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Villatoro: The Poverty Factor
Earthquakes like the one in Haiti shake more than the ground beneath our feet. They make even atheists question why a country already so desperate should be singled out for such tragedy. But as commentator Marcos Villatoro notes, though we can't prevent the earthquakes, we can fight the poverty that makes them so lethal.
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