Sentences with phrase «by widespread starvation»
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the next generation, according to a new study of hundreds of families affected by widespread starvation in mid-20th Century China.
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The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the next generation, according to a new study of hundreds of families affected by widespread starvation in mid-20th Century China.
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Widespread starvation has been temporarily delayed by the «Green Revolution» — the introduction of miracle grains that multiply yields several times over.
«The Population Bomb,» a controversial book by environmental scientist Paul Ehrlich predicting widespread starvation as a result of population growth, turned off a generation of thinkers, in part by being wrong (at least in the short term) and in part by seeming anti-human, continuing a tradition that stretches back to the «Dismal Theorem» of Thomas Malthus.
Younger artists were saved from starvation by Roosevelt's ambitious social programme and widespread commissioning of public art.