Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strain of rice that yields as much as 25% more grain per acre than existing plants do. Once disease and insect resistance have been bred into the rice, a process expected to take about five years, the miracle grain will be set to join the fight against hunger...
...drawer" research, is the first hard evidence to support a decades-old hypothesis that a "feedback loop" between body and brain regulates weight. In the case of many obese people, she says, the new findings suggest a protein is sending the wrong signal, resulting in lower metabolism and excessive hunger. "The implications for the moment are more psychological than medical or therapeutic," Gorman says. "We don't know how many of the obese people out there have this defect. But this does make the point they are fighting their own genetics."Post your opinion on theHealth & Medecinebulletin board...
Harvard Law School graduate Jennifer K. Harbury broke off her 31-day hunger strike last Friday after the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City acknowledged that her husband, guerrilla leader Enfrain "Everado" Velasquez, was captured alive in 1992 by the Guatemalan military...
Once California belonged to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. And such was their hunger for land that they took the land . . . and they guarded with guns the land they had stolen . . . Then, with time, the squatters were no longer squatters, but owners...
Once the knapsack from home is empty, there are four basic means of survival: charity, meaning the small number of soup kitchens and shelters that cater to the young; panhandling; prostitution; and drug dealing. Hunger is the least daunting problem. In both Los Angeles and San Francisco, any youth who doesn't mind a lot of walking can find at least two free meals a day at various youth centers. And even the unluckiest panhandlers can make enough for a meal; at Taco Bell on Hollywood Boulevard, for example, a burrito costs only 59 cents. Then there is "table scoring...