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...supplement their income, and the rest of China by replenishing the national blood banks' dangerously low stocks. "It was like a poverty-relief program," says a Henan resident who gave plasma in 1993 and became infected. Through campaigns in the villages and schools, the government encouraged rural farmers and factory workers to sell their plasma for 40 yuan ($5). The good intentions backfired when "bloodheads," as some of the unofficial blood collectors came to be known, found a way to extract more plasma from fewer donors. Those running some stations pooled and processed the blood. Then they sent the plasma...
MANHATTAN—“We’re a small-town newspaper in a community of traditional values,” said the managing editor of a paper in rural Nebraska. It’s exactly the type of rhetoric I had heard all throughout high school. “People shouldn’t be gay at Brentwood. They should wait until university. It’s better there,” said a senior administrator at my high school. Well, I waited...
...Southern Baptist community in Louisiana, but every couple of calls I would get a surprising response. “Sure, why not?” or “I don’t see any reason not to.” These responses are coming from papers in rural Nebraska and the heartland of Texas...
...more than 20,000 letters that scholars estimate Jefferson completed before his death on July 4, 1826, the future Secretary of State, Vice President, two-term President and founder of the University of Virginia confirmed his premature decision to abandon the rigors of government service for the pleasures of rural solitude: "I have taken my final leave of everything of that nature, have retired to my farm, my family and books from which I think nothing will ever more separate...
...resistance commander ever since, organizing rocket attacks on the green zone, the headquarters of the U.S. administration in Baghdad. When interviewed by TIME last fall, he spoke of a vain hope that Saddam would return and re-establish a Baathist regime. But at a recent meeting near a rural mosque, he said he is fighting to rid all Muslim lands of infidels and to set up an Islamic state in Iraq. "The jihad in Iraq is more potent than it was in Afghanistan in the 1980s because the insurgents today have better weapons and are developing new ones," he says...