1.   It has undermined the health and stability of thousands of peasant villages, with sudden deaths from overdoses and crime where virtually none existed before.

2.   It was bordered by four modest Indonesian peasant villages where chickens scratch in front yards and children run barefoot.

3.   That crime wave extends even to the remotest peasant villages, which are now blighted with graffiti, much of it in English.

4.   The Metropolitan was born Ivan Snychev in a peasant village in the Ukrainian Soviet republic.

5.   But despite the risks, some of the displaced still trekked daily to their farms from makeshift bush camps and peasant villages to earn their pay.

6.   When war erupted in Cyprus, the island was mostly a collection of small peasant villages.

7.   A bear-like man who grew up poor in a peasant village near Sverdlovsk in the Urals, Yeltsin has gone through many transformations in his tumultuous career.