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War Horse

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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 03:07 PM Apr 2013

More Children in Greece Are Going Hungry

ATHENS — As an elementary school principal, Leonidas Nikas is used to seeing children play, laugh and dream about the future. But recently he has seen something altogether different, something he thought was impossible in Greece: children picking through school trash cans for food; needy youngsters asking playmates for leftovers; and an 11-year-old boy, Pantelis Petrakis, bent over with hunger pains.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/world/europe/more-children-in-greece-start-to-go-hungry.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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More Children in Greece Are Going Hungry (Original Post) War Horse Apr 2013 OP
This is very sad but our statistics are as devastating. imho snappyturtle Apr 2013 #1
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