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In Haiti, the long dirt-poor Haitians' lives after torrential rains - August 30, 2003

                                                 
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A boy walks outside the remains of his house in St. Marc after torrential rains burst river banks, sweeping away at least eight people and destroying dozens of flimsy riverside shacks in this west-coast city of Haiti on Saturday Aug. 30, 2003.( AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                  
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A man sits by the river after he lost his house in St. Marc after torrential rains burst river banks, sweeping away at least eight people and destroying dozens of flimsy riverside shacks in this west-coast city of Haiti on Saturday Aug. 30, 2003.( AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                     
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A flood victim pours mud water out of his house in St. Marc after torrential rains burst river banks, sweeping away at least eight people and destroying dozens of flimsy riverside shacks in this west-coast city of Haiti on Saturday Aug. 30, 2003.( AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                            
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Flood victims try to save some of their belongings in the river in St. Marc after torrential rains burst river banks, sweeping away at least eight peopleand destroying dozens of flimsy riverside shacks in this west-coast city of Haiti on Saturday Aug. 30,2003. (AP Photo/ Daniel Morel)
                                                                

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Sultane Derilus, 60, stands inside her flooded house in St. Marc after torrential rains burst river banks, sweeping away at least eight people and destroying dozens of flimsy riverside shacks in this west-coast cicty of Haiti on Saturday Aug. 30, 2003.( AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                        
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