Word: rurality
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...racism, but she won't back down because she does not believe that blacks need the crutch provided by race-conscious policies. For Swain, a deeply devout evangelical Christian, such beliefs are not academic. Now 49, she went from being a high school drop-out and single mother in rural Virginia to a Ph.d and a chair at a leading university. "Somehow, we've got to embrace an American national identity that pulls us together instead of dividing us into warring camps," says Swain, "perhaps through a renewed emphasis on the Judeo-Christian idea of a common creator...
...with people who enjoy entertainment that depends on ordinary people getting their heart broken, being told they can't sing or getting played for fools? That's the question behind the protest of CBS's plans to make a real-life version of The Beverly Hillbillies with a poor rural family. Says Dee Davis, president of the Center for Rural Strategies, "If somebody had proposed, 'Let's go into the barrio in L.A. and find a family of immigrants and put them in a mansion, and won't it be funny when they interview maids?' then people could see that...
There's no credit or income requirement. The amount you can get depends largely on the value of your house but also on your age. The older you are, the more you can get, but loan caps usually range from $155,000 in rural areas to $281,000 in metropolitan areas...
...Herder From the Future, a radio series in which the lead character is transported from 2060 back to 2001. To return and reunite with his betrothed, our herder hero must "work with the people he meets in 2001 to help them change the future." This means sharing lessons on "rural economic growth and improved competitiveness for Mongolia's animal-husbandry sector...
When the “war for liberation” forced many rural schools to close in the mid-’70s, Nyarota switched careers and became one of the nation’s first black journalists...