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...occur not with the crack of gunfire but from grinding hunger, experts warn. Scrambling to avert that grim scenario, aid officials and political leaders from about 40 countries converged this week at the Rome headquarters of the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to craft a rescue plan for the world's food supplies. By all accounts, they have arrived late to the crisis. The U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) calls this emergency a "silent tsunami" that could have dire consequences for more than 100 million of the world's poor in countries as varied as Somalia...
...Then, in the kind of unapologetic, in-your-face move for which Obama's campaign has become known, the presumptive nominee deplaned and made his way to the St. Paul Xcel Center, the hockey arena in which Republicans plan to bestow their nomination on John McCain during the party's national convention in early September. Before 17,000 screaming people, Obama paid rhetorical respect to McCain's military past - then pointedly criticized him for allegedly turning away from his reputation as a maverick and becoming a shill for the Bush Administration...
...McCain, in his own Tuesday remarks in Louisiana, assailed Obama's efforts to link him to an unpopular incumbent President and foreshadowed his party's brewing plan to define Obama on its terms, saying "[Obama] tries to drum it into your minds by constantly repeating it rather than debate honestly the very different directions he and I would take the country. But the American people didn't get to know me yesterday, as they are just getting to know Senator Obama...
...health care?" Dinock asked, eyes welling, then overflowing. "I've had seizures since I was a child. I work three jobs. I can't get health insurance." Clinton squeezed her arm and listened carefully, then reassured her that everyone would be covered under the Clinton health-care plan and moved...
...less careful version. "Look, I'm 38 years old. I'm Caucasian. I've got no kids. No one cares about people like me," she said. When I asked her what she actually did for health care, she laughed and said, "I'm on the K-Y jelly plan. I get it up the you-know-where...