It occupies a very handsome building designed by architect Howard Backen, who has created a modern vernacular of Napa Valley rural buildings.

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In appreciation, a succession of Congress governments transformed the town from a rural backwater to a model region with industry and modern farms.

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Environment Minister Paul Wheelhouse said fishing was a key part of Scotland's rural heritage and modern economy.

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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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It's a term used to describe rural portions of the state where transportation and other modern conveniences are spotty at best.

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This is also how we should think of the sprawling new slums of the developing world: not as doomed, deforming environments but as the low-cost housing built for (and by) displaced, formerly rural, people drawn into the modern urbanized economy and energetically aspiring to a better life.

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Neither modern consumerism nor the back-to-nature sentiments that make people yearn for rural bliss get a good write-up from Mr Rushby.

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