Word: rurality
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...Harvard-Northeastern battle did not approach the level of physical violence of a typical men's game--the rules were enforced just enough to prevent that. But the relative disregard for the rules made Friday's game reminiscent of the version of hockey played between teenage thugs on rural frozen ponds...
...says. "They have to pay for their own equipment, their bullets and handcuffs. The system doesn't provide money for uniforms, for shoes. They get peanuts for a paycheck." Del Toro, who lived in Puerto Rico until he was 12, also studied with a dialect coach to master the rural Mexican accent. "I wanted it to be country, like mountain Mexico," he says, "instead of like Taco Bell or Speedy Gonzales...
...says. "They have to pay for their own equipment, their bullets and handcuffs. The system doesn't provide money for uniforms, for shoes. They get peanuts for a paycheck." Del Toro, who lived in Puerto Rico until he was 12, also studied with a dialect coach to master the rural Mexican accent. "I wanted it to be country, like mountain Mexico," he says, "instead of like Taco Bell or Speedy Gonzales...
...just in rural Maine: OxyContin is quietly becoming a dangerously popular drug in other pockets of the nation. In the New Orleans suburb of St. Bernard Parish, police say OxyContin abuse is an "epidemic." Officers are making as many arrests for the "killers," as it is known there, as for crack cocaine. The town has had five documented overdoses, but police captain John Doran believes the number may be higher. "We're a suburb, so you see a lot of middle-class families--folks who'd never dream of taking a needleful of heroin," he says. The same is true...
...Bopper, best known for the upbeat "Chantilly Lace" and for having perished with fellow rockers Buddy Holly and Richie Valens in a 1959 plane crash. Richardson, though, before he entered the rock world - which, of course, was not as divorced from country as it is today - came from a rural background similar to Jones'. In fact, the two were pals in Beaumont, Texas, where the Possum's family moved when he was a boy. Richardson also was a discovery of Jones' original producer, the great Pappy Daily, and wrote George's first No. 1 hit, "White Lightning...