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...Five days after the toads disappeared, she had a possible answer: an earthquake struck in the middle of the night. The 6.3-magnitude quake was the deadliest to hit Italy in nearly 30 years, killing roughly 300 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. The medieval city of L'Aquila, which lay near the epicenter, was devastated. Villages nearby were also reduced to ruins. Grant, sleeping in a country home 45 miles (about 70 km) away, awoke to the walls of her room shaking. "Things were falling down, cracking. Everything was rattling," she recalls. The next day, her adviser...
...Still, homeless earthquake survivor Joanne St. Leger, 30, is happy to see both Clinton and Bush in Haiti and trusts they will help make a difference. "We wouldn't find anything if it wasn't for foreigners," says St. Leger. "We've been here for three months outside this Presidential Palace, and [Haitian President René] Préval has never come to see us." (See a TIME video with former President Clinton speaking on what Haiti needs...
...outside shanties made of tarp and plywood. The former Presidents soon followed, and Bush dove in to greet Gertrude Auguste, 31, with a kiss on her cheek. Auguste says they asked her about her living conditions in her impoverished camp at Champ de Mars, where an estimated 60,000 homeless earthquake survivors have settled. "We would like to move out of here, but not to someplace too far away. We want to be close enough to the center of the city," Auguste says...
...have factored into the offer Yvolene's temporary caregiver made in late February to let the girl live with her on a permanent basis if UNICEF can't locate a legal relative. That would be good news to any aid worker. But to St. Louis, who herself became homeless after the quake, the relief is all the sweeter, she says, knowing that "I've saved a child from a life on the streets." -With reporting by Jason Tedjasukmana / Jakarta, Indonesia
...member of the military "family." Women are often denied claims for posttraumatic stress caused by the assault if they did not bring charges at the time. There are not nearly enough mental-health professionals in the system to help them. Female vets are four times more likely to be homeless than male vets are, according to the Service Women's Action Network, and of those, 40% report being victims of sexual assault. (See pictures of an Army town coping with PTSD...