Word: ruralism
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Other changes will be more complex. As the MMPI has come to be seen as a beloved landmark of American psychology, it has also come under frequent attack as dated and culture bound. Since empirical work on the test was done among pre-war, white, rural Minnesotans in their mid-30s, it does not account for newer values and is often a particularly unreliable test for blacks, women and adolescents. On the masculinity-femininity scale, a woman who says "true" to "I would like to be a soldier" or "I like mechanics magazines" risks being pigeonholed as abnormally masculine...
Farmers are not the only ones who understand the joys of the harvest festival. A whole rural culture extracts its lifeblood from the ritual of renewal, no place more than Iowa, the most agricultural of American states. Teachers, merchants, veterinarians and mechanics from the small towns link the farmers and help orchestrate community life. For the moment, some of the small towns are in more distress than the farmers. The Government provides no subsidy for grocers and drygoods merchants. Publisher Alan Smith, of Mount Ayr, Iowa, (pop. 1,900) used to run two-thirds of a page of delinquent taxes...
Like other top schools, Harvard is struggling to find more good black students, who now account for only 7% of Cambridge undergraduates. One key reason for the shortage: substandard elementary and secondary schools, which tend to breed in major cities and rural areas, cut their pupils' chances for entry into a top college. "There is no way," says Jewett, "that we can make up for twelve missed years of education." The problem is intensified by the fact that a bare 1.4% of university faculty -- prime role models -- are black. This too is typical of many other universities. But Harvard faced...
...When he returned in 1945 we were promptly married, having known each other for many years. In early 1946 we bargained for a very run-down piece of land on which we spent $800 to build a two-room cottage without the amenities of plumbing or electricity on a rural unpaved road. Conditions eventually improved -- the road was paved and we did get electricity and running water, but no bath facility for 16 years...
...India, where less than 7,000 AIDS blood tests have been conducted, the obstacles are formidable. Rural clinics and small hospitals typically fail to sterilize needles before reusing them. The government hopes to increase the number of AIDS testing centers from twelve to 29. It has also ordered spot testing of all commercial blood donors and has announced that imported blood must be certified as AIDS free. But these precautions cannot ensure the containment of the virus. More than half of India's blood supply comes from local paid donors, whose blood is usually not screened. Some tests, moreover...