Word: rurality
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Nobody is more at a loss to explain the horrific trove than the people who live in Noble and have known the Marsh family all their lives. On Thursday, the tally of bodies unearthed surpassed the total population of the rural, unincorporated town. It was impossible to reconcile the news reports with the family's reputation. Like most people who spoke to TIME, a bewildered Judy Davis said of the Marshes, "They are good people, churchgoing people...
...from a noisy sound truck, he had shown a populist touch by riding a bicycle door-to-door soliciting votes. Now a $628 million, 68-km highway is on the drawing board, slated to slice through his home district, creating hundreds of jobs and funneling millions of dollars into rural Hyogo prefecture. It's one of thousands of wasteful highway projects?known as roads to nowhere?that are gradually transforming Japan into a giant parking lot, causing the national deficit to spiral and propping up inefficient, bloated construction companies. This is exactly the sort of scheme Japan needs to curtail...
George “Bud” Vana ’03, an advanced standing junior in Winthrop House, found his way from the rural Northeast Kingdom of Vermont to the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard. “I think Harvard’s library system was a major reason I decided to come here,” says Vana, who is particularly interested in Arabic, Persian and Armenian poetry. “I became fascinated with the mysticism of the Middle East and, eventually, the poetry that went along with...
...Camps in rural areas say they are safer for kids today. But Heather Hill parents don't buy it. "Safer?" snaps my brother-in-law. "'Rural area' is a euphemism for a meadow filled with poison ivy and snakes." He likes the idea of all those Tom Sawyers and Becky Thatchers running from yard to yard this summer...
Some here say the country not only can stay out but should. The populist Swiss People's Party (SVP), a longtime proponent of isolationism that has a strong following in some rural areas, argues that U.N. membership would jeopardize Switzerland's cherished neutrality, sovereignty and democracy and turn it into a lackey of bigger, more powerful nations. As a member state, the party warns, Switzerland could be forced by the Security Council to take part in international sanctions and military actions. "We would also lose the right to have our own foreign policy and diplomatic relations," says Ulrich Schl...