Immigration. An unusually wet winter in Arizona this year has been lethal for illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico into the United States, with nine people dying from hypothermia since November. The same number of immigrants died of hypothermia during the previous three winters combined.
School Lunches. By this summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will have launched its most sweeping safety reforms in a decade for the food it buys for school lunches. But much work remains to ensure that food purchased for the National School Lunch Program -- in particular, ground beef -- is 'as safe, wholesome and high quality' as the best commercial products.
Haiti. The Jan. 12 earthquake was an equal opportunity leveler with such mass deadliness that it erased the individuality of its victims. According to the Haitian government, more than 230,000 people died in the disaster, but initially few had ceremonies to mark their deaths.
Quote of the Day. “If the government were not to continue the same level of support, it would be very detrimental, like cutting the legs off a wobbling child and expecting it to run a marathon. It’s very possible we’ll still be at this level of need five years from now.” John Katalinich, chief lending officer at the Inova Federal Credit Union in Elkhart, IN, on federal government plans to wind down many of its emergency programs for housing. (New York Times)
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