- In Magazine World, a New Crop of Chiefs
For the magazine business, 2011 will be a year to watch: the four largest magazine companies in the country will all have new leaders and a verdict can be rendered on their regimes. 国の4つの最大の雑誌社はすべて、新しい指導者を持って判決は、その制度上でレンダリングすることができます：雑誌事業については、2011年は見ての年になるでしょう
- Hong Kong's advantages as int'l financial center unchanged
Hong Kong's advantaged position as an international financial center has not changed, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Monday.
The central government will continue to render strong support for the long-term stability and prosperity in Hong Kong and Macao, Wen said at a press conference after the closing meeting of the national legislature's annual session.
The central government will support Hong Kong in developing itself into an offshore RMB settlement center and international assets man ... 国際金融センターとしての香港の有利な位置が変更されていない、中国の温家宝首相が月曜日に言いました
- Weather stalls women's alpine race again
International Ski Federation (FIS) officials on Sunday were forced to postpone a downhill training session that must be held before the women can begin racing.The women's alpine opener, the super-combined, was originally scheduled for Sunday but that race has already been rescheduled for Thursday because of bad weather that has rendered both the men's and women's runs unraceable.A host of super-combined favourites - including American star Lindsey Vonn and Maria Riesch of Germany - had been looking forward to finally racing a full training session on Sunday. 国際スキー連盟（FIS）は日曜日の当局者は、女性racing.The女性の高山戦、結合された、スーパー、もともと日曜日の予定だったが、レースはすでにスケジュールされている開始する前に開催される必要があります滑降トレーニングセッションを延期することを余儀なくされた木曜日、悪天候のためには、スーパー複合お気に入りの両方の男性と女性の走行unraceable.Aホスト-アメリカのスターリンジーVonnマリアリーシュドイツなどにレンダリングして-進むついに日曜日に本格的なトレーニングセッションのレースを探していた
- 2010 tech bug hits credit cards
Many Germans have been hit by a computer bug linked to the year 2010 that has rendered their credit cards useless, the ZKA banking commission said on Monday. 多くのドイツ人は、コンピュータのバグは、自分のクレジットカードを無駄にレンダリングしている2010年には、リンクに見舞われている、ZKA銀行手数料を明らかにした
- Seven Hip-Hop Cash Kings On Canvas
New York-based artist Borbay renders rap's richest. ニューヨークベースのアーティストBorbayは、ラップで最も裕福なをレンダリングします
- Hip-Hop's Cash Kings On Canvas
New York-based pop artist Borbay renders rap's richest. ニューヨークベースのポップアーティストのBorbayは、ラップで最も裕福なをレンダリングします
- Fish: the forgotten victims on our plate | Peter Singer
There is no humane slaughter requirement for the staggering number of wild fish caught and killed at seaWhen I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.Another time, when our path took us by a tranquil stream, I saw a man sitting and watching his line, seemingly at peace with the world, while next to him, fish he had already caught were flapping helplessly and gasping in the air. My father told me that he could not understand how anyone could enjoy an afternoon spent taking fish out of the water and letting them die slowly.These childhood memories flooded back when I read Worse Things Happen at Sea: the Welfare of Wild-caught Fish, a breakthrough report released last month on fishcount.org.uk. In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering. Regulations for slaughter generally require that animals be rendered instantly unconscious before they are killed, or death should be brought about instantaneously, or, in the case of ritual slaughter, as close to instantaneously as the religious doctrine allows.Not for fish. There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish. Fish caught in nets by trawlers are dumped on board the ship and allowed to suffocate. Impaling live bait on hooks is a common commercial practice: long-line fishing, for example, uses hundreds or even thousands of hooks on a single line that may be 50-100km long. When fish take the bait, they are likely to rem 捕まえて、私が子供の頃seaWhenで殺さ野生魚の驚異的な数のための人道的な虐殺の要件がありますが、私の父が散歩に川が多いに沿って、または海で、私がかかっていた
- Jay-Z, Beyonce And April Fools' Day
The internet doesn't have a sense of humor, as it turns out. Either that or it renders its users unusually gullible and/or shortens their attention spans to roughly one paragraph. Allow me to explain. それは結局のところインターネットは、ユーモアのセンスを持っていません
- Credit Cards to Become Obsolete?
Upcoming Smart Phone and Other Technology Could Render Plastic Passe - or Perhaps Make It a Mere Fallback Payment Method
今後のスマートフォンやその他のテクノロジーは、プラスチック時代遅れのレンダリングでした - あるいはそれにミアフォールバックお支払い方法を確認
- No smooth ride for biodiesel
Wan Po Road, or at least its English rendering - Environmental Protection Road - seems like a contradiction in terms to those living and working in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate to which the road leads.
ワンポーロード、または少なくともその英語レンダリング - 環境保護の道は - 住む人々に言葉の矛盾のように思えると道路がつながるまで。工業団地で働く
- TCS bets on growing economy of Peru
IT major and Tata group company, Tata Consultancy Services, has opened a new office in the Peruvian province, Lima, with the purpose of rendering its IT, BPO and Consulting services to the country. ITとタタグループ会社、主要なタタコンサルタンシーサービシズは、レンダリングの目的でペルー州、リマで、新しいオフィスを開設したその国のIT、アウトソーシング、コンサルティングサービスに
- Adobe 64-bit対応のFlash plug-inのBeta版を公開
adobe delivers 64bit flash player preview version （techconnect magazine） adobe offers beta 64-bit flash plug-in with ie9 support （the tech report） adobeがようやく64-bitにnative対応するflash plug-inのプレビュー版をwindows, mac, linuxのメジャーなブラウザ向けにリリースした
- Faith, evidence, and tsunamis | Andrew Brown
When disasters strike, we all jump to conclusions. Big shocks are less likely to change our minds than little onesDo you know anyone who has actually changed their minds about nuclear power as a result of the catastrophe in Japan? One of the most interesting aspects of this crisis -- viewed from a very great, very safe distance -- has been that it has served to prove to all the onlookers how very right they are. I was in favour of nuclear power beforehand. I am still more in favour now. If the power stations can withstand an earthquake five times larger than anyone thought was possible, and all of the multiple failures since then, I conclude that this technology is safer than the alternatives. At the same time, everyone I know who was doubtful about nuclear power is now feeling entirely vindicated and will use this story to argue that it is far too dangerous to trust our future to here. All of us, of course, are jumping to conclusions. At the moment it is simply impossible to know what is going on and the prospect of future earthquakes means that even if we did know the present state of the reactors it would be foolish to bet on its stability. Foolish, but necessary. We must act, after all, one way or another. And even when we cannot act, we feel bound to form an opinion. Our minds could hardly be otherwise, since intelligence evolved as a way of taking decisions. I think this also explains the quite extraordinary focus of the coverage on a nuclear catastrophe which may very well not happen, and which has not, so far as we know, killed anyone at all as opposed to the quake and the tsunami which have killed tens of thousands and rendered hundreds of thousands homeless. That couldn't happen here. For people in Europe (except, perhaps, the Dutch) a tsunami is a foreign cat 災。。u200b。。u200b害は、結論には、我々はすべてのジャンプを取るとき
- Letters: Berlusconi at fault for economic failure
Your editorial (A conflict too far, 14 December) rightly records a few of the many scandals that render Berlusconi unfit to govern, but omitted the one with the greatest impact on ordinary Italians. This is the macroeconomic catastrophe that has occurred since 2001 – the year Berlusconi came to power, to remain there for seven of the nine subsequent years. In the eight years up to 2001, when Berlusconi was out of office for all but seven months, Italy's economic performance was mediocre but roughly in line with that of other large European countries. In the eight years from 2001 to 2009, Italy has been the only major country whose economy shrank over the period as a whole.Berlusconi entered politics in 1993 promising a liberal revolution that would shrink the size of the state. Public spending was 53% of GDP at that time, and this share fell steadily to reach 46% in 2000. Once he came to power in 2001, the steady fall was reversed, and it was back up to 49% when he left office in 2006. It remained unchanged in the two ensuing years, and, since Berlusconi's re-election in 2008, has risen back to 53%. In this regard, he has delivered the precise opposite of what he promised. This outcome is the consequence of the economic stagnation that he has brought. It is now clear that anybody seeking a liberal economic revolution would be unwise to entrust the task to a monopolist.While the conflict of interest and bunga bunga scandals can be laid at Berlusconi's door, it must be recognised that blame for the macroeconomic catastrophe must be shared by the Northern League, his partner in government throughout the period since 2001.Charles YoungOxfordSilvio BerlusconiItalyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditio あなたの社説は、（競合すぎ12月14日）当然、レンダリングベルルスコーニ不向きが支配している多くのスキャンダルのいくつかの記録が、普通のイタリア人に最も影響を省略しております
- The Palestine papers are a distraction from the real issue | Saeb Erekat
We made no backroom deals, and negotiated in good faith. But Palestine had no partner for peaceThe release of Palestinian documents by al-Jazeera reveals nothing new about the nature and content of negotiations. Rather, it constitutes an unambiguous slander campaign aimed at the Palestinian leadership at a time when we seek to take new measures in defence of the Palestinian cause.We have been accused of making great concessions to Israel behind the back of the Palestinian people. Such allegations are groundless. For the past 19 years the Palestinian leadership has engaged in hard-fought but meaningful negotiations with Israel with the aim of achieving a permanent agreement based on two states on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as our capital and a just solution to the refugee issue based on international law and the United Nations Resolution 194. These red lines have guided and shaped our discussions with Israel and at present with our American interlocutors.In the course of these negotiations, we have explored a wide range of ideas with the purpose of reaching an understanding of mutual interests leading to an agreed-upon settlement. Yet all of our positions have been grounded in the principles of international law with respect to the rights of the Palestinian people, without exception.A careful and complete reading of the documents at hand – which goes beyond the sensationalised headlines and spin – will reveal this to be true. First and foremost, it is essential to understand that no agreement has ever been reached between the parties on any of the permanent status issues. This reality, by its very definition, renders it impossible that either party has conceded anything.Of equal and closely related importance is the most fundamental premise that has been the b 我々は、ない裏取引を行い、誠実に交渉した
- Mike Starr obituary
Alice in Chains bass player at the heart of Seattle's grunge-rock soundstandfirst here and here and hereand here and hereThe American rock musician Mike Starr, who has been found dead aged 44, achieved international success as the bass player for Alice in Chains. Formed in Seattle in 1987, the band came to be regarded by many as second only to Nirvana when grunge rock became popular in the early 1990s.Starr, who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, had previously played with the guitarist Jerry Cantrell and the drummer Sean Kinney in a group called Diamond Lie. Shortly after being joined by the vocalist Layne Staley, they renamed themselves Alice in Chains and developed a sound that mixed huge, Black Sabbath-flavoured riffs with the aggression and nihilistic angst of punk.Alice in Chains quickly won a loyal following around Seattle and Washington state. Cantrell's expressive guitar textures meshed well with Staley's weary vocals while Starr and Kinney locked down huge, rolling rhythms. A local promoter, Randy Hauser, was so impressed by the band that he financed a recording demo and passed it on to Susan Silver, the manager of another emerging Seattle group, Soundgarden.With Silver as their manager, the band signed to Columbia Records and released an EP, We Die Young, in July 1990, attracting a strong response from US rock radio. A month later, the group's debut album, Facelift, was released to a positive critical response but modest initial sales.Seattle was becoming known for a popular new American rock sound dubbed grunge, which blurred the boundaries between heavy metal and hardcore punk and eschewed the posturing that had rendered the Los Angeles rock scene a cartoon. By mid-1991, the band's single Man in the Box was on heavy rotation on MTV and Facelift had sold close to アリスインチェインズはこことここ、シアトルのグランジロックsoundstandfirstの中心にベーシストここhereand、44歳死体で発見されているアメリカのロックミュージシャンて、Mike Starrを、アリスインチェインズのベーシストとして実現国際的な成功hereThe
- Mary and Max – review
Ambitious, if at times grotesque, Adam Elliot's claymation tale of Asperger's and friendship in Australia is unlikely but detailedA very odd, very unlikely animated film from Australia that manages to be sickly-cute, alarmingly grotesque, and right-on at the same time – often in the very same scene. The two principal characters are an unloved, unregarded kid from Melbourne – Mary – and a heavyset middle-aged New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome, Max; they become penpals after Mary's random encounter with a telephone directory, and their exchange of letters swiftly emerges as the emotional lifeline for their unhappy existences. All of this is rendered in almost completely monochromatic claymation – only occasional colours stand out, such as the red pompom Mary sends to Max at one point – and writer-director Adam Elliot inserts many a throwaway gag and impressively leftfield (and largely insect-related) detail. He's also recruited an impressive voice cast – including Toni Collette, Barry Humphries and Philip Seymour Hoffman. But the switches in tone are jolting, to say the least: at one moment, Mary is enthusing about her favourite TV show; the next, we are being treated to a lecture on the symptoms of Asperger's. You have to admire the ambition, even if Elliot doesn't always seem certain if he's laughing with or at his creations.Rating: 3/5AnimationAustraliaAndrew Pulverguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
野心的では、時間グロテスクでいる場合、アスペルガー症候群と友情、オーストラリアでのAdam Elliotのクレイの物語は病弱-、驚くほどグロテスクな、かわいいように管理し、オーストラリアからはほとんどがdetailedA非常に奇妙な、非常に低いアニメ映画です右同じ時間にで - しばしば非常に同じシーンインチメアリー - - 2つの主要な文字が愛されている、メルボルンから子。注目されないとアスペルガー症候群、最大でがっしりした中年ニューヨーカー、彼らは、電話帳とメアリーのランダムな出会いの後ペンパルとなる文字の彼らの交換が迅速として現れるその不幸の存在のための感情的なライフライン
- David Cameron and chums in China
How do we love this photograph of the coalition's visit to Beijing? let us count the ways ...Rarely has a photo-op spoken so eloquently as this snap of four of the coalition's finest, raising a toast at a contract-signing in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Tuesday. So what makes this picture quite so priceless?The glasses Wide-brimmed champagne coupes of this sort are purportedly modelled on Marie Antoinette's breasts. They have a certain retro appeal, but there's no escaping the fact that they also look seriously posh – which may just be why Cameron and Osborne look so comfortable holding theirs. Are they recalling happier Bullingdon drinking days?The poppies These apparently innocuous paper flowers carry the whiff of diplomatic incident. The Chinese authorities called them an unwelcome reminder of the opium wars of 1839-42, but Cameron et al wore theirs anyway. Vince Cable, however, could do with a hand pinning his on. His green leaf has fallen dejectedly to one side, not unlike his party's hopes for the future?The backdrop China has, during this uneasy diplomatic shindig, shown a liking for fake backdrops depicting the country's impressive terrain. Here, our fearsome foursome sup before a luminous rendering of a portion of the Great Wall, a uniquely appropriate symbol of the potentially unbridgeable divide between them and their hosts.Michael Gove's face Gove, ever obliging with an unfortunate facial quirk, has excelled himself. Is his drink not to his liking? Has Cable produced an unfortunate smell? Or is the education secretary's nose wrinkling at the thought of the medley of Beatles songs, performed by the Chinese military orchestra, that he is about to enjoy?The body language Cameron, eyes askance, is looking appealingly towards the Chinese premier, Wen Jia どのように我々が北京に連立政権の訪問のこの写真を愛していますか？私たちは方法を数える...まれているようフォト- opの4つのこのスナップインように雄弁に話さで乾杯を上げる連立与党の最高は、契約は火曜日に人が北京の人民大会堂で署名する
- Straw must clean up his rendition mess | Clara Gutteridge
If the UK is to dodge future horror stories of complicity in torture, Jack Straw needs to get behind proposed rendition legislationNot long ago, we were reminded on these pages that to train a dog, or politician, it's sometimes necessary (and, in the latter case, often fun) to rub their nose in their shit. The latest ministerial candidate for a scat-covered nose is Jack Straw.Let's first be clear what this naughty old mutt is up to. A parliamentary committee on extraordinary rendition, headed by Andrew Tyrie, has made some very practical proposals that significantly reduce the prospect of the UK being complicit in torture and disappearances – practices that have been internationally illegal long before even Straw was a puppy. If passed, Tyrie's proposals would impose requirements on airports to search suspicious flights and keep detailed records.In case you missed the last decade, extraordinary rendition involves kidnapping to torture, and was a frequent habit of the Bush administration. The UK has, sad to say, been mixed up in this horror on several occasions. Yet despite this, Straw refuses to accept the legitimacy of these proposed measures, which would help prevent this from happening in the future.The mess created by Jack Straw and his various ministerial colleagues and underlings includes being complicit in the torture of Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni and another unknown prisoner rendered to torture through the British territory of Diego Garcia to Egypt, Afghanistan and ultimately Guantánamo Bay. It also includes handing over at least two prisoners to the US for rendition from Iraq to Afghanistan, where they remain. And it includes participating in or otherwise facilitating the illegal interrogations of a remaining unknown number of torture victims held in Guantánamo 英国にいる場合、拷問の共犯の将来のホラーストーリーをかわす、ジャックストローは、提案レンディションlegislationNotの後ろに長い前に、我々はこれらのページは、犬、または政治家を養成するに思い出したのは取得する必要がある、それが時には（と、必要なだ後者ケースは、しばしば楽しい）はたわごとでの鼻をこすりします
- Moldova's referendum invalid due to poor turnout
Final preliminary results showed a turnout lower than required by the law in the Sunday referendum on direct presidential election in Moldova, which rendering the national vote invalid.
Only 29.05 percent of Moldova's eligible voters cast their ballots, according to the Central Election Commission (CEC).
The voters turnout should reach 33 percent for the referendum to be validated, according to the Electoral Code revised in July, when the validation threshold was reduced from three-fifths. ... 最終予選の結果は無効を示した率低い投票を国民レンダリングモルドバ、選挙に直接大統領の国民投票も必要で日曜日の法律インチの有権者モルドバのみ29.05パーセントの）（CECはキャスト委員会選挙の投票用紙をよると、中央
- Letters: High-speed rail plans should benefit us all
Simon Jenkins (High-speed rail will bleed us all for a few rich travellers, 6 January) argues that upgrading existing lines is sufficient to improve north-south rail connections, and a new high-speed line is unnecessary. London already experiences the benefits of high-speed rail to the continent, having cancelled the northern connections, and Jenkins appears reluctant to extend the privilege northwards. For many years we have endured line closures to squeeze every last drop from existing lines, which run close to full capacity. Meanwhile access is restricted by high fares designed to create profit in a model for franchising established in another era.I can now travel to Preston in two hours, but without stops for my connection at Wigan (or anywhere else), and the stopping train that Jenkins advocates takes 30 minutes longer. Perhaps funding for the Crossrail project, itself rendered obsolete by the crash of the City and the unpopular third runway at Heathrow, should transfer to an HS2 project, also designed to carry articulated trailers by night, which will regenerate northern manufacturing industry.Dr Jim Ford Southport• At last, a sensible appraisal of the high-speed rail bandwagon. Why is shaving minutes off already fast rail connections so important? London to Manchester in two hours, and to Edinburgh in four and a half, is already competitive with air travel. It is the rest of the system that needs to be modernised. When Plymouth to York takes six hours, and Truro to Liverpool takes eight, it's clear why regional air travel is still attractive.Michael ThornHelston, CornwallRail transportTransportTransport policyRail travelBusiness travelguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
サイモンジェンキンス（高速鉄道のすべての1月6日）をアップグレードする既存の生産ラインの北を向上させるのに十分である南鉄道の接続など、新たな高速回線は不要であると主張するいくつかの豊富な旅行のため私たちに出血します
- Michael Tomasky: Feingold, get it together
Russ Feingold, Democratic senator of Wisconsin, is, as I mentioned, threatening to wreck finreg reform.The rules: a bill that comes back to the Senate after the House-Senate conference does not have to pass the hurdle of a cloture vote, a vote to cut off debate and proceed to final passage, which is the one that requires 60. Doesn't have to. However, the minority may request a cloture vote after the conference bill returns, and obviously in this case the GOP will.Here's where things stand, to show you how ridiculous this supermajority business has become. You see, a generation or two ago, senators often would vote for cloture and then vote against the bill if they opposed it. This was done for collegiality's sake, out of regard for the body's traditions and norms, and all that. So it was not especially uncommon to see senators, even ones from the minority party, vote to move something to the floor, on the general grounds that minorities of 41 shouldn't be blocking everything in sight, and then vote against the bill.But now, in our super-partisan times, that norm has disappeared. Senators figured out that in essence, voting for cloture meant letting the bill go through, rendering their later no vote irrelevant.Well, that depends on your values system. Your later no vote was irrelevant only if you regard every piece of legislation as a battle of wills kind of death match; if you think your job as senator is to gain political advantage at all costs. If however you think your job as senator is to represent your state, vote your beliefs, but not excessively gum up the whole works, then your later no vote isn't irrelevant at all.But we're at the point in history where those old norms are long gone, especially with the GOP in the minority. And so we have a situation where Dem 私が述べたようにラスファインゴールド、ウィスコンシン州の民主党上院議員、、、reform.Theルールをfinreg破壊することが脅かしている：バック上院議員にハウス上院会議の後に来る法案クローチャー投票のハードルを渡す必要はありません投票は議論を切断し、60を必要とする1つの最終的な通路に進んでください
- UN appeals to world for $1.44 bln for Haiti
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN special envoy, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, on Thursday appealed to the world for 1.44 billion U.S. dollars to render humanitarian and early recovery assistance to the quake-hit Haiti.
The figure, the largest ever natural disaster appeal by the world body, will be used to help some three million people badly affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake, totaling 30 percent of the population in the small Caribben country.
Ban, who was with Clinton, m ... 国連事務総長潘基文とは、国連特使、元クリントン米大統領は26日、世界への1440000000ドルと、地震の早期復興支援、人道ハイチヒットレンダリングするために控訴した
- In praise of … a nuclear-free Europe | Editorial
It is always best to start a long journey with small stepsFive Nato states are to call for the removal of all remaining US nuclear weapons on European soil, a move that could spur global disarmament. One might have thought it would have been welcomed by a man who was not only a former secretary general of Nato, but is also a leading member of a parliamentary group for multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation. Alas no. George Robertson took the opposite view. Co-authoring a paper for the Centre for European Reform, he accused one of the states, Germany, of wishing to remain under the nuclear umbrella, while exporting to others the obligation of maintaining it; he warned of the consequences for decoupling the security of Europe from that of the US; and he said that Turkey could feel compelled to develop its own weapons. This is being unduly hawkish in a year in which the world could make serious steps towards disarmament. It is always best to start a long journey with small steps, and getting rid of between 150 and 240 useless weapons must rank as one of these. These weapons come in the shape of gravity bombs which take hours, if not days, to be loaded on to planes. They have been rendered all but obsolete by missiles which take minutes. Germany is seeking the withdrawal of US tactical nuclear weapons not just from its soil but from Europe as a whole. Making any cuts conditional on parity with Russia is a recipe for stalemate, as the superiority of conventional forces is now with Nato. The boot is on the other foot.Nuclear weaponsNatoguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
それは、常に最高の小さなstepsFive北大西洋条約機構の状態でいる欧州の土の上のすべての残りの米国の核兵器の撤去は、世界的な軍縮促進する可能性がある移動のための呼び出しには長い旅を開始することです
- Haiti: Disaster beyond magnitude
It is all too easy, seeing the appalling scenes from Port-au-Prince yesterday, to forget America's historic debt to Haiti, scene of the first successful slave revolt, which defined the destiny of Africans in the New World. The establishment of the first black independent state had tangible consequences. It denied Napoleon his foothold in the Caribbean and led him to sell New Orleans and the Louisiana territories to Jefferson. But, for as long as anyone can remember, Haiti has been treated as a basket case where corruption, gang violence and natural disaster combine to drag the country backwards. Now an earthquake may have killed up to 50,000, and rendered 3 million homeless. No one can prevent shallow earthquakes, but the consequences of this one have been made catastrophic by Haiti's condition.The French saddled the nation with debt, the Americans with cheap rice imports in the 1980s; 98% of the land has been deforested, destroying watersheds, creating soil erosion and impoverishing agriculture. Self-serving Haitian elites have just spent three months getting rid of Michèle Pierre-Louis, the first effective prime minister the country has had for years. The roots of the rural exodus and exponential growth of jerry-built shanty towns lie deep, but as the first arriving international aid teams looked round in desperation yesterday for the flickering signs of a functioning state, it was brutally clear why they were not going to find any. The policemen were too busy rescuing and burying their own families to patrol the streets. Even if the physical symbols of state, like the buildings of the presidency and parliament, had stood their ground, it is doubtful what help they could have given to their own people. The institutions they represent have never been far from collapse. あまりにも簡単で、港からひどいシーンを見ているポルトープランス昨日、ハイチ、これは新世界でのアフリカ人の運命が定義されて最初に成功した奴隷の反乱のシーンにアメリカの歴史的な債務を忘れること
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