Word: hungering
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...small city of refugees. In Sudan, the civil war was worsened by drought and the associated famine, which was coolly manipulated by the warring sides. In all those locations, the ones who didn't die along the road found themselves penned for long stretches in huge camps, where hunger, pneumonia, cholera and diphtheria claimed more lives every...
...Association found that those who grew to be the plumpest had parents who themselves were either controlled eaters or binge eaters. Kids whose parents alternated between these behaviors gained the most fat. The advice for parents: set a good example through sensible diet, and respect your children's natural hunger patterns...
EXPELLED. JOSE IMPERATORI, 46, Cuban diplomat in Washington; because of alleged ties to an immigration official charged with spying for Havana. Imperatori had threatened a hunger strike to combat the "major slander" and clear his name, but the FBI moved swiftly to deport him on Saturday night...
...insurance and that food-stamp receipts in the state have dropped by almost half since 1995, even though 3 million Texans live in poverty. That's because people leaving welfare weren't informed that they still qualified for them. At best, Bush has been cavalier about the issue of hunger. Last December, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that Texas has the second worst hunger problem, with 1 million people going hungry each day, he dismissed it out of hand. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry," he told a reporter for the Fort Worth...
...explanation for Bush's ignorance on the subject is that in 1995 he vetoed a bill that would have established, at minimal cost to the state, a Food Security Council to gather information on hunger. "I'm sure there was a valid reason why I did that," Bush told TIME. "There's a lot of nice-sounding bills I have vetoed." He added, "I appreciate the kindness of the food-bank operators. I understand that the food banks are in some cases full. Seems like they're doing their jobs." He headed into a laugh, but caught himself. "For that...