31.   I once met a Tibetan woman who was puzzled when I asked her whether her village had electricity.

32.   Mayor Donald Price would be the last to admit that his village has the slightest thing to worry about.

33.   Most villages have a shaman who speaks for ancestral spirits and the gods of nature.

34.   Morelia has no toilets and water from crude taps is of dubious quality, but the village does have electricity.

35.   No village has running water or plumbing.

36.   One village may have neat rows of A-shaped canvass perfectly spaced.

37.   She evoked her belief that the whole village has to pitch in to raise the next generation.

38.   Since it was founded, the village has had turbulent years.

39.   Some villages have schools.

40.   Splendidly cloaked now in crimson and gold foliage, the village has no industry to speak of, just houses with big yards ideal for nurturing a baseball player.