Results for “RURAL PENNSYLVANIA”

…tual. He packed up from his home in Encino, a short drive over the Hollywood Hills from Los Angeles, and headed off for rural Texas for a few days that would largely defined by rock and dynamite. Hillis, who was born in 1956, has spent most of his life working at the electron lev...

…h-profile rescue, she now writes about what she learned about fear, forgiveness and the divine. In 2002, the Colombian rural guerilla movement known as the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) kidnapped Ingrid Betancourt in the middle of her presidential campaign. For t...

…veys. In most countries we achieved representative samples but in some we were unable to achieve good representation of rural communities. Our survey asked two open-ended questions, seeking write-in answers: who do you think is the most famous person in the world, and who do you...

…e months ahead, with the festive season in India starting and monsoon activity having improved considerably, supporting rural incomes, Indian physical demand is likely to pick up. Key dates: World Gold Council mid- November release. Mining activity in South Africa is unlikely to...

…d in the ancient Tarahumara ballgame under the stars in Mexico, dug millet fields in Rwanda, played barefoot cricket in rural India, and raced on foot against horses in the mountains of Arizona. Back in my lab at Harvard, my students and IJ have intensively studied the evolution,...

…ven further. The journey took him, for nearly a decade, from master to master in China, from monastery to university to rural huts. These were the places where the last bits of some of China’s most ancient traditions had been carried, places where classical wisdom had survived a...

…As a philanthropist and spokesperson, Khan stands up for causes ranging from the environment and water-supply issues to rural solar power. Khan's nonprofit Meer Foundation, named for his father, focuses on supporting victims of acid attacks through a 360-degree approach that help...

…ld and new velocities: At 82, hoping to live out his final days in the peace of a small hut, he left his family for the rural Russian town of Sharmardino. By train. He died at a station on the way, stopped quite literally, like an absurd figure in a Gogol novel, as he was enactin...

…nothing worse than unemployable, frustrated” youth. Indeed, some of India’s disaffected youth are turning to Maoism in rural areas. “We have Maoists among our tribal populations, who have not benefited from the opportunities of modern India,” Tharoor said. There have been violen...

…veys. In most countries we achieved representative samples but in some we were unable to achieve good representation of rural communities. Our survey asked two open-ended questions, seeking write-in answers: who do you think is the most famous person in the world, and who do you...

… tempo and multiplicity of economic, occupational and social life, the city sets up a deep contrast with small town and rural life,” he explained. “The technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into...

…were holding 10 men suspected of involvement in two highly publicized gang-rape cases—one in urban Mumbai, the other in rural Jnarkhand state—highlighting India's struggles with sexual violence. In Jharkhand in eastern India, police said they had detained five suspects in connec...

… nothing worse than unemployable, frustrated" youth. Indeed, some of India's disaffected youth are turning to Maoism in rural areas. "We have Maoists among our tribal populations, who have not benefited from the opportunities of modern India," Tharoor said. There have been violen...

…and tribal women and children in urban Kolkata, runs a school for girls as well as vocational training for women in the rural area of Birbhum. "We work to build girls' aspirations, promote girls' ideas of themselves when they don't have aspirations, and engage with key decisionm...

… because you know what they are up to. To explore this idea, the psychologist Linda Abarbanell and I ran a study with a rural, small scale Mayan population, living in the Chiapas region of Mexico. Every individual listened to a reading of a moral dilemma. Each dilemma described a...