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PUBLIC housing , *SARS disease , *SOCIOECONOMICS , *POOR people , *ECONOMICS , *POLITICAL participation , *ECONOMIC history - Abstract
The article reports that disgruntled people in Hong Kong have taken to throwing trash out their windows to relieve their emotions. A number of people have been taken to emergency rooms with scissors lodged in their skulls. Everything from cigarette butts to matresses have been seen flying from the windows of housing estates. The windows themselves are also falling, as the post-SARS economic recovery has failed to improve the lot of the poor.
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- 2006