Impatient Haitians Starting to Rebuild On Dangerous Ground

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Defying pleas to wait for Haiti's reconstruction, families lugged heavy bundles of wood and tin up steep hillsides Friday to do the unthinkable: build new homes on top of old ones devastated in the earthquake.

The defiance reflects growing anger and frustration among Haitians who complain that their leaders -- and any rebuilding plans -- are absent more than two weeks after the Jan. 12 earthquake damaged or destroyed thousands of homes in the capital.

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Impatient Haitians Starting to Rebuild On Dangerous Ground

Few tents have been supplied, rubble remains strewn in many streets, and signs begging for help in English -- not Haitian Creole -- dot nearly every street corner in Port-au-Prince.

It could take another month to get the 200,000 tents needed for Haiti's homeless, said Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue, the culture and communications mi...

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