Campaigne 06 - The Tipping Point Races

"Ten very tight House and Senate contests could determine which party controls Congress next year. Missouri: Jim Talent (R) v. Claire McCaskill (D) After a bruising final spate of campaigning that included half a dozen debates, a major push by both parties to court women and...

Rural Fire Chief Recruited By State ALP

" November 2, 2006 NSW Rural Fire Service chief Phil Koperberg is to seek a new career as a state Labor MP for the seat of Blue Mountains at the March election. Mr Koperberg will join the Labor Party on Friday and is assured of victory in a preselection contest that will be...

Minghun, i.e. afterlife marriage

"The rural folk custom, startling to Western sensibilities, is known as minghun, or afterlife marriage. Scholars who have studied it say it is rooted in the Chinese form of ancestor worship, which holds that people continue to exist after death and that the living are...

Principal shot in rural Wis. school (AP)

" CAZENOVIA, Wis. - A student walked into a rural school with a gun and shot the principal several times Friday morning before he was taken into custody, authorities said. All the children were reported safe. John Klang, principal at Weston Schools, was in critical condition...

Family begs attacker to return Mo. baby

"A grandmother of a newborn girl stolen from a rural home pleaded Saturday for the baby's safe return, as authorities searched for an abductor who stabbed and seriously injured the infant's mother before fleeing with the child. "The family's in agony," Raylene Ochsenbine said...

How travel has changed since 1994

"When I look back through my old journals and photos, I'm struck by how much travel has changed since 1994. These days, I take it for granted that the Internet keeps me in touch with friends and family, even from far-flung places like Mongolia and Patagonia; in 1994,...

Indian village uploads itself onto Internet

"(Reuters) - An Indian village has uploaded itself onto the Internet, giving the outside world a glimpse of life in rural India. Visitors to Hansdehar village's Web site (www.smartvillages.org) can see the names, jobs and other details of its 1,753 residents, browse...

Rural Wyo. city eyes fiber-optic network (AP)

" POWELL, Wyo. - Hay and beans have fueled this rural economy for years. But it's fiber of another kind that city leaders believe is key to Powell's future. Plans are under way to build a fiber-optic network capable of delivering ultrafast Internet, cable TV and telephone...

A protest, like the old days?

"Nationally, this looks like a year of revolt, but most of that activism seems centered in cities and suburbs rather than rural places. But rural places have been hit hard by a sequence of events, not of especially recent making but certainly of recent exacerbation. In the...

Land seizures provoke growing anger in China - Yahoo! News

As breakneck urban development eats into China's countryside, arbitrary land grabs by officials making exorbitant profits by selling it on to developers have sparked resentment and, in some cases, major social unrest

Govt to push forward rural taxation reform

"A state ment from the meeting, which was presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, said that the key to implementing the rural taxation reform lies in advancing comprehensive rural reforms in township gove..."

Corporate Blog Deployments to Double in 2006

"Some 35 percent of large companies plan to initiate corporate blogs this year - and combined with the existing deployed base of 34 percent, nearly 70 percent of such companies will have deployed corporate blogs by the end of 2006, according to a JupiterResearch report,...

World Bank India Director to meet Karunanidhi today

"World Bank India Director Michael Carter will meet Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and senior government officials on June 22 to discuss ongoing schemes and two upcoming projects in the State."