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...advances, the body tries to conserve energy by limiting all but the most vital processes. Cell division slows drastically. Even hair stops growing. Reduced fuel burning drives body temperature down; that, combined with the loss of insulating fat, can lead to death from hypothermia -- a threat on a cool Somalian evening. The shutting down of the intestines can lead to the paradox of death by diarrhea. Reduced production of white blood cells weakens the immune system, a kind of starvation-induced AIDS that turns diseases like measles into killers. Eventually the body begins burning muscle tissue wholesale: victims become...
...Somalian famine is unquestionably the most horrendous situation in the world right now. Already, hundreds of thousands of Somalis have died from starvation and disease and several million more are at risk, while adequate food and supplies sit unused in ports on the Somali coast...
Speakers included Robert L. Buchanan and Janet Green, both of Oxfam America, and Hussein A. Abby, a Somalian city employee and local activist for Somalian relief efforts...
After the speeches, performers sang a Somalian folk song and recited a poem in praise of the relief efforts, and candles were passed out to audience members. The speakers then took up a banner which read "Help the Starving People of Somalia" and led a procession from City Hall to Harvard Square...
...Somalian hinterland, U.S. cargo planes continued an airlift that has delivered more than 3,000 tons of food to remote villages since Aug. 28. But last week flights to one town, Belet Huen, were suspended after a plane was hit by a bullet...