Word: ruralization
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...mother has her dogs, my father has his houses. Moving from Boston suburbia to the perfect home in rural New England had been his goal for a while, but the route had been anything but straightforward. Finally, after years of house-hunting, a solution arrived this fall...
...idea Noffsinger has been championing is rapidly catching on across the country, from rural Tennessee to South Central Los Angeles. The VA Medical Center in Bay Pines, Fla., introduced group appointments in the summer of 2002 as a way to combat a backlog of 17,000 patients waiting to be inducted into its primary-care system. Today that waiting list hovers at about 100, and the group model is being extended to Veterans Health Administration centers around the country. Endocrinologist David Shewmon started group appointments in his Wooster, Ohio, practice last January and has reduced the wait time...
...many travelers, a trip to a B&B is an opportunity to delve into the nooks and crannies of small-town, rural life--to get acquainted with quirky characters, little shops and lively cafes. That's half the fun. For a different set of people, a small town represents something else entirely: a cultural dead end with little to offer beyond the historic walls of the inn where they happen to be trapped. For those folks, who want to enjoy a country-home feel and personalized service but don't want to miss out on museum exhibits and theater tickets...
...That's often perfect for an active city tourist, who is likely to be sight-seeing, attending special events or spending time with family or friends. Also, security is a major issue for innkeepers in the city--a big difference between urban inns and their country counterparts. "A rural bed-and-breakfast owner may not even lock the front door. This is not the case in the big cities," Hardy says...
...Udayavani, an influential Kannada-language newspaper. Indeed, the politics of caste still count-and Mallya, a member of a tiny mercantile caste, has yet to win over the support of any major caste in Karnataka. Certainly, many of his views should resonate with the state's hard-hit rural masses. He notes with outrage that some of the state's farmers, charged interest rates of 60% by middlemen, have committed suicide by swallowing pesticide. Why, he asks, can't a system of credit be devised in which the middleman is eliminated? But because Mallya barely speaks the local language, young...