Word: hungering
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...That school is a beautiful pink building. It has 270 students, grades 1 through 6, six teachers, two of them women. A third of the students are girls. There have been threats against them that they should not go to school. But nevertheless they go. There is such a hunger, a craving for education, for self-improvement, for enlightenment. I have school-aged children of my own and to see them every morning kind of groaning about having to go to school, the irony hits you pretty hard...
Smith explained that the disparity between Pyongyang and South Hwanghae’s hunger problems—despite the latter region’s high agricultural capabilities—stems in part from the fact that “the population of South Hwanghae had little regular contact with foreigners with whom they could earn or obtain hard currency and thus few opportunities to buy and sell food...
During a question-and-answer session, some audience members provided anecdotes to flesh out the discussion of hunger in North Korea...
Fanatic consumerism is also directly linked to world hunger, poverty, and suffering. According to Professor John Madeley of the London School of Economics, the global use of land for the cultivation of tobacco “denies 10 to 20 million people of food.” Furthermore, the 1998 Human Development Report revealed that rampant consumer culture inevitably leads to “circumstances that are exploitative of workers” and exerts negative psychological pressures on shoppers, leading them to make decisions that are financially harmful or even disastrous. For our daily extravagances—indeed, even...
...trained him in weapons and drafted him into its marine detachment, supposedly organized to infiltrate India by sea. According to the transcript of his statement, supplied by the police, Kasab said, "We were told that our big brother India is so rich and we are dying of poverty and hunger." His family, Kasab claims, was promised some $4,000 if his operation - essentially, a coordinated suicide strike - was a success...