Word: appalachia
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...1930s, he learned the banjo from his mother while his brother Carter took guitar lessons from the mailman. The Stanley Brothers were naturals, and soon they were performing live out of a Bristol, Va., radio station and recording for Columbia. At one point, they were the biggest act in Appalachia not named Bill Monroe...
...public lands by corporations and sportsmen. The Administration plans to allow off-road vehicles back on 50,000 acres of the Imperial Sand Dunes, near San Diego. And later this month the Administration is likely to issue a rule clearing legal hurdles for coal mining companies, especially in Appalachia, to dump waste into streams after literally ripping the tops off of mountains...
...Paul was the only person I ever met who was as comfortable at a rave as he was at a conference on health-delivery deficiencies in appalachia,” said Christopher Durso, his best friend. “He was smart and funny and just completely himself, and one of the truest friends I ever had—the kind of friend who helps you know yourself better...
...sides of this debate claim to be working for diversity. The Georgia appeals court said UGA's inflexible formula, which assigned extra points to blacks, made the mistake of assuming that groups, rather than individuals, add diversity to a campus. "A white applicant from a disadvantaged rural area in Appalachia may well have more to offer a Georgia public university such as UGA--from the standpoint of diversity--than a nonwhite applicant from an affluent family and a suburban Atlanta high school," the court wrote...
...trying to taper off. And he plans to smuggle into Thailand a few opium pellets that he can boil in a pot of tea and drink. He'll be getting out, he swears. He's not going to stay in some Lao backwater, the Asian equivalent of Appalachia, just because the dope is cheap and plentiful. You want to believe him, you really do, but you just know he's not going anywhere...