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.
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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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 movement of rural Indians to urban life could play a big role in achieving that rate.
Girish Bharadwaj, an engineer, has perfected a technique for producing cheap footbridges that are transforming life in rural India.
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The roads are generally in terrible condition, and the hardship of life in rural Georgia comes as a shock.
Both Shetland and Aberdeenshire also feature in the top 50 rural areas quality of life survey for Britain as a whole.
Nor have the demonstrations made any real impact on the lethargic way of life of rural Kosovo, which is now largely peaceful.
The government is due to publish a rural White Paper in the spring, setting out ideas on rejuvenating the rural economy and country life.
Keane was best known for his plays Sive and The Field, which depict the tragedy that often characterized life in rural Ireland.
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The family lives a life of rural self-sufficiency that makes the River Cottage look like a microprocessor plant, raising pigs, keeping bees and growing tomatoes, corn, figs, beans, apples, medlars and pears.
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