Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statuesque white-tailed buck grazes along a roadside in rural Virginia. Passing hunters slow their cars, aim their high-powered rifles out the window and fire -- then fire again when the deer neither falls nor flees. Three police cruisers suddenly surround the cars, and the hapless hunters discover they are the targets of a sting dubbed Bambiscam...
...scholarship that took him to Oxford and England, "the other man's country." He reveals nothing about his university experiences and alludes only glancingly to the following 15 years he spent struggling to make his name as a writer. What engages, indeed mesmerizes, his attention is his sojourn in rural England, "this gift of the second life in Wiltshire, the second, happier childhood as it were, the second arrival (but with an adult's perception) at a knowledge of natural things, together with the fulfillment of the child's dream of the safe house in the wood...
...Going one-on-one with Harvard for a recruit, we probably wouldn't get him unless he really liked the rural area or didn't want to move far from home," St. Lawrence Coach Joe Marsh says. "Harvard gets the cream of the crop. We tend to get some good kids in the Ottawa Valley and Toronto areas...
Inner cities, poor rural areas and apparently even suburbs--It's no longer a question of students graduating high school with 5th-grade reading levels. Many young people can't even read at all. The author and teacher Jonathan Kozol has said that more than 25 million Americans are illiterate. If people are unable to read, our entire democracy is in danger...
Successes do occur, says Middlebury's Dalton. "There are miracle workers out there doing incredible things." Freed of paperwork and unrelated duties, and with the backing of their principals, these counselors are able to focus students' attention early. Katahdin High School is in the depressed rural town of Sherman Station in northeastern Maine. The one counselor for the school's 250 students, Wayne Miller, is a key member of the faculty. He starts seeing freshmen "right off the bat" to get them thinking about careers, then eventually about how college might expand their opportunities. "Our kids are extraordinarily modest," says...