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Cell Phones Are Key to Relief in Post-Quake Haiti [VIDEO]

Two of Haiti's biggest cell phone companies are working with aid groups to help cash-strapped Haitians purchase goods using "mobile money." Donated funds are transferred to residents' cell phones and then traded in at local shops for food.

Innovative Water Filtration System Gives Haitians Hope [VIDEO]

A Haitian businessman and a U.S. nonprofit have joined hands to bring clean water to thousands of Haitians by equipping them an innovative water filtration device.

Report: Rapists Prowl Haiti's Earthquake Camps

Suzie thought life couldn't get any worse after her husband, parents and brothers died in Haiti's earthquake one year ago. The family home was destroyed, and Suzie was forced to take her two sons to live in a makeshift shelter, crammed into disease-ridden quarters like more than a million other quake survivors. But the...

2010: The Year Sarah Palin Became Queen of All Media

Move on over, Oprah. There's a new media queen in town. In a feat that may have seemed impossible at the conclusion of 2009, Sarah Palin became an even more visible national personality in 2010. After she and Republican presidential nominee John McCain lost the 2008 election by some 8 million votes to Barack Obama and...

Rum, Restlessness and Resentment in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 19) -- Against all odds, 27-year-old Moise is wearing a Boy Scouts of America shirt, troop No. 60. He's got it unbuttoned low enough to show off his tattoos. One of which translates to "Say nothing." Untucked, the shirt is just long enough to hide the handgun he has hidden in his...