Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Armed Forces have typically remained out of politics, but did join the anti-Marcos movement, not to take power themselves, but for a variety of idealistic and practical reasons. Their chief concern is that they are fighting and dying to put down a rural insurgency, and they want a mandate and resources to pursue that in the way they see as best...
...future, teleteaching may help people in rural areas to receive an education, Goroff said...
Besides teaching in the rural mountains of Italy, Sandburg has taught in the urban plains of Cambridge. Currently, he is a section leader for Peabody Professor of Archaeology Stephen Williams' course, Anthropology 139, "Fantastic Archaeology: Alternative Views of the Past...
...agreements with the Chinese could help to correct. The Chinese, for their part, produce an enormous quantity of consumer items, particularly textiles and simple manufactured goods like thermos bottles that they would like to barter for East European machine tools and other basic products needed to equip their burgeoning rural industries. China's primitive manufacturing concerns can neither afford nor fully exploit the benefits of advanced Western technology...
Although the agents of all these infections remained a mystery, the first safe vaccine against a viral disease was developed in the 18th century by Edward Jenner, a doctor in rural England. Jenner noticed that farmhands who contracted cowpox, a mild disease related to smallpox, did not develop the more deadly disease. In 1798 he inoculated a boy with material from a milkmaid's cowpox sore, then demonstrated that the lad had developed immunity to smallpox...