Word: ruralization
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...Hillsborough, California. As an IBM engineering manager, he convinced the company to invest more than $5 billion in developing the famous S/360 class computer that helped turn IBM into a data-processing power soon after its introduction in 1964. DIED. RICHARD BUTLER, 86, white supremacist whose compound in rural Idaho, Aryan Nations, was the center of a U.S. neo-Nazi network with links around the globe; in Hayden, Idaho. Though some of his followers were later convicted of race crimes, Butler, a former aerospace engineer, ran the compound openly until a 1998 assault by his guards on a Native American...
...their selfish interests. In view of the diminishing rainfall, India needs to construct more reservoirs and transfer surplus water from one area to another to increase production of food and hydroelectric power. The states should learn to share available water and help improve the economic condition of India's rural poor. R.S.N. Murthy Hyderabad, India...
SETTLED. A class action against RAY MARSH, operator of the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, where the uncremated remains of 334 people were found in storage buildings and surrounding forests in 2002; for $80 million; in Rome, Ga. Marsh, 31, faces an October trial on 787 criminal charges...
What happens when a Prada-loving, Pilates-driven wife and mother from Manhattan trades places with a woodchopping, school-bus-driving, working-class mom from rural New Jersey? Not exactly what you'd expect. Welcome to the premiere episode of Wife Swap, ABC's riveting examination of family values (Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) starting Sept. 29. Unlike Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy, Fox's current version of the same concept, Wife Swap involves no monetary reward. Just a simple premise: two matriarchs from different worlds swap lives for two weeks. One of the most entertaining new entries in reality...
...Jersey childhood in Lindbergh's America. On taking office, Lindbergh promptly cozies up to Hitler, making good on his campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of World War II, then goes on to pass the (entirely fictional) Homestead Act of 1942, which systematically relocates Jewish families to remote rural towns. Bit by bit, never shrill, never frothing, Roth shows us how easily the U.S. could become a fascist nation. It's a somber and devastating meditation on the ephemerality of freedom. --By Lev Grossman...