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After 150 years of calculated disregard, the Irish potato famine has suddenly forced itself onto the U.S. political scene.
George Pataki, starting next fall, high school students in his state will be legally required to study the Irish potato famine.
In fact, the apoptotic demise (yielding double-stranded DNA breaks) of female germ cells throughout gestations of most vertebrates will encompass more than one-half of precursor populations [ 38 39 ] . Day 75 is the approximate time-point when a maximum number of oogonia is achieved in lambs; a nearly five-fold loss then occurs between Days 75 and 90 [ 40 ] . In some cases of nutritional deprivation cellular losses are accelerated [ 38 ] and reproductive performance of the female offspring during adulthood is attenuated [ 1 ] . Prenatal exposure to famine (1944-45 Dutch cohort) did not affect subsequent fertility of women [ 41 ] . Numbers of oogonia/oocytes and weights of mid-gestational fetal ovaries of sheep were increased [ 2 42 ] or not influenced by undernutrition [ [ 3 ] , present study].
Book -- Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine , by Jasper Becker;
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine