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Despite the struggling economy and broad dissatisfaction with national conditions, the public has a positive view of the United States’ global standing. But more think that the U.S. is one of the greatest countries in the world than say it stands above all other countries. Slightly more than half (53%) say that the United States “is one of the greatest countries in the world, along with some others.” Fewer (38%) say that the U.S. “stands above all other countries in the world.” Just 8% think that “there are other countries that are better than the U.S.” As in the past,...

Jake Price/SIPA Press, for The New York Times With food scarce, this family hopes that their food will last and that desperately needed aid will continue to arrive. MAPOU, Haiti, May 30 — The awful truth is that life in this ruined patch of Haiti may be better now than it has ever been, or will ever be again. Doctors and nurses treated the sick and wounded on Sunday in a shack that passed for a clinic. Hulking American helicopters delivered tons of food. People with money and power — aid workers and American soldiers — attended to Mapou....