Hints and tips:
...What else we’re reading China’s war on poverty In 2013, Xi Jinping set a deadline for China’s rural counties to eradicate extreme poverty by the end of 2020....
...About 100 miles north of Los Angeles, Bakersfield sits in Kern County, at the southern end of inland California’s resource-rich San Joaquin Valley....
...Nowhere is this more evident than in Dawson County, one of the most conservative counties in Georgia and “moonshine capital” of the nation, where evading federal power was once a cottage industry....
...Parton will play to anyone who wants to come to her county fair, as long as the turnstiles are busy....
...“I was always going to vote McCain, but I wasn’t looking forward to it,” said Dixie Bruggeman, a 70 year-old retired car plant worker, wearing a Stars and Stripes blouse....
...This part of the state was always known as Little Dixie, and Edgar Springs – 100 miles from the Arkansas border – has not wholly given up on the white southern tradition of voting Democrat....
...For all the new Home Depots, you could not help but notice that the most prevalent stores in Pike County were the various dollar chains, some steps below even Wal-Mart in price....
International Edition