Word: rural
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...have to consider the American Idol audience. I can create a profile by looking at visitors to the American Idol website. Over 61% of site visitors for the four weeks ending May 19, 2007 were over the age of 35, predominately female, and more likely to live in rural areas, all factors that would seem to give advantages to the old-fashioned song styling of the young Jordin Sparks. Counter that would be the fact that text message voters are more likely to be Blake Lewis' young urban peeps...
...this real-life episode of CSI: Nimby - not in my backyard - residents of a rural area near the San Marcos Airport, 30 miles south of Austin, have objected to plans by Texas State University to build a 17-acre body farm nearby. With three acres designated for research and surrounded by a wide fenced boundary, plus cages over the exposed bodies, university officials assured residents there would no problems...
...Abortion is also an important element in The Banishment. Alex (Konstantin Lavronenko) leaves the city to spend two months in a rural family home with his wife Vera (Maria Bonnevie), their two young children and, from time to time, Alex's small-time criminal brother Mark (Alexander Baluev). Not long into their stay, the brooding Vera shatters Alex with this declaration: "I'm pregnant, and it's not your child." This cues his eventual insistence on an abortion. Their marriage has been strained before, but now the seams split, and anything that can go wrong, does...
...taking steps to assist Vidarbha's farmers. Mindful that a backlash in the countryside led to the last national government's ouster from office, the Maharashtra state administration and the Congress Party-led coalition in New Delhi have promised to pump almost a billion dollars into Vidarbha's rural sector. Authorities have arrested dozens of unlicensed moneylenders and pushed banks to offer more farmers credit at reasonable rates. The government is also trying to encourage farmers to diversify into other crops and into dairy and poultry production. A little more than half the money in the rescue packages will...
...numbers have certainly improved since, but Jim Larimore, then the dean of Dartmouth College and currently the dean of students at Swarthmore, noted that the problem was unique to sports. It also derived, in large part, from the unique rural setting and reputation of a university in Hanover...