Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk, Fuentes urged that a non-interventionist policy be followed by the United States in Central American affairs. He also urged understanding for the relatively inexperienced governments of Central America when he said, "Let us walk together outside the night of repression and hunger and intervention, even if for you the sun is at high noon and for us at a quarter to twelve...
Powerful images affect human beings, and in a democracy, human beings affect the decision-making process. That's why anti-abortion activists show The Silent Scream. That's why anti-hunger activists show horrifying pictures of malnourished children. If the networks hadn't sent graphic, troubling images of war home from Vietnam, American soldiers might still be out there in the jungle...
...nation imposed a moratorium on ivory imports, altered fishing practices that threaten sea life, and has begun to discuss reducing its consumption of tropical woods. Part of the credit for the change must go to Yoichi Kuroda, a Japanese environmental activist who exposed the mayhem wrought by Japan's hunger for timber...
...Belt Movement, a 14-year-old tree-planting project staffed primarily by women. The internationally acclaimed movement, which has spread to a dozen African nations, has planted 10 million trees. The goal: to counter rampant tree clearing and the advance of the African desert, which contribute to poverty and hunger. To date, 50,000 Kenyan women have worked in 1,500 GBM nurseries, earning 4 cents for each tree they tend; funds come from benefactors on four continents...
...friend, there were only the mountains to run to. The journey ahead was painful and for some nearly impossible. Outside the town of Kalak an elderly woman, wounded in the leg, sat helplessly by the side of the road, sweat pouring from her face. Beyond lay the snowcaps and hunger and the cries of unshod children sobbing from frostbite. But below and behind were worse fates: fire and death and tales of terror...