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...various youth centers. And even the unluckiest panhandlers can make enough for a meal; at Taco Bell on Hollywood Boulevard, for example, a burrito costs only 59 cents. Then there is "table scoring" at fast-food restaurants: snatching unattended food from the tables before it is thrown away. Those with stronger stomachs engage in "Dumpster diving" for meals...
John ran away in May. "But I'm not really a runaway because nobody's looking for me," he says. "Before I left, we had this big fight, and the next day I came home from school and Mom had thrown out all of my stuff." He has been talking for two hours straight now, and his breathing is fast and shallow. "For certain, there are some things about home I miss a lot, like my room and my clothes and my sister...
...point during the night, a candy-stuffed Yale bulldog was thrown to the mercy of students--who gladly tore it to shreds...
Unfortunately, fruitcakes can also be thrown into melting pots. There is a danger in the spread of American cultural imperialism. Gresham's Law may prove to be true as American mass culture threatens to absorb the diversity and richness of different cultures, not only within America, but also outside its borders. The French realize this when they picket EuroDisney. The New England Quebecers are only finding out. A world in which ethnic cultures become Americanized and passed off as representatives of their true forms would be a shame...
There is a pathetic ritual every night in Harvard libraries. Diligent sons and daughters of the University are sent packing, thrown out on the mean Cambridge streets to seek knowledge elsewhere. Actually, many of them resort to congregating like refugees in the poorly lit Greenhouse Cafe. "[M]y room's really noisy and I can't get much studying done there most of the time," explained a dismayed James S. Chang...