Word: ruralization
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Kaplan says his books skip over the more obscure scholarships that he used to encounter while on his scholarship search. “It almost seemed like you had to be a 4’6” tall, left-handed, double-jointed man from rural Montana to qualify for one of the profiled awards,” Kaplan says, laughing. “I knew there had to be better, more suitable scholarships out there...
...story of female achievement in Iceland doesn't necessarily have a happy ending. Educators have found that when girls leave their rural enclaves to attend universities in the nation's cities, their science advantage generally shrinks. While 61% of university students are women, they make up only one-third of Iceland's science students. By the time they enter the labor market, many are overtaken by men, who become doctors, engineers and computer technicians. Educators say they watch many bright girls suddenly recoil in the face of real, head-to-head competition with boys. In a math class...
...help me get acclimated to my new surroundings. The Links threw us a party, and it was then that I made my first and closest Harvard friendship. We bonded over music, books, and a keen sense of wanderlust, a trait that took us on 2 a.m. runs to rural Connecticut and spur-of-the-moment interstate memory trips. Things were starting to look good...
Long a target for budget hawks, farm subsidies are facing a 5% cut under Bush's plan. But farmers are a powerful constituency in the red states. Because the Senate, apportioned by states rather than population, is skewed toward rural interests, the President will face an uphill battle to put these sacred cows on a diet...
That was the genesis of Barratt's first postretirement venture, Quaker Bolivia Link, a nonprofit founded in 1995 that funds dozens of projects in rural Bolivia, mostly high in the Andes where government funds rarely reach anyone. Most of the projects focus on stabilizing the food and water supply, though the organization takes its direction solely from locals and strives to help them achieve what they need most, be that greenhouses, schools or trees. "We don't really take them out of poverty--we know that," says Barratt. Over the past 10 years, Quaker Bolivia Link has raised...