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...Tamey left them in Poplar Bluff, Mo., to search for work elsewhere, the children wondered if the holidays would ever come again. When they joined her in Charlotte, N.C., Tamey had still not found a home. At first the clan lived in cramped motel rooms, then in a homeless shelter for families. But now Tamey, her boyfriend Bobby Warren and the children, 7 and 10, have an apartment, a tree ringed with presents, and a vision of their lives that hard work and good luck delivered just in time for Christmas...
...Hardens, of course, are the rare exceptions to a hard rule. They are safe and together, in a place of their own. Most homeless children will spend this holiday watching TV in a shelter or a rundown motel -- if they are even that lucky. When Christmas is over, there will still be no end of work to be done, and a crying need for miracles...
...unemployed iron worker who has been homeless for a year, Clark says he pulled the bank job because he wanted to find shelter. "I was tired and fed up with sleeping on the streets and picking through Dumpsters for food," he says...
...longer poses the threat to the West it once did. But buried deep inside a Virginia mountain, a vast, top-secret installation -- one of the great artifacts of the cold war -- remains at the ready. Known as Mount Weather, it is a Strangelovian relic of yesteryear intended to shelter the President and other top U.S. officials in case of nuclear war. The 33-year-old facility is manned by a second generation of doomsday planners, men and women who are reassessing their mission and that of the massive bunker they have maintained through more than three decades of nuclear threat...
...Bureau of Mines began a massive expansion of the mine into the most secure shelter and command post scientific and military minds of the time could imagine. One of the architects of the project was Paul Russell, who headed the Bureau of Mines facility and later studied the impact of nuclear explosions on underground structures. Among the few men still alive who assisted Russell and others on the project is Gilbert Fowler, now 80. For three decades, from 1938 to 1969, Fowler worked at Mount Weather, helping both to dig the original mine and to complete its transformation into...