Word: hungering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...tired of eating on the run, wolfing down well-meaning but ultimately unsatisfying room-service sandwiches while the folks I covered gorged themselves in drunken, bacchanalian orgies of food. Every morning in the Philly Inquirer, Metro reporters detailed the high flyers' most recent repasts, presumably fighting off hunger pangs as the fat cats fed and preened themselves...
REASON Needs to feed and clothe a large population; rural hunger brought about a revolution 50 years ago, and leaders don't want another...
...wonder the biotech industry sees golden rice as a powerful ally in its struggle to win public acceptance. No wonder its critics see it as a cynical ploy. And no wonder so many of those concerned about the twin evils of poverty and hunger look at golden rice and see reflected in it their own passionate conviction that genetically engineered crops can be made to serve the greater public good--that in fact such crops have a critical role to play in feeding a world that is about to add to its present population of 6 billion. As former President...
Call it the summit shuttle: President Clinton, who arrived a day late to the G-8 summit in Okinawa, Japan, left a few hours early to make it back to the Israeli-Palestinian summit in time for dinner. Disease, hunger and education in the Third World were formally on the agenda in Japan, but Clinton and other officials were peppered with questions about Camp David. The President generally kept mum, although he did reveal that Barak and Arafat "have not wasted the time" that he was gone. Other administration officials were introduced at press briefings as being "ready to answer...
...that promise, biotech is far from being the whole answer. In developing countries, lost crops are only one cause of hunger. Poverty plays the largest role. Today more than 1 billion people around the globe live on less than $1 a day. Making genetically modified crops available will not reduce hunger if farmers cannot afford to grow them or if the local population cannot afford to buy the food those farmers produce...