Word: ruralism
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...stereotype of a feeder school is a semi-boarding prep school picturesquely situated in rural New England. Many of the schools which today send consistently high numbers of students to Harvard are continuing in this tradition...
...this country, but whether we have enough doctors in the right places. Most physicians prefer to practice in urban areas. Private practice physicians feel the big health plans are locking them out of their own markets, and driving down their incomes. Meanwhile, many people in tiny towns and rural areas cannot find a doctor nearby when they need help...
...favorite things to do is to get into a car and spend an hour or so speeding down some rural highway, all alone except for the wind and maybe the radio. I roll down the window, enjoy the clean air and spend a stress-free hour just driving...
...discovered that many people, particularly on the East Coast, think upper New York state represents the nation's rural highways. This is laughable. When I was in first grade, I commuted 45 miles each way to school. To give you some idea of how long, straight and boring the road was, I figured out how many miles were left by the kind of barbed wire fence we were passing. There was only one other car on the road, the same one every day. I remember because the man driving it read the newspaper while he drove to work (at about...
...PROMISED LAND (DISCOVERY) It was the "greatest peacetime migration in American history"--the movement of blacks from the rural South to the booming cities of the North between 1940 and 1970--and this Discovery Channel documentary series recounted it in the grave, eloquent words of those who lived through it. Another strong addition (along with pbs' Eyes on the Prize, Parts 1 and 2) to TV's ongoing chronicle of the black experience in America...