Word: ruralism
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Steptoe, who witnessed many of these changes before his death at 74, in 1988, was an unlikely revolutionary. Born to a church organist father and social-service worker mother in rural Oxfordshire, he decided at an early age to pursue medicine over music. During World War II, he was captured by the Italians after his ship was sunk and got himself tossed into solitary for helping other prisoners escape. Setting up a practice in obstetrics and gynecology after the war, he raised professional eyebrows by pioneering a newfangled fiber-optic device called a laparoscope to perform minimally invasive abdominal surgery...
Perhaps it was his isolation in a rural part of Scotland (the bucolic region of Midlothian, where he and his wife treasured long walks, gardening and the distinctive Scottish sport of curling) that permitted him to resist the naysayers. Or perhaps it was the isolation of the remote field of animal husbandry that fostered his originality...
Warren predicted that Stoll's book would have a greater impact on the American intellectual debate than on the Guatemalan peace process. "I worried about the book," she said of Stoll's work. "If Stoll somehow discredited testimonio, rural people would not be heard...
Last month Motorola and Cisco Systems said they would jointly ante up $1 billion over four years to create wireless, high-speed Internet networks. AT&T and others are experimenting with cellular-like services that compress data and bring high-speed Web access into homes. That could help some rural areas. But while wireless towers can easily cover vast stretches of the plains, it's a far costlier matter to erect enough towers to throw signals around the Rocky Mountains. Moreover, many of the companies that are talking up wireless have densely packed urban businesses and mobile professionals in their...
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