Word: ruralism
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...impression that one must leave the country in order to gain perspective is narrow-minded. A disproportionate amount of Harvard students come from the East Coast and California and know little of the great cultural diversity in the thousands of miles in between. To a Manhattanite, a trip to rural Mississippi is probably a greater culture shock than a trip to Barcelona. Visiting a destitute, third-world country is admirable and even comes off as “slumming chic” to wealthy Americans, but a visit to the poorest conditions in the U.S. might hit too many...
...China's officially atheist Communist Party couldn't agree more. As the country tackles the negative side effects of two decades of unfettered economic growth-most notably a growing urban-rural income divide and burgeoning social unrest-Beijing's leaders are looking to soothe the masses by filling a spiritual vacuum left by the demise of Marxist ideology. In landmark comments earlier this month, China's top religious official, Ye Xiaowen, rejected decades of state ambivalence toward religion by telling the state's Xinhua News Agency that "religion is one of the important social forces from which China draws strength...
...create alluvial floodplains that farmers have relied upon for centuries. Thousands of villagers would have to be relocated to make room for dams and reservoirs, and many would still not benefit directly from new power production because most of the electricity would be used in cities, not in rural areas. Environmentalists are also skeptical that the ambitious integrated scheme would ever work. "It's pie-in-the-sky stuff," says Lori Pottinger, director of the Africa program at the International Rivers Network (IRN), an environmental group based in California. "It assumes that a lot of things are going...
...abuse and a relatively poor record of success, tough-love programs for juvenile offenders are now getting another kick in the teeth. A coalition of savvy Florida college students, civil rights activists and politicians are protesting the death earlier this year of a 14-year-old boy in a rural North Florida boot camp, alleging not just abuse but a cover-up that is proving a major embarassment for Florida Governor Jeb Bush in his last year in office. Thursday evening, Bush's Department of Law Enforcement Secretary, Guy Tunnell, who established the boot camp during his tenure...
...moratorium has had no practical effect and I think it would be good to lift it,? said Thomas Brown, the chief prosecutor for rural Livingston County, who won a new death sentence for the only person who was cleared from Death Row by Ryan but then returned for a separate murder case. ?We?ve had to start filling it back up one by one, and there?s no case that?s ripe yet so it could be 15 or 20 years of appeals before anyone actually is executed (if the moratorium gets lifted). There?s this push for perfection...