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...were bombarded with boulders the size of TV sets. "They split open when they hit the ground," said McFarlane. "Inside they were glowing red." One of the flying boulders crushed to death Colombian geochemist Jose Arles Zapata. Williams was felled as well, but managed to drag himself to partial shelter behind a huge rock...
Hwang, who organized the first AAA fashion show that raised money for the Battered Asian Women's Shelter, said her work as the former social-fundraising chair had given her the experience to run social events...
...were the head of a family and a sick vagrant knocked on your door one night asking to be taken in. Though you would feel sorry for him and might try to direct him to a professional health care facility, you would probably consider yourself justified in refusing him shelter in your home, especially if he wanted to move in for a long time. You would be motivated by a sense of responsibility towards your family, whom the infectious guest could involuntarily endanger...
...other event did. A quarter-century later, the victim's widow Nguyen Thi Lop, 60, lives in a decrepit house on the outskirts of what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. For a decade after the war, she and her three children were homeless. The Vietnamese government provided shelter only after a Japanese TV crew found her living in a field. Yet she exhibits no rancor: "I am proud of the death of my husband. It was a signal to end the war in Vietnam. I never blamed Americans, but I condemn Loan...
Central Square residents also said that they believed MIT wanted to relocate the shelter to move the homeless away from its campus...