Word: rurality
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...don’t assume that this girl from rural Vermont is a quiet leader. The “Stormin’ Mormon,” as her teammates nicknamed her freshman year, is making sure she and everyone else is pumped...
...wavering grittiness of analog equipment and out-dated sound samplers. The reclusive duo produce their mind-altering music—sprinkled with hi-fi distortions of tape-recorded voices, instruments, and film clips—without leaving the confines of Hexagon Sun, their commune/recording studio/abandoned nuclear bunker in rural Scotland. The group’s new release, “The Campfire Headphase,” is upbeat, light, and at times blissful; a striking departure from their eerie sophomore album, “Geogaddi.” Throbbing electronic melodies, airy guitar chords, fragments of conversation, and frosty...
...programs in South Africa, Ethiopia, Haiti and Vietnam. In those places too, Darkoh makes liberal use of churches and existing AIDS advocacy groups to get treatment to the largest number of people possible. In South Africa, he added an online medical database that can monitor remotely the health of rural patients and assist hands-on providers in the field...
...Congo. He watched the country deteriorate in the 1990s as civil war took hold. On trips to visit his mother, who refused to move, Kintaudi says, "I started dreaming about doing something to help there. You would have to be very selfish not to see the need, especially in rural areas...
...considered a hot spot. In some parts of the country, 9 out of 10 kids younger than age 5 are infected with the mosquito-borne parasite that causes malaria. That's why Dr. Pedro Alonso, a Spaniard, in 1996 founded the Manhia Health Research Centre. The terribly impoverished rural town is the last place you would expect to find a sophisticated medical laboratory. But here, working with a team of mostly Mozambican scientists and backed by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, Alonso has been studying malaria on the ground and, for the past four years, testing an extraordinarily...