Word: ruralization
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...owned by Qais al-Nameq, who was a personal attendant of Saddam who returned a few years ago. His two sons were arrested along with Saddam. These residents say al-Nameq was arrested and the second location the Americans searched was his farm. At first, the searches of a rural farmhouse, however, turned up little that was suspicious. But after all these years of deception, all these months of hunting, given Saddam's reputation for tunnels and safe rooms and secrets, the soldiers knew to scrape the paint off the walls in the event he was hiding behind them...
...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...
...week after Knisley's death to tell them about the school incident. A stream of them now drive up to the school and one by one slide into an empty parking spot, leaving the car idling while the driver walks the child to the door. But in a rural area around deer-hunting season, police say, a stray shot into an empty school on a holiday is not necessarily big news. Says Obetz police chief Rick Minerd: "It could have been kids using their father...
...rural outskirts of Hong Kong lies a site that was once a car-repair shop. Today it houses an experimental farm run by CK Life Sciences International. CK's chief technology officer, S.F. Pang, ambles around the lush, green grounds, extolling the virtues of one of the company's most successful products, NutriSmart fertilizer. NutriSmart is superefficient--a dose one-third the size of conventional chemical fertilizers provides the same crop yield--and because it's organic, it doesn't harm the environment. But most important, Pang insists, NutriSmart makes produce taste better. "Absolutely delicious," he purrs as he savors...
...take jobs abroad. Instead, we should offer tax incentives for companies to manufacture here in America, like a 10 percent tax credit for corporations that produce goods here and keep jobs at home. And we should be bringing venture capital to areas hard-hit by job loss, especially rural communities with entrepreneurs eager to start small businesses if they can only get some help. We should be exporting American products, not American jobs...