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COTES DES ARCADINS, Haiti -- It was an immaculately clear midsummer morning, a perfect day for diving. No trash had yet washed up on the beach. A dozen volunteers, all excited, some a bit apprehensive, donned flippers and masks and shimmied into the bathtub-warm sea, eager to join a team of eco-divers responsible for surveying, and perhaps one day helping save, Haiti's endangered coral reefs. Only one thing stood in their way: For most of them -- like Jessika Laloi, 21 -- this was their first time swimming in the ocean. Until a few months ago, Ms. Laloi had not even known how to dog paddle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CARACOL, Haiti -- On the first anniversary of the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake, in a sleepy corner of northeast Haiti far from the disaster zone, the Haitian government began the process of evicting 366 farmers from a large, fertile tract of land to clear the way for a new industrial park. The farmers did not understand why the authorities wanted to replace productive agricultural land with factories in a rural country that had trouble feeding itself. But, promised compensation, they did not protest a strange twist of fate that left them displaced by an earthquake that had not affected them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]