Word: ruralization
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...Congress, of course, that passed the law authorizing the program, or at least authorizing something. A modest three sentences of the massive Telecommunications Act of 1996 told the FCC to expand an existing industry-funded program that provides low-cost telephone service in rural areas and inner cities into one that would hook up schools and libraries. "We gave them much more of an opening than we have in the past," says John McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. "They did what bureaucrats do when you give them money and power...
...Hare Express, a Troy, Mich, trucking company, knows just how Graham feels. Last June she and her husband Ross, the firm's president, cashed in about 400,000 of their 2 million Northwest miles at a similar auction for the chance to build homes for the poor in rural Kentucky. Their partners on this Habitat for Humanity International project were Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. "How often do you get to swing a hammer and help change someone's life, while being in the company of a former President and First Lady?" Hare asks...
Without such help, technology is yet one more hurdle for poor and rural communities struggling to keep up with richer ones. Already, America is sharply divided between those with access to computers and the Internet and those without it. Only 13% of classrooms in schools with a high percentage of minority students are connected to the Internet, compared with 27% of classrooms overall...
...reservations would create a giant supersonic battleground where low-flying aircraft and the flares and radar-jamming aluminum-silicon fibers they drop pose a threat to wildlife and motorists. "Have you ever had an F-16 scream over your head at 200 feet?" asks GRACE POTORTI, director of the Rural Alliance for Military Accountability, based in Reno, Nev., which is joining a lawsuit against the Defense Department. The most hotly disputed area: the remote Owyhee Canyonlands of Idaho, Oregon and Nevada, where efforts by the Air Force to expand bombing runs are at least temporarily on hold until the bighorn...
...used way too broad a brush to paint an image of people who hunt and own guns as murderous. My husband and children are hunters. We live in a rural Texas community where, like thousands of other places across the nation, owning firearms is not unusual. We've managed to rear generations of well-adjusted children who have taken their places as respected members of our communities, unlike the amoral animals who perpetrated the Arkansas tragedy. BETH LESCHPER Stephenville, Texas...