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* Sanitary conditions deteriorate as survivors camp out * Thousands eat, sleep, wash and defecate in open camps * Health risks mount, emergency latrines needed PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 21 (Reuters) - A child squats to defecate yards away from a sidewalk where women press plantain into bite-sized pieces for frying and a naked toddler plays with a pile of rice on the filthy ground. Nearby, a dead body has been dumped on the street, right in front of a sea of morose people sitting on grubby mattresses, and a garbage collector uses a shovel to scoop up soggy black mounds of...

(CNSNews.com) - A coalition of trade groups has launched a television ad campaign to address immigration and the notion that "foreign workers do jobs Americans won't do." The Coalition for the Future American Worker (CFAW) said their campaign is directed at President Bush and features blue-collar and service employees addressing the president because he can cut the number of foreign workers allowed to enter the country. Bush has praised foreign labor with taking jobs Americans won't do, but that's a fallacy, they said. "This public education campaign is long overdue. Hardly anybody is standing up for American workers and blue-collar...

Decades ago a woman whose in-laws were religiously conservative Mennonite people told me this funny story. The grandmother cooked noon dinner every day for her husband, their adult sons and all the farmhands. Since the farm was mostly worked by the muscle power of either men or horses, those hard-working men were monumental eaters. The grandmother roasted, boiled, whipped and baked walloping amounts of home-canned vegetables, mashed potatoes, big servings of meat, heavy desserts. My friend was very surprised the day she walked into the grandmother's traditional farm kitchen - and there was a brand-new microwave oven. (This was in...