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Chaplains End Divestment Hunger Strike...
Putting an end to their most concentrated effort at persuading Brandeis University to divest from companies doing business in South Africa, the school's three chaplains last Sunday ended their planned two-week hunger strike, Brandeis official said...
...three chaplains, Reverend Diane Moore and Father Maurice Loiselle, survived from the beginning of the month until Valentine's Day on clear fruit juices, water, mineral water and herbal teas. The other, Rabbi Albert Axelrad, ended his hunger strike one day earlier than the others...
Their wide, staring eyes and matchstick arms are the all too familiar icons of hunger and despair. The Third World's starving millions are truly the wretched of the earth, and in recent years the affluent West has lavished billions of dollars in efforts to feed them. Yet famine relief is a very small part of the roughly $1 trillion in aid that rich nations have given poor ones since World War II in the largest voluntary transfer of wealth in human history. Throughout the world today, thousands of public and private organizations are spending some $35 billion a year...
...first many of them found "speech" necessary only in cases of extreme hunger, but the medium was soon recognized as an extremely useful tool for education. There were, of course, experiments with whale noises and certain annoying thwangy sounds, but "speech" quickly became the most prevalent method of audio communication at Harvard...