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...typical night at the shelter, student volunteers arrive at 9 p.m. to prepare dinner from donated food. Starting at 9:45, people enter, eat, and socialize with volunteers and other guests. The shelter is 'dry', and sends intoxicated people to the Somerville program. Curfew is at 11 p.m. and at least two volunteers stay overnight. They prepare breakfast in the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Gear Up For City Homeless | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...typical night at the shelter, student volunteers arrive at 9 p.m. to prepare dinner from donated food. Starting at 9:45, people enter, eat, and socialize with volunteers and other guests. The shelter is 'dry', and sends intoxicated people to the Somerville program. Curfew is at 11 p.m. and at least two volunteers stay overnight. They prepare breakfast in the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Gear Up For City Homeless | 10/25/1985 | See Source »

...monitors were inspired by a 1977 Spiderman cartoon and introduced in New Mexico six years later. Now the contraptions are catching on. Oregon's Linn County is using ankle transmitters to enforce curfew restrictions on repeat drunk-driving offenders. Kenton County, Ky., employs the devices to monitor fathers under house arrest for not paying child support. Lake County, Ill., has ordered $51,350 worth of equipment in an effort to cut prison costs and relieve overcrowding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiderman's Net: An electronic alternate to prison | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...operetta peace, she was besieged by the agonizing thought she had repressed during the day. At that time of the night, the only traffi consisted of tracks filled with bodies and detainees, and police cars that roamed the streets like lost wolves howling in the darkness of the curfew...

Author: By Guad Y. Ohana, | Title: Lyrical Elocuence, Tortured Politics | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...months. In the western state of Gujarat, army reinforcements were brought in from positions along the Pakistani border after 91 people were killed and many homes and shops burned in rioting to protest job and education quotas for disadvantaged castes and tribes. Last week a dusk-to-dawn curfew was in effect in Ahmadabad and soldiers patrolled the city. To the north, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, a general strike called by opposition parties erupted into violence. About 100 people were injured and 200 arrested as a result of the disturbances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India a New Cycle of Violence | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

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