Word: rural
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...Suburbanites are most likely to visit websites for national chain restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe, Macaroni Grill or P.F. Chang's China Bistro. Perhaps the commute home from work leaves less time to cook, making the convenience of eating out more popular. In contrast, rural Internet users seem more likely to be cooking in the home, with recipe-rich sites such as Food & Wine Magazine, Recipes.com and FoodTV website "Cooking with Paula Deen" dominating the list...
...glory. The biggest asset of India has always been its people. Even the emigrants scattered around the world share Indian citizens' patriotism and passion for their country. To live up to the world's expectations and confidence, India must now turn to the 80% of citizens who live in rural areas and for whom life has barely changed in the past half-century. They must contend daily with illiteracy, pollution, poor housing, and shortages of water and electricity. Political corruption needs to be addressed and the progress of rural people embraced before the nation can pull through to true superpower...
...want to get a sense of the potential of India's car industry, count the country's motorbikes. Buzzing along Mumbai's crowded highways, standing outside modest homes in rural villages or packed into the parking lots of Bangalore software firms, motorbikes and scooters currently outsell passenger cars by more than six to one. As the country's booming economy pulls millions of people into the middle class, the first vehicle most people buy has two wheels, not four...
...thinking that a city boy from Brooklyn might have trouble making himself at home in rural Iowa, then you haven't spent a day here with Rudy Giuliani. In fact, to hear him talk, the former New York City mayor can hardly tell the two places apart. Ducking into Longhorn Saddlery and Western Wear in Fort Dodge to pick up some cowboy shirts for himself (extra large) and his designer-loving missus (small), Giuliani noted, "They had bull riding this year in Madison Square Garden." At a town-hall forum held at Northern Iowa Area Community College (NIACC), he marveled...
...seem odd for a hard-nosed industrialist to gravitate toward such esoteric fields--imagine Henry Ford fixating on the origin of the universe--but Kavli, 79, says he got the bug long before he made his fortune in the U.S. aerospace industry. He grew up on a farm in rural Norway, where he remembers being awestruck by the night sky. "There was no city nearby," he says, so when the aurora borealis lit up, "the sky was completely inflamed." Kavli's fascination with the universe deepened in college after World War II when his physics teacher relayed details from...