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...Being back here is nice. It’s kind of like a home away from home,” Hughes says. “I was actually really excited to go back to class, which might seem kind...
...When you’re down two goals, two goals seems like a lot,” Griffin said. “One goal doesn’t seem...
...this country’s future. Deficits will rise to a long-term level at which they will cease to be sustainable, and unemployment will stay high for many years. Our country is on pace to follow Japan down a path of aging and debt-ridden decay, and there seem to be few good solutions on the horizon. The conventional wisdom says that after years of spending without any awareness of our limits, we must now enter an extended period of frugality. Yet, in reality, these desperate times call for greater spending, as opposed to cutbacks. In order...
...that "won't just rebuild what was destroyed but present the Haiti that we're all dreaming of" 10 years down the line, he tells TIME. Yet the only dream Haitians have right now is of something waterproof over their heads - shelter that their officials and foreign relief agencies seem unable to deliver in appreciable quantities more than a month after the earthquake. "Clearly, they're waiting for more from their government and the international community," Bellerive concedes. "When you still have 10% of your population living in the streets, when basic human shelter problems aren't resolved...
...Such is the mix of anticipation and frustration forming, along with the rain clouds, over the western hemisphere's poorest country. Haiti's challenges seem even more daunting now that a new study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington has re-estimated the earthquake damage from $5 billion to between $7 billion and $13 billion, making it one of history's worst natural disasters. "This has never happened to a country before," says the European-educated Bellerive, 51, a doctor's son and international-relations expert. "Forty percent of our GDP was destroyed in 30 seconds...