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How To Deal With College 'Culture Shock'

| Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Move, Small Town, College, College Transition, High School, City, Campus, Big, College Life, Rural, Her Campus, Culture Shock, New York City, Teen News

By Hannah Orenstein The transition from high school to college is undoubtedly one of the biggest you'll make throughout your life. Some of those ch...

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Faces of Wilcannia (PHOTOS)

David Maurice Smith | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Photography, Of, Poverty, Australia, Wilcannia, New, Rural, Culture, Faces, Documentary, Slidefreestyle, Aboriginal, Portrait, Slidepollajax, Exposure, South Wales, World News
David Maurice Smith

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Haitian Movements Branch Out

Salena Tramel | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: National Congress of the Papaye Peasant Movement, Food Sovereignty, Tet Kole, Salena Tramel, Local Food, Haiti, Sustainable Agriculture, Peasant Movement of Papaye, Social Movements, Grassroots International, Rural, World News, Kros, World News
Salena Tramel

From a small village in the central plateau to forgotten towns in the north and south, grassroots organizers are demonstrating that their solutions are the way towards a new Haiti.

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Cops Find 5 Bodies In Rural Area Near Mexico City

AP | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Mass Grave, Mexico City, Mexico Drug War, Rural Mexico, Mexico, Almoloya De Juarez, Dead Bodies, Excavation, Rural, Latino Voices News

MEXICO CITY -- A phone call to a relative of a missing person led police to excavate a corn field in a farming town not far from the capital, and disc...

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Ben Muessig

Who Is This Boy?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Muessig | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Video, Dead Boy Maine, Crime, Police, Missing Boy, South Berwick, Boy, Rural, Maine, Maine State Police, Dead Child Maine, Hemlock, Toyota Tacoma, Missing Child, Road, Unidentified Boy, Weird News News

Who is this boy? Investigators in Maine continue to ask this question two days after discovering the body of an unidentified four- or five-year-old...

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Midwest A Victim Of 'Rural Brain Drain'

Matt Vasilogambros | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Great Plains, Iowa, Brain Drain, West Virginia, Midwest, Maria Kefalas, Agriculture, Sustainability, St. Joseph's University, Rural, Manufacturing Jobs, Rural Brain Drain Iowa, Rural Brain Drain, Hollowing Out the Middle, College News
Matt Vasilogambros

Small towns across the country are dying off, and college students are partly to blame.

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The Rural Photographer Rises Again -- Forrest Holzapfel

Ethan Murrow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Documentary, Porter Thayer, Marlboro College, 8"x10" Camera, Blurb, Viewfinder Camera, Historical Society, Photographs, Vermont, Marlboro, Vermont Folklife Center, Rural, Ethan Murrow, Forrest Holzapfel, Arts News
Ethan Murrow

Over the last ten years Holzapfel has systematically and inventively documented Marlboro, Vermont, through a wealth of photographs, recordings and writing.

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Raising Your Own Hens

Makenna Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Raising Hens, Richard Wiswall, Vermont, Hens, Rural, New York City, Organic Farmer, Happiness, Green News
Makenna Goodman

I've been raising laying hens for about a year, and I've never been happier. I have fresh eggs whenever I want them and I've come to love chickens for all their neurotic, pecking glory.

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Community Coup: Chickens Are the New Dog

Zem Joaquin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Chickens, Solar, Organic Garden, Domestic Pets, Grow, Trends, Urban Agriculture, Rural, Organic, Agrarian, Urban, Eggs, Chicken, Poultry, Environment, Hens, Green News
Zem Joaquin

We got our hens after we had to give up our dog due to my son's allergies. I decided that if I was getting a new pet, it was going to reciprocate and have some positive environmental claw-print.

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Don't Forget Rural America

Rep. Mike Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rural Communities, Mike Thompson Rural America, Mike Thompson, Rural Voters, Rural, Rural America, Rural Americans, Politics News
Rep. Mike Thompson

Rural communities are hit even harder by the tough economy, especially when it comes to jobs, yet we fail to invest equitably in their economic health.

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Poverty in America: The Problems and Solutions

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yunus, Poverty, Check Cashing, Louisiana, Microlending, Nobel, Payday Loans, Obama, Mccain, Western Union, Rural, Teen Moms, Bush, Education, Clinton, South, Palin, Public Transportation, Communities, Shreveport, Economy, Business News
Vivian Norris

We need to make communities strong again. Our local money does not need to be mixed in with some guy's hedge fund abstract tranche of nothing all to make a fee for some banker in New York.

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Edwards' Endorsement Frees Obama In Picking Running Mate

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Off the Bus, Vice President, Blue Collar, John Edwards Endorses Obama, West Virginia, John Edwards, Running Mate, Hillary Clinton, Breaking Off the Bus News, Rural, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, White Voters, Home News
M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Clinton doesn't help Obama with his electoral map in November. He needs someone who has both pull in the states he wants to win and who can help repair rifts with rural white voters. Two names immediately come to mind.

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