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That earthquake was especially deadly as the rural houses in the region were typically made of mud and timber.

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The next-door neighbors are politically purple: more Republican than the state as a whole, but not as conservative as California’s more rural reaches.

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Lincolnshire Police's rural crime action team, the Environment Agency and Peterborough City Council also joined the operation.

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Access to healthcare was already a challenge in rural areas of Pakistan, but once the floods hit, the challenge was unbearable for many women we met.

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The Great Migration is underway, with millions of Black Americans moving from the rural South to the industrial North and Midwest in search of opportunity and freedom.

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