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O Haiti, não é aqui
Six years ago, Brazilian singer Caetano Velosa penned of the most haunting songs about Haiti ever written, “And no matter if the eyes of the world may be for a moment turned off,” he pleaded, “Think of Haiti, pray for Haiti. Haiti is not here.”
And it won’t be here anytime soon.
Over $54 million in loans [...]
Babies Dying - in America
The New York Times reported today that there’s been a recent increase in the number of black babies dying in the southeast. It states:
“Most striking, here and throughout the country, is the large racial disparity. In Mississippi, infant deaths among blacks rose to 17 per thousand births in 2005 from 14.2 per thousand in 2004, [...]
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