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Ayres said the women's clothing will be donated to Rosie's Place, a Boston-based shelter for battered and homeless women. She said the Pine Street Inn, which serves homeless men and women in Boston, will receive the men's clothing...
...theft. "It's easy for a lot of people to condemn youngsters who walk into stores that have been blasted open and take things that don't belong to them. Everyone calls that looting, and it's certainly illegal and not appropriate. But when people with $350,000 incomes shelter that by transferring assets to grandparents and reporting $41,700 and then qualify for $12,000 in aid, that's another form of looting...
...premised on the cold war: a divided Europe and a diminished (West) Germany held within the bounds of a deep, strong, European union. Given time, this might have come about. Had the cold war persisted another decade or so, a federal Western Europe might have been established in the shelter, as it were, of the Berlin Wall...
...Iceman on Sept. 19, 1991, while on an Alpine walking trip with his wife. On closer inspection, however, they realized that the head and shoulders protruding from the Similaun glacier were human, and seeing a hole in back of the skull, suspected foul play. Hurrying to a hikers' shelter to report their find, they set in motion a series of blunders that nearly deprived the world of a priceless treasure...
Uncertain about who had jurisdiction, Markus Pirpamer, owner of the shelter, called police on both sides of the border. The Italian carabinieri, believing the body was that of an ill-fated climber, showed no interest. Their Austrian counterparts, who had already pulled eight corpses out of glaciers that summer, said they would investigate by the next afternoon. Pirpamer decided the next morning to go see for himself, and was flabbergasted: "I had seen bodies come out of the glacier," he recalls, "but this was nothing like them. Bodies trapped in the glacier are white and waxy and usually chewed...