Critics and supporters have commented on photos of Dr. Benjamin's round cheeks, saying she sends the wrong message as the public face of America's health initiatives.
While emergency-response teams have already begun combing through the wreckage, searching for injured people who might still be saved and treating wounds to prevent infection, there are longer-term health risks that threaten the devastated island.
With basic health care and sanitation all but destroyed, and millions of survivors likely left homeless, unchecked infectious disease and contamination will pose a threat to survivors.
The report also says that Haiti already has been a public-health disaster. It is one of the poorest countries on earth, with only 1 in every 50 Haitians holding a steady job.
No Haitian city has a public sewage system, and less than half the population has any access to drinking-water services.
Malnutrition is rampant, nearly 200,000 people live with HIV or AIDS, and just half the childhood population is vaccinated against basic diseases like diphtheria.
The quake will make it all unimaginably worse.
The Haitian people need our prayers and financial help.
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GeoCities was born as “Beverly Hill Internet” in the winter of 1995. Its parents, David Bohnett and John Rezner, wanted to create a virtual community that mimicked the real world, with pages hosted in "cyber cities" and other similarly nauseating concepts.
Both teenagers and first-generation Internet dorks flocked to the service, setting up personal pages in the "cyber cities" of their choice. Despite GeoCities' built-in watermarks and on-page advertisements, the site's popularity continued to climb.
We began using GeoCities in 1999 for a place to store photos for our eBay auctions. GeoCities was purchased by Yahoo that same year.
On October 2004 we began this blog. We used GeoCities to store photos and other graphics that appeared on these pages.
We didn’t use the GeoCities free service. We paid for a premium account that wasn’t supposed to die. However, it died along with all of the others. The photos are still available for viewing but the ability to add or alter photos is gone. FTP use has been denied.
With the announcement by Yahoo that GeoCities would go the way of the Dodo bird in October of this year, PC World published the following tongue-in-cheek obituary for GeoCities:
GeoCities, a web hosting service that achieved fame in the mid-1990’s, died last Thursday at the Yahoo headquarters in Silicone Valley. GeoCities was 15 years old.
GeoCities has suffered a long and drawn out battle with its health over the past decade. An antiquated service model and outdated technology are widely blamed for the struggle. An official cause of death, however, has not been determined.
The proliferation of low-cost hosting options, combined with the popularity of social-networking style services instead of personal home pages, only contributed to its demise.
We will stop paying for the crippled service in the next month or two. At that time, photos in our blog postings of the last eight months will disappear.
Pictures in our sidebar photo albums will not be affected, as they are not stored on GeoCities.
New York's top court Tuesday rejected Dan Rather's bid to reinstate his $70 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS Corp.
Rather's motion was denied without comment Tuesday by the Court of Appeals.
Dan Rather (pictured) sued CBS in 2007, claiming he had been wrongfully removed from his "CBS Evening News" anchor post over a report that examined President George W. Bush's military service.
Rather cited new documents CBS had obtained, but the authenticity of the documents later came under attack.
It was Rather’s “fake, but accurate” story.
Rather was fired by CBS in June 2006 after 44 years with the network.
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Gabrielle Shaink Trudeau, was initially pulled over in September for driving too slowly. She was then issued a ticket for driving on a suspended or revoked license.
After failing to show up for a court appearance, a judge issued an arrest warrant for the criminal charge that carries a penalty of up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Public defenders failed to appear at her initial court appearance, and public defenders did not meet with Shaink Trudeau at the Broward County Jail.
On the morning of her initial appearance, the pretrial services division found that Shaink Trudeau was eligible for pretrial release on her own recognizance, but failed to alert the judge of that.
The charges against her were finally dropped 15 days after her arrest.
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That same Robert Byrd was a high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan: a man who Barbara Boxer called her inspiration!Fast forward to the present:
Democrats are launching a counterattack to save Harry Reid's career after his disastrous comments about Barack Obama being “light-skinned” and having no “Negro dialect.”
Several high-profile Republicans say an apology is not enough, pointing to a "standard" Democrats set in 2002 when they pressured then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to resign following comments he made praising Mississippi's support for Strom Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist run for the presidency.
Trent Lott was pressured to resign. Now, GOP leaders say Harry Reid should resign.
Reid’s comments were racist. If they were not, he wouldn’t be apologizing so aggressively.
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Birmingham-based BRMB presenter Tom Binns stopped the broadcast of the speech during his live show on Christmas Day, saying: “Two words: Bor-ing”.
When the stunt got him sacked from his job, he claimed it was intended it as a joke.
The photo shows Queen Elizabeth II just prior to her Christmas Day speech to the Commonwealth.
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Cascade Regional Blood Services says the promotion has worked so well at six Tacoma pubs and breweries, it's expanding its "Give blood, get beer" offer to its bloodmobile for pubs in Federal Way and Steilacoom.
The News Tribune of Tacoma reports donors who are at least 21 years old are given a coupon for a free pint of beer. The pub must wait at least four hours after the blood drive ends before donors can cash in on their free pint.
While two Senate Democrats already have seen the handwriting on the wall and bailed out of re-election races, five others trail Republicans in states where President Obama and his trillion-dollar health-care-reform plan are increasingly unpopular.
From Nevada, where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (pictured) trails badly, to Arkansas, where Sen. Blanche Lincoln is polling at just 40 percent in head-to-head matchups with four possible Republican challengers, opposition to the health-care bill is reverberating.
What about other Democrat Senators in conservative and moderate states who will face re-election later?
Senator Ben Nelson (pictured) of Nebraska is a good example. His bribed vote for ObamaCare killed his political future. When Nelson’s term expires in 2012, he can forget about politics. Stick a fork in him - he’s done!
How many other Ben Nelsons are there?
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Physical activity helps young people gain smarts, and older folks keep ’em.
Mounting research shows that exercise isn’t just good for the body, it’s also good for the brain — and not just the brains of older folks.
While much of the research on the effects of exercise on the mind has focused on countering dementia in seniors, recent studies show that kids and young to middle-aged adults can get a brain boost as well.
More of the story here.
An Amtrak spokesman said "There is a pass in Nebraska between two hills where the snow drifts were more than two stories tall."
It is the worst in any of the Review-Journal surveys for 2010 election.• Sue Lowden, former Nevada Republican Party chairwoman, would get 50 percent of the vote to Reid's 40 percent with 10 percent undecided.
• Danny Tarkanian, a businessman and former UNLV basketball star, would gain 49 percent of the vote to Reid's 41 percent.
• And Sharron Angle, a former Reno assemblywoman, would get 45 percent of the vote to Reid's 40 percent, a strong showing given her low name recognition statewide -- 42 percent don't know her.
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