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Americans eager to help. Just days after Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras and its Central American neighbors, U.S. citizens began calling the Honduran Consulate in Washington, D.C., asking how to adopt children orphaned by the storm. Beyond the confine ....

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.... attempt to wash and salvage their goods. A muddy valley runs past the Central Prison, where some of the incarcerated swam to freedom as Mitch's floodwaters rose and propelled them over the walls. Hundreds of homes, streets, and businesses were washed away, and those that remained standing found themselves anchored beneath several feet of mud and debris. In some places, the stench is overpowering. The smell from intermingled garbage, rotting food, rancid floodwater, animal and -- very possibly -- human corpses fills the air. Yet still people work near the water, clean goods in it, even bathe in it. The potential for disease cannot be ....