Word: rurality
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...first rebuke to the survivalists. International terrorists, it seems, just aren't interested in Montana, and guns are useless when the enemy is 2,000 miles out of firing range. They're doubly useless when you can't get parts for them. Like so much of the isolated, rural West, Montana is inordinately dependent on UPS and FedEx for supplies, but suddenly such services were grounded. The lack of fresh seafood was a minor annoyance; the stalled shipments of car parts and medicines were serious, as was the disappearance of the tourists who keep Rocky Mountain towns afloat...
...slew of pitiful imitators. Desensitized audiences no longer feel the same fear when a suspenseful silence is broken by a cold, metallic telephone ring. The film Joyride attempts to revive this tired cliché by moving its potential victims from an old creaky house to a car in the rural Midwest. Unfortunately, even with this unconventional twist, there is no novelty to Joyride. Director John Dahl (Rounders) is good at creating moods by carefully manipulating color and lighting, and at building suspense with his use of dramatic irony, but these qualities cannot hide the fact that the movie is merely...
Stone, 57, has a bachelor’s degree from Miami University in Ohio, and is a lawyer by training. After graduating from George Washington University Law School in 1969, Stone joined Volunteers In Service To America (VISTA) where he worked in Worcester, Mass. and later opened a rural legal service office in Colorado...
...example, the adventurer planning a trip to Angola this year may be interested to read the State Department’s website that states: “Angola remains unsafe due to high intensity military actions, bandit and insurgent attacks...and land mines in rural areas.” While the State Department portrays the danger as inherent in Angola’s political landscape, the U.S. has been supporting an internal rebellion for the better part of 25 years...
There are two opposing forces operating in my mind. On the one hand, part of me knows that I’m virtually powerless to actually reduce my chances of being the victim of a terrorist act. Assuming I stick to my decision not to move to rural Idaho, there is no way for me to eliminate the danger of attack altogether...