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...years, he spent long nights trying to sleep in abandoned cars and vacant lots. His father said they were just camping out. Chuck Bacon, his little brother Ryan and his mom and dad would carry blankets into weedy fields around Phoenix, Ariz. They would eat burgers and hot dogs, but there was no campfire under the cloudless desert sky; the food had been microwaved at a convenience store. In the morning, the boys would scrub themselves with liquid soap in a gas-station rest room. In the evening, they would beg for handouts at traffic lights. When Chuck went...
...Bacon says he owes a good deal of his success to a special institution in Phoenix, the Thomas J. Pappas School. An oasis amid boarded-up buildings, in the shadows of downtown skyscrapers, it serves some 750 children in grades K through 10--all of them homeless. A day school, funded by both the state and private donations, it is the largest of America's 40 "schools" for homeless children. Most of them are little more than classrooms in shelters. Pappas, named after a local philanthropist, is the only public school with a $300,000 foundation, new buildings...
...does more than just find wine: he also writes about it with zeal and charm. (His e-letters are available at gratefulpalate.com. And though many of the Australian wines he particularly champions are available only in tiny quantities, he's expanding into more plentiful epicurean joys. Among his passions: bacon flavored and sliced by tiny mom-and-pop smokehouses. It's one taste he presumably didn't pick up at Passover...
...infected 80% of all federal agencies, including both the Defense and State departments, leaving them temporarily out of e-mail contact with their far-flung outposts. Though Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon insisted there were other lines of secure communications available, the virus corrupted no fewer than four classified, internal Defense Department e-mail systems...
...challenges that human mothers face and work out surprisingly similar solutions. Tamarin mothers in the Amazon Basin rely on aunts and grandmothers to tend the young while the mothers forage for food. Moms and dads among Brazil's titi monkeys take turns minding the kids and bringing home the bacon, just as in any well-adjusted two-income human family...