Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From as early as the second day of the fires that have blackened 200,000 acres of Southern California and rendered thousands homeless, it was obvious that some were not accidental. Aside from one blaze caused by a vagrant's campfire and a few others sparked by fallen power lines or kids playing with matches, everything else was labeled suspicious. But it was not until the smoke, literally, cleared over last week's ruins that police released a shocking estimate. Of the fortnight's 26 major blazes, 20 are regarded as set by arsonists...
...late 1991, and by the high standards of Kinison's albums Louder Than Hell and Have You Seen Me Lately?, it's a little lazy -- and, of course, morally reprehensible. But Live from Hell is still a blast from below, a blizzard of belligerence against underdogs (gay men, the homeless) and a parade of celebs whose exploits Kinison considers more lurid than his. Rick James? Axl Rose? "These guys make me look like Pat F-----' Sajak...
...Devil Knows You're Dead (Morrow; 316 pages; $20), Scudder lurks about trying to clear a half-mad homeless man of a murder charge. Why would this fellow have shot a well-dressed yuppie in a phone booth? Then, just when Scudder has discovered that the natty corpse had a lot of enemies -- he made his money ratting on tax evaders and drug dealers to the IRS and the DEA -- the homeless man is stabbed to death in prison. What's happening? The murk deepens enough to involve moral ambiguities for Scudder before he works out the answers...
Several programs are coordinated through the residence, providing both temporary and permanent housing for the homeless. Temporary housing is provided for one to six months under an emergency transitional shelter program run by the city of Cambridge...
...homeless] shelter is cleaner and they have no attitude," says Rich, 39, a former cook who lost his job when he was diagnosed with pneumocystis cariniae, a disease contracted by AIDS patients...