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...with no family, they can easily end up hungry, shelterless and almost invisible to the daily Square traffic that passes them each...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alum Embraces Life After Homelessness | 8/1/2003 | See Source »

...Wisconsin. The cyclone aggravated already serious problems. It shattered much of the economic fabric of Bangladesh's coastal areas, leaving at least 30,000 cattle dead, about 3,000 sq. mi. of cropland ravaged, vital fishing grounds wasted. It also left tens of thousands of subsistence farmers both shelterless and penniless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters Trail of Tears and Anguish | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...without an inborn immunity to malaria often prove more vulnerable to the disease. Meanwhile, international relief agencies charge that supplies are falling into the hands of government troops instead of beleaguered civilians. The rains that finally began last month are, in a cruel paradox, a mixed blessing. Weak and shelterless people in the cool Ethiopian highlands are now falling prey to pneumonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Drought, Death And Despair | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

There are no deep down derelicts and mental cases hopelessly drifting the streets. In the states, thousands--if not ten thousands--die annually: shelterless, uncared for, unwanted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ratliff File | 10/22/1981 | See Source »

...Dealer Charles Davis stashed four rifles and a .357 Magnum pistol in his shelter and pointed out its four-inch-thick wooden door: "This isn't to keep radiation out, it's to keep people out." Davis is also prepared in the event that some of his shelterless neighbors get into his shelter before he does. "I've got a .38 tear-gas gun, and if I fire six or seven tear-gas bullets into the shelter, they'll either come out or the gas will get them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gun Thy Neighbor? | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

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