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...election results send a more alarming signal to the Tamils, and to the civilized world at large, that a rural voter in a ‘Democracy by Ethnicity’ like Sri Lanka cannot not go beyond the policy of communal intoxication and anti-western sentiment. Another example of this reality was the conduct of state media during the polls—they continued to depict the ruler as a pious and pure soul offering prayers in the temples, thus not allowing the average voter to think past the Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism. These are the exact types of policies...
...Some serious spots, like the anti-abortion ad from Focus on the Family, in which the mother of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow explains how she ignored doctor's orders to terminate her pregnancy with her star son, could fit because they stir controversy. There's nothing controversial about building rural health clinics...
...shelter, the planet, neighborhoods and education. People can go to the Pepsi website refresheverything.com - which can also be accessed through Facebook and Twitter - to both submit ideas and vote on others they find appealing. Among those on the site now: "Help free healthcare clinic expand services to uninsured in rural TN" and "Build a fitness center for all students in Hays, Kansas community." Every month, the company will offer up to 32 grants to worthy projects...
...rural roads the buses go through empty cow fields; one had a propeller plane in it, nothing else. Two women got on and sat behind me on the way to Baton Rogue, one with a boyfriend in jail, and asked us for money. “Got three dollars. Got a dollar? No? How ’bout a phone?” The man behind me riding through Texas, explaining the oil rigs and the horse corrals and the lines in the marshy grass that humans made for catching crawfish...
...wasn't always this way, he explains in his introduction. Traditionally, Thais were rural folk who ate at home. But in the 1960s, with the country rapidly industrializing, people migrated from the farms to the factories, and food stalls sprang up to feed them. Their customers were once pitied or scorned. Women who bought takeaway instead of cooking for their families were called "plastic-bag housewives." (See the 12 tastiest new foods...