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...become available soon to supermarkets throughout the country. The plan restricts women to 600 calories for each of the first three days, 900 during the next four, then 1,200 over the following seven. The third week repeats the first. (Men get an additional 600 calories daily.) To soothe hunger pangs, dieters can munch unlimited amounts of certain "free" vegetables, including asparagus, parsley and cucumber, plus up to three daily snacks of "safe" fruits, such as apples, melons and oranges...
...than a shark fin. It doesn't look like part of an animal, even less part of a savage beast. It's green and rough, like the bark of a tree." Starving, Velasco manages to capture a small gull: "It's easy to say that after five days of hunger you can eat anything." He cannot stomach the sight of the dead, bleeding bird, torn apart by his own hands. He experiences alternating highs and lows, sometimes throbbing with the will to survive, then praying for an end to his punishment. His "days of solitude" convince him "that it would...
Eighteen Boston University students yesterday continued an eight-day hunger strike protesting the school's $19 million investment in companies doing business in South Africa...
...taken any action against the fasters, but Dean of Students Ronald L. Carter said that, "If [Abramowitz] thinks that his hunger strike is going to force us to change our position, I can only say that I will take him to the hospital when he falls into a coma...
...transvestite famous for offering sexual services to prison inmates. A woman who has risked madness, and at least temporarily succumbed to it, by volunteering to abstain from TV for a month. A clairvoyant, a mafioso, a crusader on a hunger strike until people stop hunting birds, a troupe of midgets who make up the world's smallest Spanish-dance ensemble...