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...Tusk's Civic Platform, running on similar ideas, got 42%. (Since the election, support has climbed further to 60%.) In a recent survey, moreover, 42% of Poles identified themselves as being on the right in terms of their economic outlook, as against just 22% on the left. Even some rural areas in northern and western Poland that have traditionally backed the left or the populist right voted for Tusk this time, in the hope that a stronger economy would help improve their lot. Says veteran pollster Krzysztof Zagorski, "People expected Tusk to win, but not by this margin...
...Poles share his enthusiasm. Pollsters say that the October election marked the sharpest divide yet between Poland's rural and urban electorate. While the Civic Platform drew most of its support from what pollsters now refer to as Poland A - urban, educated, younger voters - the rural, older, more devout voters who make up Poland B favored Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice Party (PIS) and other parties. In crude terms, the first group includes the winners of Poland's economic transition; the second group, the losers...
...bridge the gap between urban and rural Poland? It's also a geographical and historical divide. Western Poland tends to support the Civic Platform; eastern Poland supports the PIS. Those borderlines were shaped in the 14th and 15th centuries. To reach across them, the key thing is improving education...
...Harvard Engineers have raised donations from corporations and received a grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Members of the group say that one obstacle that they have encountered has been trying to obtain information about a rural community more than 1,500 miles away in the Dominican Republic while remaining on campus in Cambridge...
...Welcome to the Chinese countryside - or, at least, to its richest village. Located in rural Jiangsu province about 85 miles up a dusty highway from Shanghai, Huaxi's 60,000 residents earn a per capita income seven times the national average. They have health insurance, pensions and two-car garages. And soon, also, a chance to live in one of the world's tallest buildings...