Told to stop bothering the lady, the girl announced she was starving to death.

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The United Nations estimates that more than 10 million people in total are in danger of starving to death.

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The big aid agencies are gearing up for an appeal, but fear it will be hard to raise money until there is evidence that people are starving to death.

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We've talked about genetically modified foods, well, now we're here in the day and age, and people are going to be starving to death if we don't figure that out scientifically.

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"I used to write a log every day when I was starving to death in New York in the early '50s -- every little arrangement, because we were surviving on that, " he says.

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In so doing, he became, by definition, unable to make rational decisions such as starving himself to death.

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As he taught his students about theories and macro solutions to global economics, a very real, very tangible problem was literally starving people to death at the doorsteps of his university.

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Even then, to his credit, Ang Lee is never tempted to domesticate this cat, except briefly, when both boy and beast are starving and at death's door.

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