Word: ruralism
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...distribute food aid as it comes in. Still, the pain is spreading across this country of 24 million as unremitting hunger stalks the land. Li Han, a Chinese truck driver who crosses the frontier regularly at Guchengli, has watched it. "People over there are starving," he says, "in rural areas and in the cities. Even the soldiers are not getting good food...
WASHINGTON: Call it the revenge of the weeds. An environmental report released yesterday shows Americans living in rural areas -- particularly the Midwestern corn belt -- are getting a cocktail of farm chemicals when they drink tap water. The chemicals found in the study could drastically increase cancer risks...
DIED. MATTIE LOU O'KELLEY, 89, nostalgic folk artist of rural America; in Decatur, Ga. Only in her 50s did she start to paint. Her canvases became her memoir, telling stories of hard work and simple pleasures...
...with the popular television comedian Steve Coogan, crafts intricately layered, well-observed, heartfelt plays in a realistic vein about contemporary relationships. McDonagh is more a folkwriter in the tradition of J.M. Synge. His macabre, wildly funny and over-the-top tragicomedies are slightly absurdist, set in remote parts of rural Ireland and peopled with comic grotesques--or literal grotesques, like the title character in Cripple, whom a young actor, Ruaidhri Conroy, plays with a convulsive total body limp of hideous and breathtaking precipitousness...
...found on May 9 in rural Pennsville, N.J., near the body of William Reese, 45, a cemetery caretaker. Police found him shot in the head, again with a Golden Saber .40-cal. bullet. Reese's red 1995 Chevrolet pickup was gone. The FBI believes Cunanan spent a few days in New York City's Greenwich Village, then headed south on the New Jersey Turnpike. Along the way Cunanan replaced the truck's plates with South Carolina license plates that he apparently stole from a K Mart parking lot off I-95 in Florence, S.C. Law-enforcement officials soon began picking...