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What has come together in the ‘horn of Africa’ was been described by the UN’s World Food Program(WFP) as the ‘tragedy of the decade’.
In the 1984, one million people starved to death in Ethiopia due to a drought. The deaths that could mount...
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Shares of Corning Inc. tumbled 12 percent Tuesday after the specialty glass maker lowered its fourth-quarter sales and profit guidance to reflect slumping demand for...
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The National Association of Realtors says home prices fell in four out of five U.S. cities in the third quarter, the latest sign of how the U.S. housing market’s...
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President Bush says the government will expand to the entire country the opening of extra flight lanes typified by the East Coast “Thanksgiving Express”...
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Federal judges will hear arguments about whether Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha should have to give a sworn deposition about his comments alleging “cold-blooded...
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Wall Street has opened mostly flat, with investors refraining from making bets in a volatile market battered by a stream of weak economic data.
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The head of the FDIC is pressing again for more aggressive government action to help millions of home borrowers avert foreclosure, saying federal money is needed to...
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Star Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang is expected to have surgery in the United States for a foot injury that forced him to withdraw at the starting line during the Beijing...
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are defending their management of a $700 billion financial bailout just one week after the...
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A 74-year-old blind woman was shocked when her daughter found a letter from the city saying a lien would be placed on her home unless she paid an overdue water bill.
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Wall Street headed for an uncertain open on Tuesday, with investors weighing another dose of weak economic data against an unexpectedly strong outlook from computer...
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Luxury retailer Saks Inc. reported a wider-than-expected loss in the third quarter in contrast to a profit a year ago, as its affluent customers slashed spending as the...
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Wholesale prices plunged a record amount in October as energy prices fell by the largest amount in 22 years.
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Luxury retailer Saks says it lost more than expected in the third quarter as its affluent customers slashed spending amid massive job losses on Wall Street and turmoil...
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Hewlett-Packard says it expects fiscal fourth-quarter results above Wall Street’s expectations despite the bad economy.
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As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. alone.
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Pepsi Bottling Group Inc., which bottles Pepsi beverages, on Tuesday cut its 2008 profit outlook and announced a restructuring plan that will affect more than 3,000...
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Detroit’s Big Three auto makers are begging Congress for a $25 billion government rescue, while the legislation clings to life support on Capitol Hill and top...
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Medical device maker Medtronic says its fiscal 2009 second-quarter profit fell, mainly on legal charges for a patent dispute with Johnson & Johnson.
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The head of Ford Motor Co. says the company is working hard to “transform our business” into a more profitable one that meets 21st century demands for...
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A survey of Medicare Part D enrollees showed that most of them do not fully understand the coverage gap, or “doughnut hole,” under which they must pay full...
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The parents charged in the starvation death of their bedridden daughter have sued the city, alleging that dangerous and reckless actions by several municipal employees...
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The city of Philadelphia has fired two social workers charged in the starvation death of a disabled teenager.
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Seven more city employees have been suspended in connection with the starvation death of a disabled teen.
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For days before Danieal Kelly died in a fetid, airless room _ made stifling hot by a midsummer heat wave _ the bedridden teenager begged for something to drink until...
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Four social workers were among nine people charged Thursday in the death of a disabled 14-year-old girl who authorities say wasted away from neglect before dying at 42...
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They died 10 days ago but their deaths were only brought to the attention of authorities on Monday.
The twins were not known to child protection agencies in...
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In the wake of the rising food and fuel prices, you would think so many developing nations are taking trouble to find ways on how to stop massive starvation of their...
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His legs look so weak he can barely stand. His coat is mangy with neglect and virtually every bone is visible under what is left of his emaciated body.
This is...
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Is this the perfect storm of worldwide panic and desperation created by the financial, food and fuel crisis not to mention climate change or is it media hysteria or is...
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The extra fat we carry around our middle could be making us hungrier, so we eat more, which in turn leads to even more belly fat. Dr. Yaiping Yang and his colleagues at...
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The idea of the starving masses driven by their desperation to take to the streets and overthrow the ancien regime has seemed impossibly quaint since capitalism...
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Food prices are rising around the world. In an interview with ABC News, Gregory Barrow, senior public affairs officer at the World Food Program (WFP), said that...
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Do you ‘live to eat’ or ‘eat to live?’ Either way rising food prices are surely going to affect your Bon Appetite. Rising global population,...
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One child dies of hunger every four seconds, every five seconds, a child dies from malnutrition-related diseases! While a restless climate, drought and famine rage...
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In a study that stands head to head, to the studies conducted earlier, researchers found that if somebody wants to loose one’s body fat then stooping to dieting ...
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Strife torn Afghanistan, in the grip of a severe drought, has forced many families to sell young girls in order to buy bread and survive the harsh winter...
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Chances are very high that soon India would introduce yoga in schools. Fast galloping percentage of obesity, heart attacks and diabetes cases have goaded the government...
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If you were asked, what a HIV/AIDS patients longs for, surely you will say proper medical treatment. However, suppose a patient is suffering from HIV/AIDS and is...
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It is by 2015, we would witness an unnerverving global phenomenon. Yes, the world will have 100 million extra hungry people in less than 10 years to go! Scientists say....
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Mayor Michael Nutter, right, followed by Human Services commissioner Anne Marie Ambrose enter a news conference at City Hall in Philadelphia, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008. Seven more city employees have been suspended in connection with the starvation death of...
