Word: ruralism
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...student of it. He openly despised the kind of expatriates who "seldom meet a normal Hongkonger" and instead sided with and befriended Chinese at the grass-roots level. For the next 40 years, his work and life were peopled with laborers, police constables and villagers of Hong Kong's rural New Territories region, which he explored obsessively, resided in and became a leading authority...
...Everest were killed during a storm, among them two New Zealanders. As TIME's correspondent in Auckland, I was sent to interview their families and friends - and Sir Edmund Hillary. I thought it would be hard to track him down; that he was probably living in some remote rural area where he could be left in peace. But there he was in the Auckland phone book: "Hillary, Sir Edmund, 278A Remuera Rd." He didn't mind the intrusion, and wasn't too busy to talk to a young reporter...
...course, if the economy does play such a key role we could be in for a spike, with unemployment already on the rise - 5% in December - and fears of a recession mounting. Some observers say its impact is already visible in some smaller cities and rural parts of the country, where violent crime has been on the uptick in recent years. Others say a more simple formula is behind it. "What goes up comes down," said James Alan Fox, a leading criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. "But in big cities, there was more room to drop, and in small...
...Just as with the Iowa caucuses, organization is key in Nevada; the idea isn't just to finish first in the big population centers, as it is in primaries, but to win the rural areas as well since delegates are pre-apportioned across the state. But while all three top Democratic candidates spent months and tens of millions of dollars organizing Iowa, none have invested nearly the same time and resources in Nevada. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards have each spent three weeks or less in state. And while Iowans have been trained by 32 years of caucusing...
...portray Sark as a rural idyll untouched by modernity would be inaccurate, however. In the 1990s, British newspapers reported that up to 40% of Sark's inhabitants held directorships of companies. In a scheme dubbed the "Sark Lark", many residents sold their names or addresses to companies eager to take advantage of Sark's zero taxes and regulation-free environment. Sark is now regulated by a financial-services authority based on the nearby island of Guernsey...