She got to see, and helped improve, its effects on rural life in Indonesia.
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But the biggest reason for the show's appeal is what it says about rural life.
So, what do the graphs and tables tell us of the reality of rural life in England today?
Many of these former settlements are in much better condition than Pripyat and offer a unique peek into Soviet rural life.
Now I see a counterpart to the American 1920s, with the first sizable generation of moderne post-rural life.
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We talked about the RFK trip, schools, health, the joys of rural life.
Intentionally or not, he makes his hero (the dour patriarch) seem foolish for abandoning a harsh but organic rural life.
In other words, it wants to reinvent farmers as a general proxy for rural life, and reward them in that capacity.
Those eligible for the award had to be aged under 30 and must have contributed "in an exceptional way" to rural life.
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But their metropolitan disconnect from rural life strikes a chord with viewers.
The tourists come for the unpolluted beaches or to soak up rural life at one of the small resorts that dot the coastline.
Thanks to the war and its aftermath, their children have grown up in cities and do not want to live a tough rural life.
He soon found that the youngsters were not only quick studies, they were eager to help older villagers adopt new technologies to improve rural life.
This was the closest I could get to ordinary North Korean people and it was in sharp contrast to the poorer, harsher views of rural life I got during the trip east.
Her embodiment of such girlish emotions as curiosity-streaked ardor and such womanly ones as do-or-die willfulness enables her director, Zhang Yimou, to eschew melodramatic inflation while crafting a visually eloquent tribute to rural life.
Broadcaster, actor and writer Stephen Fry, who is a big fan of the series, described the drama on the Archers website as depicting "a 21st-Century village, with all the pressures of modern rural life".
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Hurston was a trained anthropologist as well as a writer, and her stories about fruit pickers and hoodoo workers in sawmill and turpentine camps create an intimate portrait of southern black rural life.
With the financial contribution of 541, 666 USD, the Government of Norway sponsors a UNESCO project in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, centred on improving the museographical conditions of the Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life.
The continent's vast interior - "the bush" - captured the first settler's imagination, giving the colonies their mythology of shearers, miners and bushrangers. (Before 1903, a swim during daylight hours could get you arrested.) But as the 20th Century dawned, the coastal cities boomed and rural life was eclipsed by the new nation's factory jobs and suburbs.
The road meanders past farm houses, skittish livestock and intriguing snapshots of rural Romanian life, before it abruptly veers left and plentiful blue crosses lead up a steep hill and deep into the forest.
If you need to escape the city, you have easy access to the historic Golden Ring towns of Sergiev Posad, Suzdal and Vladimir, where you will be rewarded with a slice of rural Russian life far from the frenetic city pace.
"These are like profiles in American courage, " an Atlanta gay rights attorney, Greg Nevins, said when we were discussing rural, gay life.
The government was, he said, "a metropolitan elite which has no understanding of the rural way of life and cares even less about the people who live there".
Filling ones tag is not imporant, but the whole experience is important, and I truly believe the further we get away from tha rural way of life, the weaker we become as people and a nation.
"Farming and the countryside and much of rural way of life is now under threat as never before" - the source of the threat he then identified as an "arrogant out of touch urban dominated Labour government".
Now if only China would play nice our great grandchildren may be saved from rising sea levels and they can live a less stressed more rural kind of life just like the rest of the world in the old days.
The movement of rural Indians to urban life could play a big role in achieving that rate.
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