Word: ruralization
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...Sound of the Violin in My Lai,” one of the three films shown at the screening, testifies to the horror of history. The film was made in 1998 on the 30 year anniversary of the My Lai Massacre, when U.S. soldiers annihilated the rural village of My Lai in South Vietnam, killing hundreds of civilians...
...another segment of Harvard’s international population doesn’t have the luxury of zipping off to Zambia to work on rural development: those who grew up in places like it. The College is home to students of nationalities ranging from Albanian to Zimbabwean, but most of these students don’t plan to tuck their return tickets home inside their diplomas. While they feel strong personal loyalties to their native countries, the opportunity gap between most developing nations and the U.S. is simply too large to overcome...
Fact: We have many beautiful cities, but we also have easy access to the great outdoors that rural areas offer. It amazes me how many people assume that there are no highly populated cities in the Midwest. I’m from Topeka, which is no metropolis even by Midwest standards, but I live right near a mall and every chain restaurant imaginable. I am also a 20 minute drive from hay bails in one direction, and the ghetto in another direction. Our downtown area even has bums. That’s one of the three criteria for official status...
...novel begins in pre-World War II Ceylon, when the 14-year-old Lakshmi leaves her family and moves to rural Kuantan with her new husband, Ayah. Lakshmi bears six children, and the narrative voice soon jumps from Lakshmi to her children, who paint a divergent and complex portrait of their mother. Daughter Anna recounts how Lakshmi stood up to the Japanese invaders, started a business and hid her earnings, coated with bird droppings, at the top of a palm tree. "The Japanese made us all very resourceful," she relates, "but Mother was an undefeatable force." Sevenese, Lakshmi...
...citizens of Soap Lake, Wash. have found the solution to their economic woes: a Giant Lava Lamp. The tiny rural town hopes the lamp will become a major tourist attraction, with neon psychedelic blobs of color undulating inside the 60-by-18-foot structure (about the height of Widener Library) day and night. The Soap Lake City Council fully supports the plan: “Wouldn’t you stop to see a lava lamp?” Councilor Leslie Slough asked the Boston Globe. “A great...