| 单词 | backwater |
| 例句 | One of the car’s tires had come off and was floating in a backwater eddy of the Cocytus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The hotel guests were ferried across the backwaters, straight from Cochin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about nine in the morning when Mammachi and Baby Kochamma got news of a white child’s body found floating downriver where the Meenachal broadens as it approaches the backwaters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew the afternoon weed that flowed inwards from the backwaters of Komarakom. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But that area, too, remained a cultural backwater occupied by hunter-gatherers for most of its history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Nile Valley remained a cultural backwater for about 3,000 years after village food production began to flourish in the hills of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Campbell could not disagree with Europeans’ condescending view of American science as a backwater rich in money and manpower but poor in theoretical understanding. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In addition, Indonesia itself was a cultural and technological backwater until a few thousand years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dragonflies skated over the scum on the stagnant backwater. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z William Levitt regarded the land he had acquired as frozen in time, belonging to a previous century, and marveled that such a backwater existed in the corridor between New York and Philadelphia. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In the New World the cold regions at high latitude were even more of a human backwater. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He did not know how he had come there, but he knew what his aim was, because he had carried it hidden since infancy in an inviolable backwater of his heart. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I’m sick of our backwater town,” she snorts. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Compared with Oxford it was a backwater and, unlike Oxford, had not benefited from any intimate contact with the Greshamites. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The university was then almost as much of a physics backwater as Berkeley had been when Lawrence first set foot on its campus, especially in comparison to its Cambridge neighbor, MIT. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z You could feel the rush of prison growth even in the forgotten backwater of Sing Sing, where the superintendent had said that getting money to build new and bigger vocational shops was his number-one priority. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Devoured by a hollow in some Welsh backwater!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z More so than the classes below and above them—the immobilized poor of old cities and rural backwaters, the factory-bound working class, and the old- and new-money rich—this is a fluid, unstable group. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Too clever to waste away in that backwater, he said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She snorts and says that it’s out of the kindness of her heart that she lives in this backwater town and helps these country people and that one day she’ll reap her just reward. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It creates a backwater eddy—a dimple, if you will. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Thanks to the wagering ban, the only places for it to go were seedy tracks, backwater ovals so small they were called “bullrings,” and dirt roads, but this was Irwin’s kind of racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as though I’d spent a year as an exchange student in some chaotic Third World backwater, I’d tell a friend later. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Seattle was a city that had long been considered, and was sometimes prone to consider itself, a backwater in many regards, and not least in the world of sports. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Instead, the ground dissolved at his feet and he fell into a familiar backwater - the Hypnos cabin at Camp Half-Blood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The barrage regulated the inflow of salt water from the backwaters that opened into the Arabian Sea. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z White Citizens’ Councils were formed in almost every Southern city and backwater town, comprised primarily of middle- to upper-middle-class whites in business and the clergy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Among an obscure tribe in a backwater of West Asia on the confines of a long- vanished empire? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His little boat, and all that force of water...Calm rivers and still backwaters and shallow canals were one thing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z International economists often describe South Korea as the single most impressive example of what free markets, democratic government, and elbow grease can do to transform a small agrarian backwater into a global powerhouse. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z That's when his uncle, a railway enthusiast of the highest order, died and left him the house, in the quaintly-named backwater of Buttercup Drive. Setting urban transport to music - the strains of trains 2012-11-27T15:00:00Z She’s to report her findings to a committee of local people eager to refute criticisms that their community is perpetrating a backwater fraud. Review: In ‘The Wonder,’ the Morality of Letting a Child Fast 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z To me, 2012 felt like the year that gaming culture really began to get to grips with being a mainstream commercial behemoth rather than a niche nerdy backwater. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Making Room for the Women 2012-12-25T15:26:30Z Matted and ribbed wood ceilings suggest the houseboats that ply the rivers and backwaters of the region. The Carlyle Hotel’s Refurbished Restaurant, Dowling’s, Opens 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Crammed into a smallish, backwater meeting room at Comic-Con International, they watched a PowerPoint video that mingled “Star Wars” imagery with the kind of fantasies associated with H. G. Wells or Georges Méliès. Comic-Con 2015: 'Star Wars,' as Told by Steampunk Fans 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The time is the late 18th century, and the place is some godforsaken colonial backwater in South... ‘Zama’ Review: Trapped in the Tropics 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Even more meaningful to Ms. Saleh was the praise of a poor old man after a performance in the southern backwater of Aswan. A Ballerina’s Story, Once Upon a Time in Egypt 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The rich are different now because the elites who spent four centuries sucking the South dry and turning it into an economic and political backwater have now vanquished the more forward-thinking, democratic Northern elites. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z Born in 1949, the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic grew up under Tito in the former Yugoslavia, where suspicions of dissidence consigned him to academic backwaters. Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' 2012-06-10T19:00:05Z He made numerous trips over three decades into the backwaters of Venezuela to study Stone Age people called the Yanomamo. ‘Noble Savages’: fierce tribes and occupational hazards 2013-02-13T22:32:44Z Fringe theatre is no longer seen as a backwater, he argues, because new technology means that even performances staged in small venues can have great reach. Edinburgh fringe: A-listers arrive for a renaissance of live theatre 2011-08-06T18:49:17Z They arrived in a city regarded as a cultural backwater, a reputation they worked for decades to change. Seattle arts patron Bagley Wright dies at 87 2011-07-20T06:31:04Z Once regarded as something of a backwater by the rest of Europe, these countries punch far above their weight in numerous economic and cultural arenas, and classical music is no exception. Total Immersion: New from the North – review 2013-03-11T15:56:53Z Sant’Antioco is the antithesis of that celebrity playground: a tranquil backwater, with two quaint ports, a smattering of ruins dating back to pre-Roman times, sweeping Mediterranean savannah, the region’s most unspoiled beaches, and little else. Explorer: The Island of Sant?Antioco, off Sardinia, Italy 2010-03-26T07:58:00Z But now, Kerala, or rather Kerala Tourism, is looking beyond its backwaters and ayurveda and is preparing to entice tourists on an entire new platform: As a cultural hotspot. Kerala: Gateway Of India 2011-07-06T22:00:00Z Kassabova conjures up a convincing portrait of a tropical backwater battered by politics and weather. Villa Pacifica by Kapka Kassabova ? review 2011-08-26T21:55:00Z In this tragicomic novel, a visionary preacher comes up against the grim realities of life in a Cuban backwater. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z So, whilst That Old Ace in the Hole is by no means "great", Proulx's style and dry, backwater wit win through. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z The advice column was a backwater of the newspaper, and now it is so woven into our cultural fabric. Dear Abby's legacy: Wit, warmth, and snappy advice 2013-01-18T14:05:19Z Welcome to redneck country; a Colorado backwater where roadkill is served up at the local cafe, anything that moves is shot, and country and western is the soundtrack to most people's lives. The Not-So-Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo 2010-08-30T15:38:00Z Away from the tourist fray, these special spots are backwaters in the best sense of the word, each with its own genuine charm. Beyond the blockbusters: Discovering remote sites in Europe 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Imitative skills are essential in a place where storytelling, and the caricaturing of your fellow citizens, is what transforms a seemingly uneventful backwater into a soap opera of endless fascination. Review: A One-Man Funeral With Many Lives in ‘I Hear You and Rejoice’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The backwater aesthetic and story of the show was a major part of it, and something that really set it apart from all the other urban crime dramas that litter the TV landscape. Forget Colin Farrell – here's how True Detective can stay great 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Another, Cochon, is devoted not to the Creole cosmopolitanism of the city center, but to the Cajun traditions of the bayous and backwaters outside of town, in the tidal soup of southern Louisiana. Critic?s Notebook: Seeking Tastes of the ?Real? New Orleans 2010-04-28T04:17:00Z The setting is backwater Louisiana; the themes are poverty, racism, heroin and guns. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Until last year's arrival of the Silver Bullet, if you wanted to get your late-night party action sorted while treading the Finsbury Park backwaters, then there was really only one option. Clubs picks of the week 2011-03-12T00:07:38Z Rather than settle in one of the myriad resort communities, Mr. Ferreira fell under the spell of the 200-year-old backwater hamlet and, with some partners, spent years buying and restoring the old stone residences. The Other Algarve 2013-07-19T16:35:02Z And there was his biography: a young gay man, uninhibited and unperturbed, from the suburbs that Parisians still typecast as a cultural backwater. Eddy de Pretto Is the Proud Sound of a New France 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Instead, the perils of peacekeeping are the foremost concerns for a commander, Claus, and his troops, in a methodical movie that pivots from the backwaters of Afghanistan to a courtroom in Denmark. Review: ‘A War’ Tracks a Conflict from Battle Zone to Court 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Mankell and two siblings were mostly raised by their father, a judge, in the central Swedish town of Sveg, a backwater the future novelist described as surrounded by bears and “Christmas tree forests.” Henning Mankell, literary master of ‘Nordic noir,’ dies at 67 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z In the late ’80s he teamed up with the performance artist Chris Burden and the sculptor Charles Ray to transform U.C.L.A. from a stuffy backwater into the hottest art school in the country. T Magazine: The Last Boho Standing 2011-03-11T19:05:38Z The year’s best new musical, adapted from the screenplay for the 2007 Israeli film about an Egyptian orchestra getting stuck in an Israeli backwater, had the delicacy of a poem set to music. Best theater in 2017: Our critic's top picks, including Midler, Metcalf and Bruuuuce 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The episode will see the Doctor and assistant Clara, played by Jenna Coleman, heading to a quiet backwater planet to learn what some strange signals mean for his fate and that of the universe. Doctor Who sets BBC America record 2013-11-26T11:22:44Z When Luke left his backwater planet for greater glory, he did so with the same resolve with which Lucas left his hometown of Modesto, Calif., a note Lucas struck perfectly in “American Graffiti.” George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits 2012-01-17T16:33:29Z The biggest mistake he ever made, he said, watery blue eyes amused, was turning down director Mack Sennett when he begged Uncle Allan to come out to that little California backwater they were setting up. Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Ancient Britain was no backwater: they were even debating the Arian controversy here! Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins – review 2013-07-24T10:06:01Z A couple of years ago he made The Canyons, a film set in the louche backwaters of LA, where sex is a communal activity. Paul Schrader: ‘I’ve made some important films. Dog Eat Dog is not one of them’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z This meme has been floating around the stagnant white-supremacist backwaters of the internet since about 2008, disappearing and then resurfacing as dependably as herpes ever since. They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z New Turns on That Trip to Ithaca Can this be New York, that notorious backwater of early music? Music Review: Opera Omnia Takes ‘The Return of Ulysses’ on a New Route 2013-09-11T21:05:22Z And yet this isn’t “The Jungle” for modern agricultural workers; there’s nothing polemic about “Delicious Foods” and its sly peek at a backwater farm without unions or labor laws. Novel will make you think twice about those beautiful fruits at the store 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z It is American art, specifically the art in the Armory Show, that suffers most in older histories, which almost without exception dismiss it as recessive, imitative, backwater stuff. Two Exhibitions Re-examine the 1913 Armory Show 2012-10-28T04:27:18Z He passes ancient battlegrounds, magnificent power stations, forgotten backwaters. The Great British Sewing Bee; Crossing England in a Punt: River of Dreams – TV review 2013-04-03T06:00:07Z Set in a lush, isolated backwater of Northern California, Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel is enthralling, but not for the faint of heart. ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ is one of the best new audiobooks of the month 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z This exhibition suggests that half a millennium ago, in a small town once considered an artistic backwater, the Renaissance began with Bosch. Painter of our greatest fears 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Previously regarded as a cinephile's backwater, the New York film festival caught experts by surprise with the strength of this year's line-up. Gone Girl unleashes battle of the sexes at New York film festival 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z If men’s wear has traditionally been a backwater of fashion, following more than leading trends in thought and design, there is one way in which that is clearly no longer the case: diversity. The Year’s Top Stories From the Fashion World 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z When I first visited 20 years ago, Kuching was a backwater, where tourists would hardly break their journey on their way to trek in Borneo’s rainforests and national parks. Kuching, Malaysia: what to see plus the best restaurants, hotels and bars 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z The colourful backwaters where they waged their counter-offensives, from London’s East End, to Baku in the Caspian, to Spindletop, Texas, add historical flavour. Guts, greed and gushers 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z He grew up mainly in Fredericktown, also in Ohio, which he described as a redneck backwater and a rural paradise. Luke Perry obituary 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z It's a nasty, violent little thriller that is also a female-centric family movie set in a poor, white backwater of Middle America. Great Oscar debate: What is the real best picture? 2011-02-26T01:01:00Z For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, American artists believed they lived in a cultural backwater. Mario Schifano’s Excellent New York Adventure 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Written by Matthew Dabner and Mr. Edgerton’s brother, Joel, it turns a humdrum Down Under backwater into a black hole of haphazard crime and arbitrary punishment. | 'The Square': Sin and Comeuppance in Film Noir From Down Under 2010-04-09T01:45:00Z Rice’s situation — the stickling intruder bent on curtailing the freedom of action customarily enjoyed by denizens of a backwater — may be nothing new to readers of suspense fiction, but Rice himself is full of surprises. Review | Deep in the heart of Virginia, it’s man vs. bear 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z It’s hard to say at what point the growing of succulents went from being a nerdy backwater of gardening to a viral sensation. Everything you need to know to assemble and care for a succulent garden 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Located in a neighborhood that was then an industrial backwater, the club provided a safe space in downtown Manhattan for large groups of young African-Americans. Peter Gatien, the ’90s ‘Club King,’ Wants His Final Say 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z "It happened," announces a title card, "in OLD ENGLAND", an idyllic backwater where chickens pick in the village street and Punch and Judy shows amuse the yokels. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z Johnson is perfectly fine in the role, although casting a young black man leaves open and unacknowledged the question of why he’s greeted with such hostility in a small, mostly white backwater. Review | You’ll groove to the pop hits in this stage revival of ‘Footloose.’ And nothing else. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z News outlets from the coasts portrayed Cincinnati as a cultural backwater that would rather lock up a museum director than be confronted with difficult art. 25 years later: Cincinnati and the obscenity trial over Mapplethorpe art 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z “Jacob and the Other,” a minor masterpiece, follows an oafish, over-the-hill European wrestler and his scheming manager, as they piece together one final prizefight in the backwaters of Santa María. South American Literature’s Master of Malaise 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The most impressive thing about Perry, who makes his films at his own studio in Atlanta, is that his films exist totally outside the Hollywood mainstream or, for that matter, the indie backwater. Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry's Drag Ball 2011-04-24T14:05:00Z A century ago, you were but a minor port on the Yangtze, a backwater of south-central China with a slightly different name, Chungking. Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z When the Muslim Umayyad empire reached the city in the mid-seventh century, the main trade routes had shifted north and Palmyra had become a backwater. Stones that speak 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It was clear that many of the industry insiders also made the trip into the fashion backwater exclusively for Gaga — who'd announced she'd be walking in the show on her Twitter account the day before. Move over Galliano, Lady Gaga makes debut 2011-03-03T16:17:00Z It became a sort of legend — both for its quality and for its backwater publishing story: Roy, unlike so many other successful Indian writers in English, didn’t live abroad or attend an elite college. Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “The tech industry, which is still seen by many as a cultural backwater full of socially clumsy but well-meaning nerds, is now an acquisitive and seemingly amoral force,” Chafkin writes. ‘The Contrarian’ Goes Searching for Peter Thiel’s Elusive Core 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Other travelers writing on the Internet had suggested a cheaper, more authentic alternative to the popular, and much more expensive, overnight or day-long boat tours of the backwaters: the local ferry. What a Trip: Ferrying, eating and relaxing like the locals in Kerala, India Looking out over the quiet swamp, its waters dark and teeming with alligators, I could scarcely imagine the thirst for freedom that would lead those people to make this backwater their home. Encounters With Ghosts on Georgia’s Golden Isles 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z This is a true backwater but in the 1940s and 1950s, before the bottom dropped out of sugar, it had money: there are cinemas and rundown hospitals. Cuba libre: exploring the island by campervan 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Luckily – because Canada was a cultural backwater – that message wasn’t being pushed in our magazines. What women want: a vivid portrait of female lives around the world 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z For years, Denmark had seen itself as an inconsequential backwater, and ambition had dwindled accordingly. How the Dogme manifesto reinvented Denmark 2012-11-25T19:00:01Z True, Kansas City is no backwater, but don’t expect high polish. The U.S. Issue: 36 Hours in Kansas City, Mo. 2010-05-13T19:19:00Z He goes back to texting his office at each smooth stretch, constantly aware that he’s spending more and more time in nonprofit backwaters even as his day job is more demanding than ever. José Andrés thinks food can fix the world, starting in Haiti In the more rural backwaters of Kerala, Anitha and I enjoyed walking the short distance to the small town near our homestay, along a scenic canal, and exploring the shops there and buying fresh pomegranates. What a Trip: Ferrying, eating and relaxing like the locals in Kerala, India This is the story of their lives in a backwater oil town in the mid-1970s, which Wetmore seems to know with empathy so deep it aches. Review | Elizabeth Wetmore’s ‘Valentine’ is a thrilling debut that deserves your attention 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z In staccato English, he mused about his hometown and seemed baffled by the popularity of a place he still considers a backwater. Living Like a Local in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z That means there’s plenty of appetite for a show like “Mister Miss America” — and that it has a lot more to measure up to than a backwater dog and pony show. ‘Mister Miss America’ Review: A Fight for the Crown 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Twenty-year-old Alexander travels from a sleepy backwater to St. Petersburg, where he plans to seek his fortune. ‘The Same Old Story’ is anything but 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Despite the occasional runaway hit — “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “An Inconvenient Truth” — nonfiction films still occupy a box office backwater. Documentaries: Where Sundance Goes, Oscars Follow 2013-12-27T23:08:10Z The Stockholm that Strindberg guides readers through was sometimes depicted as an unsophisticated backwater. Stockholm as Strindberg’s Muse 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Along Boulevard Mohammed V, the main drag, tour companies trumpeted day trips to valleys, gorges, oases, mountains, fortresses, perched villages, desert expanses and other breathtaking spots that draw rugged travelers to this quiet backwater. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z After all, her father made it from the backwaters of rural China to graduate school and America. Weike Wang’s ‘Chemistry’ charts a young woman’s toxic reaction to stress 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Coming from the relative backwaters of rural Wales, it was an eye-opening experience. Are the Rolling Stones worth dying for? 2013-07-03T15:49:36Z Listen to the story of Andrew Jackson Higgins, who learned his skills building boats to navigate the state’s backwaters and went on to design the famed D-Day landing craft. 3 Must-Sees at the World War II Museum 2012-01-18T15:50:03.177Z The youngest of eight children, Jones was born in Saratoga, east Texas, in a region known as Big Thicket, a wooded oil-rich backwater on the edge of the Louisiana bayous. George Jones 2013-04-26T17:06:44Z As the stream meandered through stands of hemlocks and maples it passed a backwater carpeted with lily pads and a beaver lodge in the distance. Paddling through a painterly landscape in New York’s Adirondack Park 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z In “The Card Counter” his man in the room is Oscar Isaac’s William Tell, an austere poker player who travels around backwater casinos, staying under the radar and making sure to never win too much. The direct line from ‘Taxi Driver’ to ‘The Card Counter’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Backen is one of the small handful of men who, during the past four decades, conjured today’s cosmopolitan fantasy of “Napa Valley” from a sleepy backwater expanse of prune and walnut orchards. Napa Valley: The Entrepreneur's Tour 2012-10-19T13:00:23Z After six years of demotion to a backwater beat, 52-year-old Washington Post reporter Bill Katzenelenbogen has been, at last, laid off. More Russian meddling: Paul Goldberg comic novel, ‘The Château’ 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z When the public Gar recklessly tells the girl he dreamed of marrying that Ballybeg is a backwater that turns everyone crazy, the private Gar urges him to shut up. Philadelphia, Here I Come! – review 2012-08-01T14:09:54Z In any case, it isn't always easy to distinguish major from minor, the canonical from the curiosity, mainstream from backwater. Modern British Sculpture: empire of the oddballs 2011-01-18T21:31:01Z “It went from a backwater with really no tourism infrastructure at all to one of the leading aurora destinations on the planet in a decade,” he said. Viewing the Northern Lights: ‘It’s Almost Like Heavenly Visual Music’ 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The prophets’ visions transform backwaters into grand landscapes—perhaps precisely because the places they’re from are small. The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z They are well aware of how their fellow Americans view them: unsophisticated, uneducated residents of a Trump-country backwater. Black voters in West Virginia are tired of being invisible 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z City Island is a soapy and farcical of family dysfunction, set in a little-known backwater of the Bronx. Film review: City Island 2010-07-22T22:05:00Z Set in a carnival in some backwater of hell — think of the old Coney Island, post-apocalypse — this superlatively acted production is as thrilling as it is bone-rattling. ‘Assassins,’ Sondheim and Weidman’s Musical, in London 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z On the outskirts of this backwater a long-burning industrial fire is releasing toxic fumes. | 'Daydream Nation': Picking Up Extra Credit, and Teacher, After School 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z To many would-be publishers, the title sounded like a bunch of blarney — even in the early 1990s, many people still considered Ireland a conservative backwater and a cultural appendage to Britain. Thomas Cahill, Popular Writer of Ireland’s History, Dies at 82 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z The series follows the Rose family, which made a fortune running a video-store chain, lost it and now has no choice but to live in the backwater town of its title. ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ With Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The entrance to the base gondola is beside the main road, and as we lifted off, I was afforded an aerial view of the bulldozers and earthmovers remaking this former backwater. A Test Run at Russia’s Olympic Hopeful 2013-12-20T16:51:32Z At the time, Hong Kong, known mostly as a financial center and tourism hub, was pretty much a news backwater. A Hong Kong hangout for journalists stands up for press freedom amid protests and pandemic 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The raid forces young Edgar, the protagonist, to move with his family to a rural backwater known as Dreng’s Ferry, where he will begin to develop his exceptional talents as a builder. Review | Ken Follett’s ‘Pillars of the Earth’ prequel is just as transporting — and lengthy — as his famous epic 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z After years spent building spectacular, state-of-the art opera houses in major metropolises and unheralded backwaters, China is experiencing a boom in Western-style grand opera production, opera education and original opera creation. East Is East, and West Is West, but the Twain Are Now Meeting in Opera 2010-12-31T23:22:09Z The north is a major African hub; the south is rural African backwater. In Senegal, a Coastal Region Sees a Resurgence 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Rene lives in a backwater with his beloved dog, whose name gives the movie its title. At New York Film Festival, Michael Haneke and Raúl Ruiz 2012-10-02T12:35:42Z It is the kind of edgy, unorthodox artistic event that new generations of Washingtonians, who no longer accept the premise that the nation’s capital is a cultural backwater, crave. A setback for D.C. arts and culture, years in the making 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Her village was such a rural backwater that the destruction came a day late. 'She was like a second mother': the German woman who saved our Jewish family history 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z In 1979, with $20,000, half of it borrowed, the couple opened Square Books, an event often credited as the turning point in Oxford’s transition from backwater to literary hub. A Bookstore Owner Taps a Wound to Write a First Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z The tiny Jamaican backwater of Gibbeah is locked in a mythic battle for its soul. Revisiting Marlon James’s Debut Novel, ‘John Crow’s Devil’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Not for him is overacting as Jesse, who pines for his ex-wife and struggles for grounding in this backwater town. Selleck in 'Blue Bloods' and a 'Jesse Stone' film 2012-05-10T13:44:23Z With more than 32,000 visitors since its July inauguration, the site is bringing new life to an ancient backwater. An English Market Town Draws a Cutting-Edge Cast 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The city became a backwater, leaving its citizens with little to do but watch the river roll by. ‘Waterweavers,’ and ‘Carrying Coca’ at Bard Graduate Center 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The anchors refer to an Academy Award as an “arrogance enhancement totem” and our very planet as a “backwater outpost.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Whiskey Cavalier’ and ‘Free Solo’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Having long shed its reputation as a backwater, Bordeaux is still often overlooked by travelers intent on the Paris-Provence circuit. 36 Hours in Bordeaux 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Even a decade or so ago, Neukölln, in south-east Berlin, was something of a backwater – a no-man’s-land beyond the trendy centre. 10 of the coolest neighbourhoods in Europe 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z On social issues like marriage equality and abortion, we can seem like a backwater. ‘We’d been denied a personal life’: Northern Ireland’s long road to equal marriage 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z The setting is a "hillbilly mountain town," a backwater still emerging from the 1960s. 'Nightwoods' evokes a sense of (a scary) place 2011-11-02T21:12:03Z And there is more than a touch of pastiche to McDonagh's own portrait of his chosen backwater. The Cripple of Inishmaan 2013-06-18T22:00:00Z But there will always be songs to catch and backwaters to explore, Mahal said. Arhoolie Records set highlights 50 years of roots-music 2013-01-24T23:02:35Z In the very near future, Heidi is a depressed waitress at a dockside greasy spoon in her backwater home town. “Homecoming,” Reviewed: Julia Roberts in the Heavy Weather of a Late-Capitalist Dystopia 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Nothing like it existed in the traditional Spanish and Mediterranean architecture of my childhood, least of all on Vieques, which was a backwater none of us mainland Puerto Ricans cared to visit. The Many Faces of Puerto Rico 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Through the 1980s and ’90s, Australia’s longtime reputation as a culinary backwater — British food, but worse — was transformed. The Art of the Australian Breakfast 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The third and most remarkable element was a new system of illicit drug distribution, designed and entirely operated by the residents of small backwater village in Mexico. Heroin is a white-people problem: Bad medicine, economic rot and the enterprising Mexican town that turned the Heartland on to black tar 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z The United States, an Afghan-style hodgepodge of theocracies, white-supremacist refuges and fundamentalist militia zones, is a cultural backwater while the Middle East is a sophisticated global superpower. 'The Mirage': Matt Ruff's novel of 9/11 role reversal 2012-02-02T21:03:04Z This relentless curiosity piqued his interested in the wines of California, which in the ’70s was considered no more than a backwater among wine regions. Remembering Steven Spurrier, Whose Contest Shook the Wine World 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z In May, Atria released a translation of his novel, “Britt-Marie Was Here,” about a passive-aggressive woman who leaves her cheating husband and ends up coaching a children’s soccer team in a backwater town. The Man Behind ‘A Man Called Ove,’ Sweden’s Latest Hit Novel 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Episode one began with a family of newly-broke millionaires arriving at their one remaining asset; a backwater town they bought for their son as a joke. Schitt's Creek: the funniest sitcom you're (probably) not watching 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z When he arrived the place was a bit of a backwater, attracting fewer than 10,000 visitors a year. Jock Reynolds, Transformative Director of Yale Art Gallery 2012-12-06T15:59:51Z Over the next two decades, Beverly trawled backwaters and combed archives. Beverly Whitney Kean obituary 2011-08-04T18:03:15Z At first, we wondered how anyone could spend three weeks in such a remote, sleepy backwater. An Artist Colony Thrives in the South African Desert 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z With a bigger budget, the team moved from the cycling backwater of the United States to racing in Europe in 1996. Books of The Times: ‘The Secret Race’ by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle 2012-09-11T21:17:09Z Mr. Limonov, now 71, was born Edward Savenko in a Ukrainian backwater, the son of a low-level official in the secret service. Emmanuel Carrère’s New Book Profiles Edward Limonov 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Thanks to some understandable confusion at the ticket counter, they wind up instead in the flyblown backwater of Bet Hatikva. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z A city once derided as a cultural backwater is now championed as a serious arts player by locals and visitors alike. Art Basel Miami Beach Is Canceled 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Later when Spain withdrew from the area, Fort Adams became a backwater in every sense of the word. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z South Korea after the war was a poor backwater. Samsung: The Tech Monster That Conquered the World 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z London “was bit of a backwater for Pop at that time,” Mr. VeneKlasen said. A Rare Pollock Sculpture Gets a Home 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z “When poetry is a backwater it means times are O.K. When times are dire, that’s exactly when poetry is needed.” American Poets, Refusing to Go Gentle, Rage Against the Right 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z For Brunello Cucinelli, a farmer’s son from a rural backwater in Umbria, the path to international success and a great fortune began almost as improbably — with a single sweater. Brunello Cucinelli, Prince of All He Surveys 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z For the few days that American airspace remained eerily quiet, a backwater generously hosted the world. Generosity overcomes terrorism in unpretentious 'Come From Away' 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z On Mud’s island refuge, sunlight flares through the branches; insects chorus over his whispered secrets; spiders clamber up a tree, and cottonmouths lurk in a backwater. Mud: Matthew McConaughey as an Outlaw in Love 2013-04-26T22:10:07Z He took his show on the road some years ago, drawing crowds to backwater ponds to see him wade through green scum to fight with snappers. Kentucky man catches snapping turtles, TV audience 2012-06-01T15:39:18Z If everyone who spent time in the region was entranced, why was it still a sleepy backwater, I wondered. Fauna, Flora and Freighters in the Danube Delta 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Where once speculation on the nuanced points of such programmes was limited to online backwaters, now it’s all over the place. The new nerds: how Avengers and Game of Thrones made everyone geek out 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z “In some ways this was considered a backwater region,” Commissioner Lee Joon-hee, a government representative, said in an interview at his office across the street from the Expo site. Next Stop: In South Korea, All Roads Lead to Yeosu, Host of the World Expo 2012-06-08T18:29:26Z While most young officers looked forward with keen anticipation to military life in India—polo, pigsticking and a host of servants—Churchill increasingly saw it as a political backwater he must avoid. Winston Churchill, war correspondent: His early military years shaped his political ambitions 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The volume’s title piece, translated by Konrad Syrop, concerns a backwater zoo in Poland that at long last is slated to get an elephant. Slawomir Mrozek, a Leading Polish Playwright, Dies at 83 2013-08-28T14:58:53Z The titular character is a "separate" young doctor, exiled to a rural backwater where she bonds variously with a pregnant girl, a suicidal man and a fellow physician whose friendship she innately distrusts. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-02-03T00:05:13Z In Greater Clements, a fictional backwater and the locus of a tragic footnote to mining history, the playwright depicts a locality literally wiping itself off the map. Review | ‘Greater Clements’ is the best new play of the year 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z And the destruction of the western Roman Empire led to a political and economic fragmentation that made western Europe an economic backwater for half a millennium. A grand tour 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z It was clear that many of the industry insiders also made the trip into the fashion backwater exclusively for Gaga - who'd announced she'd be walking in the show on her Twitter account the day before. Lady Gaga prances for Mugler in Paris 2011-03-03T14:57:10Z Or at least shirk work for a long spell, and run from his roots: a charmless childhood in Ireland, which he depicts with characteristic delicacy as “a backwater of banal, misshapen people.” ‘Threshold’ Resurrects the Angry, Ambitious Young Man 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Wu set her story in Squahamish, a fictional backwater in Washington state. Alice Wu’s Lesbian Rom-Com Was Influential, but Her Follow-Up Wasn’t Easy 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z But a few months ago, while researching early hacker webzines, I found myself in the backwaters of Wired’s online archive, reading technological forecasts from 1993. On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Here, once again, is outback Australia reduced to a malevolent, life-snuffing adversary; a place of snakebites and skeletons; a backward backwater; a theater of horror. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z L&S didn't dilute their material for white listeners: rather, the mainstream diverted itself to reach their fertile backwater. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z Dawn French's Rev Geraldine works in a quiet backwater, among a collection of borderline imbeciles. Rev: preaching to the converted 2011-04-05T10:58:25Z Consider, for example, “The Shot,” which opens in a backwater town, where a group of bored army officers spends long evenings playing cards. Capturing the essence of Pushkin, the revered poet killed in a duel at 37 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Yet the machinations of recent weeks also epitomize Trump’s knack for turning a relatively obscure issue or backwater agency into fodder for a culture war — with little more than a tweet. How Trump’s obsessions with media and loyalty coalesced in a battle for Voice of America 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z In keeping with the theme of their new record, The Suburbs, Arcade Fire are soliciting images of fans' backwaters, ring-roads and strip-malls, to be used when they perform the album's title track. Arcade Fire webcast to be directed by Terry Gilliam 2010-07-28T10:31:00Z Plainly, academic life would have been too much of a backwater. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z “Schitt’s Creek” follows a family of newly broke millionaires arriving at their one remaining asset — a backwater town they bought for their son as a joke. Parsons snub, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ love among Emmy surprises 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z The one that broke in 2005 got off to a good start: hailing from Romania, a filmic backwater compared to Russia and Poland. Romania's new wave could dry up if it doesn't get home support 2013-03-12T14:47:00Z As I took in the scene, it was hard to believe that not so long ago Bordeaux was considered somewhat of a backwater. Celebrating Food and Wine in Bordeaux 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Naples’s days as a sleepy backwater and humdrum retirement community are over. 36 Hours in Naples, Fla. 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z “Southerners” is full of denser and danker material—it’s a descent into some of the severe backwaters of the South. What We’re Reading This Summer 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z He was born in 1904 in a Texas backwater, had a bad second-grade education and spent his formative years traveling with horse traders and gamblers. An Unusual Gangster: Doug J. Swanson Talks About Benny Binion 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Who would have thought that a cluster of railway arches in Bermondsey — a backwater close to London Bridge — would become the weekend destination of choice for the British capital's most discerning foodies? Bermondsey Bites: Hip New Eat Streets Emerge in London 2011-12-01T14:10:00Z Washington spent the next two centuries transitioning from backwater to merely boring. Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “We had a much longer puberty where we were a backwater.” Can a Floridian win the presidency? It hasn’t happened yet as Trump and DeSantis vie to be first 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z Under Republican leadership, the House of Representatives has been a reactionary backwater that periodically shuts down in fits of rage. Who chose the new speaker: Republicans or Trump? | Francis Wilkinson 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Professor Kariko and Professor Weissman met in the early 1990s when they were working at the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States, when their interest in mRNA was seen as a scientific backwater. Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z During the 1950s, choosing to become an artist working in the cultural backwater of L.A. rather than in rising powerhouse New York was sort of like growing up Roman Catholic in the heavily Protestant Midwest. Review: In his rapturous MoMA retrospective, L.A. artist Ed Ruscha gives New York School art a witty blow 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The sleepy Polish backwater about 60 miles from the Ukrainian border has been transformed into a buzzing international logistics hub for all kinds of aid flowing into Ukraine. Poland embraces role as NATO country with a front-row seat to Russia’s war next door 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The treatment will require a weekend closure of the Colorado River slough, a cobble bar area surrounding the backwater where the smallmouth bass were found and a short stretch up and downstream. Chemical treatment to be deployed against invasive fish in Colorado River 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Once a backwater filled with speculation, artificial intelligence is now a burning, “hair on fire” conflagration of both hopes and fears about the revolutionary technological transformation. We Need Smart Intellectual Property Laws for Artificial Intelligence 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z How did we get here, when for most of the last century Los Angeles was a union backwater embedded in a region synonymous with a sun-drenched suburbia and a conservative, hegemonic business leadership? Opinion: The SAG-AFTRA actors' strike shows L.A. is leading the labor movement 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Today an artist virtually synonymous with the city where he landed in 1956, he has been instrumental in transforming Los Angeles from cultural backwater into powerhouse. Review: In his rapturous MoMA retrospective, L.A. artist Ed Ruscha gives New York School art a witty blow 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Export-control law had long been seen as a dusty, arcane backwater, far removed from the actual exercise of American power. ‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against China 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Gessen wrote that Putin was disappointed with a humdrum posting in Dresden, considered a backwater, but that then and later, his colorlessness served him well. Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Novelist John Wray’s ‘Gone to the Wolves’ tracks 1980s death metal, following three friends from a Florida backwater into L.A.’s exciting, curdling rock scene. A new book on Steely Dan is for hardcore fans. Luckily, they are legion 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The irony of the fact that England was the first state to move toward “modern” patterns and political dominance is that, at the start of the seventeenth century, England was a relative backwater. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z To those classical states, much of Arabia appeared as a backwater occupied by migratory and aggressive Arab tribes and offered no reason for them to turn their imperial ambitions southward. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Metal is not a cult or an ideological system but a scene, and a scene is always a cultural backwater of the mainstream. A hardcore coming-of-age novel nails the glitter and grime of L.A.'s ’80s metal scene 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z “The carrying capacity of the backwaters has reduced due to sediment deposition and encroachment, and the rainwater enters residential areas during the monsoon season.” ‘Mangrove Man’ in India fights to salvage sinking shores 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Without the move, Mr. Lawson said, London was at risk of becoming a financial “backwater.” Nigel Lawson, who shook up British economy in Thatcher era, dies at 91 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z That’s the ability of hack judges in backwater courthouses to interfere with policy by issuing nationwide injunctions based on specious or at least shallow legal arguments. Column: How right-wing judge-shopping in Texas is erasing Americans' rights everywhere 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The apartments give residents spectacular sights of backwaters merging with the Arabian Sea and, for a premium, Mangalavanam’s last green stronghold in the form of the bird sanctuary, which is surrounded by construction and scaffolding. In India, mangrove trees make way for booming city of Kochi 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z When asked whether he, less than a decade after becoming the world's most expensive footballer, felt chastened by playing in front of 3,000 fans in a footballing backwater, Lentini seemed genuinely nonplussed. Lust, luck and a life less ordinary – the temptation of Gigi Lentini 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Murukesan knows the sea is rising, but it’s the backwaters that make him more anxious. ‘Mangrove Man’ in India fights to salvage sinking shores 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z A fifth of the population live under the federal poverty line, and the town’s residents face the risk of flooding should the backwater levees along the Yazoo fail. Rolling Fork, the birthplace of Muddy Waters, has faced tornado and flooding concerns for years. 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Its residents live with the risk of flooding should the backwater levees along the Yazoo fail. Deadly Tornado Tears Through Mississippi 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Back then, Irbil was a backwater provincial capital without even an airport. Kurds remain biggest winners from US-led invasion of Iraq 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Such neglect, said Sandy Lydon, a retired history professor at Cabrillo College, is the legacy of a racist border dispute that relegated this small collection of homes into an unincorporated backwater. How a long history of racism and neglect set the stage for Pajaro flooding 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The backwaters have become shallow due to the silt deposited by heavy floods. ‘Mangrove Man’ in India fights to salvage sinking shores 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s disappointing to realize how provincial and backwater the sports department of the L.A. Letters to Sports: Kade West and Cerritos College deserved better 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Oats, 48, directs a fast-paced, mega-physical style that has lifted Alabama from a men’s basketball backwater to near the top of the mountain. Nate Oats always has his players’ backs. At Alabama, has he taken it too far? 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z In subsequent years, scientists explored immunotherapy, but the resulting drugs were largely ineffective and highly toxic; the field was largely seen as a backwater. How Jimmy Carter boosted a life-saving cancer drug 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z It helped transform the surrounding Bankside neighborhood from a riverside backwater into an arts and nightlife hub dotted with luxury apartment towers. Prying eyes: Neighbors win privacy feud with UK Tate gallery 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z “We are caught between the sea and the backwaters. They are likely to swallow the island in some years, but I am not going anywhere,” he said. ‘Mangrove Man’ in India fights to salvage sinking shores 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z "Everybody told me that the Standards Committee would be a quiet backwater," he said. Knighthoods for MPs who caused Boris Johnson headaches 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z House Republican leaders could also choose not to seat Mr. Santos on any committees or to relegate him to backwater committees. What Can the House Do to Address George Santos’s Falsehoods? 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z That was borderline irresponsible, especially at a backwater program such as Iowa Wesleyan, which hadn’t won a game in three years. A Key West regular, Mike Leach leaves a legacy — and an empty bar stool 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It became a backwater for political appointees, many of them with scant or no drug policy expertise. Cause of death: Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America Words broadcast in the murky backwaters of the alt-media don’t stay there, noted Howard Bragman, a Los Angeles crisis communications specialist who has represented celebrity clients. Kanye West’s hate-spewing, career-tanking descent through the alt-media 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z For much of the 20th century, Qatar was a barren Persian Gulf backwater better known for pearl diving than power politics. The World Cup that changed everything 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z It aims to develop the southeast, long an economic backwater and the wellspring of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist movement that Ankara considers a terrorist organization. Politics, climate conspire as Tigris and Euphrates dwindle 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The Ireland the play depicts — multicultural, modern, urban — is far from the homogenous Emerald Isle of shamrock-strewn cliche, and equally distinct from the insular and drolly tawdry backwater portrayed in Synge’s original script. Solas Nua mounts an updated ‘Playboy of the Western World’ 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Steiner maybe takes on too much with “Matriarch,” which begins with a long look at Laura’s miserable urban professional life before finally reaching the spooky backwater where the action really starts. Review: What's scarier, supernatural forces or bad parenting? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z One major reason: the normally backwater contest has potentially big implications for U.S. democracy, election experts said. Why a small midterm race in Arizona could have big consequences for U.S. democracy 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z But three decades ago, when MetroTech first opened as a billion-dollar gamble in urban renewal, Brooklyn was seen as a backwater to Manhattan. Can $50 Million Make a Dull Brooklyn Office Park Cool? 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z China, a relative backwater then, is now the world’s No. 2 economy and a growing military power. Japanese leader’s trip to China in ’72 was diplomatic gamble 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z “The public perception was that it was a backwater.” How North Bend became a true Northwest mountain town 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Archaeologists once described southeast Asia “as a cultural backwater”, says study co-author India Dilkes-Hall, an archaeologist at the University of Western Australia in Perth. Prehistoric Child’s Amputation is Oldest Surgery of Its Kind 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Dr. Golden, 50, and Dr. Scherer, 46, have been collaborating in the backwaters of historical Mesoamerica since the late 1990s. Unearthing a Maya Civilization That ‘Punched Above its Weight’ 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “He floated seamlessly among government offices, embassies, British expats at the tight-knit Cricket Club, and late-night street food stalls that perfumed what was still a sleepy colonial backwater,” Rosenblum said. Veteran Malaysian journalist Subramaniam Harihar dies at 79 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z But the job brought him face to face with the bleakness of daily life, especially in the backwater rural corners of the country. Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In our Siberian backwater, we never got any Pizza Huts — few could’ve afforded them. A reporter’s Siberian memories of Gorbachev, and that Pizza Hut commercial. 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z For a long time, the measurement of parallaxes and accurate stellar positions was a backwater of astronomical research—mainly because the accuracy of measurements did not improve much for about 100 years. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The consequences of sharecropping affected the entire South for many generations, severely limiting economic development and ensuring that the South remained an agricultural backwater. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Always seen as Japan's backwater, Tokushima is not where you would expect to see the opening of a special new school for tech-savvy young entrepreneurs. Can a sleepy Japanese town become Asia's Silicon Valley? 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Then, as my obsession deepened, I started researching supply-chain shortages, studying the inventories of online baby retailers and braving the backwaters of used gear on Facebook Marketplace. I Was Skeptical of Baby Gear. Then I Became a Dad. 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z For some Scottish Lowlanders who saw the Gaelic-speaking Highlands as a barbarous backwater, the kilt had been regarded as the primitive dress of mountain thieves. How the king's visit saw kilts become Scotland's national dress 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z They have been particularly helpful in finding kayakers lost in the backwaters and helping guide them back ashore or feeding their precise location to public safety officials for rescue efforts. Lifeguard drones can save lives. But U.S. beaches might not buy them. 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z State legislatures, long considered a backwater of American politics, have become hotly contested since the 2020 election. A Michigan lawmaker who lashed out after being smeared as a groomer becomes a Democratic money machine. 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Yet even science came late to their study, and mycology remains a relatively underfunded backwater whose acolytes conduct their investigations in basement laboratories far from the gleaming halls of the more prominent disciplines. Review | Our planet is covered in fungus — and that’s a good thing 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Mudrocks form in very low energy environments, such as lakes, river backwaters, and the deep ocean. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z If that 90m score was the 19-year-old's entry into the mainstream, he has been making similar waves in rugby's backwaters for a while. 'It was two even teams - until Henry got the ball' 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z So what if River City, the backwater Iowa town where “The Music Man” unfolds, was like Martha’s Vineyard? Olney Theatre reimagines ‘The Music Man’ with a deaf Harold Hill 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Sievierodonetsk was once a sleepy, provincial backwater of about 100,000 residents, with streets lined with poplar trees and a skyline dominated by smokestacks of a fertilizer factory. Ukraine’s strategic dilemma in Sievierodonetsk: Stand and fight, or pull back? 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The shooting suspect may have picked up his noxious worldview from some fever-plagued backwater of the Internet rather than cable television. Perspective | A racist theory may have driven the Buffalo tragedy. The Murdochs thrive on it. 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The West has rallied to Ukraine’s support, pumping billions of dollars in aid and weaponry into what had previously been something of a backwater on Europe’s eastern fringe. Young Ukrainian designer puts his stamp on the country's war effort 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z He was the 11th-ranked rider in the nation last year, but piled up those victories mostly at backwater tracks in Ohio. The Surprise Winner of the Kentucky Derby Will Skip the Preakness 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z For decades, SPACs were a backwater of Wall Street, connecting speculators with companies that had no other means of going public. Special Report-How Wall Street banks made a killing on SPAC craze 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z More than 9,000 races and 1,445 victories later, mostly racked up on the backwater tracks of Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky, Reed’s horses have earned more than $24 million in purses. Rich Strike’s Derby Win Has Given Horse Racing a Welcome Reboot 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z If the virtuous cycle of technological development and population density is the underlying cause of economic growth, Europe should have remained a backwater. Review | Why the wheels of human history seemed to turn faster for some 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z “Twitter is the backwater of the Internet, it’s where people go to complain and cancel each other,” he told The Washington Post. Can getting dunked on online win an election? 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z After hitting US-101, you’ll start noticing the word “slough” commonly crop up as road names — the word means a place of deep mud or swamp — as part of the Pacific’s backwater system. Explore Long Beach Peninsula: Quiet coasts and old-timey fun | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z From a backwater with scant natural resources beyond tuna and coconuts, tourism propelled it to a middle-income country over the past three decades. Maldives shelters sanctioned Russian billionaires' yachts 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z But back then, China was an economic backwater. Russia war ends era of globalization that kept inflation low 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z The contrast between the mainland and the Orkneys led some to conclude the islands were a Bronze Age backwater, untouched by the changes taking place on the mainland. Bones from ancient cemetery reveal surprises about Great Britain’s Bronze Age 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The “Big Ditch” had unleashed rapid social change in a rural backwater populated mostly by migrants from western New England. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Expressing outrage at the repeal threat, Norton noted the temerity of House Republicans treating the District as a backwater colony. Opinion | The midterms pose a dangerous threat to D.C. self-government 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Since the 1950s, Hefei has been a hub of scientific research, but today its shrewd investments have transformed it from a relative backwater to a bustling metropolis of about 5 million people. How China’s communist officials became venture capitalists 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z The raid on Thursday took place in the Atmeh area, a rural backwater and smuggling town in the northwest that has swelled in population during the war. Five Takeaways From the U.S. Raid That Killed the Islamic State’s Leader 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The town had a reputation then as a backwater of Loudoun County, a fast-growing area of northern Virginia encompassing the tech corridor outside Washington and rural towns and farms. In nation at war with itself, one town tries cup of civility 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z These hellish backwaters, however, serve as the stage for a remarkable display—tens of thousands of fish moving in unison like sports fans doing the wave across a stadium. Fish Do the Wave to Ward Off Predatory Birds 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The environmental groups said the Corps refused to consider alternatives while acknowledging that “only 17% of the backwater would receive any flood relief,” leaving most communities unprotected. Corps cancels Mississippi flood project that EPA rejected 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The band winds up in Bet Hatikva, a fictional backwater that its own residents dismiss as “boring,” “barren” and “bland” in the wry number “Welcome to Nowhere.” Review: 'The Band's Visit' brings its musical poetry to Dolby Theatre 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z “You never expect this to happen, not in a backwater town like this,” he said. 15-year-old charged with terrorism, murder in Oxford High shooting as fourth victim dies 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Wuhan itself was the home of China's first Biosafety Level 4 laboratory, a specialized research laboratory dealing with potentially deadly infectious agents, a sign the city was no scientific backwater. Book excerpt: Sounding the first alarm on COVID-19 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Before the big melt and its economic possibilities came into focus, it was an icy backwater, one of many dying outposts of the Soviet empire, well on their way to becoming ghost towns. How Russia Is Cashing In on Climate Change 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z “This bill threatens to turn Montreal into a backwater,” he said. A Language Bill Deepens a Culture Clash in Quebec 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Gander, the Canadian backwater “on the north-east tip of North America on an island called Newfoundland,” might seem tangential to the point of absurdity as a locale. Review: 'Come From Away' loses none of its folksy charm on screen 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z More than three dozen other people have upended their lives to plunge headlong into the backwaters of democracy. A shaman, a rapper and a surgeon: Meet the lesser-known names on your recall ballot 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The income gap is all too apparent to some residents in Zhejiang’s capital, Hangzhou, once a picturesque backwater that now is home to luxury cars, fashion shops and high-end apartments. Warning of Income Gap, Xi Tells China’s Tycoons to Share Wealth 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The abject collapse of the Afghan army coupled with the flight of the Afghan leadership only emphasizes the pointlessness of trying to create a modern nation out of a feudal backwater. Opinion | Assessing the aftermath of the withdrawal of Afghanistan 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z “But up until Bowden came along,” he said, “Florida was a little bit of a backwater in college football.” Bobby Bowden, who made Florida State a perennial football powerhouse, dies at 91 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z While the panel’s emphasis on overseeing the day-to-day business of the Senate can make it seem like a backwater, it has often been led by shrewd players like Mr. Shelby. Klobuchar Lays Out New Goals for Often Low-Key Rules Committee 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z The sleepy backwaters of the Broadway Local, its patrons watching forlornly from the platforms, flashed by in blurs — 66th Street! 59th! 50th! — getting the back of the hand from the mighty, haughty Express. Song of the Subway: Walt Whitman on the Downtown Express 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The first dive tourism spots in the Caribbean blossomed from Bob Soto's little backwater dive shop on "Cheeseburger Reef" into today's multimillion-dollar dive tourism trade. As tourism returns, we can’t allow cruise companies to destroy coral reefs for profit 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z This is the end result: from a backwater to the semifinals of Euro 2020. No Semifinalist Is an Island 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union was transforming itself from an agrarian backwater into an industrial power through sheer disciplined understanding of the objective realities of history. The War on History Is a War on Democracy 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Surfside had evolved from a sleepy Miami Beach backwater to a desirable community on the rise. Inside the tumultuous years before the Florida condo’s collapse 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z In a short while, they’ve lifted the filibuster out of the procedural backwaters into the political mainstream, changing senators’ minds and showing how the rules can and will be used to halt Biden’s goals. Election bill defeat revives fight over Senate rules 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z He cited the state voting bill as one of the reasons he and his wife were “thinking about moving elsewhere, because Texas is a political backwater.” Voting debate roils Washington but leaves many voters cold 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Exoplanet hunters have caught sight of a multitude of Earth- and Venus-size worlds far from our galactic backwater, each of them an Elysium or a Tartarus. Is NASA about to Lift the ‘Venus Curse?’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z A new poll released by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core shows that these dangerous and conspiratorial beliefs are not confined to the country’s dank backwaters. Opinion | The really scary reason Republicans don’t want to face the truth about Jan. 6 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z It was long viewed within the government as a sleepy backwater. The Small Business Administration’s Gaffes Are Now Her Job to Fix 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The researchers also found evidence for repeated avulsions one backwater length up from the mouth of the Yellow, Rhine, Danube, Orinoco, and Nile rivers. Why do rivers leap from their banks? Scientists strive to predict deadly flooding events 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Rep. Bennie Thompson, whose district includes the backwater area. Conservation groups sue Engineer Corps over Yazoo Pumps 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z It is also worth bearing in mind that the United States in many ways remains what it was before World War II— largely a traditional, conservative backwater by international standards. Welfare fraud is actually rare, no matter what the myths and stereotypes say 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z It includes replacing wetlands, reconnecting backwaters to the main river and opening up areas for natural flooding. Old Tunnels and Rusting Bridges: America’s Creaking Infrastructure 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Hearst veteran Stewart Powell described the bureau as a journalistic “backwater” with little clout or ambition before Mr. Lewis arrived. Charles ‘Chuck’ Lewis, stalwart Washington journalist, dies at 80 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z They found avulsions happening as much as 20 times farther upstream than predicted by the backwater length alone. Why do rivers leap from their banks? Scientists strive to predict deadly flooding events 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The breakneck growth of what was once an obscure backwater of capital markets reflects the popularity of SPACs as an alternative vehicle to traditional IPOs. U.S. SPACs overtake 2020 haul in less than three months 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z A backwater compared to more cosmopolitan cities in the center, Daraa province’s population is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, largely conservative and impoverished - and bitter over decades of neglect. Where Syria uprising began 10 years ago, dissent still rife 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, many Texas police departments were considered backwaters. Police Unions Won Power Using His Playbook. Now He’s Negotiating the Backlash. 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z A dusty, forgotten provincial backwater before the conflict began, Marib has turned into a bustling metropolis, thanks in part to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of displaced Yemenis from other parts of the country. Looming battle for Yemen's Marib city risks humanitarian disaster 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Over the next three years, Iran emerged from a digital backwater into one of the most prolific cyber armies in the world. How the United States Lost to Hackers 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Most Americans, however, would have envisioned such a staggering act as happening overseas in an unindustrialized, undemocratic backwater or similar setting — definitely not in the citadel of U.S. democracy — the U.S. U.S. exceptionalism is dead: long live U.S. uniqueness? 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Miami views Naples as a boring, retiree-infested backwater where the height of wild nightlife is ordering a second round of breadsticks at the Olive Garden. Opinion | The one thing Floridians agree on: Don’t mess with our manatees 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z By the middle of the 20th Century, the former backwater on the Humber estuary was the biggest fishing port in the world. Can Brexit bring back the glory days of British fishing? 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z For those in flood-prone neighborhoods, protect your home with a backwater valve. Opinion | D.C.’s waterways are good for mental health, but some days that really is sewage in the water 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z At its centre, though, is Pixie herself: an unpredictable wild child with a craving for adventure whose dreams are far bigger than the Sligo backwater she calls home. Pixie: Irish road movie offers 'light-hearted relief' from Covid worries 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z But it is not entirely a forgotten southern backwater – at least, not to one government agency. Why is a rundown Mississippi county the most heavily audited in the US? 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z The racial hatred I encountered in the backwaters wasn’t pathological, it was that of the animal suddenly forced into sharing its cage with some new and terrifying creature. Idles v Fat White Family: what the indie showdown tells us about class 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Barrow’s career spanned the golden age of cosmology, in which the subject was transformed from a scientific backwater to a mainstream precision science. In Memoriam: John D. Barrow 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z It is not a backwater and its people are not backward. Opinion | Captain Chain Saw’s Delusion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Gates and Evans were among a circle of post-WWII civic leaders who shepherded Seattle’s rise from a small backwater into the thriving home of the world’s most successful software companies. Celebrate the phenomenal legacy of Bill Gates Sr. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z According to a 2016 biography, he couldn't wait to escape the rural backwater. The unexpected rise of Japan's new prime minister 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z “California was no longer some dusty Mexican backwater,” Sousa said. 'Agent of colonialism' or a 'saint for our times'? Junipero Serra's legacy divides Latinos 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z As a result, foreign policy is no longer a backwater in democratic politics, and new links between foreign and economic policy are being drawn. Why a Biden presidency might not mean a return to pre-Trump foreign relations 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z In 1978, then Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping initiated historic reforms and opening-up policies, paving the way for the country’s transformation from a diplomatically isolated backwater to the world’s second-largest economy today. China pursues economic self-reliance as external risks grow: advisers 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The permanent structure, expected to be complete next summer, will replace a temporary one that has been assembled on an impromptu basis four times since 1973 to stop backwater flooding from the Atchafalaya River. Editorial Roundup: 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z “It’s always been a pretty backwater topic,” says Nick Bloom, a British economics professor at Stanford University in California and an expert in home working. End of the office: the quiet, grinding loneliness of working from home 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s more often remembered as the remote 1970s backwater that housed the death cult of Jim Jones and its Jonestown massacre. Analysis | Why Guyana’s political stalemate matters 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Before the emergence of the original SARS, the study of coronaviruses was a professional backwater. Monster or Machine? A Profile of the Coronavirus at 6 Months 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Some of the most productive wild rice beds are in Lake Superior sloughs and backwaters. Climate Change Threatens the Ancient Wild Rice Traditions of the Ojibwe 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Shetland might be remote, but it is no backwater. The islands that halted an outbreak by locking down early 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z At the time, Macao was a decaying backwater deluged with refugees. Stanley Ho, Macao casino tycoon, dies at 98 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Back in 1962, when Ho acquired the gambling monopoly, Macao was a decaying backwater deluged with refugees. Stanley Ho, who built Macao’s gambling industry, dies at 98 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The unforgiving logic of trade had reduced the fabled cities of the old Silk Road — Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva — to backwaters. In Uzbekistan, Coming to Terms With the Country’s Dazzling History 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Popular for its tranquil backwaters and health retreats, the coastal state receives more than 1 million foreign tourists a year. Aggressive testing, contact tracing, cooked meals: How the Indian state of Kerala flattened its coronavirus curve 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z A city that once stood at the global crossroads can devolve into a backwater, and a once-thriving culture can face extinction. 500 Years Ago, This Port Linked East to West. Its Fate Was to Fade Away. 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z One of the great sports treasures in Boston history was leaving for a backwater outpost. Boston Offers Bouquets to Tom Brady and Disdain to the Patriots 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Russia remains an economic backwater overly reliant on energy exports. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z But despite the best efforts of Cycling Palestine, the West Bank remains a bicycling backwater. Why cycling in Palestine is an intensely political act 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Washington had long been a musical backwater for rock, slow to adapt beyond the most mainstream tastes. Joshua Brooks, who brought underground rock to D.C. airwaves, dies at 73 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z In northern Mississippi, recent rain and backwater flooding from the rising Mississippi River is turning neighborhoods into islands in the small community of Tchula. Relentless rain, rising rivers keep flooding southern towns 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z This tilted the state from a moderately conservative backwater to a moderately liberal slice of the Western electorate. Nevada is a land of diversity and reinvention. Will it reshape the presidential race? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z But until less than two decades ago, all known human varieties caused illness so mild that coronavirus research was something of a backwater. How Coronaviruses Cause Infection—from Colds to Deadly Pneumonia 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z “For many years this was a backwater, and all of a sudden there’s a company popping up every two weeks.” Step aside CRISPR, RNA editing is taking off 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z They are ostensibly on the side of the royal government as the insurgent communists, Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese, move stealthily through rural backwaters. Review: Novel by Paul Yoon offers rare view of war-torn Laos 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z This approach is seen as crucial in having enabled China to lift hundreds of millions of citizens out of poverty and turn itself from global backwater into world power. Coronavirus Exposes Core Flaws, and Few Strengths, in China’s Governance 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Once a backwater of banking, the payments sector is now lucrative and fast-growing and is attracting growing interest from private equity investors. Exclusive: Eurazeo hires banks for $2.2 billion sale of payments firm Planet - sources 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Then, almost by chance, a new development transformed gene drives from a backwater science into a vanguard technology. The Gene Drive Dilemma: We Can Alter Entire Species, but Should We? 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The native New Yorker arrived in Washington in the early 1960s, a time when the District was still considered a cultural backwater with only limited theatrical opportunities. Victor Shargai, Washington arts patron, dies at 83 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z About 550,000 acres of land have been underwater in the rural Yazoo backwater area of the lower Mississippi delta since this February. How we saw America in 2019 – Guardian US's favorite photographs 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z This boisterous six-piece, formed at the University of Cambridge, have garnered serious hype despite indie music being a bit of a cultural backwater of late. Bradford bassline and ketamine-charged punk – 50 new artists for 2020 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z A floodgate that allows the water to drain from what’s called the Yazoo backwater region was kept closed, because it was preventing even worse flooding from the Mississippi River. New county leaders to decide on flood debris hauling payment 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The Vicksburg Post on building pumps in backwater areas to reduce flooding: Editorial Roundup: Mississippi 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Afghanistan, analysts note, was a backwater barely on the U.S. security radar when al Qaeda forces used the country as a base to plan and launch the deadly Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. U.S. withdrawal creates space for terror groups to strength in Africa 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z He listened to her young Japanese students talk about Vancouver as though it were a backwater; Tokyo must really be something, he thought. How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Volunteers from an organization called Team Rubicon started working Wednesday in the Eagle Lake area north of Vicksburg, where the Yazoo backwater flood began in February and finally receded in August. Volunteers demolish homes damaged by months of flooding 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Producers in backwaters like children’s television are now in hot demand. The Streaming Era Has Finally Arrived. Everything Is About to Change. 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z By man-made, we are referring to the often discussed, long-planned, never completed and embargoed plans for pumps in the backwater area. Editorial Roundup: Mississippi 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “Dark Waters” distinguishes itself, however, in intricately following the story of a toxic substance, from a West Virginia backwater to ubiquity. Review: ‘Dark Waters’ plunges into ‘forever chemicals’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z But, as we learn, Dawn isn’t in this Texas backwater to see the sights. Review: The emotionally shattering 'Elijah' starts with a death-penalty debate in TGI Fridays 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z It took a $10 million carrot to lure him to a rugby backwater. Rugby: Sonny who? Canadians ask as Wolfpack line up Williams 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “Cornwall is very economically deprived and is now perceived as a rural backwater — a tourist area,” she said. Seeking New Energy, an English Town Digs Deep 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The procedure of petitioning the nobile officium is unique to Scots law but is far from being a forgotten backwater of the legal system. Court to decide if PM's Brexit delay tactic lawful 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Until the 1960s, when the first banking laws were put in place to attract international capital, the Cayman Islands was a backwater, with an economy dependent on seamen who would send their remittances back home. Why Is a Secretive Billionaire Buying Up the Cayman Islands? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The exhuasted passengers emerge from a sleek convoy of silver and red-streaked buses, looking confused and disoriented as they are deposited ignominiously in this tropical backwater in southernmost Mexico. Buses to nowhere: Mexico transports migrants with U.S. court dates to its far south 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Once a provincial backwater with a handful of colorful old churches, Silao is now enveloped in a thick cordon of factories and warehouses serving automotive companies from all over the world. Mexican motor city 'getting desperate' as GM's U.S. strike takes heavy toll 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The procedure of petitioning the nobile officium is unique to Scots law, but is far from being a forgotten backwater of the legal system. Judges to rule on Brexit delay letter to EU 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The Human Rights Council in Geneva is often considered a diplomatic backwater. China Wants the World to Stay Silent on Muslim Camps. It’s Succeeding. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The nonprofit state agency that oversees the dam, the Grand River Dam Authority, disputes that a backwater effect exists and denies causing flooding upstream. A Senator’s Lake House vs. a Town Fighting Flooding 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z How will this organ-liquifying bug escape the backwaters of the Ukraine? Hobbs & Shaw is joyously stupid about science and technology 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The evidence in support of the backwater pumps is mounting. Mississippi editorial roundup 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z In 2009, as a Beijing-based correspondent, I traveled the backwaters of central China to learn more about the origins of the more than 80,000 girls who had been adopted in the United States. One is Chinese. One is American. How a journalist discovered and reunited identical twins 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The kind of racist hatred that used to be hidden away in backwaters like Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana and practiced by the likes of David Duke is now part of our national conversation. Donald Trump is gambling racism will win for him in 2020 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z “Schitt’s Creek” follows a family of newly broke millionaires arriving at their one remaining asset - a backwater town they bought for their son as a joke. Parsons snub, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ love among Emmy surprises 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z In Mississippi one of the key areas of concern is just north of the city of Vicksburg, where backwater flooding is already a concern. Tropical Storm Barry's Dangers Will Reach Far Inland 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z First announced back at The Game Awards, the game looks to blend the first person RPG gameplay of Fallout with a somewhat over-the-top sci-fi universe, that takes place on what looks like a backwater planet. The 14 biggest announcements for Microsoft Xbox at E3 2019 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z The water in the spillway has been running high for several days, causing officials to prepare for possible backwater flooding as far north as St. Landry Parish. Trump OKs Louisiana disaster declaration before likely flood 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The barge is being sunk below Morgan City to protect residents of five parishes from backwater flooding after the Morganza Spillway is opened on Sunday. Barge sunk as floodgate, closing part of Bayou Chene 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Trapped inside levees with nowhere to go, the water has been rising inch by inch since February in what’s called the Yazoo backwater area. No end seen to struggle as Mississippi flood enters month 4 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Novels, Sehgal argued, are capable of what nonfiction is not, because fiction is free to “occupy the backwaters where the writer need not pander or persuade.” TV’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z White House officials treated the drug czar’s office as a backwater. The Trump administration struggles to confront the deadliest drug crisis in U.S. history 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Edwards says a barge has been submerged in Bayou Chene to reduce possible backwater flooding. Trump OKs Louisiana disaster declaration before likely flood 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Trump and the Republican Party and the religious right were beaten on DADT, and they’ll be consigned to the same fetid backwaters of history on transgender rights, too. 50 years ago, I graduated from West Point and covered the Stonewall uprising for the Village Voice 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z A giant pumping station had been proposed to pump water from the backwater, over the levees and into the Mississippi River when the floodgates are closed, but the U.S. No end seen to struggle as Mississippi flood enters month 4 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The barge would be sunk in Bayou Chene, south of Morgan City, to protect five parishes from backwater flooding if the Morganza Spillway is opened. Temporary barge floodgate planning in south Louisiana 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z More puddles represent Barataria Bay and Breton Sound, inlets of the Gulf, and still more puddles represent various bayous and backwaters. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The pumps would have pumped backwater into the nearby Yazoo River if the floodgates were closed. Financial future of Mississippi Delta uncertain after rampant floods 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Herron’s wry, riveting series about Slough House — British Intelligence’s backwater for disgraced and incompetent spies — continues with this tale involving, among other things, the organization’s efforts to find the killer of one of its own. All the best new crime fiction for summer 2019 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Current forecasts suggest the water won’t drain significantly from the backwater area until July at the earliest. No end seen to struggle as Mississippi flood enters month 4 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The school is in a low-lying section where continued high water on the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers has caused backwater flooding in the Lake Verret Basin. High water prompts early vacation for Louisiana students 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z During this time, China joined the World Trade Organization and morphed from an economic backwater into a global power. Review | The story that a Chinese businessman could have told 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z However, with snowmelt and rain causing the river to sit higher than the backwater, there’s been nowhere for it to go but on to land. Financial future of Mississippi Delta uncertain after rampant floods 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z It would be shameful for this state, which remains a trailblazer in fostering a thriving biotechnology industry, to remain a backwater in holding that same industry to account for its pricing policies. Editorials from around New England 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z During his reign, Luxembourg turned itself from an industrial backwater into a centre for financial services and satellite communications. Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg dies aged 98 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z A trio of bald eagles, which consists of two males and one female, is successfully raising eaglets in the backwaters of the Upper Mississippi River in Illinois. Bald eagle chicks hatch on live webcam 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z A trio of bald eagles is successfully raising eaglets in the backwaters of the Upper Mississippi River in Illinois. A bald eagle trio of two males and a female is successfully raising eaglets in Illinois 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Despite the effort, water swallowed up the main road in town and crept into homes as backwater and lake water poured into each other -- forcing some residents to get around by boat. Financial future of Mississippi Delta uncertain after rampant floods 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z It’s nothing more than a backwater propaganda cesspool staffed by barely literate partisans. Larry Elder rips Media Matters for ‘fake headline’ on slavery comments: ‘I said no such thing!’ 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Sports radio does fairly big numbers, in the major markets, but it’s a backwater of high intensity and low consequence, with more petty jealousies and rivalries than you find in academe. The Rise and Fall of a New York Shock Jock 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z More than two centuries ago, the young United States, an agrarian backwater lacking in skilled workers, held a different view of other nations’ trade secrets: They were, it seemed, up for grabs. US to China: Don’t steal trade secrets the way we used to do 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Without the backwater levee, the flood would actually be worse. In Mississippi backwater, flood rises after weeks of waiting 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z More than 500,000 acres of land, according to the Mississippi Levee Board, has been covered by backwater floods that can’t seem to escape. Financial future of Mississippi Delta uncertain after rampant floods 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z They’d rather see their first-round picks slipping on a big league jersey and playing in front of thousands of fans than toiling away in some baseball backwater. MLB ’19: College draft picks on rapid rise to big leagues 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z "A hard border in Ireland threatens to bring existential threats to many of our industries - it threatens to position us as a permanent economic backwater." Assembly 'a necessity not a convenience' 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z When a film opens in Grapevine, Texas, a week before it shows in Amarillo, let alone in some musty backwater like New York City, you can be sure that local pride is at stake. The Grim Rapacity of “The Iron Orchard” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z But the rain that swelled the Mississippi has also sent water rising between the backwater levee and the even taller levee along the Mississippi. In Mississippi backwater, flood rises after weeks of waiting 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Bill Whitten, a local farmer, has lived with a share of that backwater sitting and building on his farmland in Valley Park, Miss. since February. Financial future of Mississippi Delta uncertain after rampant floods 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z More than anything, he was a scout, one of those guys who combed the backwoods and backwaters searching for the game’s next big star. Column: As spring training arrives, a baseball life ends 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z “The portrait Kohnstamm offers of a Seattle backwater trailing in the wake of the Emerald City’s rising glamour is indelible,” wrote Times reviewer Michael Upchurch. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for February 2019 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Over three decades, he rose from an assembly line worker to an electronics business owner, following China’s rise from an economic backwater to the world’s No. 2 economy. China Transforms, and a Factory Owner Struggles to Follow 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z When the backwater levee was built, the plan was to pair it with giant pumps that would suck water out of the area, pushing it over the levee into a flooded Mississippi. In Mississippi backwater, flood rises after weeks of waiting 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The backwater, which traveled from as far as northern Mississippi, would normally drain into the Mississippi River from the Steel Bayou control structure. Financial future of Mississippi Delta uncertain after rampant floods 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z I had grown up in the backwater of Edmonton, Canada, craving sophistication, the sort of 12-year-old who wrote pestering letters to Manhattan ad agencies for tips on “breaking into the business.” The Hottest Hair Color of the Moment is...Gray 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Border Patrol, a backwater in prior administrations when compared to other federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI and Secret Service. No winners in a govt shutdown? You haven’t met Brandon Judd 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z My suspicion has long been that these backwaters are home to the millions of lucrative enterprises that you never hear of but that power a huge chunk of the U.S. economy. Perspective | From bagels to Boeing: This firm found there’s dough in the basket business 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The East Village apartment in “Private Life” is as enveloping, in its own way, as the 18th century South American backwater in “Zama” or the vibrant African utopia of “Black Panther.” Oscar nominations: From 'Black Panther' to 'Zama,' our film critic picks his dream ballot 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z From the fields of Punjab to the backwaters of Kerala, ordinary people handed over something to defend this little island at the other end of the planet. The Cuban revolution, 60 years on 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z But the portrait Kohnstamm offers of a Seattle backwater trailing in the wake of the Emerald City’s rising glamour is indelible. In ‘Lake City,’ a ne’er-do-well narrator prowls Seattle’s back streets 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z While the city used to be a bit of a business backwater, in recent years it gained a reputation as a start-up hub. Offices grow 'brains' as companies seek to attract smarter workers 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z He told me that Moroccan rule has brought prosperity to the former Spanish backwater. Is One of Africa’s Oldest Conflicts Finally Nearing Its End? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Immunology became a vaguely disreputable backwater in cancer research. Review | A new book about cancer offers something rare: realistic hope 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z As recently as the 1990s, the city was portrayed as a backwater on the variety show “Hee Haw.” Nashville’s Star Rises as Midsize Cities Break Into Winners and Losers 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z We are hardly a backwater town when it comes to sports activities. Opinion | Daniel Snyder belongs on the NFL’s Hall of Shame. D.C. shouldn’t indulge him. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z She’s so painfully conventional, she could be anyone’s great-aunt from a backwater piano bar, yet so alluringly odd she might have been airdropped from a serious hallucination. Holiday revue review: Dina Martina’s fresh show at ACT, Scott Shoemaker’s merrily chaotic cabaret at Re-bar 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The story of how a Caucasus backwater became a Kremlin financial hub sheds light on Russia’s opportunistic, low-budget approach to building its foreign influence in the region. To avoid sanctions, Kremlin goes off the grid 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z At the F.B.I., counterterrorism agents candidly admitted that domestic terrorism was seen as a backwater and that the only path to advancement was through international terrorism cases. U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It. 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z In the second half of the 20th century, these backwater ranchers and farmers, the Moulton family, the O’Neills, Floods, Irvines, Segerstroms, would physically and culturally shape Orange County into the suburban giant it is today. In Orange County, land of reinvention, even its conservative politics is changing - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z In cultural references, it’s often portrayed as a backwater or a wasteland. When Sears Was Everywhere: Espionage, Politics and Fine Art 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z But what really piques his interest is Putrajaya, a town of roughly 90,000 people that many Malaysians consider a bit of a cultural backwater. Welcome Back, Mr. Prime Minister, Sorry About the View Out Your Window 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Luoyang, in Henan Province, is an arid backwater, but its position in the Yellow River Basin made it one of the cradles of Chinese civilization. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Research on childhood HGG, he says, “was regarded as a bit of a backwater because nobody knew the biology, and there were no models in which to study it”. The unexpected role of histones in childhood brain cancer 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z According to the Viennese, Bratislava was, at best, a staid backwater; at worst, the border point of a nebulously defined “Eastern Europe,” all communist tower-blocks and avaricious taxi-drivers. Escape to Bratislava: A Secret Charmer on the Danube 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Termite studies are likewise a backwater, funded mostly by government agencies and companies with names such as Terminix. A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z By the early 1960s, the NFL had emerged from the backwaters of professional sports and started its television-propelled path to becoming a behemoth. For decades, the NFL wrapped itself in the flag. Now, that’s made business uneasy. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z This is a nation that provides modern, efficient means of travel for its residents and is not a backwater still stuck in 20th century traffic. California Editorial Rdp 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z During the Cold War, Bulgaria was the Soviet Union’s closest and most obedient satellite, a quiet backwater unperturbed by protests or dissident movements. Was the Philosopher Julia Kristeva a Cold War Collaborator? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z In Dar es Salaam, this backwater phenomenon has been well-documented by the United Nations, the World Bank and other nongovernmental organizations engaged in climate adaptation and public health work. New Walls Aim to Hold Back Rising Seas Off Tanzania 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z But Malacca’s port silted up centuries ago and is now a backwater. ‘We Cannot Afford This’: Malaysia Pushes Back Against China’s Vision 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z When Ms. Provost started at Border Patrol, it was tiny backwater agency at the Justice Department with fewer than 5,000 agents patrolling the northern and southern borders. Carla Provost Becomes the First Woman to Lead the Border Patrol 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In these safely curated backwaters, our social media newsfeeds – now always ready at hand – reinforce our preferred constructions of the world. Australia is deplorably racist, as people of colour are reminded when they speak up | Jack Latimore 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z What was an agrarian backwater 40 years ago is home to the world’s single largest group of internet users and some of its most valuable internet companies. Wild About Tech, China Even Loves Robot Waiters That Can’t Serve 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z That’s because stormwater that would normally course down a watershed to ocean outfalls becomes trapped in low-lying communities, creating stagnant backwaters that breed disease while also damaging homes, roadways and other infrastructure. New Walls Aim to Hold Back Rising Seas Off Tanzania 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Once a backwater of offices and antique shops, the street has been transformed since the mid-2000s into a canyon of forbiddingly exclusive boutiques, selling designer clothes and leather goods. How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1% 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It is ludicrous to characterize phenomenally prosperous Montgomery County as some backwater imperiled by county executive Democratic primary victor Marc Elrich for which Nancy Floreen must abruptly ride to the rescue. Opinion | Montgomery County doesn’t need saving by Nancy Floreen 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Before baseball, the neighborhood then known as Near Southeast was an urban backwater where some streets were unpaved, hardly anyone lived and commerce was negligible. The promise: Nationals Park would transform the city. Did it? 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The historic election defeat was attributed in part to Mahathir’s reputation as a statesman who transformed a Southeast Asian backwater into a modern economy. The swift fall from grace for former Malaysia leader 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The science historian Adrian Desmond wrote that “civilized Europe, for its part, was quite content to view Australia as a faunal backwater, a kind of palaeontological penal colony.” The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Defra, of course, is the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, usually rather a backwater in government. Is Gove the most effective minister? 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z But other dishes, along with the people and institutions behind them, defy the notion that Washington was ever “a culinary backwater.” The 24 dishes that took D.C. from culinary backwater to food destination 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z This backwater is now at the center of German politics. Opinion | A lesson from Germany in dealing with right-wing populism 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Worker representation in Germany has probably dampened inequality without making the country an economic backwater. Does inequality cause suicide, drug abuse and mental illness? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Naegel was 35, a journeyman bobbing in the backwaters of the sport, from the Hooters Tour to the eGolf Tour to the Adams Tour to the Minor League Tour. He Was Quitting Golf. Then He Qualified for the U.S. Open. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z China recently installed missile systems on artificial islands in the South China Sea, while economic backwaters like Russia and Iran invest heavily in missile tests and research. The Senate’s Nuclear Insurance 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z The mustachioed star attracted attention, whether in baseball’s backwaters or the nation’s media capital. Review | Keith Hernandez’s hijinks in life and mastery on the baseball diamond 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Michelle O’Neill, its leader in Northern Ireland, told ITV on Sunday that the region was “becoming a backwater” in terms of rights because of the position taken by unionists. Theresa May to oppose MPs' vote on Northern Ireland abortion law 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z LISBON, Portugal — Not long ago, Portugal’s capital, Lisbon, was a backwater of Europe. Lisbon residents paying price for city’s revival 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z When a nearby village of clam divers in Kerala tried to start a similar program to clean up Kerala’s backwaters, they realized they had no way to dispose of all the garbage they scooped up. How India’s Fishermen Turn Ocean Plastic Into Roads 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Once the backwater of higher education, online learning is now mainstream. Perspective | Don’t know the graduate next to you? You’re not alone. One-third of students take at least one class online. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z From an unassuming town house in the Irish capital, the country’s data protection commissioner leads an agency that was once a bureaucratic backwater. Europe’s data-privacy regulator could have big impact from her small Dublin office 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z But in 2005 this backwater bank incurred the wrath and might of the world’s financial hegemon. The long arm of the dollar 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z From an unassuming townhouse in the Irish capital, Ms. Dixon, the country’s data protection commissioner, leads an agency that was once a bureaucratic backwater. New Privacy Rules Could Make This Woman One of Tech’s Most Important Regulators 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Its leaders built a backwater into a shiny financial capital through meritocracy — and curbs on political freedoms. How Singapore came to host the Kim-Trump summit 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Other researchers, however, are tackling the origin of RNA head-on, and exciting new ideas are revolutionizing this once quiet backwater of chemical research. How Did Life Begin? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The two buildings are testimony to Malaysia’s transformation from a rural backwater to an industrial nation, but they are also emblems of the bitter rivalry between the two leaders. Clash of political titans brings a gripping election to Malaysia 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z PaddleQuest incorporated the Kirsch family’s other obsession, paddling and exploring the backwaters of the Wisconsin River. Founder of Wisconsin fantasy canoe race has a new card game 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z More important, Washington’s death didn’t happen in some southern backwater; it happened in Waco, a town known for Baylor University and its upwardly mobile population. How the NAACP fought lynching – by using the racists' own pictures against them 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Zama is a magistrate, a servant of the Old World born in the New, now separated from his wife and children in a dead-end backwater somewhere along the Paraguay River. Lucrecia Martel's 'Zama' is a feverishly brilliant tale of European colonialism and its discontents 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Just four years ago, Ireland’s data protection office was a backwater, with 25 employees housed above a convenience store outside Dublin. Why Europe, not Congress, will rein in big tech 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z Shaneyfelt said she regularly walks the backwater banks near her home in search of driftwood to use in building decor she sells at Little Brown Cow in Glencoe. Alabama woman finds message from 1982 in Diet Sunkist bottle 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Until he appeared again, this time on a backwater island of an indebted country in the Mediterranean. Requiem 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations, has for years derided the State Department as a backwater of “appeasers” and “high-minded” careerists in various books and television appearances since he left government. State Department braces for Bolton’s return 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Many policies were set up when the collection and use of personal data were backwater issues. Use our personal data for the common good 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z France’s imperial authorities resorted to slavery and other brutal measures during the early 20th century to turn a profit in this remote backwater. Rebels in the Central African Republic are filling the void of an absent government 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z In the late 1860s, Lininger moved to Council Bluffs and later settled in Omaha, then considered a muddy backwater. Historic Bible added to Masonic museum in Nebraska 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z In the coastal backwater once popular with Western backpackers, 20 new casinos have opened in the past two years. Embracing China, Facebook and Himself, Cambodia’s Ruler Digs In 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The commission already had heard from a hunter complaining that backwater flooding was getting worse. How the mighty Mississippi became a flooding nightmare for millions 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z As soon as ships could reach these markets via a route around Africa, Venice became a backwater. Unilever to Make the Netherlands Its Sole Headquarters, in Blow to Britain 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z His parents are usually in tow, often making connecting flights to reach the backwaters of the Big West Conference. Kyle Allman Jr., once an overlooked prep recruit, finds success, joy in Fullerton 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z During the Gold Rush, city leaders saw the hysteria as a marketing opportunity and promoted backwater Seattle as the launchpad for dreamers. The mapmaker, a 106-year-old Seattle business, and a strange request for a map 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Remember how American engagement with China was going to make that communist backwater more like the democratic, capitalist West? Opinion | We got China wrong. Now what? 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z I’ve even been wrongfully accused of stealing a car in the backwaters of western Canada simply because of my race. I am Colten Boushie. Canada is the all-white jury that acquitted his killer | Julian Brave NoiseCat 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z He oversaw South Korea’s astonishing economic transformation from an agrarian backwater emerging from the ashes of war to an industrial powerhouse famous for building ships and electronics. South Korean prosecutors request 30-year sentence for disgraced former president Park 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z But curling remained a niche sport in a rural backwater. South Korea’s ‘Garlic Girls’ are Olympic curling heroes, even after losing out on gold 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Southeastern Conference football rivals for years poked fun at the town as a distant, dull backwater. Gay parade permit sparks major debate in Mississippi 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Southeastern Conference football rivals for years poked fun at the town as a distant, dull backwater. Gay parade permit sparks major debate in Mississippi 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z The track’s demise, a closing that animal rights advocates say is long overdue, in part reflects the transformation of Macau from a colonial backwater into a popular tourist destination for China’s fast-growing middle class. A Greyhound Racetrack Meets Its Demise 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z But even as South Korea basks in the glow of global attention, hope is fading that Pyeongchang will do what was promised - turn an impoverished backwater into a premier Asian ski hub. Forget tourism: Pyeongchang’s legacy probably debt and anger 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z As with Sochi four years ago, this is really nothing more than an economic development project masquerading as a sporting event, a massive, farfetched attempt to transform a backwater into some sort of snow-and-ice paradise. Column: Another Olympic city faces a financial calamity 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z I described a career as a long river, with some fast rapids and some placid stretches, some backwaters and some hairpin turns. When you hate your job, but don’t know what to do next | Produced By Advertising Publications 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Barber, who teaches history at Missouri State University, was planning a road trip to Arkansas with his white wife and two young children, and was apprehensive about what they might encounter in the rural backwaters. From the Green Book to Facebook, how black people still need to outwit racists in rural America 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z South Korea transformed its economy from postwar agrarian backwater to high-tech powerhouse through “chaebol” conglomerates. Samsung heir released from prison after appeal against bribery conviction 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Located 50 miles from North Korea and the world’s most heavily fortified border, Pyeongchang was known mainly as a mountain backwater that produced potatoes and cattle. Pyeongchang’s Winding Path From Obscurity to Olympics Fame 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Located 50 miles from North Korea and the world’s most heavily fortified border, Pyeongchang was known as a mountain backwater that produced potatoes and cattle. The poor, isolated S. Korean town that got its wish: Winter Olympics 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Along with an arts project manager, Rebekah Pineda, they are embarking on a plan they hope will turn around the city’s reputation as an artistic backwater. These prominent artists aim to change the District’s reputation as no place for artists 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Though now known as a premier event, it was not so long ago that the Open was considered a backwater. By Looking to Asia, the Australian Open Found Itself 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z For much of the 20th century, the country was a barren Persian Gulf backwater where pirates once lurked. Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Alcohol and tobacco enforcement is now regarded by many agents as a backwater. Trump Envisions an A.T.F. Without the A or T 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z CABIMAS, Venezuela—Oil from brackish Lake Maracaibo transformed this country a century ago from a tropical backwater into the world’s biggest oil exporter and, for a time, South America’s richest country. Former Hub of Venezuela’s Oil Wealth Turns to Hunger and Rust 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z This was a placid backwater of the Potomac River, the Pentagon Lagoon, with the boats of the Columbia Island Marina all locked in the icy armor of the polar vortex. ‘Extremely dangerous’: For rescuers, icy Potomac presents an opportunity — and hazards 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z According to the memo, Mr. Saidakhmetov was born along the old Silk Road in the “backwater city” of Turkestan, Kazakhstan. One Brooklyn Man’s Lonely Journey to Jihad 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The historic flood plain was a network of meandering channels and backwater lakes where North Creek flowed into what was called Squawk Slough. What’s with all the cawing? UW team eavesdrops on crows 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Konya — once a backwater of the Anatolian steppe, despite its storied history — is now a thriving commercial and industrial hub, served by high-speed rail links and an international airport. Why Turkey’s president was among thousands in Konya paying homage to Rumi 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z He hopes to rebuild the complex and turn the Pacific backwater into a favourite destination for tourists from China. Curse of the Cook Islands – and a chance to turn derelict hotel into a tourist hotspot 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z An invisible line separates the backwater town of Ventelay, France, from the bubbly opulence of Champagne. Terroir Alert! Champagne Is Expanding and Tempers Are Popping 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z A Jewish refugee who was elected to three terms as Portland’s mayor and helped transform it from a sleepy backwater into a trendy city known for its public transit, eco-conscious design and live-work architecture style. Notable deaths in 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Pirro’s new proximity to power represents a rise in fortune and influence for someone who, until recently, was a minor Fox News player mired in its weekend backwater. Jeanine Pirro of Fox News Helps an Old Friend: President Trump 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z |
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