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Without warning, and without informing other groups of their plans, seven students announced on April 18 that they were beginning a water and vitamins only hunger strike to force the University to divest...
...Democratic congressional leadership is willing to yield ground to cut spending and raise taxes enough to prevent more economic chaos. The sentiment grows in Washington for yet another presidential commission to resolve the deadlock: a device used for the dilemmas on the MX missile, Social Security, Central America and hunger. While it has helped produce notable results for the MX and Social Security issues, the resort to the commission procedure represents an admission of political gridlock...
...down to the meadow below. Some 120 bandit jumps followed, and finally, in 1980, the park grudgingly began handing out permits, a futile and short-lived exercise in imposing bureaucracy on a sport that is inherently anarchic. Boenish, said to be among the more responsible BASE jumpers, seems to hunger for respectability when he says, "We have been trying to educate the public as to why we do it." This is a difficult educational problem, as he admits, because it involves, for one thing, explaining to an uncaring world why he on one occasion jumped...
Even in attempting to address the hunger problem, Reagan ran into criticism. In a memo to Counsellor Edwin Meese, he noted that he was "perplexed" by accounts that people in the country were going hungry and asked for a "task force to bring me a no-holds-barred study" of the problem. Meese commented sanguinely: "It may turn out to be all a figment of TV's imagination." The panel is expected to be chaired by the dean of U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Management, J. Clayburn La Force. Complained Martha Ballou, who coordinated Minnesota's Task...
...first area to attract a number of researchers was the newborn baby's senses, which were once thought to represent little more than hunger to be fed. Systematic testing soon showed that babies not only perceive a good deal but have distinct preferences in everything. An Israeli neurophysiologist, Jacob Steiner, found that a baby as young as twelve hours old, which has never tasted even its mother's milk, will gurgle with satisfaction when a drop of sugar-water is placed on its tongue and grimace at a drop of lemon juice. More