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...case today, the rewards of such progress were spread very unevenly among China's huge population. There was a yawning divide between the fast-developing urban coastal regions, epitomized by Shanghai, and the vast, underdeveloped rural interior?a divide spotlighted at last week's Communist Party plenum in Beijing as a priority for action. The faster China grew, boosted by foreign investment and technology, the greater the wealth gap and the fault line in society. Then, as now, a pervasive internal security apparatus kept tabs on an evolving society. Chiang also sought a reform of personal conduct with...
...catalysts for these gains are a passel of measures enacted by the government to revive rural economies and stimulate domestic demand. This approach has been widely dubbed "Thaksinomics"?and suddenly, everyone is a convert. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is a disciple and so is Indonesia's Megawati Sukarnoputri: both have adopted Thaksin-like programs for their countries. Even China, the engine of growth in the region, sent officials in July to investigate Thaksinomics' successes. "When Thaksin first talked about his [programs for rural recovery], everybody made fun of him," says Arroyo. "But one year later, other countries were also...
...Langkawi has an air of bucolic sleepiness that is the opposite of Penang's bustle. Visitors looking to experience something of the rural way of life followed for generations by the island's native Malays can book one of the four traditional all-wood houses at Bon Ton, a hotel and spa run by spunky expatriate Australian Narelle McMurtrie. The chalets range from $50 to $85 (tel: 60-4-955 3643/6787; www.bonton resort.com). Each house is different and all were brought in from remote villages and reassembled. Bon Ton also has a spa, a small shop selling artifacts from around...
...began the study in 1992 in a rural township in Wisconsin that had the highest rate of obesity in the nation. In the first follow-up, Blackburn said that openly-recruited participants lost a mean of 15 pounds after a standard 12-week period...
...partner, Tony Hughes, in June 2002. "I guess I didn't expect that people in Wyoming would be as closeted as they are," he says. One reason is that gay bashings still occur. Not long ago, Pellecchia says, a gay couple were assaulted in a bar in a rural part of Wyoming. One of the victims had to see a doctor for bruised ribs and cartilage damage. But the men didn't file a police report. "I suspect it has to do with them not wanting to out themselves to the police," says Pellecchia. "They were embarrassed to say they...