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Posted Sun Jul 20 2008: from Washington Post (US):
Africa's Last and Least http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1216567624
 "Soaring prices for food and fuel have pushed more than 130 million poor people across vast swaths of Africa, Asia and Latin America deeper into poverty in the past year, according to the U.N. World Food Program (WFP). But while millions of men and children are also hungrier, women are often the hungriest and skinniest. Aid workers say malnutrition among women is emerging as a hidden consequence of the food crisis."
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