Word: ruralism
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...become endemic to man and eventually result, if we are lucky, in nothing more than a mild childhood illness. Others, such as Ebola, retreat back to whatever animal reservoir they came from, stalking humanity from their hidden lair, only occasionally lashing out to bloody a village or crash a rural hospital. But diseases do not, as a rule, just go away...
...gradually become endemic to man, eventually resulting, if we are lucky, in nothing more than a mild childhood illness. Others, such as Ebola, retreat back to whatever animal reservoir they came from, stalking humanity from their hidden lair, only occasionally lashing out to bloody a village or crash a rural hospital. But diseases don't, as a rule, just go away...
...child I lived in a rural area, where such disorders were unheard of. The public perception of children like me was that they were disobedient, lazy, stubborn or incorrigible. In school my teachers constantly scolded and punished me, and my classmates taunted me for my inability to read, to pronounce properly, to mix [socially]. I could not figure what was wrong with my brain. I only learned what my disorders were when I attended law school at Leeds University in Britain. Even though the drugs to combat these disorders are experimental, they give affected kids a chance to lead...
...implausible to argue that the typical suburb of Chicago is radically different from one of Philadelphia’s suburbs, and that someone should be privileged merely by living in the Midwest. Yet growing up in a declining coal town in West Virginia or in rural Alabama necessarily presents high school students with institutional hurdles generally associated with those of the inner city. And while a vast majority might think that students of this pedigree would benefit from umbrella affirmative action programs with diversity as their goal, the appreciable difference between an African American high schooler from Harlem...
...sculptor is Kate Frobisher, who is recovering from both a serious car accident and the death of her husband Ben, a photojournalist killed in Afghanistan. Ben had been working there with Stephen Sharkey, a writer who witnessed 9/11 in New York City and has returned to the rural northeast of England to write a book about the depiction of war and to nurse the lingering emotional wounds of a marriage that coincidentally died on the same day the towers fell. Settling down not far from Kate, Stephen finds comfort in the arms of Justine, the much younger daughter...