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...world. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that per capita food output will actually decline 2% this year and that more than 3,000,000 people will die of malnutrition. This problem has created challenges and opportunities for companies with the talent to help end hunger...
...Boswell papers. With phrases and perceptions long seasoned in sensibility, he builds a warm, complex and radically altered portrait of his subject. The face shows the same old clutter of confusions: arrogance, snobbery, priggery, pushiness, stinginess, grossness, rampant infantilism. But behind the confusions, Pottle perceives the fundamental fear and hunger in the man and, more acutely than any earlier biographer, discerns his peculiar powers: the geysering energy, the shimmering charm, the surging sympathy and undefended heart that left him open to a range of experience the greatest novelists alone outreach. Yet for all his genius, Boswell as Pottle sees...
There were signs last week that it may eventually be the Buddhists who crack. Everything else having failed, Buddhist Ringleader Thich Tri Quang went on a hunger strike, by week's end had lapsed into a near coma that at least served the purpose of keeping him quiet. Thich Tam Chau, spokesman of the Buddhist hierarchy's moderate wing, publicly broke with Tri Quang and the militants. Tri Quang, said Tam Chau, has "no authority to promulgate any decisions" of the hierarchy, adding, "I am not for bringing Buddha into the streets." And in a swift, virtually bloodless...
...them. The altars blocked all roads, halting for 48 hours convoys on their way to a military buildup north of Hue-until Tri Quang generously allocated a few hours every day for the troops to pass. Then, writing a violent letter accusing Washington of "imperialism," he went on a hunger strike...
Psychotic Rats. Aggression, Lorenz instantly announces, is not a bad thing in itself. As one of the four fundamental instincts (hunger, sex, fight, flight), it is indispensable to most animal species. By means of aggression a species defends its members, attacks its prey, winnows its weak in mating fights and achieves safety through wide distribution-the territory of some species expands because each male maintains a domain that no other male is permitted to invade. Aggression, on the other hand, is a force more carefully controlled in most animals than it is in man. Members of two different animal species...