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...demonstration of their committment to ending world hunger, thousands of runners will participate in a relay run spanning fourteen states and will pass through the streets of Boston some time around noon on October...
...Step Closer...End of Hunger Run II" will reach its final destination on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington D.C., on October 18, a week after the first runners take their initial strides...
Inside each baton is a message, which the organizers of the run will deliver to each member of Congress at the end of the marathon. "Hunger persists not because we can't end it, but simply because we haven't," the message states...
...regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, who seven years ago imposed martial law on the 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago. Today he rules as both President and Prime Minister over a dangerously deteriorating society. Despite statistically impressive increases in his country's per capita income, poverty and hunger affect most of the Philippines' 46.5 million people, a population that faces increasing suffering as the country totters toward economic crisis. Violent crime is soaring so rapidly that even some government officials have recommended the easy licensing of firearms for self-protection. Abuse of power by the military, which...
Concerned with bridging the gap between theory and practice. International concerns, such as South Africa, the Middle East, hunger, human rights, and nuclear proliferation, are analyzed in terms of partisan and specialized perceptions; of when to use self-help, exert influence, or engage in education; of those officials, journalists, businessmen, or others who might make a difference; of the choices they now perceive; and of ways to change those choices in order to reduce the costs of conflict, to promote one's view of justice, or both. Seeks to develop skills for deciding who should do what tomorrow morning...