Word: squalidity
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Once killed, many tigers join the corpses of leopards, jackals and other animals in a grotesque procession by cart and truck that leads ultimately to a series of tenements along a narrow, filthy alley in Delhi's Sadar Bazaar. In one cluster of squalid apartments, the TRAFFIC sting operation discovered more than a dozen families engaged in the illicit wildlife trade. There the once magnificent animals are skinned, their prized parts dried and packaged, and their bones cleaned and bleached. The skins travel west, often ending up in the homes of wealthy Arabs, while the bones make their...
...percent of the population lives in 10 housing projects, most of them squalid, low-rise slums so dangerous the police avoid them when they can. Though the wait for housing is months long, hundreds of units stand empty, many awaiting renovations. An equal eyesore is thousands of abandoned houses -- 37,000 by one estimate -- that stand boarded up or forsaken by landlords in the face of advancing crime and poverty. City services ranging from park programs and tree trimming to libraries have been...
Nineteen children in a squalid apartment shock Chicago...
...last, a post-control-freak third way seems within reach in New York City. Suddenly, even a skeptic can imagine that 42nd Street stretching west from Times Square -- America's most famous city block, glamorous turned squalid and now comatose -- might really be on the verge of revivification. Of course, there have been grand plans before: in 1954 LIFE magazine said a new antisleaze law meant that "42nd Street will probably never again" be as tawdry as it was then (which was considerably less tawdry than it became...
...seen by most Israelis as a symbol of terrorism surprised his rivals by accepting a little instead of all-or-nothing: home rule in the squalid Gaza Strip, a hotbed of extremism, before any full autonomy for the West Bank outside of Jericho. The Gaza Strip had been the orphan no one wanted; certainly not Israelis, whose policing of the turbulent slums has become a shame and burden to them. So many protesters have been killed, wounded and thrown into jail that Jews had come to see the suppression as a moral cancer they had to excise. To save himself...