Word: haiti
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Stein's flippant and insensitive mention of saving every child in Haiti in an essay intended to be humorous ("You could save every child in Haiti, and you would still have to feed the parking meter") shows an incredible lack of good judgment and taste. I won't read him again. Carolyn Sonneborn Mayr, LINZ, AUSTRIA...
...reason is clear: Chile is a country that is rich enough and well governed enough to insist that buildings be constructed to withstand quakes. Haiti is neither. There is a lesson in this. The biggest threat to human life was once natural disasters. Now it is our own shortcomings. To walk through Chile's gleaming and unbroken capital is to learn that although earthquakes, when coupled with dire poverty, can do terrible harm, we have the capacity to mitigate...
When the earth moved under Chile, many of its engineers and development experts were hard at work in Haiti; now they will return to focus on their own wounded country. When things are broken, Chile reminds us, they can be fixed...
Watch TIME's video "Harsh Lessons for Chile and Haiti from Peru...
...rough on the racetrack and NASCAR didn't do anything about it, the drivers would have figured it out. When they said, 'Have at it,' that was an invitation. When something happens like what happened Sunday, you've got no recourse." (See how NASCAR came to the rescue of Haiti orphans...