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Hunger strikes
HUNGER STRIKES HUNGER STRIKES. The hunger strike is a type of political resistance notable for deploying deliberate self-starvation to protest alleged injustice and abuses of power. Food plays a central and paradoxical role in these acts by virtue of its conspicuous literal absence, yet... Read more |
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hunger
hunger can have a variety of meanings. For example, to a nutritionist it may be used to describe starvation resulting from a lack of food. However, to most of us hunger refers to the sensations we feel when we need food, such as an aching, growling stomach, weakness, or a grumpy mood. Indeed, the... Read more |
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hunger strike
hunger strike refusal to eat as a protest against existing conditions. Although most often used by prisoners, others have also employed it. For example, Mohandas Gandhi in India and Cesar Chavez in California fasted as religious penance during otherwise political or economic disputes. An... Read more |
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Paul de Kruif
Paul de Kruif , 1890-1971, American author, b. Zeeland, Mich., grad. Univ. of Michigan (B.S., 1912). He was bacteriologist at the university from 1912 to 1917. Among his books are Microbe Hunters (1926), The Fight for Life (1938), and Hunger Fighters (1939).... Read more |
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Taeniasis
taeniasis (tee-ny-ă-sis) n. an infestation with tapeworms of the genus Taenia, resulting from ingestion of raw or undercooked meat containing the larval stage of the parasite. Symptoms include increased appetite, hunger pains, weakness, and weight loss. See also cysticercosis.... Read more |
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Subsistence farming
Subsistence Agriculture LAND LABOR HARVEST SHARING CULTIVATION PRACTICES TRADE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BIBLIOGRAPHY The peasant concept of the good life is the minimum expenditure of physical labor. When applied to food production, peasants expend only enough labor to grow enough food to... Read more |
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Drives
DrivesI. Physiological DrivesPaul Thomas YoungBIBLIOGRAPHYII. Acquired DrivesJudson S. BrownBIBLIOGRAPHYI PHYSIOLOGICAL DRIVESPhysiological drives are regarded as persisting, organic motivations: conditions that arouse, sustain, and regulate human and animal behavior. Insofar as drives are based... Read more |
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satiety
satiety Humans and many animals eat in discrete periods of time, that is, they eat meals. Before a meal begins the sensation of hunger rises, and this motivates food-seeking behaviour. Once eating starts, hunger declines, and people report that they start to feel full. The term... Read more |
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Ahimelech
Ahimelech Priest at Nob (1 Sam. 21: 1–6). During his flight from Saul, David, desperate for food, was given the bread of the presence by Ahimelech. The gesture is used by Jesus (Matt. 12: 3–4) in defence of the disciples who satisfied their hunger by plucking heads of corn on a... Read more |
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Health and Safety
Chapter 4: Health and Safety FACTORS AFFECTING CHILDREN'S HEALTHDISEASES OF CHILDHOODMENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN YOUNG PEOPLECHILDHOOD DEATHS FACTORS AFFECTING CHILDREN'S HEALTH A variety of factors affect children's health. These range from prenatal influences; access to and quality of... Read more |
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transport
...and Norfolk turkeys and geese also driven overland; on Thames-borne cheese, treated generically as ‘Double Gloucester’; with Fulham or Putney vegetables...villagers as the proximate cause of their hunger, to Newcastle upon Tyne's vehement... |
 "The Independent on Sunday (London, England)")
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Tuilagi the ogre in Lamb's sorry tale ; GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP FINAL. Giant...
Gloucester 16 Leicester 44 Half...seasons, patted Gloucester on the head before...before, but their hunger for the big prey...physical challenge than Gloucester provided. The loss...the back row- were driven over in time- honoured... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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FOOD PANTRIES ANSWER CALL TRICKLE-DOWN EFFECT IS MISSING MANY HUNGER AMID...
...seeking assistance from hunger and housing organizations...pantry. Haven From Hunger, a Peabody-based...Action clients living in Gloucester, Rockport, Essex...their quality of life. Gloucester alone has one of the...other side, it's driven ... |
 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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TAKE TWO HAIRY COOKS.. Exclusive A helping of Scotland, a hunger for cooking...
...Our first meal together came after we were given a leg of Gloucester Old Spot pig when Si was up on holiday at my place in Huntly...spoke German - which compounded my confusion. "Luckily I was driven to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, where a brain scan showed a shadow... |
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Rugby Union: IT SAINT OVER.. I WANT A CLUB TROPHY; Dawson's still driven.(Sport)
...I find I still have a hunger to play the game. And as long as I've got that hunger for playing rugby, I will...Gomarsall, the in-form Gloucester scrum-half whom coach...IT! Dawson still has a hunger to win more honours |
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CAN FIGHTING WILKO GO THE DISTANCE AT LAST; Only a taste of victory will...
...Hodgson and Mike Catt. Newcastle's captain will be driven more than ever by a hunger for success, with another World Cup on the horizon...frail by comparison but Lomu will be wary lest Gloucester's mercurial 20-year-old gives him the slip... |
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FORUMS DELVING INTO ROOTS OF TERRORISM LECTURE REVEALED NEED TO UNDERSTAND
GLOUCESTER - A few days after...main auditorium at Gloucester City Hall. Connell...obviously, is a hunger for people to understand...part of it is being driven by demographics...part of it is being driven by increased political... |
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Rugby: MUNNY NOT MONEY INTERESTS DONNCHA; COUNTDOWN TO THE NEW SEASON...
...province. English Premiership giants Gloucester and Stade Francais in the French Top 14...the march next season. The drive and hunger for success still burns inside O'Callaghan...With the players we have, we need to be driven guys that want to be in cup finals every... |
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Dallaglio turns heat on Johnno.(Sport)
...must have is immense hunger and desire to improve...the most determined, driven people in the tournament...Leicester); N Wood (Gloucester), Paice (Lon Irish), Doran-Jones (Gloucester); Attwood (Gloucester), Skivington (Wasps... |
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CARRY ON CAPTAIN; Firm hand on the tiller: Borthwick's leadership qualities...
...convinced Johnson that he had the hunger for one more World Cup and...that English desperation has driven them to pick a man who is not...London Irish), O Morgan (Gloucester). WINGS: M Cueto (Sale...Newcastle), M Tindall (Gloucester). FLY HALVES: D ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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TV review: An Irish drama caught in the theatre of the absurd
...comments. A Lieutenant-Colonel in the Gloucester Regiment spoke of the "unknown mire...acclimatised. IRA informers were soon being driven around the Nationalist areas the squaddies...The Lieutenant-Colonel from the Gloucesters was more direct: "We could've totally...went on ... |
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