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Ryabkina found the puck and charged down the side of the ice, but a Tiger skater slammed her into the boards. As she was hit, Ryabkina managed to send the puck to the middle of the ice, where a wide open Jillian Dempsey picked...
McCarthy’s four saves helped make it a sophomore morning, as three of the Crimson’s sophomores saw their shots hit the back of the net. Monica Zdrojewski took the lead with a hat trick, while classmate Ita Barton-Kettleborough tallied two and Lizzie Abbott grabbed one. Freshman Elise Molnar rounded out the score with a goal...
...magnitude earthquake that hit Chile early on Feb. 27 was 500 times stronger than the 7.0 quake that killed an estimated 200,000 Haitians last month. And yet the number of casualties in Chile appears to be exponentially smaller, with the official death toll still in the hundreds. Far fewer people were rendered homeless than in Haiti, and much of the telephone service in Santiago and parts of central Chile had been restored within five hours. (Read a TIME reporter's firsthand account of the earthquake in Chile...
...codes, while Haiti's incorrigible corruption and carelessness left such regulation all but nonexistent. On the global corruption index put out by Transparency International, a Berlin-based nonprofit that lists countries from the least to most corrupt, Chile ranks 25th and Haiti 168th. And while Chilean President Michelle Bachelet hit the streets on Saturday reassuring citizens about her government's earthquake response, Haitian President René Préval has been seemingly AWOL for weeks...
...fair, Haiti has had far less experience with earthquakes, and therefore earthquake preparedness, than Chile has. (Before Jan. 12, the last major quake to hit Port-au-Prince was in 1751.) There will, of course, be the apologists who insist it's unfair to compare a basket case like Haiti, the western hemisphere's poorest country, with a showcase like Chile, which has Latin America's highest per capita GDP and is set to become the first South American member of the exclusive, Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Chile can do things right, Haiti defenders argue...