Haiti Tries to Hang on
“Desperate Haitians clawed at the rubble of their ruined capital for a second day Thursday, retrieving their dead and rescuing the living, as an international armada of ships and aircraft struggled to provide food, water, medicine and shelter.” (Washington Post, Friday)
Poverty kills.
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“Laissez Faire as a Development Policy” by John Semmens










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Comment by Ben Rast on 15 January 2010:
Poverty is what “being close to nature” really looks like.
Comment by mohammed on 16 January 2010:
Who are always the victims of nature disturbance????!!
They’re always the poor people. So, it’s the lifelong dilemma – the poverty – that always worries and frightens and perhaps pushes them severely to unpredicted fate.