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Posted by: RaulDeSouza  | 

Dallas :: TX :: USA | about 1 month ago

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Norman Borlaug, who is credited with starting the "green revolution" and saving 1 billion lives, died today in Dallas from complications of cancer, the Dallas Morning News reports. He was 95. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for agricultural...

Tags: Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, Dead, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Award, Dallas, Texas, Starvation, Poor, Hunger

Posted by: prabirghose  | 

Havana :: Cuba | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

He is a 48-year old Cuban named Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos who dared to talk to the media about hunger in Cuba. He has been branded as a ‘social danger’ and sentenced to imprisonment for two years. He cannot appeal against the sentence and...

Tags: urban music, hunger, social danger

Havana :: Cuba | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The sentence may not be appealed and Gonzalez, known as "Panfilo", will spend his two years behind bars in the Toledo 2 prison, located on the outskirts of Havana. The incident occurred in July, when an evidently intoxicated Panfilo interrupted the taping...

Tags: hunger, urban music, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos, Cuban

Posted by: BorderExplorer  | 

Davenport :: IA :: USA | 2 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

  The US Department of Ag's figures in May broke a record: 34.4 million people used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program of aid to low-income people. Now one out of every nine Americans qualifies for "food stamps." That's an increase of...

Tags: River City Food Bank, CCC Food Pantry, United States Department of Agriculture, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, food stamps, US economy, poverty, hunger

Posted by: instgtr  | 

Mesa :: AZ :: USA | 2 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

  One of the worst problems that rice growers have had to deal with is flooding from the monsoons.  The water gets so deep that 40% of the crop is destroyed by “drowning" the rice, which virtually wipes out any profit they would make…...

Tags: Rice, Genetic Engineering, Snorkels, Hunger

Posted by: BorderExplorer  | 

Davenport :: IA :: USA | 3 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

    A dramatic sequence of events Friday took one life and damaged many others in our Iowa neighborhood. A haunting thought remains: "Could this be prevented?"   My husband was one of the last people to talk with Steven Mallory. Steven...

Tags: homelessness, hunger, mental illness, tazers, Steven Mallory, Jim Weakley, Clif Anderson, Mississippi River, Davenport IA, East Moline IL, social work, volunteering, domestic violence, prison reform, Centennial Bridge

Posted by: BorderExplorer  | 

Antigua Guatemala :: Guatemala | 3 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

    Sitting alone at a restaurant table for four, I felt isolated enough. The frightening realization that I couldn't communicate in Guatemala only sharpened the feeling. My husband had established me at a language school the day before and...

Tags: hunger, Guatemala, language school, indigenous, culture shock

Posted by: Ibrahim_mahmood  | 

Karāchi :: Pakistan | 3 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 4

The Repentance "And O my people! Ask forgiveness of your Lord, and turn to Him (in repentance): He will send you the skies pouring abundant rain, and add strength to your strength: so turn ye not back in sin!" Verse # 52, Surah 11. Hud (The Boundry?)...

Tags: repentance, Greed inc., Adam Smith, CEO, equity, wealth, corporations, monetary reserves, stakeholders, shareholders, change, entrepreneurs, Thunder, economists, government, statictics, market forces, crops, hunger, Spider

Posted by: jesusa  | 

Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

COMPLETE TITLE: Open Letter of Filipino Patriots to Obama. P.S. Don't boost her "wrong side of history"   (Related: Obama's 'strategic interests' call to SE Asia's notoriously corrupt leader)     IN ANTICIPATION of the scheduled July...

Tags: politics, obama, united-states, president, washington, white-house, corruption, human-rights, asia, democracy, barack, freedom, philippines, unemployment, inauguration, speech, hunger, patriots, arroyo, letter, estrada, foreign-relations, edsa-2, power-grab, south-east-asia, mckinley, erap

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