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...stories have roots in rural Ontario, where Munro, the daughter of a mink rancher, grew up. The area seems as familiar as the American Midwest, a flat, unexciting setting where even the bizarre can be made to seem ordinary. A missing girl returns to tell about an encounter with a spaceship. The extraterrestrials are not green and stalky but all-Canadian kids wearing seersucker sunsuits. This, of course, is an unbelievable fiction within a totally credible fiction. Munro demonstrates her mastery of this linkage throughout Open Secrets, where each story is richer and more satisfying than most novels...
...impoverished Egyptian farmer's wife, knew nothing about the huge United Nations population conference going on 50 miles to the north, in Cairo. For her, family planning was not a global issue but a personal, practical matter. Getting a checkup last week at a health clinic in the rural town of Sinnuris, Ahmad laughed when a nurse asked if she was pregnant. "No," she replied, "we know pregnancy is an evil now." She and her husband, Sohad explained, had decided to stop after two children because of the expense of raising a large family. Ahmad's 20-year-old daughter...
...women in a farming community would take action to limit the number of children they bear illustrates how rapidly attitudes about family size are changing -- and not just in so-called developed countries but in every corner of the globe. Only a few years ago, the task of persuading % rural populations to lower their birthrates was considered impossible; farmers presumably wanted to have many children to help work the fields. But as land becomes scarce, even uneducated villagers begin to see that having more children in an effort to grow more food can become self-defeating. In rich and poor...
Synar, who was seeking a ninth term in yesterday's runoff, had a history of close races in northeastern Oklahoma's conservative 2nd district. He was seen as more liberal than the farmers and ranchers, who make up most of the rural district...
Grindle has authored several books, including Searching for Rural Development Bureaucrats, Politicians and Peasants in Mexico and State and Countryside...