Word: rural
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...That goes double for Coraline, and never mind that it's set in rural Oregon. The figures are angular and mostly spindly, like undernourished Europeans after the war; they might be denizens of pestilential Vienna in the 1949 thriller The Third Man. Some of the characters are distinctly European, like Bobolinsky and the theatrical ladies. But even Coraline and the Cat, and certainly Other Mother in her final, spidery metamorphosis, lack the soft lines and winning personalities found in most U.S. animation. Indeed, the girl's "real" environment and her dream-nightmare one are equally remote from the reassuring landscapes...
...many patients and are very promising, but you need a highly trained technician and a very expensive facility,” Huebsch said. “Patients at the Brigham [and Women’s Hospital in Boston] can probably access these therapies but not patients in more rural areas.” Ali decided to develop an implantable system that would recruit the dendritic cells by mimicking infection and inducing an immune response. With the new implants, 90 percent of mice with tumors survived, when otherwise they would have been expected to die within 23 days. The mice?...
...drought will no doubt exacerbate rural unemployment, because arable land is what most migrant workers resort to when they lose their jobs in the cities, and now their last option is under what's probably the most severe threat in decades," says Zhang Xinghua, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Rural Development Institute. "This will also have an impact on social stability, though it's hard to gauge to what extent yet. But as the overall economy further slows, I think the situation is likely to get worse...
...there have been more serious critiques of the $900 billion--plus American Recovery and Reinvestment Act--from more serious critics. The stimulus smorgasbord does include some head scratchers, like $246 million worth of tax breaks for movie producers to buy film and $1.4 billion for "rural waste-disposal programs." Principled conservatives worry that it's so big, it will institutionalize Big Government; principled liberals worry that it won't be big enough to resuscitate a flatlined economy. And a bipartisan chorus--including Clinton Administration budget chief Alice Rivlin and Reagan Administration economist Martin Feldstein--has argued that the stimulus package...
...highways, funneled through state transportation departments, which love to build unsustainable sprawl roads to nowhere. There's $4.5 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, which is addicted to projects that destroy wetlands and induce development in vulnerable floodplains. There's $14 billion for school modernization, $100 million for rural business loans, $8.4 billion in "state- and tribal-assistance grants"--and who can say how it will all be spent? (See the top 10 financial collapses...