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...award-winning “Poisonwood Bible,” published two years before “Prodigal Summer.” Like “Poisonwood,” the newer novel explores the relationship between people and the land they live on, this time in southern Appalachia. Kingsolver interweaves three story strands set in the fictional Zebulon County near the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. In this small farming community on the edge of a great forest, the contact between human and nature is still immediate and meaningful in a way it is not in the concrete...
...club in Slovakia Cost: $4.8 million Box office: $80 million Cannibals torment a family in a desert town once used for nuke tests in this Wes Craven remake Cost: $15 million Box office: $67 million Six girlfriends are harassed by creepy Gollum types on an extreme caving trip in Appalachia Cost: $6 million Box office $44 million From his deathbed, a man directs a doctor and an aggrieved dad in new games Cost: $10 million Box office: Opens this week ICKIEST SCENE Two men wake up chained to pipes in a dirty bathroom and must saw off their feet...
...Father Knew Charles Ives” has its flaws, the beauty and cathartic quality of “The Dharma at Big Sur” more than redeem this release. Adams has done for the Pacific landscape with this piece what Aaron Copland did for Appalachia with his ballet music. Whether you’re a classical music fan or not, this album is not one to be missed...
SOUTH DAKOTA Native American men residing here fare the worst, on average living only to age 58 MISSISSIPPI RIVER Life expectancy for counties immediately east and west of the Mississippi River is 76.6 and 77.2, respectively APPALACHIA AND THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Low income whites here die on average four years sooner than their neighbors in the rural Northern Plains...
...groups. In life expectancy, as in real estate, what matters is location, location, location. In a telephone interview with The Crimson, Ezzati said that “health problems seem to be geographically focused. Whites in the northern plains may have the same income level as whites in Appalachia, but they consistently fare better in terms of life expectancy.” According to the study, the “healthiest” states include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington, which have combined male-female life expectancies above 78 years, which...