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Sunday

Women sweep the street in an impoverished area in Port-au-Prince that was devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake. The women are being paid $3-$5 a day to do this kind of work by the aid group Oxfam. David Schaper/NPR hide caption

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Many of the children displaced by the earthquake aren't orphans. Ten-year-old Harry Bienaime was separated from his mother when he was airlifted for medical treatment. Now he's recuperating at God's Littlest Angels orphanage as the staff searches for his mother. Tamara Keith/NPR hide caption

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Scottish master butcher Neil Watt and his haggis. Martin Cleaver/AP File hide caption

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U.S. Haggis Lovers' Hopes Dashed

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Saturday

U.S. Navy and Air Force personnel prepared to airlift a girl with head injuries to an offshore medical facility last week in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The U.S. military says it halted flights carrying Haitian earthquake victims to the United States on Wednesday. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption

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In the Port-au-Prince district of Fort National, Devarieu Stanley, like many of his neighbors, had to recover the bodies of loved ones himself. He lost his mother, his child and his nephew. Valentina Pasquali for NPR hide caption

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Friday

Iraqi security forces monitor traffic Wednesday in the Karradah district of Iraq's capital Baghdad as heavy security measures were imposed following bombings this week. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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A woman receives treatment in a U.S.-run emergency clinic in Port-au-Prince. John W. Poole/NPR hide caption

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Haiti Moves Past Broken Bones To Future Needs

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On the day of this interview, Lolo Beaubrun (right) had invited over three young musicians from a group called All Four Stars. Valentina Pasquali for NPR hide caption

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Lolo Beaubrun: A Voice Of Hope In Haiti

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NPR correspondent Jason Beaubien reports from an orphanage in Port-au-Prince. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption

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Thursday

Envoy: Pakistan Seeks Technology To Strike Militants

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French writer and philosopher Albert Camus (shown here in an undated photo) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 and died in a car accident in 1960. Debate is under way in France on President Nicolas Sarkozy's suggestion to relocate Camus' remains from Lourmarin, a small village in southern France, to Paris' Pantheon. hide caption

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Wednesday