Word: hungered
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...Kill Hunger at the Source How can you spend three pages saying food aid doesn't alleviate the causes of famine [June 25-July 2] without once citing the most basic cause: overpopulation. Japan learned this more than 50 years ago and now it has been one of the most prosperous nations on earth. China and India are also curbing birth rates and their economies have vastly improved. You can search for those "longer-term solutions," but you never state the simplest answer. Fewer mouths to feed means more food to eat. Brian Bate, Cebu, The Philippines
...agriculture, health, education, roads, electricity and Internet access. In Mbola's case, the first step has been to help farmers harvest more food, by providing them with fertilizers and high-yield seeds. As a result, their maize yields have increased about 60%. This has helped families trapped by extreme hunger grow enough food not only to feed themselves but also to bring a surplus to market. The community has also set aside some of this year's harvest to provide a midday meal for schoolchildren...
...most serious opponent, Senator Barack Obama, spoke to La Raza directly after Clinton, and he gave a gorgeous speech, using as his text a message that Martin Luther King Jr. had sent to Cesar Chavez in the midst of the farmworker activist's famous 1968 hunger strike: "Our separate struggles are really one." I hadn't seen Obama speak in several months, and his delivery had become more passionate, less cerebral. The substance of his message--on issues like immigration reform--was essentially the same as Clinton's. But he was more artful, using King and Chavez to draw together...
...Even if you aren't hungry: you don't need a hunger headache. Drink, too. Water, for sure. Coffee or tea? Whatever you are used to. A little Scotch? Sure (but not the whole bottle...
Obama's phenomenal fund-raising success--not just the total he's collected but also the number of individual contributors--reflects, I think, a hunger in many citizens to be personally associated with something that speaks well about our country. Whoever becomes President in 2009 will have to repair all the damage that George W. Bush's Iraq war and the arrogant, contemptuous way it has been conducted have done to the world's view of our country. But a President with the middle name Hussein and a father born in Kenya will have a large head start. Not because...