Word: ruralism
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...Mugabe would welcome an exodus of whites as justification for his platform to "give Africa back to the Africans" and command the majority rural vote he needs in the presidential election due by next April. Urban dwellers are largely fed up with Mugabe, so the multi-racial opposition Movement for Democratic Change may do well in the cities. But considering what Mugabe's mobs can do in rural areas like Chinhoyi, the 77-year-old President may already have his re-election in the bag. He has dismissed warnings of diplomatic sanctions from Washington as "racist threats," ignored advice from...
Thompson grew up on a small farm in rural Gassaway, W.Va. The middle child of three, he was the first member of his family to receive a university degree. Neither his father, an electrician, nor his mother had more than an eighth-grade education, though his mother later went back to school. Today Thompson sees his family's struggle to eke out a living as a source of personal strength. Among other things, that strength has helped inure him to the physical hardships--frostbite, altitude sickness, barely palatable food--that he routinely endures in the field...
...research, which was chiefly sponsored by Harvard and Cambridge-based Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Xu took blood samples from thousands of poor peasants and farmers in Anhui province of rural central China...
...Earlier this month researchers at Stanford presented the results of the first significant study to explore this issue. They found that teachers from Teach For America, a highly regarded program that places college graduates in tough urban and rural schools with just five weeks of training, performed just as well as the other teachers in the Houston, Texas schools that were examined. The study was sponsored by the conservative Fordham Foundation, which triumphantly proclaimed that the results prove that "it?s not necessary to spend an extended period in an ed school in order to be effective...
...Take Colombia, for example: A young boy or girl in rural Putumayo has the choice between the despairing poverty of peasant life, cultivating coca for sale to narco-traffickers, or joining the wealthiest guerrilla army in history, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia which is believed to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars every year from "taxing" the narcotics industry. They're well-fed, well-armed, and are even reported to take seaside vacations in Panama. Life in the FARC can be dangerous, of course - it is, after all, an army at war. But not necessarily more dangerous than...