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Crowds seeking aid in Haiti met with pepper spray and rubber bullets Desperate crowds have overwhelmed peacekeepers trying to deliver aid. The World Food Programme says that Port-au-Prince represents the greatest logistical challenge it has ever faced “They’re not violent, just desperate. They just want to eat,” Fernando Soares, a Brazilian army colonel, said. “The …
Fast Food Nutrition Labels May Help Parents Pick Lower-Calorie Meals for Kids In a small study, parents ordered about 20 percent fewer calories for their kids when they chose from a menu with nutrition information on it, Dr. Pooja Tandon of the University of Washington and colleagues reported online in the journal Pediatrics. “One hundred …
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Italian official calls Haiti earthquake relief effort ‘pathetic’ (Examiner USA) The head of Italy’s Civil Protection Agency, Guido Bertolaso, criticized the United States’ efforts in helping earthquake stricken Haiti. After witnessing the devastation firsthand, the top disaster official in Italy said efforts were a “vanity parade.” In an interview with Italy’s RAI television, Bertolaso offered …
CAN HAITI SURVIVE? The United States and many other nations across the globe are sending water, food and troops to benighted Haiti. Charity groups and NGOs from New York to San Francisco are collecting money. The French are calling for a “conference on Haiti’s reconstruction and development.” At least in these first few weeks following …
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Sewage runs, garbage piles up at Haiti quake camps PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – A child squats to defecate yards away from a sidewalk where women press plantain into bite-sized pieces for frying and a naked toddler plays with a pile of rice on the filthy ground. Nearby, a dead body has been dumped on the street, …
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Attached is an important eyewitness assessment of the current situation in Haiti. It was written by William McNulty, a retired marine who is a volunteer member of Team Rubicon, a self-financed and self-deployed group of former Marines, soldiers and health care professionals currently providing emergency relief in Haiti. McNulty paints a grim picture of condition …
To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature (New York Times) On Jan. 1, 1804, when Dessalines created the Haitian flag by tearing the white middle from the French tricolor, he achieved what even Spartacus could not: he had led to triumph the only successful slave revolt in history. Haiti became the world’s first independent …
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