Word: strike
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...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continue to call for her release. So far, the case's presiding judge has not been moved, calling the fast a ploy for propaganda purposes. One judiciary spokesman denied the news altogether: "She is in good physical condition and not on a hunger strike," Ali Reza Jamshidi told the country's official news agency on April 28, two days after Saberi's 32nd birthday and a week after she told her parents she had stopped eating. (The Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders said Saberi was briefly hospitalized after she began refusing water...
When it comes to publicity stunts, it doesn't get much more desperate - or dangerous - than a hunger strike. From college campuses in the Midwest to the oil fields of Kazahstan, the practice has become a daily, global phenomenon that has been by turns successful, gruesome, tragic and sometimes all of the above. In 1981, a 27-year-old member of the Irish Republican Army named Bobby Sands led a hunger strike at Her Majesty's Prison Maze in Belfast, where he was serving time for gun possession, and used the attention to win a seat in the British parliament...
...suffer the most who will conquer," he declared shortly before his death. Three years later, 89 strikers were released from Mountjoy after less than three weeks without food; their British captors wanted to avoid creating more political martyrs if they could help it. (Read: Site of IRA Hunger Strike Haunts Northern Ireland...
...nanotechnology lab at UCLA. “I really like tiny, tiny things,” she says, referencing an animation she made about a series of miniature worlds in jars and explaining the apparent discrepancy between cartoons and nanobots. The notion of impassable boundaries between disciplines seems to strike her as absurd, or at least misapplied. “I think with VES, especially here, you’re able to really learn a lot in other fields, and apply whatever you’re learning or reading or thinking about critically in your...
...recent months of a member of Hungary's 600,000-strong Roma community. Hungarian police believe that a small group of killers is targeting Roma, who are also known as gypsies and remain one of the most marginalized and neglected groups in Europe. (Read: "Child Migrants on Hunger Strike...