Word: hungered
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These days, some real world facts still seem beyond Harvard’s thought horizon. At some universities in Africa, students are literally fainting from hunger because they cannot afford both books and food. While African universities operate in crumbling buildings and lack sufficient computers, Harvard’s endowment now stands at nearly $30 billion, even after the recent financial downturn. Yet Harvard’s well-staffed development office still solicits alumni for dollars as if it were starving for cash: In fiscal year 2008, Harvard netted $651 million from alumni and friends...
...That school is a beautiful pink building. It has 270 students, grades 1 through 6, six teachers, two of them women. A third of the students are girls. There have been threats against them that they should not go to school. But nevertheless they go. There is such a hunger, a craving for education, for self-improvement, for enlightenment. I have school-aged children of my own and to see them every morning kind of groaning about having to go to school, the irony hits you pretty hard...
...handle, there must be something compelling keeping Aussies indoors and clutching sweaty cans of Fosters. More specifically than just Aussie TV in general, I point to a kind of irreverent humor that grew out of the unintelligible British model of comedy and into something that could feed the oversized hunger of the colonies—Australia and America alike.One excellent and hysterical example of this is “Summer Heights High,” which was a 2007 hit in Australia before premiering in syndication several weeks ago on HBO. The format of the show...
Fanatic consumerism is also directly linked to world hunger, poverty, and suffering. According to Professor John Madeley of the London School of Economics, the global use of land for the cultivation of tobacco “denies 10 to 20 million people of food.” Furthermore, the 1998 Human Development Report revealed that rampant consumer culture inevitably leads to “circumstances that are exploitative of workers” and exerts negative psychological pressures on shoppers, leading them to make decisions that are financially harmful or even disastrous. For our daily extravagances—indeed, even...
...trained him in weapons and drafted him into its marine detachment, supposedly organized to infiltrate India by sea. According to the transcript of his statement, supplied by the police, Kasab said, "We were told that our big brother India is so rich and we are dying of poverty and hunger." His family, Kasab claims, was promised some $4,000 if his operation - essentially, a coordinated suicide strike - was a success...