Word: rural
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...viewers won't even try watching. That's the situation NBC suits have been in ever since Friday Night Lights premiered in the 8 p.m. Tuesday time-slot in early October, without a strong lead-in and up against ABC's juggernaut Dancing With the Stars. Set in the rural fictional town of Dillon, Texas, where the local high school football team is tantamount to the community's church, the series was quick to garner praise from reviewers, including TIME's James Poniewozik, who cited its rich characters and excellent performances. But in that other realm, where advertising revenues dwell...
...they ever sleep. The country's urban labor market recently exceeded by 20% the number of new jobs created. Its pension system is nonexistent. China is an environmental dystopia, its cities' air foul beyond imagination and its clean water scarce. Corruption is endemic and growing. Protests and riots by rural workers are measured in the tens of thousands each year. The most immediate priority for China's leadership is less how to project itself internationally than how to maintain stability in a society that is going through the sort of social and economic change that, in the past...
...largest for long. Municipal wi-fi will be coming soon to a city near you, from tiny towns like Adel, Ga., to sprawling locales like Boston and San Francisco. Municipalities are promoting competition to drive down broadband prices and bring high-speed access to rural areas stuck with dial-up. Big telcos such as Verizon and AT&T, having first tried to fend off wi-fi in state legislatures, have also joined the battle to own and operate these systems. More than 300 communities nationwide plan to have wireless ventures in the next year, according to MuniWireless.com a portal...
...remains in exile overseas as the interim administration investigates whether corruption charges can be brought against him, denied any involvement with the attacks. Although unpopular among the urban and middle-class electorate, Thaksin swept into office with a record-high vote, largely thanks to support from the country's rural northern region. Since the September coup, more than a dozen public schools in the northeast have mysteriously caught fire. Initially, regional police, who made up one of Thaksin's strongest constituencies, blamed faulty wiring. But the military junta has cited the fires, which they consider deliberate torchings by Thaksin supporters...
...particular group-nor was any evidence given-but the implication appeared to rest on forces tied to ousted Prime Minister Thaksin. Although less popular among the urban and middle-class electorate, Thaksin swept into office with a record-high vote, largely thanks to support from the country's rural north. Since the September coup, more than a dozen public schools in Thailand's northeast have been torched; the military junta has used such acts of violence, which they link to Thaksin supporters, as justification for keeping parts of the nation under martial law. Thaksin is currently in exile in China...