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Camping Starter Kit. If you want to commune with nature, say, on a wooded island off the coast of Washington State, but really aren't sure how to get started, try Lakedale Resort's pre-packaged camping trip. You'll get a 7-foot-by-9-foot dome tent that sleeps four, plus two sleeping bags and pillows, a double air mattress, a cooler, two aluminum mess kits, flashlights and folding chairs, plus a $10 voucher to the General Store. Rates start at $299 for two people for two nights at one of the Resort's lakeside campsites. You even...
...Tent cities are not a new American phenomenon. Makeshift encampments of people who don't have permanent homes have long existed on the margins of many U.S. cities. But the tide of foreclosures and a rising national unemployment rate have dramatically swelled the ranks of the newly homeless. And one estimate says current economic conditions will drive a million more people into homelessness by 2010. Some will end up in shelters or on the streets. Others are choosing to live in nylon tents on dusty lots, waiting for their fortunes to turn...
Many people living in tent cities like Taco Flats, in Fresno, Calif., collect cans and bottles they trade for cash. For warmth, they burn donated firewood. Not far from a woman openly smoking crack, an elderly woman sweeps the floor of her plywood shanty. For now, the city is picking up residents' trash but says it will relocate the tent dwellers this summer...
Officials elsewhere have reacted in a similar way. After being featured on Oprah, Sacramento, Calif., dismantled a tent city in April, moving residents into shelters. But other tent cities remain. For some of the newly homeless, unaccustomed to the strict rules and lack of privacy at shelters, a nylon home is better than no home...
Cradled in her mother's arms, inside a tent on the edge of a field, is Pakistan's youngest refugee. Aman, a baby girl, was born just days after her parents fled last month's fighting in the Buner valley. As the Pakistani military moved in to push back against Taliban fighters edging closer to the capital, the family traveled in the opposite direction, across the mountains that form a backdrop to the camp in which they now live. They are among an estimated 2.4 million Pakistanis who have been displaced, marking a refugee crisis on a scale comparable...