Word: ruralization
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Forty miles further down the new flight path, in rural Somerset County, Terry Butler, 40, was pulling the radiator from a gray 1992 Dodge Caravan at the junkyard where he works. He had been watching the news and knew all flights were supposed to be grounded. He was stunned when he looked up in the sky and saw Flight 93 cutting through the lingering morning fog. "It was moving like you wouldn't believe," he said...
...Forty miles further down the new flight path, in rural Somerset County, Terry Butler, 40, was pulling the radiator from a gray 1992 Dodge Caravan at the junkyard where he works. He had been watching the news and knew all flights were supposed to be grounded. He was stunned when he looked up in the sky and saw Flight 93 cutting through the lingering morning fog. "It was moving like you wouldn't believe," he said...
...grown from a rural grammar school in 1899 into a state university--it is what educators call a masters' institution--with 12,800 students, the school has worked hard to retain its cozy sense of community so that every student feels nurtured and challenged...
...learning communities"--courses that are centered on a common theme and bring together students and faculty from different disciplines. And the college gives course credit for community-service. Culinary-arts students help train the homeless for jobs in the restaurant industry; students preparing to become opticians go to rural Thailand to distribute eyeglasses...
...BRITAIN Country Living A government advisory group said foot-and-mouth disease will cost Britain's economy more than $6 billion this year and threatens "the entire fabric of rural life." The report by the Countryside Agency came as the army was called in to help contain more than a dozen new cases in a part of northeast England that had been free of the disease for three months. The government dismissed new calls for a pilot vaccination program...