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...short, thin man carrying a cardboard box of uncooked buns races away from East Broadway in Manhattan's Chinatown. His unkempt black hair flies wildly as he darts onto Henry Street, then turns, looking anxiously behind him. When he sees a policeman continue up the street, he drops the box and takes a deep breath. The cop, he explains, was after the uncooked buns. The man sells nine for $2, making on average $15 a day. He doesn't have a license to sell on the street. He does not know what a license...
...gardening center and chemical-supply house. For little more than $400, buy several 100-lb. bags of urea and some bottles of nitric and sulfuric acid. Mix the urea and acids into a thick paste, put the glop in plastic bags, then pack them in a cardboard box. Next attach either a blasting cap or a detonator made of some batteries, an alarm clock and a container of nitroglycerine. But be very, very careful. "If it spills on the floor, and you scuff your shoe in it," says an explosives expert, "you could make...
...lanterns -- smudged night-lights. The hundreds of prisoners sleep close together, in orderly right-angle ranks. They have straw mats and blankets (though how many blankets is a point of argument -- the colonel says five, which seems extravagant, and the men say fewer). They keep their possessions in cardboard boxes that they hang from what look like the railings to hold dairy cows as they are milked. The shed smells of cows (an effect both disturbing and distantly wholesome, a smell from childhood). The army insists that the building is an equipment shed...
...HOUSE IS NOT A HOME WHEN YOU'RE LIVING IN A cardboard box. Or when city officials want to sweep you away like litter when the tourists come to town. In a ruling designed to offer some civil rights, if not civility, to the homeless, a federal judge in Miami has ordered the city to set up two "safe zones," where those without addresses can eat, sleep and bathe without being arrested. Although the decision applies to Miami, similar legal challenges to anti-vagrancy laws are under way in Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York and elsewhere, and the Miami...
Wilkins, who has taught at the Law School since 1986, says he hardly has a free minute to spend alone with the life-size cardboard cutout of Michael Jackson that inhabits his office...