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A maternity ward in Haiti, where "bad milk" is a common idea.A widespread belief that some women have “bad milk” — “lèt gate,” in Creole — often leads to tragic consequences.

AP - Kidnappers have released a Belgian businessman who was grabbed as he drove through Haiti's capital, a U.N. police official said Friday.
http://bit.ly/190H1j A Communications Disconnect http://nyti.ms/9S5Vmn A Catholic charity is still seeking answers after Sprint discontinued a fund-raising effort by text for Haiti. Link - Trackbacks

In this image released on March 19, 2010, by the Dominican National Drug Control Agency, Jorge Puello poses for a police mug in Santo Domingo. Puello, a fugitive who once acted as the lawyer for a group of U.S. Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children, was arrested on human-trafficking charges, authorities said Friday. (AP Photo/Dominican National Drug Control Agency)AP - As an Idaho woman sits in a jail in Haiti, her Internet business is closing and her ex-husband is seeking sole custody of their 5-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son.


Wednesday's roundup of tech tidbits includes two views of Facebook, two views of wireless communications in Haiti and Afghanistan and two looks at applications for the Apple iPad.

A Catholic charity is still seeking answers after Sprint discontinued a fund-raising effort by text for Haiti.

People pass by the former Gold Gym shopping,  which was expropriated by the Haitian government from a major cocaine trafficker and is now the new headquarters of the Provisional Electoral Council, in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. New cooperation between Haitian authorities and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration,  DEA,  before the earthquake has brought an unexpected yield to a country whose infrastructure is now in ruins: confiscated properties that are spacious, opulent and free.(AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - Election workers scurry across the airy courtyard of their lavish new headquarters, a three-story building that hardly suffered a crack in Haiti's earthquake.


This Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 photo made from video provided by Todd Connell shows trainer Dawn Brancheau and Tilikum before the incident in which the killer whale pulls her into the water and kills her at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla. Brancheau's family is in court Wednesday, March 24, 2010 to request to permanently prevent the release of a video made by a SeaWorld camera showing the indident. (AP Photo/Todd Connell, HO)AP - Relatives of a SeaWorld trainer killed by a whale in Florida say they will suffer severe harm if video of the incident is released.



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Interior view of the destroyed Episcopal Cathedral Sainte-Trinite in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 18, 2010. The cathedral was destroyed in the January 12 earthquake. Former US presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will seek to reassure Haitians with a visit Monday that the world has not forgotten them after the disastrous earthquake 10 weeks ago.(AFP/File/Thony Belizaire)AP - The Inter-American Development Bank said Monday it has agreed to forgive $479 million in debts owed by quake-ravaged Haiti.