It has nothing to offer other nations: in fact, the North recently went to Third World states begging for food assistance.

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They knew, for instance, that these loggers were hungry--in some cases starving--because they turned up sometimes in town, selling bootleg firewood or begging for food.

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Together Defillo and Accardo would drive the streets, passing people who were sick and begging for food, unable to stop for fear their vehicle would be stolen.

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When the researchers tested them, they found that the amount of begging for food that the chicks did was closely related to the amount of food that they ate when given the chance to sate themselves in other words, to how hungry they were.

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Drunk townsmen and impoverished children approach the guards at the base's gate begging for money or food.

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It's now estimated that about 100 mahouts, or handlers, and their elephants, can be found in Bangkok each day, begging for money and food, and exposing the animals to grave danger.

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Most of the pupils - known as "talibe" in the local language, Wolof - end up begging on the streets for money and food which they have to take back to their teachers, our correspondent adds.

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That means that their parents can assess how much food to bring to the nest simply by adding up the amount of begging.

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