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Woman Whose Story Moved Obama is Still Struggling

April 24th, 2009

A woman who lived out of her car until she pleaded with the president for help could lose the home she was provided. Henrietta Hughes, of Florida, has sought work since meeting Barack Obama at a February town hall meeting, but remains unemployed. Read the rest.

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One Million Homeless After Haiti’s Hurricanes

September 16th, 2008

Hatian flooding

A million are left homeless in Haiti after hurricanes.

The series of hard-hitting storms back to back in Haiti could have left about 1 million of the country’s citizens homeless, says Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis. A total of four storms (Faye, Gustav, Hanna and Ike) slammed the nation in just a few weeks, destroying towns and killing over 550 people. Pierre-Louis appealed to the international community to help Haiti. “We need major support and it is time for the world to understand that. We’ve suffered too much in this country,” she said. A portion the city of Gonaives will have to rebuild somewhere else due to damage it suffered from the hurricane. She also told the BBC that if things don’t get better in the nation soon, she could be ousted from office by angry citizens. Even before the killer storms pummeled the tiny island nation, it had the dubious distinction of being the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, and many were starving to death.

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Sports: Bolt, Powell, Gay To Compete In 100; Browns’ Braylon Edwards Offers Homeless Youths Help; Actress Denies Pregnancy Rumors

September 5th, 2008

 

Bolt, Powell, Gay to compete in 100. World record-holding Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt faces off with sprinters Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay tonight at the Van Damme Memorial in Brussels, Belgium. Powell recently matched the second-fastest 100 sprint time ever, while Gay is a world champion in the event. The race, which will be Bolt’s last of the season, airs at 11 p.m. on the ESPN Classic network and again Sunday on ESPN2 at 3:30 p.m. “I’m definitely going out there to compete at my best,” Bolt says. The three runners are regarded as the fastest men of all time, with the 10 fastest times in the 100 on their collective resume. “This has never happened before,” meet organizer Wilfried Meert says of the race. Gay, however, says it’s possible that he’ll skip the race, depending on the state of his lingering hamstring injury.

 

 

Browns’ Braylon Edwards offers help to homeless youths. Cleveland Browns star wide receiver Braylon Edwards plans to score big, both on and off the field, for 4,000 homeless students in the community. Beginning at Sunday’s first Browns’ game of the season, the player says he’ll give $1,000 per each touchdown reception he scores to the Cleveland Metropolitan School District Project’s ACT (Action for Children and Youth in Transition) program. “All children deserve to receive a quality education,” says Edwards. “It’s vitally important that we, as adults and community leaders, recognize the need to support those who are hindered by circumstances of basic survival when they leave class each day.” A Pro Bowl receiver, Edwards caught 80 passes last season alone.

 

 

Actress denies pregnancy rumors. NBA All-star Tony Parker may be Eva Longoria Parker’s husband, but he’s not her babydaddy. The actress denies that her recent change in appearance has anything to do with a little Tony or Toni. “I’m not pregnant. I’m just fat,” she says. “I gained five pounds over the summer, so instead of a size zero, I’m a size one.” Hopefully, Longoria Parker will come clean whenever it’s time to start calling her favorite point guard “papa.”

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