Word: ruralization
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...movement began in Japan some 30 years ago with a group of women alarmed by pesticides, the increase in processed food and their country's dwindling rural population. Their teikei--partnerships with local farmers through annual subscriptions--spread to Europe and the U.S. From a single Massachusetts CSA in 1986, subscription farms in the U.S. have boomed to about 1,200, some of them serving more than 1,000 families...
...place in the central highland jungles, where Shining Path now taxes the lucrative coca-leaf shipments for cocaine traffickers. The revival of Sendero Luminoso, as Shining Path is known in Spanish, is a stinging sign of Peru's and South America's failure to address the epic levels of rural poverty that worsened under the capitalist reforms of the 1990s. Since locking up Shining Path's leadership a decade ago, Peru "has not been sufficiently agile in implementing development programs," admits Interior Minister Fernando Rospigliosi, who oversees antiterrorism efforts. That's a key reason why Shining Path has reloaded...
Nutrageous is our favorite Halloween treat for kids, but we live in a small, mainly rural town where all the trick-or-treating takes place around the town center, so most folks buy candy and drop it off at the police station for re-distribution through the families in the center...
...spend more time reading than studying word lists? Probably, though it depends on what they read and how well they study the word lists. To this day, I remember learning the word apathy on a list I studied while preparing for the SAT. Because I had gone to a rural Arkansas junior high that assigned a romance novel in eighth-grade lit, poring over the word list three years later was actually helpful...
...achievement of having plowed through As I Lay Dying. At ETS, measuring anything beyond developed ability used to be considered noise that disrupted the clear sound of a score. Psychometricians try to screen out all kinds of noise--questions that ask about subways, for instance, could be excluded because rural kids may not be familiar with them. Questions showing even the vaguest bias are excised; you will never find a woman measuring cups of flour in an SAT question. The concern is that girls who read such a question will be distracted by the implicit sexism, and so their answer...