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...Stewart Guernsey, the director of a Dorchester shelter, is one of nine fasters around the country, three of whom are homeless, who stopped eating on the first day of autumn and will contintue without food until Election...
Though he said, "I feel fine, a little weak," Guernsey added that "in another three weeks, I won't be able to walk." He said a stretcher would carry him on November 7, when he plans to attend a march on Washington for the homeless...
Others worry about the animals themselves. Yale Lecturer Gul Agha, founder of a watchdog group called the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, is concerned about the quality of life for the new breeds. Producing a cow that gives three times as much milk as a normal Guernsey, he notes, could mean producing a cow that lives in acute discomfort. Says he: "We have the prospect of creating animals that may be in continual agony." Others fret that the release of genetically engineered animals, such as fatter mice or more aggressive game fish, might result in ecological disaster...
...Harvard participants in the 20-mile walk, sponsored by the non-profit group Project Bread, gathered more than $50,000 in pledges, said Ralph S. Guernsey, a fifth-year Divinity School student who coordinated Harvard participation...
...Housing is a matter of justice rather than charity," Guernsey said. "We so frequently view people on the streets as being somehow morally inferior rather than remembering we could, in fact, wind up on the streets ourselves...