Word: ruralization
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...poor on both sides are united by a struggle just to survive what most Americans can barely imagine. Mothers in the rural El Paso outpost of Revolucion cross into Juarez to buy methyl parathion, a pesticide so lethal it is banned in the U.S. They sprinkle it around their shanties, and it kills the roaches and tarantulas for a year. But their children play in the dust and dirt, and when they get sick, their parents take them to Juarez doctors, who are cheaper and stay open into the night. If the children die, they are buried across the border...
...Last month, on the sunday when Premier Wen Jiabao opened the annual National People's Congress with a speech about building a "new socialist countryside," Yu headed for the town of Changgou, in a rural district of Beijing, "to try to save some trees." Friends in the district government had phoned with news that Changgou had announced it would bulldoze several of its constituent villages and bring in 5,000 laborers to create an enormous man-made lake as part of a program to attract real estate investment and tourism. They'd recommended that local leaders give Yu an audience...
...When Hope Died Our March 13 reporting from China related that growing numbers of farmers are demonstrating over land disputes, pollution and corrupt local officials. Can Beijing calm the rural discontent before it grows into a larger revolt? TIME's June 19, 1989, issue covered a mass protest that ended in tragedy-the Tiananmen Square crackdown...
...Being able to fix anything with whatever lies to hand is a proud tradition in Australia, says Adelaide author Mark Thomson, who's writing a book about the people he calls "resourceful problem solvers." Some backyard tinkerers and rural handymen, he says, "will spend an enormous amount of time and effort doing a repair job with bits and pieces they've got in their shed. When it's fixed and it works, it's a real victory that you've done it yourself and it hasn't cost a thing." That frugal ingenuity is shared by many rural women, says...
...Wiebes didn?t drink or dance; storytelling was the top-billed entertainment. We can almost watch Wiebe grow into an author. He is simultaneously obsessed by with God, sex and fiction?the troika of many great writers. With Of This Earth, he gives us another delightful album of rural Canadian life...