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...National Opinion Research Center, 55% of white Southerners agreed strongly that blacks shouldn't push for inclusion where they are not wanted; 26.5% agreed slightly. Last year 19% agreed strongly, and 30% slightly. Most of the progress, social scientists say, has come in metropolitan areas; in the rural South, old ideas die hard. And progress has made loyalists more militant about holding onto their idea of Dixie: its history and heritage, its family and sovereignty, its thumb in the eye of Northern culture and, for some, its codes of racial superiority and subjugation. The culture of rebel remembrance was captured...
...warming is nonsense! Nature emits about 95% of greenhouse gases, while humans are responsible for only 5%. Add a volcanic eruption here and there, and nature probably accounts for as much as 99%. Most of the temperature increases in the past century occurred when America was still mostly a rural economy. With the rise of our industrial might, temperatures haven't risen at all! TOM PETERSON Salt Lake City...
Young's small-business career began as an eBay cliche. A stay-at-home mother of two school-age daughters, living in rural Crawfordsville, Ind., Young had more time on her hands than money. She had always been good with computers and had an eye for collectibles. She started scouring local flea markets and estate sales looking for undervalued knickknacks she could then list on eBay. At first Young tried to keep 15 auctions going at any given time; then 25; then 50. Eventually, she reached 100. When the packing and fulfillment got to be too much to handle...
Conforming to this new paradigm takes a lot of work. Lek, a pure Thai bar girl, charms the men at the Rainbow Bar in the sleaze quarters of Bangkok. Since arriving in the big city, she has methodically eradicated all connections to her rural Asian past. The first to go was her flat, northeastern nose. For $240, a doctor raised the bridge to give her a Western profile. Then, Lek laid out $1,200 for plumper, silicone-filled breasts. Now, the 22-year-old is saving to have her eyes made rounder. By the time she has finished her plastic...
...summit, in Quebec City, the confident smiles will be back in place. The two-day gathering will produce a joint political declaration that bolsters the democratic solidarity of the hemisphere and an 18-point collective "action plan" that covers initiatives ranging from toughening the war against drugs and providing rural areas with access to computer technologies to the creation of a pan-American network of weather forecasters to assist in the management of natural disasters. And the meeting will undoubtedly announce significant progress toward the Holy Grail of the summit process: the creation of a giant Free Trade Area...