Word: ruralization
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...says his rural upbringing has only heightened his excitement over today’s speech...
...will be teaching a class at HMS—where he is a professor of medical anthropology—or in attendance at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). The next, he is treating patients and running a large clinic in the poor rural town of Cange, Haiti. In between, he may check on the medical programs he helped found in Peru, Siberia, Mexico and Guatemala...
...they’ve heard enough to know that attendance requires made-up faces and the appropriate accoutrements: namely, Goth-inspired garb. “Basically I just pulled whatever black I had out of the closet,” says Goodwin. Ahn, who hails from rural Ohio, even dyed her hair back to its natural dark hue for the occasion...
...used to be that savoring strange creatures was really common only among the Cantonese or poor rural folk. But these days, even Shanghai residents are hungry for a taste of the wild. With the city's fortunes on the rise, eating endangered animals such as the Yangtze crocodile or Chinese sturgeon has become yet another way to flaunt one's wealth. Restaurateur Ng says his biggest spenders forked over an average of $120 per diner, in a city where the average monthly income is $130. "They order a lot of expensive things, like steamed cobra," he says, "but then they...
...spring of 2001, at the age of 69, she earned her Ph.D. from UMN’s Department of Work, Community and Family Education after writing a dissertation about the productivity of aging agriculturalists in rural Minnesota...