Word: ruralism
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...about to place the burden of praise on a small film, a movie no larger than its main characters--kids 9 to 13, in a rural corner of North Carolina a decade ago. But George Washington can carry the weight. David Gordon Green's ensemble drama reveals emotional breadth on its miniature canvas. It shows that kids share with adults more than we imagine. Anyone, regardless of age, can fall in love or be crushed by it; anyone can surrender to despair and self-loathing, or pursue a dream that others think is folly...
...premium, the populism is real to him. It takes him back to where he started in politics. "Al Gore inherited a fighting streak for the underclass from his father," says longtime Gore adviser Roy Neel. "If you were a poor factory worker with a backyard satellite dish in rural Tennessee as your only real link to the world and big cable companies were telling you to shove it, then Al Gore was your...
...nice ring to it, everyone agreed. But how long had he been in the sun? "It's rural Southern Georgia, and the illiteracy rate pushes 30% or 40%," admits Brumby. But if Spencer students had gone freakishly bookworm, why couldn't every child and adult in Tift County (pop. 35,000)? A big banner went up outside the town library, with weekly updates on the number of books read. The goal? One million. Everyone but the students thought Brumby was whacked...
...trip to Africa in the 1970s, he witnessed the indifference of government officials mandated to improve rural grain storage. "There was no financial reward for them, and I realized company-to-company transactions would be more effective because of a mutual profit incentive," he says...
...numbered. Even its primary market, first-class mail, is expected to shrink 27% over the next decade, representing the loss of an additional $17 billion in revenues. And some analysts warn that deals with private carriers will simply undercut USPS assets, leaving it with little more than its most rural--and least profitable--routes...