Word: ruralism
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...house. Granted, it might be a bit excessive to have more phone numbers than limbs, but the real problem is that telephone companies waste the phone numbers that are allocated to them by an archaic blocking scheme, dating back more than six decades, that wastes numbers on sparsely-populated rural areas...
...programs but will take a while for the public to evaluate. (We could do both, but then we wouldn’t have a tax cut!) When the Secretary of Housing and Human Services Tommy Thompson was confronted yesterday on proposed cuts to AIDS treatment, child abuse prevention and rural health care, he quickly changed the subject to new after-school programs and accused anyone who noted the difference of using “fuzzy Washington math...
...free-trade area would also offer a chance for smaller guys to go international. WaveRider Communications, based in Toronto, a maker of wireless Web equipment, has just opened a South Florida office to prospect for new business in such places as rural Venezuela, where the government's peculiar radio-frequency allocations drive up costs fourfold for some components. "If we could get low-cost, 128K wireless connections into their schools, offices and homes, they'd go crazy for it," says Scott Winn, the firm's South America manager...
...mostly on the work of DEA agent Michael Templeton. Cazenavette says Templeton's baby face made him a good investigator among young ravers. But the rave world that Estopinal was creating must have seemed monstrously weird to Templeton, who had come to New Orleans after being a cop in rural Johnson City, Tenn., for four years. In addition to being dances, Estopinal's parties were often wacky performance-art spectacles featuring fire eaters, trapeze artists, cross-dressers on roller skates and other assorted characters...
Moses recently published a book called "Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights." He currently heads the Algebra Project, a program designed to teach math to inner-city and rural children in an effort to prepare them for the new world of technology...