Word: ruralization
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...whose real name is Phanom Yeeram, grew up in Thailand's rural northeast, a region most notable for its poverty and, in the early 1980s, the occasional mortar round fired across the Cambodian border by the Khmer Rouge. "Some days we'd be sitting down to dinner and the mortars would explode in the village, blowing out our windows and doors," Jaa says. He escaped these grim realities by viewing the films of Chan and Lee on outdoor screens at temple fairs. "It was powerful for me to watch," he says. "What they did was so beautiful, so heroic...
...would be heartening to see some spine in America’s leaders when it comes to overhauling the way domestic security funds are allocated. No one denies that small states and rural states have a right to federal funds for defense—certainly if they were left without Homeland Security funding they could become prime targets—but it is important to put these matters in perspective. Money should be allocated intelligently—not politically—using an assessment of potential risk by an apolitical agent. While admittedly no city or state would like...
...stuff is just too cheap and too useful not to have. It doesn't even stop at the city limits. Out in the sticks, where there are no skyscrapers to get in the way of a wi-fi signal, wireless is even bigger. There's a hot spot in rural Walla Walla County, Wash., that runs...
...next month on charges relating to his call last year for Mugabe's ouster. Closing in on a Killer MOZAMBIQUE A vaccine against malaria, the biggest killer of children in Africa, came a step closer with the announcement of "very encouraging" clinical-trial results involving 2,022 children in rural southern Mozambique. The vaccine used in the study was shown to be "safe and well tolerated," said lead scientist Dr. Pedro Alonso of the University of Barcelona. It protected 30% of the children from clinical infection with the disease. If further trials are successful, GlaxoSmithKline, which developed the vaccine...
Bush gets manicures too. A lot of them. In fact, the rough-hewn, plain-talking Texas cowboy (born to simple folk in rural New Haven, Connecticut) receives a visit from manicurist Angie Aziz at the White House about every two weeks. Which means approximately 96 trimmings, filings and buffings since inauguration...