Focus articles from March 1998

Focus archives from March 1998

Greenville from back country to forefront. (Greenville County, South Carolina)
March 22, 1998... What factors are crucial in determining the success or failure of an area? This article explores the past and present and glimpses what may be the future of one area which is experiencing great success. The success story of Greenville County,...

The Glock gun spiel: a case study in political geography and human rights.
March 22, 1998... Purpose: a context for understanding My purpose is to begin to provide a theoretical and empirical political geographic and human rights context for the plan of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa police department to exchange 238.40 caliber semiautomatic...

Oaxaca, too soon for some, too late for many. (Oaxaca, Mexico)
March 22, 1998... For centuries before the Spanish conquest of Mexico (and for a long time afterwards), the native residents of the highlands of Oaxaca lived in isolated complacency, their little villages clustered around arable plots of corn and vegetables and...

Playing highway tag. (license plates)
March 22, 1998... My wife and I decided to drive the 6000 miles to the west coast and back so as to enjoy a ground-level view of the countryside instead of the one from 35,000 feet. Driving through the long stretches of boring Interstate in the Midwest, we lapsed...

Myanmar visited: Sumatra revisited.
March 22, 1998... (Editor's note: Burma was renamed Myanmar in 1989; Sumatra is an island province of Indonesia, a thousand kilometers south of Myanmar off the coast of Thailand. The author uses both names for each place in the following account). Twenty...

The emergence of gasohol: a renewable fuel for American roadways.
March 22, 1998... The United States of America was the world's largest oil producer at the beginning of the twentieth century. Today, America is the world's largest importer of petroleum. Petroleum provided more than 99 percent of the energy consumed by the...

Periodic markets and rural transformation in Gonda District, Uttar Pradesh, India.
March 22, 1998... Periodic markets are centers for exchange of common goods and services, in both cities and the countryside, all over the world. Held at a regular time and place, these markets link small towns and their surroundings to create grassroots-level...