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ARKANSAS GOVERNOR Bill Clinton's most dramatic education proposal is a plan to double federal spending on education, concentrating resources on the inner city and rural areas...
...Washington University in Washington, 2,500 miles away. Lerner takes two four-hour courses a week, beamed to her via the satellite dish in her yard, and keeps in touch with her professors through her computer's electronic bulletin board. "I want to integrate the use of technology in rural areas," says Lerner, who expects to get her degree in two years. "With a modem we can be connected to the rest of the world. With interactive video, we can offer opportunities that people in these areas don't ordinarily have...
Among other administrative foul-ups, inadequate transportation allowances have prevented welfare recipients in some rural areas from reaching training centers located far from their homes. Critics contend that the program would have been more successful if the resources devoted to it had been more focused in problem areas along the Mississippi and around Little Rock rather than scattered over all 75 Arkansas counties. But Clinton calculated that for political reasons he could not leave anybody out; if he had, says Ledbetter, "that would have made people...
...addition, in small rural towns there is a paucity of certified doctors. Most pregnant women see nurses, who are still forbidden to talk about abortion. The new modification does nothing to help these women and in fact specifically discriminates against them...
...these rough-edged characters and the primitive land on which they live. Richardson knew this and knew the importance of resisting the temptation to fill the movie with a dramatic, booming, 32-piece soundtrack and wide, overlong images of the sun setting over the fields and horses of rural England. Instead, he stayed small, as did Fielding more than two centuries earlier...