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Strap yourself in for Haiti's wild ride

Los Angeles Times: "PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A shirtless man leaps from a crowded tap-tap to rescue a woman's lunch pail that had flown from her hands when the bus hit a pothole.

Lithe women with head bundles that weigh more than they do slink between dump trucks, SUVs, peacekeepers' armored vehicles and wobble-wheeled pushcarts, deftly navigating the lurching, smoke-belching river of rolling stock.


The crush of vehicles and people filling the streets of this most destitute of Caribbean slums every day plays across a windshield like a frantic tango, the horrors of urban poverty dominating one minute, glimpses of the humor and humanity the next."

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