Word: ruralism
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Like raccoons, wild turkeys are not really a wilderness animal. They are an edge-of-civilization critter. Deep snow and deep forest defeat them. They gobble insects in the warm months, occasionally in the median strips of rural interstate highways. But they get through winters, or don't, foraging for barberries, rose hips, wild apples, sumac, juniper, sedges and fern. What they really like is corn wastage at winter-bound dairy farms and sunflower seeds policed from beneath suburban bird feeders...
...last week, that number had been reduced to about 45 percent. The opposition has been based in part on the notion that people could be divorced against their will. In the cities, people are expected to vote in favor. But the opposition is strong in the many rural communities. Many farmers are concerned that their farms will go to the women. The church, of course, has been very vocally opposed to the referendum." The last vote on divorce in Ireland went down to defeat in 1986, by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent...
...TIME THE MEDIA STOPPED PORTRAYing unrest in the West as coming from a few extremists. The vast majority of people in rural states are directly affected by mandates from people who don't have firsthand experience. The feelings of alienation are pervasive out here. Members of the media need to spend a substantial amount of time on a working ranch and gain some practical knowledge about the field. I think they would see that ranchers are extreme environmentalists and their use of the land spans generations, not weekends. RENEE L. DANIELS, Harrison, Montana...
...COUNTY'S CARVER SOUNDS LIKE A carbon copy of a contemporary fixture: the blowhard with the warmest stool and coldest coffee in any cafe in the rural West. His newfound celebrity has made him untouchable, a sort of O.J. of the Purple Sage, as he and his cronies come dangerously close to joining the ranks of the cop killers. All assaults on public employees, regardless of weapon, should be vigorously prosecuted. JOHN WALKER, Coaldale, Colorado...
...this remark was the result of more than humility. Lincoln, particularly as the Civil War stretched into its fourth year, was painfully aware of how much was beyond his control. David Herbert Donald in his biography Lincoln carefully examines the life of Abraham Lincoln from his birth in rural Kentucky through his death...