Word: ruralization
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...Part of that love of history comes from Ulrich's childhood in rural Sugar City, Idaho, a 900-person community where Ulrich learned how to kill chickens and milk cows. Ulrich says she heard a lot of pioneer stories, as her grandparents were homesteaders in the late 19th century...
...Most rural and urban schools are not wired for the Internet, but all the jails are," he said...
...Most rural and urban schools are not wired for the Internet, but all the jails are," he said...
...porch. It's the traditional start of summer, when bicycles get pulled out of the garage and everyone tries to squeeze into last year's bathing suit. Kids start dreaming in color again. On Memorial Day, several dozen members of my extended family gather at a park near my rural hometown in upstate New York to eat barbecued chicken and deviled eggs. Afterward we play softball while my Uncle Harvey limbers up his lawn chair. But for us the best thing about the holiday is the part that has become an afterthought for many people--the remembering...
...manure," said a leading House Democratic staff member. He and others haven't forgotten how in 1994 the N.R.A. knocked out two of the party's giants, Speaker Tom Foley and Judiciary Committee chairman Jack Brooks, over their support for the assault-weapons ban. And they note that rural, pro-gun districts have more clout in the House. Then there's the N.R.A.'s well-funded PAC and its soft-money donations. Majority leader Dick Armey and whip Tom DeLay each got $9,900 in their most recent elections; 178 House members were on the N.R.A.'s recipient list...