Word: ruralization
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Public fears of bird flu seem to have abated in recent weeks, but scientists know the world is always one viral mutation away from a deadly pandemic. That fact has been driven home again by a worrying cluster of human bird flu cases in rural Indonesia that could represent the first time the H5N1 virus has managed to pass from human to human to human. The cluster likely began with a 37-year-old woman who hosted a family pork roast on April 29 in the Indonesian village of Kubu Sembilang in north Sumatra. The woman had become sick...
...LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE A feared IRA terrorist loses his cat. Mayhem ensues. In his latest take on the casual perversity of the rural Irish character, Martin McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lonesome West) comes closer to self-parody than is probably advisable, as the body count (well, body-part count) exceeds that of all his other plays put together. Still, it's a bravura black comedy that shows off one of the most original and seductive voices in theater today...
...once more attracting attention of all the wrong kind. Last year, in an operation called Murambatsvina (or "drive out trash"), soldiers destroyed the homes and market stalls of thousands of small traders and opposition supporters and forced many of them to resettle in grim camps or return to their rural homes. Recently, troops have swept rural areas, ostensibly to help boost agricultural productivity by growing food on idle farms. In reality, though, human-rights advocates say the army has begun seizing food from peasant farmers, raising fears that this year's harvest will be confiscated to feed soldiers and tighten...
...Scots. Until last June, the 17,800 hectares of Assynt's Drumrunie and Glencanisp estates belonged to members of the Vestey family, one of England's wealthiest, who would venture up from London every August to enjoy a spot of shooting. Of the 97% of Scotland that is rural land, 88% is privately owned, with two-thirds of that in the hands of 1,252 individuals, families and companies. Mohamed al Fayed, the Egyptian-born owner of swish department store Harrods, has 12,140 hectares; the Danish vice chairman of Lego, Kjeld Kirk Christiansen, 20,230 hectares. After the breakdown...
This story makes me laugh because it sounds so much like another story that has gotten a lot more play in the media and in campus political circles. Harvard students have no trouble accepting the idea that rural, God-fearing po’ folk have made some ridiculous error and voted for the party that makes their lives miserable. We look out over middle America and say, “Well, Buffy, I guess they’re just too dumb to vote Democrat. If only they realized that Republicans are using social issues to delude them, then they?...