Word: ruralism
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...smaller towns superstores are providing a welcome -- and previously unknown -- burst of urban energy. Borders opened a store in rural Lancaster, Pennsylvania (pop. 55,550), in late 1992, and it is now the most popular spot in town, with its Saturday-night musical performances. "There are no major museums or galleries here," says Trudi Musselman, a management consultant who used to live in New York City. "When Borders opened, it was a godsend. I go there now before the library...
...Ikuo Hayashi, 48, Aum's chief medical official, who implicated Asahara. Hayashi, who was arrested for illegally confining an Aum member at one of the rural compounds, reportedly confessed he was among the 10 Aum operatives who had placed sarin on the trains. The order, he said, came specifically from Asahara. The third big catch was Yoshihiro Inoue, 25, who is suspected of organizing the attack. Police caught him in western Tokyo last week and discovered bombmaking explosives in his car, and maps and timetables for the city's subway system at his hideout...
...patron saint of militant gun owners, a living martyr whose infamous 1992 shoot-out with federal agents helped ignite "a seething backlash in the country," as the N.R.A. puts it. But as Randy Weaver looked out his window in a rural Iowa town last week, watching children play on the freshly mowed grass of a park across the street, he sounded more like a struggling single parent than an antigovernment desperado. The children on the lawn reminded him of Samuel, his 14-year-old son, who was shot and killed by federal agents. "He loved the outdoors," Weaver told...
...pernicious influence extends beyond the Federal government into our nation's cities. The largely rural NRA has stood against local governments' attempts to regulate guns within urban crime areas. The NRA's mantra that "guns don't kill people, people do" rings hollow before the sound of gunfire and death on urban streets...
...Kevin Davie, 40, editor of Business Times, Sunday Times, Johannesburg, South Africa. He expects to focus on policy issues in public finance, trade and industry, petroleum economics, labor markets, agriculture, development finance and rural development...