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...Sunday morning in Roxboro. The streets are empty, but the church parking lots are full: it seems as if every one of the town's 8,876 residents is at services. At the United Methodist Church on North Main Street, Pastor T.R. Miller is delivering a sermon titled "Rags to Riches to Rags." At the largely African-American First Baptist Church on the other side of Durham Road, the choir is singing "I'd rather have Jesus than silver and gold" so loudly you can hear it in the parking...
...political figure (if only briefly), loathed by Democrats and rebuked by fellow Republicans for defying tradition. At the GOP leadership's behest, Wilson called the White House that night to apologize. Heavy volume knocked out Wilson's website and phone lines the next day, and his Democratic opponent, Rob Miller, reported $400,000 in new contributions in less than 24 hours (one hastily created website, blasting the Congressman with the title "Joe Wilson Is Your Preexisting Condition", included a link to donate to Miller). But to the reform plan's most combative opponents, Wilson emerged as something of a hero...
...preparation for the September 2007 issue, which tipped the scales to become the largest magazine in history at over four pounds. The Fashion Bible’s glossy cover invited readers to partake in “840 pages of fearless fashion,” featuring a coquettish Sienna Miller clad in a feathered gown, her hair swept back in a severe, piecey bun.“The industry was thriving, and everybody knew the industry was thriving,” Cutler notes of his time spent at Vogue. Since the publication of that sartorial magnum opus, the nearly...
Using another set of data, from the U.S. Census, the researchers tested the claim that children in owned homes are more likely to graduate from high school. By looking at homes with 17-year-olds and whether or not those kids were still in school, Baker and Miller saw a clear advantage to ownership. Children in owned homes were a few percentage points more likely to stay in school. Yet again the researchers saw that advantage dissipate once other variables were taken into account. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...course of the research, Barker and Miller tested additional variables to see if they could find other things affecting educational outcomes. One variable that influenced test scores even more than homeownership: whether a family owned a car. What to make of that? Well, maybe cars are important. Or, maybe neither cars nor houses are important in and of themselves, but both are good at signaling a lack of financial strain. "If parents have income coming in, then they are more likely to be able to afford a house or a car, and that's a more regular, less stressful environment...