Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually got kind of a smorgasbord of experience," said Veronica S. Jung '97, one of the group's leaders, as she straightened from harvesting squash on Friday. "I think this project has been very unique because its been kind of a mix of the urban and the rural...
Mickey Sabbath could have been Big Bird. Instead he is spending his closing years in rural Massachusetts nursing resentments and his ragged individualism. His sole and meager support comes from his wife Roseanna, an Alcoholics Anonymous member who nearly drank herself to death for typically Rothian reasons: "because of all that had not happened and because of all that had." Chief among them were Sabbath's neglect and his affair with Drenka Balich, the lusty wife of the local Croatian innkeeper...
What isn't natural is going crazy--for sadness to linger on into debilitating depression, for anxiety to grow chronic and paralyzing. These are largely diseases of modernity. When researchers examined rural villagers in Samoa, they discovered what were by Western standards extraordinarily low levels of cortisol, a biochemical by-product of anxiety. And when a Western anthropologist tried to study depression among the Kaluli of New Guinea, he couldn't find...
Aung San Suu Kyi undoubtedly was Burma's most prominent political prisoner, but there are thousands more being held in jails there. No Burmese is exempt from being dragooned into acting as porter for soldiers, and for those in the rural and ethnic areas it has become a way of life. The release of Suu Kyi is a hopeful step in the political liberalization of Burma. In her the generals who rule the country have the best chance of coming to peace with the Burmese people. SAMUEL LIN Hong Kong...
...about the glory of war. I understand, as William Sherman stated, that "war is hell" and that everybody loses. I understand that war is about dying, and I would be one of the first ones to be drafted. Finally, understanding that I am just a young man from a rural town in Wisconsin, I know that my chances of survival would be small. But some things are worth fighting...