Word: ruralism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cambridge might receive more money because it is a city, according to the mayor, because cities generally have more health problems than towns and more rural areas...
...like small towns and rural areas and sports like skiing and fishing, even bigger bargains can be found in retirement-friendly parts of the Deep South, the Rockies and the Southwest. In honky-tonk Branson, Mo., the heart of the Ozarks, $120,000 will buy you a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house. By contrast, the same amount would be good for only a 20% down payment on a four-bedroom house in tony Westchester County...
...much are we spending? Put it this way: mandatory minimums are the reason so many prisons are booming in otherwise impoverished rural counties across America. The U.S. inmate population has more than doubled (to nearly 2 million) since the mid-'80s, when mandatory sentencing became the hot new intoxicant for politicians. New York (the first state to enact mandatory minimums) has sloshed $600 million into prison construction since 1988; not coincidentally, in the same period it has sliced $700 million from higher education. Americans will have to spend even more in the future to house and treat all the aging...
...feel for the p.r. beating Monsanto is taking, check out the Web. Activist groups like Rural Advancement Foundation International are using the Net to rally Terminator opponents, urging them to flood the U.S. Department of Agriculture with letters of protest. At least 4,000 people from 62 countries have responded--an anti-Monsanto army raised by the electronic vox pop alone. "The group R.A.F.I. masterfully called this Terminator," says Gary Toenniessen, deputy director for agricultural science at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City. "It's not what Monsanto would call...
...home truth that's easily forgotten in the Y2K-inspired pessimism over the prospect of malfunctioning modems, randomly strobing traffic lights and zero-balance money-market accounts is that one person's darkest nightmare is quite often another's dream come true. In rural Montana, where, it seems fair to speculate, more people know how to gather firewood than download a video image from the Web, the prospect of a massive high-tech meltdown is not only nothing to panic over but also, for a lot of folks, something to be welcomed...