Word: ruralization
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...energy shortages. It helps degrade rivers, deplete aquifers, eliminate grasslands, concentrate food-processing conglomerates and inundate our fast-food nation with high-fructose corn syrup. Our farm policy is supposed to save small farmers and small towns. Instead it fuels the expansion of industrial megafarms and the depopulation of rural America. It hurts Third World farmers, violates international trade deals and paralyzes our efforts to open foreign markets to the nonagricultural goods and services that make up the remaining 99% of our economy...
...record $15 million, including just under $800,000 for Captives, a stark evocation of desiccated torsos by New Delhi-born Rameshwar Broota. Two months later, an auction in London elicited $1.42 million for a Tantric-inspired oil painting by India's Syed Haider Raza. Even in Vietnam, idyllic rural scenes coated in the country's distinctive lacquer that sold for a few hundred dollars a few years ago are now selling for 10 times that. A gouache-and-ink painting by Vietnamese post-impressionist Le Pho, whose work is part of the permanent exhibition at the Modern Art Museum...
...trade has become so frenzied in Vietnam that dozens of young painters are now employed by unscrupulous dealers to make copies of works by leading local artists. Le Thiet Cuong, for instance, paints deceptively simple rural scenes that evoke his childhood when he was evacuated to the countryside because of war. A prodigious painter, he is sometimes criticized for pumping out too much too fast. Yet part of his purported output comes courtesy of a bevy of knock-off specialists who hawk canvases adorned with his forged signature. Just down the road from a gallery that sells his real works...
...Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin, field a mixed team of cashiered former rebels and government soldiers. From eight teams in 2002, the local league has grown to 16 sponsored squads in two divisions who compete for an annual $3,000 prize - a sum that goes a long way in rural Cambodia...
...election has revealed a potential weakness. Despite her massive victory, the vote highlighted a growing polarity between the urban middle class - most of which voted for the centrist Carrio, who placed second in the national balloting - and the suburban working class and rural poor who are the traditional Peronist bastions of support. In fact, "Cristina's" campaign reminded many political observers of the tactics of Argentina's most famous and effective politican, Eva Peron, Juan Peron's second wife. Evita's "Rainbow Tour" of Europe in 1947 saw her meeting with the Pope and other European leaders, mesmerizing crowds with...