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...class of Republican governors supports one of its current or former colleagues and turns its attention, fundraising networks and get-out-the-vote operations to seeing that person elected, it doesn't guarantee Obama will lose the popular vote in 2012. But it will make it a heck of a lot harder for him to keep the majority on his side...
...Carrefour-Feuilles, at least, cash-for-work also encourages local entrepreneurship. Much of the recyclable waste collected from the rubble there is used to make long-burning fuel bricks for cooking, manufactured with equipment workers helped design and build. The venture is an economic engine for the bidonville and a sustainable one as well, since it provides an alternative to the traditional charcoal fuel that has contributed to Haiti's vast deforestation...
...Chile quake provides all the more reason to demand that, in return for billions of dollars in aid, Haiti must agree to terms that will force it to improve its abysmal governance. "The Chilean example will encourage donors to make the case that this is an opportunity to do things differently in Haiti - and do them right for a change," says Michael Shifter, vice president at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington...
...victory," says Louis-Georges Tin, president of the Paris-based IDAHO committee, which fights homophobia and what it calls "transphobia," or discrimination against transsexuals. "Transsexuals are no longer mentally ill," he says. "They're normal citizens. But we haven't yet reached the point where they're allowed to make their own decisions instead of depending on doctors and psychiatrists." (See "The Year in Health 2009: From...
...Clinton visits Chile on Tuesday during her previously scheduled tour of Latin America this week. Clinton will no doubt praise Bachelet's leadership during the emergency - as most Chileans have, despite the apparent tsunami mishap. It will be up to Piñera to put mechanisms in place to make sure Chile is as prepared at sea as it is on land when the next earthquake strikes...