Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city's main black market. In carefully choreographed routines they loot the stalls. Two boys approach a seller from the right, two from the left, and they begin to argue. While the seller is distracted, a fifth boy grabs a jar of jam or milk. Sometimes, when the hunger is bad, the boys will simply run up to a hawker, grab a handful of food and run. And sometimes they are caught. "The cops know we're only trying to survive, and they let us go," says Alen Berglerovic, the best thief in the school. "What can they...
About 12 million American children suffer from chronic hunger. The problem is worst in some Southern states, where more than a fourth of all children regularly go hungry; the rate is more than 18% in New York, South Dakota and California...
...Nine activists begin hunger strike to force UCLA to establish Chicano studies department. Strike ends June 7 after UCLA gives Chicano- studies program more power...
...socioeconomic movements: the collapse of the Soviet empire, the increase in global mobility, the wrenching disparity of worldwide incomes. But its effect is most devastating on an individual level. Poor women and children are commodities traded on the street, products bartered, haggled over, smuggled and sold as hedges against hunger or as cruel but quick routes to profit. Souls do not count, only bodies, debased over and over, unmindful of social cost or disease...
Helpless, Manju, like many in her profession, is resigned to her fate. Returning home would not be an improvement. "Even if you work 24 hours a day in Nepal, you do not get enough to eat," she explains. "One can endure anything except hunger. If I were a man, maybe I would have committed murder to fill my stomach. But as a woman, I became a prostitute." It is a choice being forced upon too many. Along the highway of cheap love that now circles the globe, the cost in destroyed lives has become a blight to rival...