Word: ruralization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that Mexico's "open wound" of massive labor migration will top the agenda when he meets with Bush on March 13. He has talked of a desire for the two countries to "think creatively about new programs for job opportunities" that would halt migration at its source, deep inside rural Mexico, instead of at the border. Despite his strong start, Calderón has a lot to prove. "We're still exploring Calderón," De la Calle says, "and I think Calderón is still exploring himself." Mexico's future will be defined by what he finds there...
...treated for frostbite, Grant admitted to strangling his wife and dismembering her body at his family's tool-and-die shop. Grant then put several pieces of his wife in garbage bags, scattering them in a wooded section of parkland close to the family home in a semi-rural area laced with muddy dirt road and snow-covered fields more than 40 miles north of the center of Detroit...
...pointed to a $20 million disparity between the organization’s requested and actual budget. PIH was founded 20 years ago based off work that Farmer, then a joint medicine and anthropology student, had done providing free medical treatment to the poverty-stricken residents of rural Haiti. “The patients are the heart and soul of the operation. Often, once they’ve gotten better, we train and employ them,†Marx said, adding that the Farmer, who spends more of his time abroad with PIH than he does in Cambridge, plays an active...
...privilege are those from the top of that pyramid. Even the stories of suffering come mostly from the U.S.-Mexican border, even though most of the death and destruction comes miles before it is even reached. I am probably one of the few fortunate people, traveling frequently between rural Guatemala and the hallowed halls of Harvard, that is lucky enough to be reminded of the top and bottom of that pyramid. What scares me the most is that rural Guatemala is actually middle class in comparison with the world, so I have yet to even begin to comprehend the global...
Crewdson returns again and again to the same territory, a scene from the suburbs or from rural America invaded by its desires and anxieties. A man attempts to lay lawn turf across the road in front of his house. A woman kneels in a flower garden that has sprung up in her kitchen. It's no surprise that he loves David Lynch. To get into Crewdson's perennial frame of mind, Lynch's Blue Velvet is recommended viewing. It's also not surprising that his father was a psychoanalyst, because Crewdson has the good Freudian's obsession with fetishes. Circles...