Word: ruralization
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...Communist Party bureaucracy, however, doesn't seem to have caught up with the new law. Despite laxer regulation, the career advancement of local leaders, especially in rural areas, still often depends on keeping birthrates low. "One set of bad population figures can stop an official from getting promoted," says Tu Bisheng, a Beijing legal activist who has helped document abuses related to the one-child policy...
...Linyi's nine counties and three districts trawled villages, looking to force women pregnant with illegal children to abort, and to sterilize those who already had the maximum allotment of children under the local family-planning policy. According to that regulation, which exists in a similar form in most rural areas, women with a son are not allowed to bear more children, whereas mothers whose first child is handicapped or a girl are allowed to have a second baby...
...having relied on FEMA's assurances that it would provide bus transportation out of the Superdome to evacuees. A day later, she discovered those buses were still on the way from other states and ordered her staff to start rounding up local buses. Recalls Tyson Bromell II, her rural-development director: "She pulled me to the side, and asked me, 'Where are all the buses?' I said, 'We've been told not to send them, that there were already enough buses.' And she just looked at me and said, 'Get those buses, Ty.'" But the Governor acknowledges she made mistakes...
...around the world who watched the touchdown of the shuttle Discovery on television. The craft's journey to space and back was another stride in mankind's effort to unravel the mystery of the universe. We hope the benefits from the efforts in space will also reach us in rural Africa, where poverty, disease and hunger are making life for the majority of people not worth living. How we wish that the billions of dollars spent on the Discovery's journey had been given to Africa to provide safe drinking water, education, shelter and employment to the millions...
...purple violets. Though the land around Prairie Chapel Road is a commercial-free zone, it has become a pasture of political messages in recent days when a crop of red, white and blue pro-Bush placards have sprouted on fencelines and in the front yards of the president's rural neighbors...