Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bloodstream to act on the brain. In fact, it appears leptin may act in a feedback loop like the temperature sensor in a thermostat--or in this case a "fatstat"--to tell the body whether to turn metabolism and appetite up or down. Thus when leptin is low, hunger pangs increase, body temperature drops, and metabolism slows. When leptin is high, everything reverses. In such fashion, the brain strives to keep body weight stable and fluctuations small...
...What races hate me?" The big network likes Mozart and knows "something about the Dreyfus case and the Boer War" but is ignorant of such things as "corks stuck in bottles, the surface of a liquid reflection ... wrappers and price tags, up versus down, the effects of hunger ..." The hero comes to think of the computer as female and calls it Helen...
...knife," says a 17-year-old boy. "This is a very cruel situation." (U.S. military officials will not allow the children to be quoted by name.) When Attorney General Janet Reno announced the new Cuban policy on May 3, dozens of furious Haitian teens first tried to organize a hunger strike with the younger children, then went on a rampage, pelting soldiers with rocks and setting tents on fire. No one was seriously injured in the melee, but a handful of soldiers and children ended up with cuts and bruises...
Sunny skies and a communal interest in feeding the hungry produced positive results yesterday, as an estimated 47,000 people took part in the 26th annual Walk for Hunger-and raised $3 million in the process...
...looking at a people through its own eyes. Nor would many argue that there is little to be gained by studying race and the immigrant experience in America. Put Hu-DeHart reveals these laudable academic goals to be only on the periphery of the call for ethnic studies. Hunger strikes and sit-ins are a display of ethnic identity, a protest by people who perceive the American university to be dominated by a "Eurocentric" mode of thought that excludes non-white Americans...