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There are other regional differences in the national passion. The steamy South-Central states consume less than half (10.77 qt. per digestive system per year) as much as the hungriest region, which is New England (21.86 qt.). Marketing men in the dairy industry have a suspicion that forthright Southeasterners will not eat what they cannot pronounce. A superpremium sells there under the no-foolin' name of Rich & Creamy...
...world's hungriest continent reels under a new famine
...million people in West Africa in the early '70s, the 36-member United Nations World Food Council vowed to create a world without hunger within a decade. Today that ambitious goal seems more distant than ever. Over the decade. Africa has become the world's hungriest continent. Food production has increased by about 1% a year, while its population has grown nearly three times as quickly, from an estimated 350 million to 470 million. Of the 29 countries classified by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as suffering from "abnormal food shortages"-a euphemism...
Unlike many other varsity sports at Harvard, hockey is characterized by superb coaching and an aggressive winning attitude. "That Cleary is the hungriest bastard I've ever seen," Hughes says. "He wants to win so bad he'd get out there himself if he could." Speedster Purdy adds, "All three coaches are super. They won't bench you for one mistake, but help you and give you confidence...
Exorbitant oil prices also reduce food production; the hungriest nations find it ever harder to pay for petroleum-based fertilizers. These same nations are strapped for money to buy imported food because they have to spend so much of their scant foreign exchange just to buy oil. Yet the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is unperturbed. The OPEC cartel shows no disposition to cut prices significantly...