Word: hungerers
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Aggressive with hunger, the whining chick bites its parent's bill to stimulate her into regurgitating her payload. The adult hunches, retching, pumping out fish eggs and several squid. The chick swallows in seconds what its parent logged 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to get. The chick begs for more. The adult arches her neck and retches again. Nothing comes. We whisper, "What's wrong...
...devious master of our bodies," wreaker of joy and havoc: "Love makes the cuckoo heave its foster-siblings/Out of the nest, to spatter on the ground." Pleasure is the other side of loss. In "American Boy" Gunn writes, "Expertly you know how to maintain me/At the exact degree/of hunger without starving. We produce/ What warmth...
Students at Tulane University are occupying an administrative building, students at Purdue University have been holding a hunger strike for more than a week, and students at Syracuse University went on a nude bike ride across campus to protest the wearing of clothing made in sweatshops...
...small city of refugees. In Sudan, the civil war was worsened by drought and the associated famine, which was coolly manipulated by the warring sides. In all those locations, the ones who didn't die along the road found themselves penned for long stretches in huge camps, where hunger, pneumonia, cholera and diphtheria claimed more lives every...
...Association found that those who grew to be the plumpest had parents who themselves were either controlled eaters or binge eaters. Kids whose parents alternated between these behaviors gained the most fat. The advice for parents: set a good example through sensible diet, and respect your children's natural hunger patterns...