In the countryside, social workers say conflict and malnutrition are on the rise, with many people surviving on two meals a day, consisting of porridge and the traditional pap meal of thickened maize meal and vegetables.
In the countryside, medical workers from Doctors Without Borders have quickly found that they have to battle not only the water, which is everywhere, but also the fact that generations of Haitians use the river and its tributaries for almost everything.
The state-run sugar industry, the backbone of the countryside employing 400,000 workers, is near collapse.
The show, not surprisingly, contains lots of tongue-in-cheek riffs on devotional portraits of Mao, along with images of cheery peasants in the countryside or model workers, like Mr. Shen's glossy, idealized oil paintings of Chinese military personnel, above.
Mammies in the countryside were shocked, workers locked out of mortgages were enraged and the activists were vindicated, dragging housing back into the public discourse.
Inadequate sex education, especially in the countryside, means many migrant workers become unintentionally pregnant.
It's a choice that fits with the highly personal narrative, a catalogue of Rem's anthropological observations on subjects including construction workers, the countryside, collaboration and celebrity.
Paterson lists his opponents as "rich pop stars", "rich landowners", "a dress designer" and "a public school journalist" (me), who "don't represent the real countryside of farmers and workers".
Desperately unpopular with the voters, and at war with itself, it was losing support even in the countryside, where farmers, building workers and postmasters were turning their backs on their patrons in the party.Related items Japan's great hopeAug 2nd 2001Mr Koizumi won back this bedrock of voters, claiming victories everywhere from Tochigi to Niigata.
