Word: rural
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...anybody who travels widely in America will attest, there are deep pockets of obesity, especially in rural areas and among certain racial and ethnic groups. The CDC study found that the prevalence of obesity was nearly 50% for black and Mexican-American women -- compared with 33.5% for white women. In some Native American communities, up to 70% of adults are dangerously overweight...
Collecting blood, particularly from ancient tribes in remote areas, was not always easy; potential donors were often afraid to cooperate, or raised religious taboos. On one occasion, when Cavalli-Sforza was taking blood samples from schoolchildren in a rural region of the Central African Republic, he was confronted by an angry farmer brandishing an ax. Recalls the scientist: "I remember him saying, 'If you take the blood of the children, I'll take yours.' He was worried that we might want to do some magic with the blood...
...pages; $35). The latter is bulky enough to allow carrying it to qualify as aerobic exercise; its readers may wind up as hardy as Hardy. You might expect a smaller volume, given his relatively uneventful life. Born into a family of masons, he spent his days mostly in rural Dorset. Max Gate, the mansion he built for himself and lived in for more than 40 years, was located about two miles from his birthplace...
This expensive peso meant that jobs were somewhat scarce, and thus contributed to some of the rural unrest. When the rebels seemed to be readying for a new round of attacks, President Zedillo decided to lower the peso by about 12 percent. Then, in a surprise to almost everyone, he allowed the peso to float against the dollar. Investors were used to being warned well in advance of a devaluation. This sudden move scared them, causing them to start unloading Mexican securities. The peso continued to drop...
...Open Secrets by Alice Munro (Knopf). Once more the Canadian writer supplies rich, daring and satisfying short stories, all rooted in rural Ontario, most of them about women balanced uneasily between a conventional past and a present that tips them in new and strange directions. The constants in Munro's stories are remorseless time, blind fate and the author's wry sense of the bizarre hidden in the ordinary...