Haiti quake made gap between rich and poor even bigger

In the highest hills of Petionville, above the ruined Haitian capital, there are no dead in the streets. There is no rubble. The earthquake that killed tens of thousands in the city below hardly touched the people of this wealthy neighborhood. "Most of them chose to leave Haiti until the situation improves,'' said Jean Robert, 55, a worker who has been reinforcing walls in the posh neighborhood. "There are homes that have had damage. But they're few, and I don't think it's a problem. They'll build other ones.'' On the lower sides of the same hill, the change of scene is dramatic: The straight, spacious, tree-lined streets give way to a tangle of tiny homes. Bodies still lie amid the rubble, and the victims await help from international relief agencies. But at the top, business goes on as usual.