Word: delta
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...Southern community could be said to have somehow avoided racial strife, Kossuth, Mississippi, might have made the claim. Situated far north of the old plantations in the Delta, the tiny, oak-dotted hamlet (pop. 248) has historically enjoyed a lack of tension between white and black communities. In the 1940s and into the 1950s, children of both races played and ate together, and Kossuth achieved legal integration without the horrible spasms that wrenched most of the South. It was always a point of pride to Linda Lambert, the wife of Kossuth's mayor, that 109 years ago her ancestors donated...
...Even the oddly defensive tag Atlanta gives itself--"The City Too Busy to Hate"--rearticulates the hope that busy-ness can paper over resentments. And, to a remarkable extent, the city has made good on its promise: Atlanta is famously the center of the Cable News Network, Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola; and for four straight years in the '90s, "Hotlanta" led the nation in the creation of jobs...
Unfortunately, before I could ease into the blissful sea of relaxation that is summer, I had an unfriendly encounter with reality. I was on the Delta Shuttle (flights every hour on the half-hour from Boston's Logan Airport to New York's LaGuardia) about a week and a half ago, heading home for my brother's graduation from high school. Of the 100+ people on the flight, I was one of only four who was not in some form of suited attire. I sat down at the end of an empty aisle...
...That is why Edelman--who helped register black voters in the segregated South, who stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and who gave Robert Kennedy a personal tour to see the malnourished children in the Mississippi Delta--is manning the barricades once more...
...stone. Within a few days, the explorers had unearthed the virtually complete skeleton of a previously unknown predator. It was a 27-ft.-long monster similar in size to the North American Allosaurus but far leaner and presumably quicker as well; the scientists named it Deltadromeus agilis, or "agile delta runner." A few days later, Sereno came up with an even more spectacular find: the skull of another meat eater whose head, at least, was a shade bigger than that of the 45-ft.-long Tyrannosaurus rex, traditionally considered the largest predator ever to have walked the earth...