Word: rurality
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...rural northern Nigeria, there are no refrigerators. Most people don't even have electricity. So perishable food must be eaten immediately, or it will go to waste. Mohammed Bah Abba, a local teacher, has developed an ingenious solution: the Pot-in-Pot Preservation Cooling System. A small earthenware pot is placed inside a larger one, and the space between the two is filled with moist sand. The inner pot is filled with fruit, vegetables or soft drinks; a wet cloth covers the whole thing. As water in the sand evaporates through the surface of the outer pot, it carries heat...
Bonner, considered the more liberal candidate, said her choice of Long—a conservative from rural Wyoming—will allow her ticket to “represent the student body...
...confusion for many who believed the Liberty Fund, established in the days following the attacks, was dedicated solely to the victims of September 11th. Instead, recently ousted Red Cross President Dr. Bernadine Healy partitioned the fund into distinct sectors; one to help the World Trade Center, Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania victims, and another with money set aside to aid in future disasters...
ATTACK SEPT. 11, 2001 NEW YORK CITY, WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA Four hijacked passenger airliners crashed into New York City's two tallest buildings, the Pentagon and a field in rural Pennsylvania. Thousands were killed...
...work of A.R. Ammons is a major influence on my poetry. Ammons’ rural upbringing was at the heart of his poetry throughout his life, though he did not live in his home state of North Carolina as an adult. I identify very much with this indebtedness to a place in which one cannot live. Robert Frost, another poet much indebted to one American region, is also very important to me at the moment...