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...first day in camp, I saw my name on the [wide receiver] depth chart and I’m 16 out of 17,” Breaux says. “As a competitive person it’s like a punch to the stomach. There’s so much work to be done to even get on the travel team...
When all that’s left of brain break are cookie crumbs and stale bread, when Noch’s has closed its doors for the night, when one just can’t stomach those oily 7/11 sausages, and when a cup-o-noodles just won’t get the job done, the hungry Harvardian might be driven to the very precipice of despair. Until he realizes his salvation: that bastion of the burrito, king of the quesadilla, and redeemer of the ravenous undergraduate. Yes, the one and only Felipe’s. Unfortunately, it seems that...
...many Honduran children, a fair shot--ensured by a full stomach--has long been out of reach. Up to 40% of the population under age 5 suffers from malnutrition. In the poorest villages, that number jumps to 70%. Honduras is hardly the only country that does such a dreadful job of feeding its babies. What makes it different is that it has the resources to do better. Only 2% of Honduran families are so poor that they can't afford at least some food every day. The rest have it; they just don't know how to make the most...
...worker, or accompagnateur--generally a friend, relative or neighbor--who will handle the drugs and make sure they are taken on schedule. The patient is also given what the doctors hope will be enough food for a family of five. "You can't take these meds on an empty stomach," Farmer explains, "and you can't treat a wasting disease like AIDS or TB without calories." The extra rations are to avoid situations in which the sick have plenty to eat but their families starve...
...ruthless intelligence and security organs to two members of his clan--his brother Maher, 37, commander of the Presidential Guard, and his brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, 55, chief of Syrian military intelligence. They haven't always got along. About five years ago, Maher shot Shawkat in the stomach during a family dispute. Assad played the conciliator and eventually brought Shawkat, who is married to Assad's sister, into the family's ruling troika. Since then Maher and Shawkat have become a feared and shadowy duo, their lives bound together by a shared aversion to publicity and a willingness...