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New data from the Census Bureau reported in today’s Sun Herald reveal that only one in five adult residents of South Mississippi’s largest cities have at least a bachelor’s degree.
New data from the Census Bureau reported in today’s Sun Herald reveal that only one in five adult residents of South Mississippi’s largest cities have at least a bachelor’s degree.
It is becoming apparent to many Americans in this high-tech era of the Internet, blogs, iPods, 24/7 cable “news” channels — and now, the biggest economic downturn in 70 years — that print journalism, namely newspapers, is becoming an endangered species.
Before daybreak, prior to first light, there is a moment of “awe and inexpressible innocence,” writes Thomas Merton. One hears the movement of birds in trees and then their first chirps. Merton calls that instant “point vierge,” the virginal moment of the new day. It is then, he writes, that “paradise is all around us,” but “the most wonderful moment of the day” escapes our notice.*
Dateline 1914 — A crab that pinched your funny bone