Word: ruralism
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...House of Lords (another eccentric English institution) and the Queen (who was recently photographed strangling a wounded pheasant) must eventually give their consent. But the Queen and her Lordships have about as much clout in Cool Britannia as foxhunters and retired generals. Centuries of English rural loopiness will therefore shortly join the ranks of extinguished British institutions, like red telephone boxes, farthings and large, expensive empires...
...comes with a price. Like the U.S., Britain is seeing a slow but deep political division between its urban and rural populations. The Tories have always done well in the countryside, but their rural support is cresting. Last year the protests against the ban on foxhunting brought more demonstrators to the streets of London than any since the riots against Margaret Thatcher's attempt to impose a poll tax. The farmers, landowners and rural workers are incensed at what they see, with good reason, as an attack on their way of life...
There are few places he hasn't visited. He has been seen lounging in rural Appalachia, and perched proudly on piers along eastern seaboard. He has hunted for grubs in the marshlands of Nova Scotia; he has cavorted with royal seagulls from afar; he has flown atop the Great Wall; he has been tete-a-tete with distinguished journalists at Washington Post's Beijing Bureau; and, most recently, he has been seen circling Tiananmen Square...
Ashcroft grew up in rural Springfield, Mo., a green and rolling part of the state that has voted Republican since the Civil War. Back when Missouri sent 10 Democrats to Congress, Springfield was the lone Republican holdout. It was free-labor, antiunion territory, with antislave, Bible-belt, mountain people. Young John was the middle son of a renowned Pentecostal educator and minister. His was a strict and loving household, childhood friends say, where smoking, drinking and dancing were forbidden, and Sundays were for prayer and study, not work or play. When John was a teenager, he and his brother Wesley...
...visitors everything from country-specific advice on dress and customs to names of woman-friendly restaurants--all compiled by women who live in the region or travel to it. Leery of wearing a chador? The guide will tell you where you can get away with a long coat. Visiting rural Turkey? Know what time the sun goes down, so you won't get caught on empty streets at night...