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Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, reportedly ended their 16-day hunger strike Tuesday after Soviet officials agreed to give the couple's daughter-in-law, Liza Alexeyeva, permission to join her husband in the United States. Sakharov and Bonner are in good health after their fast, Associated Press reports said yesterday...
...wall of misunderstanding, indifference and passivity has grown up around me," complained Andrei Sakharov in a letter to fellow scientists in the West. To break down that wall by an action compelling enough to attract world attention, the Soviet Union's most celebrated dissident went on a hunger strike last week. The world-renowned physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize said that he was protesting the inhuman treatment given his daughter-in-law, Yelizaveta (Liza) Alexeyeva, 26, by Soviet authorities...
...resort, a cat department store, a cat rest home, a rent-a-cat agency, a cat dating service, cat psychics, cat acting coaches and a special annual contest to judge cats' meows. And, of course, there is television, with its commercials featuring cats in caterwauling unison or solitary hunger. The ads offer a sufficient variety of pellets, powders, pablums, nibbles, munches, crunches and chomps to drive conscientious cat chefs into catatonia...
Oxfam, an international organization that provides hunger relief, will send the proceeds of Harvard's fast to Honduran border camps for Salvadoran refugees, COCA spokesman Todd M. Truesdale '84 said yesterday...
...Magnen's work shows that when their diet is monotonous, rats eat only what they need, but overeat and become fat when fed a different flavor every 30 minutes. At the conference, he reported that the taste and smell of the food encouraged hunger and obesity by causing a reflexive increase in insulin. Le Magnen also reported evidence, in both rats and humans, that each new tasty food produces a conditioned insulin release. In other words, even if a varied meal and a one-food meal are equal in size and good taste, the varied meal may prove more...