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...wrong. A 40-hour workweek, even at double the minimum wage of $4.25 an hour, does not necessarily buy you shelter anymore -- especially in America's tourist boomtowns. Life for the working class in resort areas has always been short on personal amenities, but the situation is now reaching crisis proportions because of stagnating wages and escalating real estate prices. From snow-and-arts resorts like Breckenridge, Colorado, to country- music Meccas like Branson, Missouri, America's playlands are producing a booming class of unfortunates: the hardworking homeless. To step off the main drag of a glistening little jewel like...
...moral and physical pressure of Haitians desperate to come to its shores, Florida called on Washington to admit that the situation had all the makings of a crisis. Governor Lawton Chiles declared an "immigration state of emergency," allowing him to call out the National Guard to help rescue, shelter and screen refugees. He demanded that Washington help defray the costs of health care, social services and law enforcement for the newcomers, which he estimates will approach $1 billion this year. "All of us feel for rafters," Chiles said Saturday, "but Florida cannot stand another influx...
...Shangdu, in military territory 200 miles north of Beijing. This was the summer capitol -- pleasure dome is a fair description -- established by Kublai (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan, and a personage who, according to Marco Polo, "always rides on the back of four elephants, in a very handsome shelter of wood, covered inside with cloth of beaten gold and outside with lion skins." The location of the palace, and the vast size of Kublai's grounds, can be traced today, with the help of guides from China's Bureau of Relics. It is the ghost of magnificence; only...
...that made "Love in Vain" a slow staple. Luckily, the next song, "I Go Wild," comes to the rescue by managing to pick up a bit of the brashness of the "If You Can't Rock Me." This song also supplies a quick and non incongrous breath of "Gimme Shelter" from Ron Woods' b-bender guitar, two-thirds of the way through...
...President stared at the muddy waters of the Flint River cascading through the city streets below, washing over the roofs of stores, houses and churches. Even before stopping at a disaster-relief center, Clinton had pledged $60 million in federal disaster aid to help the three states provide emergency shelter and drinking water, rebuild federal highways, and make loans to homeowners and businesses...