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...prison, it made sense to be careful. I decided to tune up my will so as to be ready for anything. The first thing I did was limit my food intake to 600 calories per day. This induced sharp hunger day and night. The discipline was excellent and worth the severe weight loss. I increased the number of push-ups I did daily from 100 to 200 (in sets of 100) added jumping jacks, jogging along the exterior of the cells and situps. Things were going very well, too well, I decided. I needed more stress to bring my will...
...stage. Although he doesn't know it, the farmhouse is no longer his. He crosses to the refrigerator, opens it--empty--and squats silhouetted in the light from the great refrigerator God. A young lamb rests by the stove, brought there to recover from maggots, tempting Weston's hunger. The family is to be displaced by housing for families who presumably can afford to eat--a poignant irony for a farming and gambling man. For the system hurts you as often as it rewards you, and once you're on the treadmill there's no getting off; like an eagle...
...said hunger "is a strong enough issue--one which touches enough people inside themselves" to promote unity, adding that only recently have Americans become aware of the transnational importance of critical issues like energy...
...must assist the developing world to get on its feet. We do have the wherewithal to eliminate hunger in the next 15 years," he said...
Denver also criticized world dependence on nuclear energy, adding that demonstrations like the one at Seabrook can set a precedent for public action on pressing problems like energy or hunger...