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By Lauren Linn
For tens of thousands of people in the U.S., Remote Area Medical's free clinics offer health care, sight, and solace.
How does an Advanced Placement program begin in a rural high school? In Clear Fork, West Virginia, it took an ambitious student, observant classmates, and a supportive, energetic teacher.
When an art project in rural Tennessee combines the visions of youth -- local teenagers and the children of migrant workers -- everybody's the wiser. 
Why are rural high school grads less likely to go on to college? Maybe, it's that most rural schools don't challenge students with college-level work.
Barack Obama lost all of Southwest Virginia in February's primary. He spoke yesterday at Virginia High School, Bristol, before a crowd of local residents and out of towners, all cheering his pledge for universal health care, some wondering how he'll make it happen. 
Sen. Hillary Clinton marches to the beat that brought her victory in West Virginia; Obama's campaign, looking toward the fall, hums a new -- and sacred -- tune.
Add Hillary Clinton's dogged campaigning and message on economics to Bill Clinton's legacy of aid to the mountains. They sum up as a landslide in West Virginia.
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