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...world food prices soar, leaving millions of the world's poor unable to afford staples they lived on just one year ago, the world's stopgap measure against extreme hunger also finds itself short of food. The WFP, the U.N.'s food-aid agency, headquartered in Rome, had budgeted $2.9 billion this year to buy food and distribute it to more than 70 million people worldwide. By late March, however, high food and fuel prices meant that those same planned operations were expected to cost an extra $500 million. Just one month later, says WFP executive director Josette Sheeran...
...Philippines, the National Bureau of Investigation has prioritized disbanding rice hoarding rings over tracking terrorists. The police in India are busting into warehouses hoarding rice, while over 50 Bangladeshi workers were injured in hunger riots as even their government was unable to buy any rice at all last week. Crowds in Thailand rioted so much over food shortages that government elections were postponed. Closer to the U.S., Haiti’s Prime Minister was forced to resign following hunger riots that killed 4 and injured 20, and the poor there are now eating mud patties mixed with oil and sugar...
...Western media has made its focus on China’s high-handed approach in Tibet, China has been more concerned with keeping its people from starving and growing restless. Despite the obvious injustice in Tibet, the prospect of much of mainland China exploding with the kind of hunger riots raging elsewhere is one that features too many human rights violations to count. In that event, the government would have likely no less hesitation in striking out against its own people than against Tibetans...
Studies on adult populations have shown that a lack of sleep is correlated with increased levels of a stomach hormone called ghrelin which can stimulate hunger...
...outlasted and overwhelmed by a nagging feeling of guilt that lingered after the arrest. We’re lucky enough to attend a university that pays such attention to our comfort. Every undergraduate here has to admit the College does more than enough to keep us safe from hunger, cold, and fear every day. When Harvard protects its property from outsiders, it ensures for students and faculty the availability of a quiet and safe space to live, work and study, protected from the intrusion of the outside world. For that outside world (which includes Macleod), it ensures only strictly-enforced...