frequently, the use of a central conceit, sometimes quite fantastic, to structure his poems. This last tendency is best illustrated in The Museum of Clear Ideas, Hall's 1993 book, in which one poem is framed as his explanation the game of baseball...
...SANDLIN Democrat--Texas 1st Aided by a campaign fund topping $1 million, Sandlin kept this mostly rural district with the Democrats...
...Lester Weiss, a geneticist based in Detroit, spends much of his time these days "visiting" his patients via telephone. He calls not to chat but to analyze the details of their care through telemedicine links between Henry Ford Hospital and clinics across rural Michigan. Weiss runs Ford Hospital's Genetics and Birth Defects Center, a regional research hub. Telemedical technology brings his world-class experience to locales hundreds of miles afield--and to more than one place at once...
...moment, the good guys are still underarmed and outnumbered. In many parts of the world, there is no public-health infrastructure to keep track of mysterious symptoms and tie them together. That lack allowed an illness like AIDS to arise in rural Africa and achieve a firm foothold before anyone realized what had happened. Basic public-health measures like vaccinations and sanitation are inadequate in many areas, with the result, for example, that diphtheria in Russia and cholera in Latin America have bounced back...