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...years, along with nearly everyone else in this corner of eastern Australia. It's the region's worst and longest-lasting drought in over a century, and dead flower beds and brown football fields are the least of their worries. Toowoomba was the go-to city for a large rural area, including nearby Darling Downs, a fertile farmland, until the rain went away and never came back. "We've been in water restriction in Toowoomba since 1992," says Dianne Thorley, the city's mayor of eight years. "Australia [is] drying up, a little bit like a dried apple...
...farmers around Toowoomba already know what nature is producing in their specific region: zilch. More specifically, zilch, with no end in sight - and it has pushed many local farmers past the point of coping. "The rural communities have suffered the most," says Toowoomba Mayor Thorley. "When things get really bad, people get depressed and anxious about what's happening. It makes it difficult for families." In the 1990s, an outreach group called the Bush Connection was established to ease the the social impact of the drought: alcoholism, domestic violence and suicide...
...account diminished life for five decades in all before he finally got a break last year. He made it happen by standing in line for 13 hours at the Wise Country Fairgrounds in the mountains of southwestern Virginia, where a nonprofit volunteer group called the Rural Area Medical Health Expedition once a year provides free medical and dental treatment to all comers. For thousands of men and women like Lowe who crowd the health fair every year, it represents the only medical care they ever receive. The dentists couldn't help Lowe on the spot...
...outrage is only likely to resonate among those who are already outraged. "Cultural worldview," squishy as the concept may be, matters more than anything else when it comes to the most divisive issues - more than whether you are black or white, male or female, southern or eastern, urban or rural, conservative or liberal...
...enjoy, and have begun questioning the idea of marriage, which in India has traditionally occurred at a far younger age than in the West. Some, especially in the more Western-oriented southern Indian cities of Bangalore and Chennai, even trying live-in relationships. Of course, much of India remains rural and poor, and life for women outside the main urban centers is changing a lot more slowly...