Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buried beneath concrete walls and ceilings as they slept. Aftershocks rippled through the area in the next 36 hours, including one that registered 6.5 on the Richter scale. Iran's Red Crescent Society indicated that at least 400,000 people in a region of 3.7 million had been left homeless. The country's location between two seismic zones has rendered it vulnerable to earthquakes. In 1968 one tremor killed 18,000 people. Ten years later, another killed...
...months." Then the significance of social conditions began to sink in, particularly the startling contrast between "the wealth of the elite and the next to nothing of the poor people. You see those contrasts so much more clearly than you do here, even between wealthy Harvard students and homeless people in the Square. It's so much more vast that it's hard to imagine...
...tradeoffs began when we spent small fortunes to pursue an education that promised us an intellectual "good life" independent of financial reward. They continued as we passed between the Edenic Yard, with its manicured lawns and gardens, and Cambridge streets, with their community of the homeless. And some of us nurtured a "liberal intellect" while maintaining membership in clubs long known for their elitism, social exclusivity and sexual and racial bias...
...raft of admiring reviews. When she performed at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in January, the Star Tribune used words like heartfelt and moving to describe We Keep Our Victims Ready, a verse piece about the consequences of male violence for women, gays and the homeless. The same piece was also singled out by Evans and Novak, who took exception to the fact that at one point Finley spreads chocolate across her naked body in what she describes as "a symbol of women being treated like dirt...
...bypass" and ask that ambulances be sent elsewhere. But many hospitals that used to go on bypass once or twice a year now do so every week. In California emergency rooms open and shut like tollgates depending on the traffic. Because surgeons were too busy, one homeless woman who was transferred to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center to have a kidney stone removed was released with a waste-collection tube protruding from her body. She was told to come back for surgery -- in one month...