Word: ruralization
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Raised in a rural town in central Mexico, Elena describes her family as “farm folk” struggling to make a living. She attended local Catholic schools with her two brothers, but at age seven, her parents decided it was time for a radical change...
...three college students arrested in March for the burnings of nine rural churches in Alabama will most likely never go to trial, sources in the case tell TIME. Judge John E. Ott announced Monday that their trial date has been moved from June to November - a delay, according to the sources, that is the result of infighting over a plea agreement among federal prosecutors, the Alabama state attorney and three county prosecutors. The issue: where the trio will serve their jail time...
From her worldwide travels to various jobs, Robin M. Worth ’81 has never been one to shy away from new adventures.She has backpacked through Europe and Asia and has volunteered in rural Ethiopia at a school and health clinic. But these experiences have been marked by repeated returns to Harvard, a place that gave her opportunities this native Texan might not have had.“I was always aware of how different my life would have been had I not come to Harvard,” she says. Now back again as the director of international...
...FINAL DAYSFor 20 years after the newspaper’s sale, Bingham maintained a downtown office where he created FineLine, a newsletter for journalists to explore real-world newsroom ethics. But the venture was short-lasting. He took pleasure in mowing the lawn and chopping wood at his rural home. He spent his time serving on the boards of civic organizations in Louisville, and worked every day from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.“He was a great philanthropist who did not spend money on himself,” says Tori Murden McClure, a longtime friend...
...before launching his campaign was a brief, unsuccessful uprising against then-President Fujimori in October 2000. After Fujimori's government collapsed a few weeks later, Humala was pardoned and sent abroad as a military attach?, returning to Peru early last year. He is the clear favorite among Peru's rural and urban poor, who have not benefited from the country's fast-growing economy and are receptive to his promise of radical change. Those promises include claims that he would nationalize "strategic industries" like the energy sector, veto the free trade agreement with the U.S. and end U.S.-supported programs...