Word: ruralism
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...lake island where Princess Diana is buried and a new museum dedicated to her memory will both be opened to public view at her family home Wednesday, which would have been her 37th birthday. Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, has opened the grounds of Althorp, in rural Northamptonshire, through Aug. 30. The burial island will be off-limits to visitors, and the exact location of the grave is not marked. But visitors will be able to stand at the water's edge, look at the house, tour a museum (built in former stables) and view Diana's schoolgirl letters...
...studying. He lights a cigarette from the butt he has finished and looks around at the students at the other tables. Most are 10 years younger, from more privileged backgrounds. When Zhong was their age, in the late 1980s, there was no way a peasant's son from rural China could have contemplated hopping between jobs, getting an education and applying for a job with "Goldman Sachs or Citicorp," as Zhong hopes to do. Today, with the economic reform being pressed by Zhu Rongji, the new Premier, the Chinese dream knows no limits. "Making money has become the thing...
...content: after seven decades of working the soil and being nourished by it, he has made all the arrangements to return to it, in the simplest of life cycles. He represents the first wave of free enterprise in China's long effort to modernize. Now, in the second wave, rural people are heading for the cities and the opportunities they offer...
...Telecommunications Act of 1996 [NATION, May 25], Congress wisely recognized that we must bring telecommunications technology via the Internet to our nation's schools and libraries. This effort is critical to ensuring that low-income Americans and those in rural areas gain access to the tools they need to compete in our information-age economy. Bringing technology to all Americans is the key to our future as a global competitor. We simply cannot stand by and allow our schoolchildren to be bypassed by the information highway. Discounts for schools and libraries mean education today and jobs tomorrow...
WHEN YA GOTTA GO Rep. Bob Ney of the Water Resources panel understands federal relief. Two rest stops on a rural stretch of road in Ohio are going to get flush toilets...