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Jan 23 2010

Aid missing in rural Haitian towns – USA Today

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PETIT GOAVE, Haiti — Little basic aid — food, water, and shelter— is reaching the rural towns just an hour outside Port-au-Prince , including the town at the epicenter of Thursday’s 6.0 aftershock. “Food and water haven’t shown up yet,” he said …

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Jan 23 2010

The Distant Memories of Haiti Before the Quake – Time

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When I went down to Haiti for the first time in 1986, it was for no good reason. It’s true I had a sneaking suspicion that there was a political crisis there, that the dictator-President Baby Doc Duvalier – was being forced out of power.

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Jan 22 2010

Quake a boon to Haiti salvagers – KDVR.com

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Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – In the smoke and dust along Rue La Saline, at the edge of a rubble-strewn dump, a little man with missing front teeth hammered away at a shattered pillar of concrete.

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Jan 21 2010

Haiti scavengers take big hit with quake – Boulder Clarion

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In the smoke and dust along Rue La Saline, at the edge of a rubble-strewn dump, a little man with missing front teeth hammered away at a shattered pillar of concrete. Jean Robert Lemer , 45, had been laboring for hours to …

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Jan 21 2010

USGS Report on Haiti Earthquake – Los Angeles Times

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Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – In the smoke and dust along Rue La Saline, at the edge of a rubble-strewn dump, a little man with missing front teeth hammered away at a shattered pillar of concrete.

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Jan 20 2010

‘I didn’t expect to die, but I feared being pinned under wreckage’ – Irish Times

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IT STARTED with a strange noise that I mistook for machinery, perhaps an electrical generator. At 6am yesterday, Haiti was rocked by the worst aftershock since the earthquake that killed up to 200,000 souls and displaced 1.5 million people on January …

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Jan 18 2010

Haiti Earthquake News: Helping Haiti Travel & Tourism – Peter Greenberg.com Travel News

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In the aftermath of the 7.0 Haiti earthquake, it’s difficult to imagine the future of travel and tourism in the battered country. Prior to the January 12th earthquake, Haiti had been eyed as a potential tourism hotspot, with several projects …

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Jan 17 2010

To help Haiti, youngsters crack piggy banks, tap tooth-fairy funds – Denver Post

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On Friday, 6-year-old Madeline from Lone Tree chose to do something a little different with her tooth- fairy money, and 4-year-old Max from Wheat Ridge decided it was time to cash in his savings for a greater cause.

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Jan 16 2010

Memories of a foresaken land – Windsor Star

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Tuesday evening, minutes after the first reports that a massive earthquake had levelled Haiti’s capital, and still trying to convince myself it couldn’t be that bad, I sat down at my computer and called up a file entitled Haitiphones. The list of …

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Jan 15 2010

It’s a Battlefield but the cradle of The Comedians survives – Statesman

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LONDON, 15 Jan: Amid Haiti’s death and devastation, one small but significant piece of good news has emerged. The staff and guests at the country’s most historic hotel survived, the building apparently not having suffered extensive damage.

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