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2010: The Year Sarah Palin Became Queen of All Media
By David Knowles - AOL NewsMove on over, Oprah. There's a new media queen in town. In a feat that may have seemed impossible at the conclusion of 2009, Sarah Palin became an even more visible national personality in 2010. After she and Republican presidential nominee John McCain lost the 2008 election by some 8 million votes to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, it may have seemed that Palin would simply fade out of the national spotlight and return to Alaska politics. And when Palin abruptly announced in July 2009 that she was quitting her job as Alaska's governor, little more than two years after being elected, many ...
Denis McDonough, Obama's New Deputy National Security Adviser: 5 Key Facts
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 22) -- President Barack Obama announced today that he has appointed Denis McDonough as the next deputy national security adviser. McDonough will report to Tom Donilon, who takes over from outgoing the national security adviser, retired Gen. James Jones. Surge Desk has compiled the following facts about McDonough, whom Obama praised as possessing "an extraordinary work ethic." 1. He's a longtime Obama adviser Formerly a foreign policy adviser to Sen. Tom Daschle --as well as a legislative director for Sen. Ken Salazar -- McDonough first began working for Obama when the president was ...
Clintons Will Have a Big Say in Haiti's Future
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (July 14) -- In this city, it is called the Interim Haitian Recovery Commission. But in Washington, skeptical insiders have dubbed it "the Bill and Hillary Fund." The Interim Haitian Recovery Commission (IHRC) was created by an official decree of President Rene Preval in April and will be a joint Haitian and international advisory board to oversee distribution of funds for Haiti's earthquake recovery. At a U.N. donors' conference in March, the international community pledged $5.3 billion to this effort. The IHRC's mission is to "seek coordinated, effective and ...
NYC Turns Fake Goods Into Genuine Relief for Haiti
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(April 25) -- New York's Chinatown is synonymous with bargains, from dumplings to massages. But what tempts many visitors down to this part of lower Manhattan is its vast array of designer knockoffs -- illegal merchandise with labels claiming to be the likes of Gucci or Prada, but with price tags fit for Walmart or Target. When seized by authorities, the infamous impostor apparel is typically destroyed. But in a few weeks, 125,000 tons of knockoff clothing -- the spoils of warehouse raids in 2008 and 2009 -- will end up on the backs, heads and feet of earthquake victims in Haiti, courtesy of ...
Five Ways to Check on How to Donate to Haiti
By Emily Troutman - AOL News(March 31) -- In the weeks following the earthquake in Haiti, hundreds of people asked me to whom they should give donations. I made cursory recommendations based on organizations whose work I already knew. But for the most part, I put off their questions. I did so for two reasons. First, I knew the real need for aid in Haiti would continue for a long, long time. Now, after Haiti has left the headlines, is the time to commit. Second, I wanted to see what everyone did with the money they already had. Most officials agree that the emergency stage of aid delivery in Haiti is over. Of ...
Essay: Five Steps Toward Repairing Haiti
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (March 31) -- Today world leaders gathered at the U.N. headquarters in New York to discuss the future of Haiti. Life remains difficult there almost three months after the earthquake. Streets are soaked in urine. Shacks and tents populate town squares and empty lots. Farmers cannot sell their produce, and thousands of small businesses are shuttered. The Haitian government and the international community estimate the damage and losses caused by the Jan. 12 earthquake at $7.8 billion, including $4.3 billion of physical damage and $3.5 billion in economic losses. The total ...
MIT Student Develops $3 Wound-Healing Gadget
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(March 29) -- Drawing inspiration from the bathroom aisle in Kmart, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student has created a simple, inexpensive pump that could transform medical care, from disaster-relief efforts to day-to-day operations in American hospitals. Danielle Zurovcik, 28, created the pump, which uses negative pressure to pull bacteria and fluid out of wounds, for her master's degree thesis project. "I was walking through Kmart and saw a row of plungers," she told AOL News. "I just thought, 'Wow, that's exactly what I can use.' " One month later, Zurovcik had ...
Titanic Survivors Study: A Closer Look at Self-Preservation
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyYou're on a sinking ship and you have just 10 minutes to make a decision: Do you save yourself, or do you help the other passengers to safety? Now, imagine the same scenario, except you have two hours longer to make your decision. Do you make the same choice? Maybe not, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences. Researchers from the University of Zurich, the Center for Research in Economics, and Queensland University compared the survivor profiles of passengers from two famous shipwrecks, the Titanic and the Lusitania, to see how they ...
Tarps House Displaced Haitians as Rainy Season Nears
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Feb. 13) -- Ask any of the hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims living outdoors in Haiti's shattered capital and you're apt to get the same plea: "Give us a tent." Few will get one. Aid agencies and Haitian officials have given up plans to shelter the homeless in tents, even if that means many will likely face hurricane season camped out under flapping sheets of plastic. Tents are too big, too costly and too inefficient, aid groups say. So Haitians must swelter under flimsy tarps until fixed shelters can be built - though no one believes nearly enough can be ...
Survivor Pulled From Haiti Quake Rubble
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Feb. 8) – A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti's capital Monday may have been trapped since the Jan. 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported. The 28-year-old man, identified as Evan Muncie, was found in the wreckage of a market where he sold rice, his family told staff at a University of Miami field hospital. He suffered from extreme dehydration and malnutrition, but did not appear to have significant crushing injuries, the doctors said. Embedded video from CNN Video "He was emaciated. He hadn't had anything in quite some ...
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