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Shambroom, as a coordinator for Dunster House, several times led students in his entryway in bomb drills to basement squash courts doubling as shelters. Canned water and food stocked shelter shelves, and radio announcements blared during the drills assuring the public that there was no emergency, Shambroom says...
DeLong says it was an unpleasant stay at a Boston homeless shelter that instigated her political awareness of the plight of the homeless...
Meadowcroft Rock Shelter, Pennsylvania
Although the age of the earliest objects from Meadowcroft remains controversial, this rock shelter 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh has long been considered one of North America's most promising pre-Clovis sites. Among the findings: charcoal, pieces of bone and antler (some scored with knife marks) and charred fragments of basketry that are estimated to be between 12,000 and 15,000 years old. There is also an assortment of non-Clovis blades and points. Says Mercyhurst's Adovasio, who has studied Meadowcroft for nearly 20 years: "It may well be the oldest archaeological site in North America...
...artifacts in deep layers don't trouble her either. They couldn't have been washed in from elsewhere and mixed, she says, because the rock shelter where they were found is more than 60 ft. above the surrounding terrain. Nor < could the objects have tumbled down from higher up on the cliff, says Guidon, since the cave is protected by a massive rock overhang that would have kept out both falling rock and flowing water...