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Crops were wiped out; the rice terraces were devastated, and starvation threatened.
Even though Kosovo was the West's attempt to compensate for the failures outlined in Slaughterhouse , as recently as last September Rieff opposed military action against Serbia in an op-ed, calling such intervention unwarranted because the sufferings of the Kosovars "pale in comparison" with the starvation of refugees in southern Sudan and Sierra Leone.
The vast majority of genes with conserved sites for both the Cbf1p and Met31/32p transcription factors were induced more than fourfold in cadmium, amino-acid starvation and early nitrogen depletion (Figure 5a).
A more in-depth view would recognize that when the basic framework of a society disintegrates, external food supplies may just lead to additional reproduction, and thus more widespread starvation.
All of the latter may act to trigger persistence by eliciting a degree of metabolic starvation [ 7].