Appalachia Sep 6 2010

The sounds of Brazil — by way of Appalachia
It's a long, jaunty, sinewy number that, to an American ear, sounds a lot like something that just came down from the Appalachian foothills.“I mean come on, man, that's a fiddle tune!'' Ross says. “It's bluegrass! And the groove is sick.'' He taps away at the table top. “It had eve...

Private colleges sweeten aid to local students
Hoping to portray themselves as more affordable and all-around better neighbors, private colleges from Appalachia to Boston are sweetening financial aid packages for students from their own backyards. The latest and most prestigious example is Northwestern University. By targeting local students in ...

Should Dad root for App or UTC?
The UTC Mocs held a pep rally at Miller Plaza on Friday before their opening game on Saturday against Appalachia State. For much of the summer, Alan Wright figured choosing sides in today's football game between Appalachian State and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga would be relatively eas...

Arts & Extras: Film bridges Himalayas and Appalachia
Vance describes the film as demonstrating a bridge built between two mountain cultures, Himalayan and Appalachian. After a friendship with a co-worker from India in the 1980s triggered Vance's interest in South Asian culture, she began traveling there. In 1995, on one of her trips, she met Ngawang, ...

Lenders Back Off of Environmental Risks
Blasting off mountaintops to reach coal in Appalachia or churning out millions of tons of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists' biggest industrial irritants. But they are also legal and lucrative, Tom Zeller Jr. reports in The New York Times. For a growing n...