Word: sheltering
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...centers. With the fire affecting much of the county's rural areas, many of the centers found accommodations for farm animals as well as domestic pets. LeDanian Tomlinson and several other San Diego Chargers were among the county residents evacuated from their homes. While many of the displaced found shelter in school gymnasiums converted into Red Cross shelters, the Chargers headed to Arizona, leaving the site of next Sunday's home game against the Houston Texans uncertain...
...Those championing this framework began by asserting the incomprehensible inhumanity of the “terrorist.” In spite of the fact that many of the members of this movement were impoverished teenagers who relied on the school for food, shelter, and education, partisans of this approach did not tolerate attempts to understand their grievances. A particularly prominent Pakistani liberal raged that the “Lal Masjid battle is part of the wider civil war within the Islamic world waged by totalitarian forces that seek redemption through violence,” and decried their...
...that lasted nearly three days. "We have been protesting this military government for eight years, and now Benazir has returned to resume civilian rule. She has forced the general to remove his uniform." But he cautions, she also will have to live up to her new promise of jobs, shelter and food. "If she doesn't fulfill her promises, we will continue to protest." With reporting by Irfan Ali/Karachi
...food and a 24-hour head start on growth. The second-hatched may not have too difficult a time catching up, but the third may struggle. The fourth and beyond will have the hardest go, getting pushed aside or even pecked to death if food, water and shelter become scarce. All that makes for a nasty nursery, but that's precisely the way the mother wants it. "The parents overproduce a bit," says Douglas Mock, professor of zoology at the University of Oklahoma, "maybe making one more baby than they can normally afford to raise and then letting it take...
Blustery conditions and a long course made for high scores and a disappointing finish for the men’s golf team this weekend at the ECAC Division I Championship at Shelter Harbor Golf Course in Charlestown, R.I. The Crimson sent five players to the tournament and finished ninth as a team out of the 14 squads competing. Harvard was led by sophomores Greg Shuman and Danny Mayer, who both posted two-round scores of 154 to tie with others for 28th in a 70-man field. Shuman shot a 1-over 72 on Saturday before posting an 11-over...