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  2. Feast or Famine - Wikipedia

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    Feast or Famine is an irreversible binomial that may refer to: Feast or Famine (Reef the Lost Cauze album), 2005; Feast or Famine (Chuck Ragan album), 2007

  3. Thrifty gene hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Neel proposed that a genetic predisposition to develop diabetes was adaptive to the feast and famine cycles of paleolithic human existence, allowing humans to fatten rapidly and profoundly during times of feast in order that they might better survive during times of famine. This would have been advantageous then but not in the current environment.

  4. Theories of famines - Wikipedia

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    Citizens in Bengal road making as part of a famine relief project. It has been suggested by Amartya Sen in his book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation that the causal mechanism for precipitating starvation includes many variables other than just the decline of food availability such as the inability of an agricultural laborer to exchange his primary entitlement, i.e ...

  5. Thanksgiving forecast: Where will snow, rain and wind cause ...

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    Tens of millions will be taking to the roads and airways before and after the holiday too, and AccuWeather meteorologists say travel will be feast or famine, depending where one's travels take them.

  6. Explaining the great acorn feast — or famine - AOL

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    Given the right conditions, this acorn will become a new oak tree.

  7. Feast or famine: So many ideas, so little time

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    May 23—Sometimes I have so many ideas for this column that I can pre-load three weeks' worth ahead of time. There are timely issues (for example, a pre-Easter chat about how I don't like Peeps ...

  8. Famine - Wikipedia

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    A famine is a widespread scarcity of food [1] [2] caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality ...

  9. List of famines - Wikipedia

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    Famine in Spain caused primarily by the implementation of the autarkic economy: Spain: 200,000 [128] [129] 1940–1943: Famine in Cape Verde: Cape Verde: 20,000 [90] 1940–1945: Famine in Warsaw Ghetto, as well as other ghettos and concentration camps (note: this famine was the result of deliberate denial of food to ghetto residents on the ...