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We're seeing as many as 500 people a day in our dinky little health-care center. We send paralyzed patients out with their families and say, 'Good luck.'

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Nearly one month after a powerful earthquake brought this country to a halt, Haiti is tumbling headlong through a crisis that has not begun to abate, with evidence everywhere that current relief efforts are falling short.

My kid is not a lab rat. You have to ask before you can use him in an experiment, before you can use his blood, his tissues, his DNA, whatever.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A critical safety net for babies — that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn in the U.S. — is facing an ethics attack.
After those tiny blood spots are tested for a list of devastating diseases, some states are storing them for years. Scientists consider the leftover samples a treasure, both to improve newborn screening and to study bigger questions, like which environmental toxins can harm a fetus' developing heart or which genes trigger childhood cancers.

It's a great opportunity for the American people to see the stark differences between the priorities of Democrats who are trying to strengthen Social Security for years to come and Republicans who are trying to tear it down.

Reporting from Washington - President Obama's call for a televised bipartisan meeting to discuss stalled healthcare legislation comes as his party unfolds a strategy to force Republicans to put policy ideas on the table that Democrats believe they can exploit in the fall elections.

‘Wow, there are a lot of Africans, and I don’t like some of the faces I see here.’ We felt as if he was threatening us.

SILVERTHORNE, Colo. — A small group of West African men who came to the Rockies in search of economic opportunity are embroiled in a dispute with Wal-Mart, accusing it of a raft of discriminatory actions. Most say they were dismissed because supervisors wanted to give their jobs to local people in need of work.

There are some places the boats cannot go, even with security. They cannot go close to the Somali coast and now the pirates are close to the Seychelles.

A multi-storey cruise ship dwarfs the harbour of Port Victoria, engulfing two fishing trawlers in its considerable shadow. Together, the trio of vessels offer a snapshot of the economy of this Indian Ocean archipelago. While the floating holiday camp disgorges hundreds of sunburnt Europeans into the Seychelles' eternal summer, the trawlers unload skipjack and yellow fin tuna by the thousands, bound eventually for Europe.

We don't want a mayor from Pakistan to take a decision about my city. You are born Greek, you can't be Greek.

An estimated 100,000 people from Asia, Africa and the Middle East pass though Greece to reach the European Union every year. But anti-immigrant sentiment is growing with Greece in the throes of a major economic crisis.

Hundreds of immigrants from many different continents staged a protest against this mounting discrimination in Athens last month.

They would like order and stability, and they want strong leaders. But that does not mean that they are going to sacrifice their democratic freedoms for that. This is the difference with Russia.

KIEV, Ukraine — The apparent victory of Russia’s preferred candidate in the Ukrainian presidential race may be a relief to Vladimir V. Putin who has long sought to discredit his neighbor’s raucous democracy and its drift to the West.

There's a lot of work to do, and we lost a lot of rum. But we should be back in production in three or four months.

Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrived here in 1934 to mark the end of America's occupation of Haiti, he insisted on toasting the hand-over with local Barbancourt rum. Two decades later, the visiting Vice President Nixon personally mixed a Barbancourt rum collins for Haiti's president (who was, ahem, a whiskey drinker).

We’ll have Shakespearean actors singing ‘New York, New York’ in just over a year’s time.

Shakespeare enthusiasts, get thee to the Armory: the Royal Shakespeare Company will hold court in Manhattan in the summer of 2011 for an unprecedented six-week, five-play residency. The troupe will occupy a newly constructed theater inside the Park Avenue Armory as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, officials from the three organizations announced on Monday.