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...absence of access to affordable, safe child care serves to keep welfare recipients in a state of dependence. Since there is no broad template for the provision of child care in this country, people must make do with makeshift arrangements that are often of dubious curricular soundness and sometimes simply dangerous. We need safe environments, affordability, year-round-access and trained staff able to provide quality care...
...best new museum building America has seen in years opened last week in San Francisco, amid relentless social fanfare: the city's much awaited-and badly needed-Museum of Modern Art. Since 1935, Bay Area art lovers have had to content themselves with the old SFMOMA, a makeshift affair housed in the Beaux Arts-style War Veterans' Memorial Building and so cramped that the permanent collection had to be taken down whenever a temporary show went up. In 1990 designs for a new building were made public. It would cost $60 million, all in private money, and the architect...
...frigid night lighted only by a full moon, while the daughter of the house stood nearby, sniffing back tears. Eventually they excavated her parents, gently placed their bodies on litters cobbled out of a broken door and a kitchen counter, and loaded them on a truck headed for a makeshift morgue. Lieut. Fujii had dug out seven corpses since morning, turning him into something of an instant expert. ``That couple seems to have got out of bed and made it to the entryway of their house,'' he said. ``Then the whole house fell on them. They didn't stand...
...Fame. When night falls, the tourists disappear and the city becomes hell's Disneyland. Hollywood Boulevard is popular for hanging out, usually at the corner of Cherokee, while Sunset Strip features straight prostitution and Santa Monica Boulevard specializes in the gay sex trade. Abandoned buildings serve as "squats," the makeshift homes inhabited by as many as several dozen youths. Entombed by the thick plywood nailed to the windows and doors, the youths live with drugs, rats and human waste...
...fact, a ESPN camera crew, covering the Harvard-Yale weekend, had to round up a makeshift "crowd" during the less-attended, early moments of the rally...