Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighbors' pollution. Radioactive fallout from Chernobyl swept across most of the European continent. Canadian lakes are being poisoned by the belchings of U.S. smokestacks. The torching of Brazil's tropical forests each year accounts for some 6% of all the CO2 that is pumped into the atmosphere. Deforestation in Haiti and drought in Africa have prompted large cross-border refugee movements -- just a foretaste, perhaps, of the mass migrations that could result if runaway population growth outstrips world food and energy resources...
...gave way decisively. But color is tricky. Blood shouts, and the smallest patch of yellow adobe pounds hard on the retina. So a generation of photographers have learned to draw that very clamor into a deliberate statement. The hot pinks and fluorescent lime in Alex Webb's pictures of Haiti don't just sizzle inside the frame. They deliver the terms of a paradox: Barbaric rule can operate in the broadest daylight...
Hugo also threatens the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, and civil defense authorities in the Dominican Republic declared a state of emergency yesterday afternoon...
...ingredients to bear out that adage: a stubborn judge, two embittered parents and a child torn between them. Morgan met Foretich in 1981, while he was separated from his second wife, former model Sharon Sullivan. After a whirlwind affair, during which Morgan became pregnant, the couple flew to Haiti, where Foretich obtained a quickie divorce. But his marriage to Morgan broke up after only five months, scarcely a week before Hilary was born...
What sustains Wilentz's own cautious hope for Haiti is the energy of its people, who have somehow learned the art of surviving. Haiti, she writes, "made me think of the laughter of slaves" -- but slaves, she all but adds, who will someday find their way to freedom...