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TIME says, "We owe it to the survivors ... to help build a Haiti that will never again be so vulnerable" [Feb. 1]. Does this mean other nations can persuade the handful of families and businesses that control the wealth of Haiti to begin paying appropriate taxes? Does this mean Haitian leaders will direct foreign aid to health care facilities, water and sewage systems, education, job training and proper building construction? Or after this acute crisis has passed, will Haiti return to baseline poverty? The ethics of those who run this little country must change or be coerced to change...
...boxes don't just create tent cities. They build communities. Within an hour of the tents' going up, a mother starts hanging laundry lines and someone else sets up a minishop. Kids like the crayons and coloring books, which bring back a degree of normality...
...health care market. AmerisourceBergen's revenue in the sector topped $16 billion last fiscal year. "If Cardinal is going to play, they have to move now," says Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst Helene Wolk, who is bearish on Cardinal. "And they're going to have to buy, not build, to get to scale as quickly as possible...
...East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital. But Israel's political median has moved steadily to the right since the days of Rabin, and the minimum demands acceptable to Palestinian moderates are deemed too much for the Israelis. The militant settlers who believe they have a God-given right to build their homes in the occupied territories are now part of the mainstream, disproportionately represented in the army's mid-level officer corps, and an important support base of the Netanyahu government. Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, is himself a settler. The religious-nationalist ideological core of the settler movement...
...addition to erecting new protective walls on the final curve, Olympic organizers moved the men's start down the mountain, to the area where the women's luge athletes were scheduled to start their race. The near vertical drop at the beginning of the luge runs helped sliders build the excessive speed; eliminating some 600 feet (183 m) from the 4,600-ft. (1,402 m) track kept most runs below 90 m.p.h. (145 km/h). Loch hit 91.6 m.p.h. (147 km/h) on a Saturday heat, the top speed in the competition. Under the new setup, no luge athlete was injured...