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McCrackin did more than refuse to show. To protest conditions in the prison, he ignored a subpoena, made a squad of five policemen carry him physically to jail, and began a hunger strike that lasted three weeks and forced his transfer to a hospital for intravenous feeding...
Part of his reading was this passage from the Enchiridion, a manual for Roman field soldiers by the philosopher Epictetus: "It is better to die in hunger, exempt from guilt and fear, than to live in affluence and perturbation." It was a lesson Stockdale would draw on repeatedly after parachuting from his crippled A-4 jet and landing in North Viet Nam on Sept...
...wake of Jimmy's election. The newest organic matter seems to be a small garden given by the citizens of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In a chill evening wind, the shrubs seem afflicted and huddled in gloom along streets as empty as Sagebrush at midnight. And, I discover as hunger mounts, Faye has closed her restaurant and moved the mobile home. The old Plains may be buried past finding...
...Brazil, delegates representing 50,000 church-organized grass-roots communities declared at their annual meeting last year: "Land in the hands of those who don't need it, workers earning a pittance, hunger, infant mortality and illiteracy. This great sin is a social sin, and it is called the capitalist system...
...neighboring Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, where the Indians of the Andes have chewed the leaves for more than 2,500 years. According to legend, the founder of the Inca dynasty, Manco Capac, brought coca to earth from his father, the sun. The Indians used it to dull their hunger, cold and weariness. (When Georgia Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, he included small amounts of cocaine to "cure your headache" and "relieve fatigue," but the drug was eliminated from the syrup shortly after 1900.) Colombia's role in the coke trade is middleman and processor. At kitchen labs dotted...