Homeless Get By on Beaches in Hawaii
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WAIANAE, Hawaii - Bert Bustamante and his family look as though they are enjoying a vacation at the beach, with kids swimming in the ocean, fish frying on the grill and radio music floating in the air.  A closer look, though, reveals the truth: Life on the beach is about all that Mr.
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Move over, Florida and Hawaii. Your beaches are no longer the best.
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Those left homeless by this summer's storms aren't the only ones roughing it in these arduous times.
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By Kirsten Scharnberg, Chicago Tribune  Sep. 12--WAIANAE, Hawaii -- The home sits on property with a million-dollar view, but its plastic roof is held down by bungee cords, its only source of lighting is a few crude lanterns, its floor is covered with sand.
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In Hawaii's warm, moist environment, interlopers have flourished &#151; pillaging forests, screeching through the night in suburban neighborhoods and rooting around in rural taro patches.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - Kathy Tooker has staked out a  space for herself and her four kids on the linoleum floor of a  Red Cross shelter and filled it with an inflatable mattress,  gym mats, a crib for the baby and bags of clothes and toys.
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By Pugh, Nicole  On the Big Island of Hawaii, the black ind beach at Punalu'u in the rural 'district of Kau is renowned as much for its dramatic beauty as it is for the giant sea turtles that return each year to nest there.
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One homeless man tried in vain to sleep on a park bench. Two others swallowed their pride as they went into restaurants, broke but hungry. With no bathroom available, another one used the woods.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 9--Can't get to Hawaii?   The tropical paradise soon may be sending a little piece of the islands past Vancouver.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Desperate survivors  huddle in clearings without food or shelter above the water  line all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float as far as 20 miles out to sea.
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Bodies, dirty water spreading disease. Medical supplies have started to run out and panicked residents are fighting for provisions.
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VERO BEACH, Fla., Sept. 28 -- Janet Hettinger waited more than two days to return home to this city's barrier island only to be told she couldn't go inside. Hurricane Jeanne's winds caused too much damage.
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This is a boomtown, but it is also scattered with signs of bust &#151; namely, homeless people. And the city is taking a hard line against them.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 11--OCEAN SPRINGS -- Jackson County supervisors have asked staff to help find a way that would allow volunteers with a major relief operation to continue using the county landfill for refuse they create when they reconstruct homes.
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A thunderstorm drenched homeless people living on rooftops and sidewalks in Haiti Saturday, adding to the woes of victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne, who are looting aid trucks and attacking food distribution centers in desperation
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The nation's foreclosure crisis has led to a painful irony for homeless people: On any given night they are outnumbered in some cities by vacant houses, and some street people are taking advantage of the opportunity by becoming squatters.