The recovery phase is under way in Haiti

The interruption in posts is a function of the press of other work, and what seems to be little "new" news coming from Haiti--rather, the media coverage repeated much of what was known earlier, and, clearly, the half-life of this story is very short. In the U.S. media the matter was knocked off front pages by the Scott Brown's electoral victory in the special senate election in Massachusetts.

Meanwhile, I was quoted in a story in Pravda (not that Pravda--the one published in Slovakia) on the Haiti earthquake; it's in Slovak, but the writer also posted my comments, and those of Louise Comfort, at his blog. Louise's comments are worthy of attention--she is a well-known scholar in the field.