Word: ruralization
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...DIED. CORETTA SCOTT KING, 78, widow of Martin Luther King Jr. and advocate for civil rights; at a hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. After breaking free of rural poverty in Alabama, King met her preacher husband while she was a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music. Following the Rev. King's assassination in 1968, she sought to sustain her husband's legacy-largely through the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, which she founded in Atlanta-while pushing for gender and racial equality under the banner of the civil-rights movement...
...west to become a leader capable of attracting support from skeptics. His core economic conservatism is unlikely to have changed as much as some suggest--Harper is not and never will be a Red Tory--but his stolid textbook campaign managed to attract a diverse group of voters, from rural Albertans to southern Ontarians to nationalist Quebeckers. If Harper proves he can govern as inclusively as he has campaigned, it may give him the makings of a new national Conservative coalition for the 21st century. Says Hawkes: "I think he could be Prime Minister for a long time...
...community's complaints against the newcomers are varied and vigorous. Neighbors rail against single-family homes that are carved into hostels housing a dozen or more men at a time. Uninsured drivers, some of whom display the daredevil driving style of rural Latin America, anger local motorists. Day laborers looking for work clog parking lots, and they are more than just an inconvenience. Flooding the market with cheap labor, they're driving down wages for everyone. Even some of the more established undocumented workers are critical of the newcomers. "A hard worker used to be able to make...
...education, health care and other social programs is even smaller as a proportion of the overall economy than previously thought. And industrialization is taking a toll: several industries, including steel and automobiles, have been growing so rapidly that they now have problems of overcapacity. Still, with 300 million rural laborers in China eager to join the industrialization push for pay that's a fraction of what Americans or West Europeans earn, the downward pressure on wages and jobs worldwide is likely to continue. Just last week, Ford announced it will lay off up to 30,000 workers and close...
...shootings, police continue to arrest villagers and block outsiders from entering Dongzhou to investigate whether the official body count of three is too low, as villagers claim. Power-plant construction, residents have been informed, will proceed. Nevertheless, some locals hold out hope that Beijing, which earlier this month targeted rural graft as one of its biggest priorities for 2006, will clean up the mess. "If only the central government knew the truth, they would help us," says Lin's brother. "Because if they don't help, then there's nowhere we can go to seek justice...