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As Food Costs Soar, US Must Step Up to Plate

'A hungry man is an angry man," goes the old adage. And for months Haitians have compared their hunger to "eating Clorox [bleach]" because of the burning of their stomachs. Now riots have broken out and five people have died in a week of protests. A U.N. peacekeeper has been shot and killed. The Haitian Senate voted to fire the prime minister. With angry protesters demanding that the President Rene Preval step down, he announced a 15 percent decrease in the price of rice.