Word: ruralization
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...month on a farm in Arkansas. It's Green Acres verite, proving that any high-concept '60s sitcom not involving a genie is a reality show in the making. The two blonds are clearly no strangers to privation, having about 0.01% body fat apiece, but they soon find rural life harder than Pilates. Given $50 to buy groceries, they go over budget and plead for a break from the cashier, who tells them, "This isn't a soup kitchen." Asks Richie: "What does that mean, 'soup kitchen'?" Later, Hilton is stumped to hear of a thing called Wal-Mart...
...towards the developing world and a practicing physician with his feet in what seems like a thousand clinics at once. He splits his time between regular rounds at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the free medical complex he founded in Cange, a rural settlement in the most impoverished part of Haiti...
...noon, he and James rode James' bike to Docena, where an uncle had a scrapyard. The church bombing had already occurred, but word hadn't reached their uncle's when, shortly after 4 p.m., they headed home after failing to find a bike for Virgil. The boys took a rural stretch called the Docena-Sandusky Road, flanked by pine and mimosa trees rising from a tangle of swamp grass and kudzu. As Virgil clutched the handlebars, telling his brother where to steer, James says, they laughed about the girls they would pick up in their...
...disturbs us to imagine ‘Survivor’ being beamed to rural villages,” Summers said. “But if that is what people want, we need to be cautious about the ways in which we oppose...
There is a strange bipolarity in the Australian psyche. Compare the louche abandon of the Sydney Mardi Gras with the gruff, homophobic machismo of the outback. Contrast the shining, multicultural cities with rural outposts where shadowy, armed survivalists zealously prophesize an Indonesian invasion. And consider the country's strangely conflicted attitude to immigrants: for every legal settler that gives thanks for the unfettered hospitality of the Lucky Country?as Australia has been famously known since the 1960s?you can line up a woebegone refugee from Afghanistan, Uganda or China who rues the day he or she ever made landfall there...