DURHAM, N.C. — A Duke University graduate student has found what historians think is the only surviving printed copy of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence. The university said Thursday that 26-year-old history student Julia Gaffield discovered the yellowing document in February while combing through papers in Great Britain’s National Archives in London. Haiti’s revolutionary leaders...
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By NINA BERNSTEIN More than two months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, at least 30 survivors who were waved onto planes by Marines in the chaotic aftermath are prisoners of the United States immigration system, locked up since their arrival in detention centers in Florida. Lunva Charles, a jailed quake victim, hopes to...
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Common toads appear to be able to sense an impending earthquake and will flee their colony days before the seismic activity strikes. The evidence comes from a population of toads which left their breeding colony three days before an earthquake that struck L’Aquila in Italy in 2009. How toads sensed the quake is unclear,...
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