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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - On the dusty streets of Haiti's largest slum, young men in baggy clothes lounge outside bullet-pocked shacks, listening for the rumble of armored vehicles carrying U.N. peacekeepers. In the seaside slum of Cite Soleil, those are the sounds that precede gunbattles and bloodshed, sending the youths and everyone else scurrying for cover. Frustrated by unrelenting kidnappings for ransom, killings and other crime, the U.N. is taking on the powerful gangs that have flourished in the chaos following the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.
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Former Vice President Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his global warming work. Though President Bush has congratulated him for the honor, many others feel he doesn't deserve it. What do you think? More
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