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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (2869)	11/24/1998 10:12:00 PM
From: Phil Jones	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4066

Bearcatbob: There were two photos in the article. One showed a kid who was 15 but about the size of a Canadian 9-year-old coming out of a manhole to do his day's scrounging. They don't get any education. They just scrape like hell to stay alive. No state welfare. No lights in the steam tunnels. So no way they could be reading down there, or otherwise educating themselves. No heated malls to hang around as in N. America. The article mentioned that sometimes the steam tunnels get so hot that the kids turn the underground valves down -- which in turn causes nearby apartment buildings to lose heat and results in the Ulan Bator police going into the tunnels. But it's risky. It's dog-eat-dog in the tunnels. They live like animals, attacking anybody who goes down and grabbing anything from them -- often killing intruders.