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...exactly. It's the name of an advertising campaign designed to get Al Gore to make another movie - but not about what you think. By collecting enough signatures through its website AskAlGore.org, an international NGO called Action Against Hunger hopes to persuade the former Vice President turned climate-change activist to take on the issue of acute malnutrition: a remediable problem, the organization says, that each year kills 5 million children in the developing world. (See pictures of Al Gore...
...picture of the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has grown tragically familiar: a region with great natural wealth, riven by war, racked with hunger and traumatized by a long history of colonial abuse, postcolonial kleptocracy and plunder. In the past 10 years alone, millions have died here, and more die each day as a result of the conflict. Most die not from war wounds but from starvation or disease. A lack of infrastructure means there is little medical care in the cities and none in rural communities, so any infection can be a death sentence. The most...
...Zimbabwe Finally a Unity Government, But Huge Problems Remain After a nearly five-month impasse, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (below) has agreed to serve as Prime Minister in a power-sharing arrangement with President Robert Mugabe. Although the political turmoil may be over, Zimbabwe faces a cholera epidemic, mass hunger and hyperinflation. The central bank has said it will permit the use of foreign currency and announced on Feb. 2 that it would chop 12 zeros off new notes, making an old trillion-dollar bill equal to one new Zimbabwean dollar...
...outrageous price of one American dollar. Our hero falls to his knees in front of the behemoth nutrient dispenser, crying and salivating as his desired snack taunts him from behind the glass. Climbing up the stairs to his room, he can only think of two things: hunger and revenge. Suddenly, after hours of scheming, he comes up with a plan to outsmart the greedy vending machine schemers. Wearing only his boxers and a knowing smirk, he runs from the dormitory to the nearest convenience store, grabs the first box of Pop Tarts he sees, and pays only 8 dollars...
...many Flavors can a tapa hold? Originally, a tapa was a piece of bread set on top of a wine glass to ward off flies and hunger. Today, a few tapas can make a full-fledged meal. The tapas capital of the world is San Sebastián, in the gastronomic heart of Spanish Basque country - where San Sebastián is called Donostia and tapas are called pintxos...