Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wheelock College. Towne Art Gallery, 180 The Riverway, Boston. 734-5200. "Streets are for Nobody," Melissa Shook's photographs and interviews of homeless women in Boston and other communities...
...have access to government databases, exchange E-mail and otherwise sample cyberspace's many wonders. The city of Santa Monica, California, has started a public electronic network, installing 15 public- access terminals in places such as banks, community centers and even grocery stores. Anyone who wants to -- including the homeless -- can get online information about city services, make E-mail connections to city officials and local members of Congress and join discussion groups about contentious local issues like rent control and homelessness...
...without a way to easily transfer material goods, beggars would have no good reason to persist in their appeals in the streets. Passers-by could only offer sympathy ("Brother, can you spare a smile...), or perhaps a hot-dog purchased electronically from a nearby vendor. The newspapers sold by homeless people would probably have sufficient capital to sell electronically through some central sidewalk sites, but even that form of charity would be reduced...
...KOBE EARTHQUAKE LEFT MY DAUGHTER and her family homeless; they had to be evacuated from the city. I was determined to get to them even if I had to walk. I was able to take one of the few remaining trains halfway to my destination. There I met a young man who for the next five hours led me to Kobe, clearing the road of broken glass and steering me away from danger. He was constantly concerned about me, disregarding his own safety during our often perilous journey on foot. I was dazed and shocked by the destruction around...
...killed in the quake, saying, ``This is certainly a divine punishment. We were expecting it, and we asked God to inflict it on Japan, which manipulated all its economic resources for the use of Satan.'' Hiromi Okamura Kasukabe Saitama, Japan The kobe earthquake left my daughter and her family homeless; they had to be evacuated from the city. I was determined to get to them even if I had to walk. I was able to take one of the few remaining trains halfway to my destination. There I met a young man who for the next five hours...