Word: rural
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...nonsense Johns Hopkins University, for example, engineering professor William Ball says more than half of his department's students have signed up with the school's EWB chapter, which is engaged in long-term work to improve irrigation in rural South Africa. "I know for a fact that many students come here because we talk about this sort of work," says Ball. "And that's the kind of student we want to attract...
...data collected at public health clinics, where young women who thought they might be pregnant or infected with a sexually transmitted disease were given anonymous blood tests. But that method gave extra statistical weight to groups with higher HIV rates, such as prostitutes and drug abusers, and virtually disregarded rural women...
...some of his Labor colleagues. Prissy, bookish, and married to a multimillionaire businesswoman, he wasn't exactly everyone's picture of the Aussie working-class man, though he lost few opportunities to remind people he'd grown up on a Queensland farm. "If he grew up in poverty in rural Queensland," sneered former Labor leader Latham, "where did the posh accent come from?" Advising Rudd to "take the piss" out of himself, his brother Greg reportedly said: "You're just not that sort of personality where people want to spend time with you outside a work issue...
...Commission officials say farm aid is not just about handouts for food production, but about preserving Europe's rural heritage. In recent years, aid has prioritized environmental and tourist activities linked to protecting rural areas against extreme weather and climate change. Fischer Boel's proposals aim to go even further in that direction...
...what? The coalition of environmentalists, aid groups, health advocates, rural groups, anti-tax activists, sustainable agriculture groups and free traders who fought unsuccessfully for reform will get another chance when the Senate takes up the bill up again - possibly as soon as December, or conceivably as late as 2009. But politicians are amazingly reluctant to oppose farm bills, because they don't want to be portrayed as enemies of the heartland of America, and they don't want to cross the powerful farm lobby...