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...catch a glimpse of the truth. There is still something to eat, but barely enough to sustain life for long. Severely malnourished children sit listlessly in nurseries and schools, their bodies stunted, their arms like twigs, folds of skin hanging from rib cages, eyes vacant and staring with hunger. Orphanages are filling up with children whose families can no longer feed them; unwanted newborns never leave the hospital of their birth. The little ones are dangerously vulnerable to diarrhea, pneumonia, measles. Sometimes elderly women collapse, exhausted, by the roadside. Many of the aged are too weak to leave home...
...eastern coast, a rice-processing mill has no rice, so it is making noodles from seaweed. Every tractor, truck, wagon and ox-cart has been mobilized to distribute food aid as it comes in. Still, the pain is spreading across this country of 24 million as unremitting hunger stalks the land. Li Han, a Chinese truck driver who crosses the frontier regularly at Guchengli, has watched it. "People over there are starving," he says, "in rural areas and in the cities. Even the soldiers are not getting good food...
...religion--man's answer to his spiritual hunger. Nourish the soul, find truth, find the meaning, find God. All religions seek to lead people through these searches to the ultimate answer. Unfortunately, along the way many religions, including Mormonism, have fallen prey to the "God in a box" syndrome--explanations that reduce the infinite to what mortal minds can comprehend and, possibly, equal. They can call this religion, but spirituality or faith, never! NANCY SIGLER Laguna Niguel, Calif...
Women who hunger for more balance in their lives but find Sarah Ban Breathnach's recipes for achieving an "authentic self" unpalatable may find greater sustenance in Elizabeth Perle McKenna's When Work Doesn't Work Anymore. Where Ban Breathnach tries to cool women's overheated lives with a sprinkling of sachets, McKenna delves deep to identify and inspect the "indigestion in [women's] souls." What emerges as the chief gastric villain is a workplace that "makes no allowance for anything to be more important than work...
Stallone can worry about that and so many other things; he's a mess of anxieties. "I have an inability to feel validated," he confesses. "There's a persistent hunger, which is disconcerting and sometimes debilitating. You ask yourself when can you sit back and not have anything to prove? But I do have something to prove." Daylight hardly prepared him for the promise and threat of Cop Land. "I didn't know if I had developed enough bad habits to not work with good actors again," he says. "If you don't deliver, they can't morph good acting...