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...said volunteering at a homeless shelter wasalso a good way for Harvard students to help...
...only three cases were reported in the Four Corners region in the past month, none of them fatal. Increased public awareness and a drop in the deer-mouse population may have helped stem the spread of the disease. But researchers fear that cold weather will cause mice to seek shelter inside houses, exposing people once again. So a major multilingual public-information campaign, set in motion in the spring, will continue. And in January Army scientists will begin testing a vaccine developed to fight the Asian version of the virus, which may prove at least partially effective in halting...
Lost in the rush to shed collective guilt, however, is the distinction between the majority of the homeless, who require only temporary shelter, and the chronic street people -- the 15% or so of the unhoused population who are the most unstable, the most sick and often the most visible. Also obscured is the inevitable fact that herding the homeless out of one neighborhood only forces them to take shelter elsewhere. Some communities, acknowledging that reality, are seeking a proper balance of compassion and practicality...
...York City voters sent a clear signal when they elected Rudy Giuliani mayor last month. The former U.S. Attorney's campaign included proposals to boot the homeless out of shelters after 90 days and rescind the city's unique, state-imposed decree to provide emergency shelter for anyone who asks for it. Generosity is clearly ebbing. Soup kitchens and food banks across the country report a drop in donations by as much as 40% this Thanksgiving. Sometimes the backlash expresses itself in ugly ways. Last month a homeless man in San Francisco was critically injured when attackers doused him with...
...Instead, some communities are fashioning their own promising solutions. San Francisco has launched the "Matrix" program, which teams up police with social-service and health-care workers. As the cops make their sweeps of parks, the specialists examine the homeless for disease and provide information on where to get shelter or treatment...