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'SINDH KALAY', England (CNN) -- The aroma of freshly baking flatbread wafts through the air as a unit of British soldiers position themselves for a quick patrol around the village of Sindh Kalay.

A British soldier on patrol in the mock Afghan village of Sindh Kalay.

Market vendors hawk grapes and melons, as a group of village elders sit smoking water pipes and suspicious-looking men lurk beside battered motorcycles. What should the soldiers do? Conduct a weapons search? Approach the village elders first? In the complex political and cultural terrain of Afghanistan, what is the best course of action?

Except this is not Afghanistan. It's Norfolk, England. Instead of the Hindu Kush mountains, it is the green ladscape and tidy farmhouses of the English countryside that stretch out behind them.

Welcome to the British Army's state-of-the art training ground. It cost more than $20 million to build and every British soldier serving in Afghanistan will do his or her training here.

"I think it's the closest thing you are going to get short of being in Afghanistan itself," says Col. David Colthup of the 2nd Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment. His troops have already served one tour of duty in Afghanistan's Helmand province and are training for another.

British troops serving in Helmand province are tasked with mentoring and training Afghan security forces. Not an easy job in a Taliban stronghold and Afghanistan's center of opium production.

"Ultimately, a soldier joins the army and trains to fight. That's what a soldier trains to do. But today, it's a much, much more complex environment," explains Colthup.

"The business of being able to interact either through an interpreter or through Afghan security forces, whether they are police or army. And to understand how the people operate and how we can interact better with them. Because ultimately, that's what it's about," he says.

The most distinctive features of Sindh Kalay are the high three-meter walls that make up the village compound, creating narrow alleyways difficult for troops to patrol.

The village is staffed with Afghan asylum-seekers, many of whom have fled the Taliban. They play the roles of market vendors, village elders and sometimes Afghan security forces. Several Afghan women are also on hand, useful for training British soldiers on the religious and cultural sensitivities of entering an Afghan home.  Watch British troops training in mock Afghan village Â»

The Taliban insurgents are played by Nepalese Ghurkha soldiers authorized to handle weapons. They play their roles silently, unable to partake in the Pashtun banter among the Afghans.

Fazel Beria is also an asylum-seeker from Afghanistan. He is responsible for recruiting and for creating the sights and smells of Sindh Kalay and is easily identifiable as the only Afghan in the market in Western clothes. He beams with pride walking down the bazaar and clearly relishes his role in training the British Army.

"Everything with the culture comes up with the issue of hearts and minds," he explains. "If you want to win that, you need to know about their culture. You need to respect their culture, their religion and their way of life."

He gives high marks to the soldiers training so far. After each exercise, the Afghan actors talk directly to the soldiers about what went wrong and what went right. Sometimes, it's the little things that count.

"Yes, there have been quite a lot of surprises," Beria says. Like Afghan will sit cross legged for hours. "The British soldier cannot do that," he laughs. "The Afghan will be sitting very comfortable and the British soldier is not. So, they have to get used to it."  See photos of British troops on patrol in Sindh Kalay -- and for real in Afghanistan Â»

Previously, the army trained on farmhouses and in urban neighborhoods that resembled Northern Ireland more than Afghanistan. But Sindh Kalay does more than mimic the physical reality of Afghanistan. It also mirrors the changing tactics on the ground.

Troops are grilled in IED training by amputees that act out the violence with latex wounds and fake blood. When a new IED tactic is discovered by troops in Afghanistan it is communicated to Sindh Kalay and put into practice immediately.

"Before we had this, it wasn't realistic enough," says Col. Richard Westley, head of training here. "I think if you're going to be asking young men and women to go and risk their lives in someone else's country, then you have a moral obligation to prepare them for that environment. And that's what this village does. It gives them the isolation and complexity of an Afghan village. Which we can't do with farmhouses which represent Western Europe."

Some of the details in the Afghan village don't quite ring true. The slabs of lamb and beef hanging from the market stalls are plastic, as are the grapes and melons the vendors try and sell to the British soldiers.

Still, Sindh Kalay is eerily effective. When soldiers sit down for a "shura" or meeting with village elders, helicopters buzz overhead and the soldiers seem surprised to be served a homemade yogurt and cucumber drink.

But the unit commander can't help laughing when one of the Afghan village heads pulls out a "list of damages" by British troops. It turns out to be a receipt for the local supermarket.

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Washington (CNN) -- John Kerry got Swift-boated. Jimmy Carter had his re-election chances decimated in the Iranian desert. Then there was Michael Dukakis and that tank photo.

It is a tradition of presidential politics in recent decades that Democrats get accused of being soft and inexperienced on military and foreign policy issues, and Barack Obama was no different in 2008.

However, a string of foreign policy successes -- including the killings of terrorist leaders Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki, and now the toppling of the Gadhafi regime in Libya without the loss of any U.S. service members -- have made Obama seemingly invulnerable to the quadrennial Republican attack line.

The question is whether it will matter a year from now, when voters decide if he should get a second term.

To analysts interviewed Monday, the president's policies and actions during almost three years in power have helped him shed the knee-jerk, anti-war reputation affixed to Democrats since the Vietnam era.

They cite increased drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, including the one that killed the U.S.-born al-Awlaki, as well as the Special Forces mission that raided a compound in Pakistan housing bin Laden.

"Those actions demonstrate a degree of toughness that insulates him from the charge of being soft on defense," said Darrell West, vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington.

However, voter dissatisfaction with 9% unemployment and crawling economic recovery is likely to overwhelm any benefit the president gets from foreign policy successes, said David Gergen, a CNN senior political analyst.

According to Gergen, the association of Democrats with liberal pacifism dates back decades.

In the middle of the 20th century, he noted, Democrats were the party of international engagement willing to "bear any burden" to defend the nation and its interests, as President John F. Kennedy put it at his 1961 inaugural address.

Then the Vietnam War deeply divided the country, with Democrats becoming inextricably linked to the fervent anti-war movement by nominating liberal South Dakota Sen. George McGovern for president in 1972, according to Gergen.

In subsequent decades, the perception persisted of Democrats as liberals who were soft on communism and unwilling to use military force.

In 1980, the failure of a military mission in Iran ordered by Carter to rescue 52 Americans held hostage since the revolution the previous year cemented his image as a weak leader.

Crashed helicopters in the desert became the foreign policy symbol of a presidency that helped orchestrate the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. Carter then was defeated by Ronald Reagan in the presidential election that year.

Eight years later. Dukakis saw his campaign against then-Vice President George H.W. Bush undermined in part by a photo that sought to prop up his military credentials by showing him riding a tank. However, the image of Dukakis in what appeared to be an over-large military helmet with his name affixed to the front, his tie and business shirt visible beneath military outer garb, instead prompted ridicule.

The "soft on war" legacy for Democrats continued in 2004, when Kerry came under fierce, privately funded attacks that accused him of falsifying his account of a battle that earned him a Silver Star as a Swift boat operator, as well as making false claims about misconduct by other U.S. forces in Vietnam and Cambodia.

The campaign against Kerry coined the phrase "swift-boating" in reference to an acute, partisan and not necessarily truthful political attack. It also turned what should have been a benefit for Kerry -- his war record compared to the non-service in Vietnam by Republican incumbent George W. Bush -- into a controversial issue. Kerry lost the election.

For Obama, what was perhaps his greatest foreign policy triumph -- the covert mission to send U.S. special forces into Pakistan after bin Laden -- came close to the kind of failure that plagued Carter's rescue mission 31 years earlier.

One of the U.S. helicopters involved became disabled, forcing a change in how the mission was carried out. This time, though, the U.S. forces were able to infiltrate bin Laden's compound, kill him and fly out with his body.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations, called Obama's decision to launch the mission one of the most courageous he ever saw a president make.

If the bin Laden mission had failed, West and Gergen noted, Obama would likely find himself in the same position as Carter -- an incumbent candidate labeled as weak and ineffective.

"They would have tried to turn Obama into Jimmy Carter," West said, adding: "People would have said that even though the mission was ambitious, the execution was flawed and that this would reflect poorly on presidential leadership."

Instead, "I don't think it's going to be possible for Republicans to Swift-boat Obama," West said. The president's actions "demonstrate a degree of toughness that Jimmy Carter didn't have."

Both Gergen and West said Obama's strategy seeks to exert U.S. influence while minimizing the nation's long-term commitment to overseas conflict and any loss of American lives.

That strategy was most evident in the Libya campaign, which was launched by the United States under a U.N. resolution authorizing establishment of a no-fly zone to protect civilians from attack by Gadhafi's military.

Eventually, the campaign shifted to NATO control, with U.S. forces playing a supporting role for air strikes that targeted Gadhafi forces. In the end, the total cost to the U.S. government is expected to be under $2 billion with no loss of American lives, compared to the more than $800 billion in costs and more than 4,000 U.S. fatalities in the Iraq War launched by the Bush administration.

Some Republicans have tried to defuse credit for Obama's policy, complaining it lasted longer than necessary because the administration withheld the full might and leadership of U.S. forces throughout the Libya campaign.

But to West, the successful completion of the mission -- with Gadhafi gone and no long-term U.S. commitment or cost -- will bolster Obama in next year's election.

"I've seen that a lot of people are arguing foreign policy is not going to be relevant in 2012," according to West. "I think those interpretations miss the leadership Obama has displayed in foreign affairs."

Gergen warned that Obama remains vulnerable to problems in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the president is ending or reducing long-running U.S. wars.

Last week, Obama announced that virtually all U.S. troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year, which would fulfill a campaign pledge from 2008. At the same time, the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan is being decreased following an earlier surge ordered by Obama, with the goal of ending the war by the end of 2014.

Republicans such as veteran Sen. John McCain of Arizona -- who lost to Obama in 2008 -- have criticized both moves, saying they undermined the long-running missions by providing U.S. enemies with an end date to the nation's military commitments in those countries.

"I do think he's fortified himself against these Republican attacks," Gergen said of Obama, but he added that "Iraq or Afghanistan or both could become a crisis between now and the election.

Overall, though, the president has strengthened his standing as commander-in-chief, Gergen and research assistant Michael Zuckerman wrote in a CNN column last week.

Obama's foreign policy approach will "bolster a campaign argument that may resonate not only with his base, but also with swing voters increasingly wary of foreign engagements: that Obama wields force much more prudently and surgically than the reckless GOP -- that he has wound down Iraq and helped win back international respect, all while delivering strong results," the column said.

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text: nation

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text: American

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text: Libya

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text: campaign

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text: Iraq

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text: policy

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text: Libya

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text: mission

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text: affairs

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text: Obama

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text: problems

text: in

text: Iraq

text: and

text: Afghanistan

text: where

text: the

text: president

text: is

text: ending

text: or

text: reducing

text: long

text: running

text: U.S.

text: wars

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text: week

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text: announced

text: that

text: virtually

text: all

text: U.S.

text: troops

text: would

text: leave

text: Iraq

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text: end

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text: year

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text: Republican

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text: the

text: election

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text: president

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text: standing

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text: commander

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text: research

text: assistant

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text: a

text: CNN

text: column

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text: week

text: Obama

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text: foreign

text: policy

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text: bolster

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text: campaign

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text: also

text: with

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text: voters

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text: wary

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text: foreign

text: engagements

text: that

text: Obama

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text: force

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text: reckless

text: GOP

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question: Which president is deemed as being tougher?

answer: Obama,"

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question: Foreign policy wins fortify the president against what?

answer: the quadrennial Republican attack line.

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question: What may trump foreign policy successes?

answer: voter dissatisfaction with 9% unemployment and crawling economic recovery

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question: What make the foreign policy succeed?

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Opelika, Alabama (CNN) -- At the Community Market food bank, two small alcoves -- each with three chairs and a desk -- are used for interviewing potential clients.

At the desk closest to the front door, Michael Davis sits across from an elderly woman with thick glasses. Dottie Battle is a volunteer at the food bank, and she asks for Davis' identification. He reaches into a worn Ziploc bag, pulls out his driver's license and social security card, and hands them to her.

Battle asks for his gas, electric and telephone bills, and Davis also pulls them from the same bag. Then Battle asks Davis if he has applied for food stamps, a requisite for this program. He shakes his head "no."

"You need the food stamps," Battle says firmly. "You need them badly. And we will need proof that you went and applied for them before you come back. ...You know that, you've shopped here before."

Failure to comply with all the requirements could mean denial from the Community Market program -- at a time when Davis says he's been hungry for about two days.

"It's not a good feeling," Davis says. "You have to think about it like fasting, like they did in the Bible, and pray for another blessing. That's really the only way to get through it."

After about 10 minutes, Davis is approved for 75 pounds of food from the Community Market this visit. He quickly picks up his documents and begins looking for food on the shelves.

Rising food prices expected to cause inflation

This week, the U.S. Labor Department announced that raw import grain prices rose 1.4% this past February -- that makes an 8.5% increase over the past twelve months.

Keystone food commodities like corn, soybeans and wheat have already increased 149% this past decade, according to the New America Foundation's Smart Strategy Initiative Director Patrick Doherty.

Doherty recently wrote for CNN that the U.S. is too vulnerable to rising food and oil prices, and that strong policy decisions are needed to steer the economy through the prolonged price spikes.

"With persistent high unemployment, oil fueling more than 95% of America's transportation system, and transportation costs running 24% of income in suburbia and in exurbia, 35%, America's middle class is extraordinarily exposed," writes Doherty.

For families already on the brink, such increases could be devastating.

"If prices go up any more, you are going to see more people here and other food banks," says Community Market director Elsie Lott. "You can see it every day. People that used to give us food are now asking for it."

Hunger already a 'social fever'

Over the past year in Lee County, Alabama, more than 3,000 families accessed the Community Market food bank. Nationwide, the Gallup Organization reports 16%have gone hungry during the year due to finances.

"Hunger is like a persistent social fever in our country," says Jim Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center.

"It is like a malignant social ill that leaves the country weaker, and more susceptible to other problems like poorer educational performance and health problems."

FRAC advocates for federal funding of food programs as a way of solving hunger.

"If you look at other wealthy societies, mostly European, but also some Asian, they have a vastly different hunger problem than we do," Weill says. "Fewer people in those countries go hungry. The sharing of economic growth and the sharing of affluence lifts a lot of people out of poverty and hunger."

A recent New York Times data sheet shows those differences plainly. In Singapore 2% of the population goes hungry. Advanced economic countries of Sweden, Denmark, Germany France, England and Switzerland all have fewer hungry people than the United States.

Renewed focus on feeding children

To curb this trend, especially among children, many private businesses annually help fill the pantries of the poor. Bank of America, Xerox and Geico help food banks around the country.

Small businesses have also helped extensively in underserved communities. In the Tuscaloosa area, for example, the Alabama Credit Union funds a food program called Secret Meals for Hungry Children. Enrollment has swelled has from 18 participants to more than 900 in a little more than two years.

"The thing that most surprises me is the numbers," says the program's administrator, Dusti Monk. "I think it was a little naive of me to think that hunger was a third world country issue, when it's right here in our backyards."

The program enlists teachers to identify hungry children, and then request meal packets from the credit union. The teachers secretly slip meals into the student's back packs on a Friday, so the kids have food over the weekends.

"You can tell the kids are hungry by the way they eat when they get to school on Monday," Monk says.

The program costs $120 per student, annually. Monk says the Credit Union recruits sponsors from the community and around the state, and the response has been overwhelmingly positive.

President Barack Obama has enlisted the help of private organizations like the Alabama Credit Union to help eliminate childhood hunger by 2015. During his term, "food insecure" households have remained virtually unchanged according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Four decades ago, President Richard Nixon urged Congress to help eliminate federal hunger spending programs.

"That hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable," Nixon wrote in 1969.

Back then, less than 5% of the population was estimated to go hungry due to poverty or other economic reasons, according to research by the Citizens' Board of Inquiry into Hunger and Malnutrition.

A government 'waiting for you to die'

For people, like Wendy Madison of Opelika, rising food prices could be the difference between good health and a bad smile. Madison says she has been poor most of her life, and that she lost her front teeth due to poor nutrition.

"It's the worst thing in the world," Madison says. "I don't even want to look at people. I cover up to smile. Emotionally, it hurts just as bad as being hungry."

Madison says there was a 10-year period where her family was doing well, before her husband Joseph had a massive heart attack. She says her family's biggest mistake is they failed to plan for such hard times, and didn't save.

Now, their family of three depends on a little more than $1,000 dollars in disability pay, along with $294.00 in food stamp benefits per month -- the equivalent of a dollar per meal. Madison says her food stamp benefits have not increased despite rising food prices. An increase in benefits have been denied repeatedly -- leaving the Madisons "begging for food while going hungry."

"It makes you feel useless," Madison says, "like your government is waiting for you to die so they don't have to help you anymore."

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text: identification

text: He

text: reaches

text: into

text: a

text: worn

text: Ziploc

text: bag

text: pulls

text: out

text: his

text: driver

text: 's

text: license

text: and

text: social

text: security

text: card

text: and

text: hands

text: them

text: to

text: her

text: Battle

text: asks

text: for

text: his

text: gas

text: electric

text: and

text: telephone

text: bills

text: and

text: Davis

text: also

text: pulls

text: them

text: from

text: the

text: same

text: bag

text: Then

text: Battle

text: asks

text: Davis

text: if

text: he

text: has

text: applied

text: for

text: food

text: stamps

text: a

text: requisite

text: for

text: this

text: program

text: He

text: shakes

text: his

text: head

text: no

text: You

text: need

text: the

text: food

text: stamps

text: Battle

text: says

text: firmly

text: You

text: need

text: them

text: badly

text: And

text: we

text: will

text: need

text: proof

text: that

text: you

text: went

text: and

text: applied

text: for

text: them

text: before

text: you

text: come

text: back

text: You

text: know

text: that

text: you

text: 've

text: shopped

text: here

text: before

text: Failure

text: to

text: comply

text: with

text: all

text: the

text: requirements

text: could

text: mean

text: denial

text: from

text: the

text: Community

text: Market

text: program

text: at

text: a

text: time

text: when

text: Davis

text: says

text: he

text: 's

text: been

text: hungry

text: for

text: about

text: two

text: days

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: a

text: good

text: feeling

text: Davis

text: says

text: You

text: have

text: to

text: think

text: about

text: it

text: like

text: fasting

text: like

text: they

text: did

text: in

text: the

text: Bible

text: and

text: pray

text: for

text: another

text: blessing

text: That

text: 's

text: really

text: the

text: only

text: way

text: to

text: get

text: through

text: it

text: After

text: about

text: minutes

text: Davis

text: is

text: approved

text: for

text: pounds

text: of

text: food

text: from

text: the

text: Community

text: Market

text: this

text: visit

text: He

text: quickly

text: picks

text: up

text: his

text: documents

text: and

text: begins

text: looking

text: for

text: food

text: on

text: the

text: shelves

text: Rising

text: food

text: prices

text: expected

text: to

text: cause

text: inflation

text: This

text: week

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Labor

text: Department

text: announced

text: that

text: raw

text: import

text: grain

text: prices

text: rose

text: this

text: past

text: February

text: that

text: makes

text: an

text: increase

text: over

text: the

text: past

text: twelve

text: months

text: Keystone

text: food

text: commodities

text: like

text: corn

text: soybeans

text: and

text: wheat

text: have

text: already

text: increased

text: this

text: past

text: decade

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: New

text: America

text: Foundation

text: 's

text: Smart

text: Strategy

text: Initiative

text: Director

text: Patrick

text: Doherty

text: Doherty

text: recently

text: wrote

text: for

text: CNN

text: that

text: the

text: U.S.

text: is

text: too

text: vulnerable

text: to

text: rising

text: food

text: and

text: oil

text: prices

text: and

text: that

text: strong

text: policy

text: decisions

text: are

text: needed

text: to

text: steer

text: the

text: economy

text: through

text: the

text: prolonged

text: price

text: spikes

text: With

text: persistent

text: high

text: unemployment

text: oil

text: fueling

text: more

text: than

text: of

text: America

text: 's

text: transportation

text: system

text: and

text: transportation

text: costs

text: running

text: of

text: income

text: in

text: suburbia

text: and

text: in

text: exurbia

text: America

text: 's

text: middle

text: class

text: is

text: extraordinarily

text: exposed

text: writes

text: Doherty

text: For

text: families

text: already

text: on

text: the

text: brink

text: such

text: increases

text: could

text: be

text: devastating

text: If

text: prices

text: go

text: up

text: any

text: more

text: you

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: see

text: more

text: people

text: here

text: and

text: other

text: food

text: banks

text: says

text: Community

text: Market

text: director

text: Elsie

text: Lott

text: You

text: can

text: see

text: it

text: every

text: day

text: People

text: that

text: used

text: to

text: give

text: us

text: food

text: are

text: now

text: asking

text: for

text: it

text: Hunger

text: already

text: a

text: social

text: fever

text: Over

text: the

text: past

text: year

text: in

text: Lee

text: County

text: Alabama

text: more

text: than

text: families

text: accessed

text: the

text: Community

text: Market

text: food

text: bank

text: Nationwide

text: the

text: Gallup

text: Organization

text: reports

text: gone

text: hungry

text: during

text: the

text: year

text: due

text: to

text: finances

text: Hunger

text: is

text: like

text: a

text: persistent

text: social

text: fever

text: in

text: our

text: country

text: says

text: Jim

text: Weill

text: president

text: of

text: the

text: Food

text: Research

text: and

text: Action

text: Center

text: It

text: is

text: like

text: a

text: malignant

text: social

text: ill

text: that

text: leaves

text: the

text: country

text: weaker

text: and

text: more

text: susceptible

text: to

text: other

text: problems

text: like

text: poorer

text: educational

text: performance

text: and

text: health

text: problems

text: FRAC

text: advocates

text: for

text: federal

text: funding

text: of

text: food

text: programs

text: as

text: a

text: way

text: of

text: solving

text: hunger

text: If

text: you

text: look

text: at

text: other

text: wealthy

text: societies

text: mostly

text: European

text: but

text: also

text: some

text: Asian

text: they

text: have

text: a

text: vastly

text: different

text: hunger

text: problem

text: than

text: we

text: do

text: Weill

text: says

text: Fewer

text: people

text: in

text: those

text: countries

text: go

text: hungry

text: The

text: sharing

text: of

text: economic

text: growth

text: and

text: the

text: sharing

text: of

text: affluence

text: lifts

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: people

text: out

text: of

text: poverty

text: and

text: hunger

text: A

text: recent

text: New

text: York

text: Times

text: data

text: sheet

text: shows

text: those

text: differences

text: plainly

text: In

text: Singapore

text: of

text: the

text: population

text: goes

text: hungry

text: Advanced

text: economic

text: countries

text: of

text: Sweden

text: Denmark

text: Germany

text: France

text: England

text: and

text: Switzerland

text: all

text: have

text: fewer

text: hungry

text: people

text: than

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: Renewed

text: focus

text: on

text: feeding

text: children

text: To

text: curb

text: this

text: trend

text: especially

text: among

text: children

text: many

text: private

text: businesses

text: annually

text: help

text: fill

text: the

text: pantries

text: of

text: the

text: poor

text: Bank

text: of

text: America

text: Xerox

text: and

text: Geico

text: help

text: food

text: banks

text: around

text: the

text: country

text: Small

text: businesses

text: have

text: also

text: helped

text: extensively

text: in

text: underserved

text: communities

text: In

text: the

text: Tuscaloosa

text: area

text: for

text: example

text: the

text: Alabama

text: Credit

text: Union

text: funds

text: a

text: food

text: program

text: called

text: Secret

text: Meals

text: for

text: Hungry

text: Children

text: Enrollment

text: has

text: swelled

text: has

text: from

text: participants

text: to

text: more

text: than

text: in

text: a

text: little

text: more

text: than

text: two

text: years

text: The

text: thing

text: that

text: most

text: surprises

text: me

text: is

text: the

text: numbers

text: says

text: the

text: program

text: 's

text: administrator

text: Dusti

text: Monk

text: I

text: think

text: it

text: was

text: a

text: little

text: naive

text: of

text: me

text: to

text: think

text: that

text: hunger

text: was

text: a

text: third

text: world

text: country

text: issue

text: when

text: it

text: 's

text: right

text: here

text: in

text: our

text: backyards

text: The

text: program

text: enlists

text: teachers

text: to

text: identify

text: hungry

text: children

text: and

text: then

text: request

text: meal

text: packets

text: from

text: the

text: credit

text: union

text: The

text: teachers

text: secretly

text: slip

text: meals

text: into

text: the

text: student

text: 's

text: back

text: packs

text: on

text: a

text: Friday

text: so

text: the

text: kids

text: have

text: food

text: over

text: the

text: weekends

text: You

text: can

text: tell

text: the

text: kids

text: are

text: hungry

text: by

text: the

text: way

text: they

text: eat

text: when

text: they

text: get

text: to

text: school

text: on

text: Monday

text: Monk

text: says

text: The

text: program

text: costs

text: per

text: student

text: annually

text: Monk

text: says

text: the

text: Credit

text: Union

text: recruits

text: sponsors

text: from

text: the

text: community

text: and

text: around

text: the

text: state

text: and

text: the

text: response

text: has

text: been

text: overwhelmingly

text: positive

text: President

text: Barack

text: Obama

text: has

text: enlisted

text: the

text: help

text: of

text: private

text: organizations

text: like

text: the

text: Alabama

text: Credit

text: Union

text: to

text: help

text: eliminate

text: childhood

text: hunger

text: by

text: During

text: his

text: term

text: food

text: insecure

text: households

text: have

text: remained

text: virtually

text: unchanged

text: according

text: to

text: statistics

text: compiled

text: by

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Department

text: of

text: Agriculture

text: Four

text: decades

text: ago

text: President

text: Richard

text: Nixon

text: urged

text: Congress

text: to

text: help

text: eliminate

text: federal

text: hunger

text: spending

text: programs

text: That

text: hunger

text: and

text: malnutrition

text: should

text: persist

text: in

text: a

text: land

text: such

text: as

text: ours

text: is

text: embarrassing

text: and

text: intolerable

text: Nixon

text: wrote

text: in

text: Back

text: then

text: less

text: than

text: of

text: the

text: population

text: was

text: estimated

text: to

text: go

text: hungry

text: due

text: to

text: poverty

text: or

text: other

text: economic

text: reasons

text: according

text: to

text: research

text: by

text: the

text: Citizens

text: Board

text: of

text: Inquiry

text: into

text: Hunger

text: and

text: Malnutrition

text: A

text: government

text: waiting

text: for

text: you

text: to

text: die

text: For

text: people

text: like

text: Wendy

text: Madison

text: of

text: Opelika

text: rising

text: food

text: prices

text: could

text: be

text: the

text: difference

text: between

text: good

text: health

text: and

text: a

text: bad

text: smile

text: Madison

text: says

text: she

text: has

text: been

text: poor

text: most

text: of

text: her

text: life

text: and

text: that

text: she

text: lost

text: her

text: front

text: teeth

text: due

text: to

text: poor

text: nutrition

text: It

text: 's

text: the

text: worst

text: thing

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: Madison

text: says

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: even

text: want

text: to

text: look

text: at

text: people

text: I

text: cover

text: up

text: to

text: smile

text: Emotionally

text: it

text: hurts

text: just

text: as

text: bad

text: as

text: being

text: hungry

text: Madison

text: says

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: period

text: where

text: her

text: family

text: was

text: doing

text: well

text: before

text: her

text: husband

text: Joseph

text: had

text: a

text: massive

text: heart

text: attack

text: She

text: says

text: her

text: family

text: 's

text: biggest

text: mistake

text: is

text: they

text: failed

text: to

text: plan

text: for

text: such

text: hard

text: times

text: and

text: did

text: n't

text: save

text: Now

text: their

text: family

text: of

text: three

text: depends

text: on

text: a

text: little

text: more

text: than

text: dollars

text: in

text: disability

text: pay

text: along

text: with

text: in

text: food

text: stamp

text: benefits

text: per

text: month

text: the

text: equivalent

text: of

text: a

text: dollar

text: per

text: meal

text: Madison

text: says

text: her

text: food

text: stamp

text: benefits

text: have

text: not

text: increased

text: despite

text: rising

text: food

text: prices

text: An

text: increase

text: in

text: benefits

text: have

text: been

text: denied

text: repeatedly

text: leaving

text: the

text: Madisons

text: begging

text: for

text: food

text: while

text: going

text: hungry

text: It

text: makes

text: you

text: feel

text: useless

text: Madison

text: says

text: like

text: your

text: government

text: is

text: waiting

text: for

text: you

text: to

text: die

text: so

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: to

text: help

text: you

text: anymore

question: who are food banks now giving food to

answer: People that used to give us

text: People that used to give us

question: What is effecting food banks?

answer: Rising

text: Rising

question: what is the u.s. vulnerable to

answer: rising food and oil prices,

text: rising food and oil prices,

question: What are the rising prices having an effect on?

answer: inflation

text: inflation

question: What is the US vulnerable to?

answer: rising food and oil prices,

text: rising food and oil prices,

question: Who are food banks now seeing who they didn't use to?

answer: People that used to give us

text: People that used to give us

question: What is the U.S vunerable to?

answer: rising food and oil prices,

text: rising food and oil prices,

question: what do the rising food prices have a direct effect on

answer: inflation

text: inflation


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JOHNSTON, Iowa (CNN) -- Politics meets technology Thursday as a group of undecided Iowa Democrats has allowed themselves to be wired for the debate of Democratic presidential hopefuls.

A dial-test graph is displayed over candidate Rudy Giuliani during a recent GOP debate.

By the end of the debate, CNN hopes to be able to gauge which debater was the group's favorite and whose popularity fell -- and perhaps -- who may win the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses on January 3.

Across town, six Democratic candidates will be facing off for their final scheduled debate in the Hawkeye State before caucus night. The debate is hosted by the Des Moines Register and Iowa Public Television.

Each member of the randomly selected group will watch the debate on a large-screen TV while operating special hand-held dial-testing devices which are approximately the size of typical remote-control devices.

Viewers will react to the debate as it happens -- second-by-second -- as they move their dials to the right or the left. Dialing right indicates a positive response and dialing left represents a negative response.

Southern Methodist University professors Rita Kirk and Dan Schill will track the average response of the group corresponding with each moment of the debate. Responses will be represented by a moving line on a video monitor.

The group of Iowans, randomly selected by phone from a list of registered voters, will be recording their impressions of every moment of the debate.

The Democratic participants will answer a series of questions both before and after the debate, to determine how the event may change their minds about the candidates.

Among the questions to be posed before the face-off: Who do the group members think will perform best in the debate?

Afterwards, they'll be asked who they think did the best. They also will be asked who they would vote for if the election were held today and who they think will win the nomination.

All participants are planning to attend caucuses, but have yet to pick a candidate. Some are wavering between two candidates while some are considering several. They're hoping to get a better sense of the race from watching this debate, and CNN is hoping to get a better sense of their impressions of the debate by watching them. E-mail to a friend

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PARIS, France (CNN) -- Debris from Air France 447, which crashed en route from Brazil to France last month, killing 228 people, has arrived in France, the French air accident investigation agency BEA said Wednesday.

Searchers have discovered hundreds of pieces of wreckage from Air France Flight 447.

"The debris ... will be sent to Toulouse where they will be examined at the Center of Aeronautics Tests of Toulouse (a branch of the Defense Ministry) under the control of the police and the BEA investigators," said the French air accident investigation agency BEA.

The wreckage was transported to France from Brazil by the ship "La Ville de Bordeaux," according to the plane's manufacturer Airbus. It will be taken overland to Toulouse by truck.

Flight 447 went down in the Atlantic Ocean in stormy weather as if flew from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France on June 1. Only 51 bodies were recovered, and the search is ongoing for the cause of the crash.

The search for the data and voice recorders from the plane entered a second phase last week, according to France's accident investigation agency.

The flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder -- commonly known as "black boxes" -- stop giving out acoustic broadcasts after 30 days. But investigators decided to continue listening for the "pings" for another 10 days after that.

On July 10, two U.S. naval vessels and the French Navy submarine called off their search for the recorders, which investigators hope will shed light on exactly how and why the plane crashed.

The second phase of the search will involve France's oceanographic ship "Pourquoi Pas?" which carries specialized exploration and intervention vehicles, according to the BEA.

The French vessel will conduct new searches using diving equipment and towed sonar, the BEA said.

Finding the recorders is of "capital importance" and "no effort must be spared in achieving this end," Air France has said. "We want to stress that for the sake of the families, we hope that the search for the black boxes will be successful," an Air France representative told CNN.

The crash was the worst in Air France's 75-year history.

Earlier this month, investigators revealed that the plane bellyflopped intact into the Atlantic Ocean. Investigator Alain Bouillard said it was still not clear what caused the crash.

The mountainous ocean floor in the search area ranges from 3,280 to 15,091 feet, BEA officials have said in the past, making the search for the recorders -- and the rest of the plane's debris -- difficult.

"It is as if it fell in the Andes (mountains)," Olivier Ferrante, chief of the BEA search mission said.

Brazil called off the search for bodies on June 27, having found 51 of the 228 people who died, according to the military.

Investigators have also found more than 600 parts and structural components of the plane, along with luggage, Bouillard said.

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(CNN) -- Efraim Diveroli's father hoped his son would become a doctor or lawyer.

Efraim Diveroli, 22, is doing his "patriotic" duty as an arms dealer, his grandfather says.

What he got instead is a 22-year-old international arms dealer who faces a congressional inquiry for allegedly selling old Chinese ammunition to the U.S. military to equip allies in Afghanistan.

Diveroli is president of AEY Inc., a South Florida company which, according to U.S. government documents, has done more than $10 million of business with the U.S. government since 2004.

The papers also reveal the company struck it big in 2007 with contracts totaling more than $200 million to supply ammunition, assault rifles and other weapons to the Afghan National Army and police. The company's contract said it would get the ammunition from Hungary.

But Army investigators found what the Afghan military got included corroded ammunition made in China as long as 46 years ago.

The New York Times reported Thursday that AEY shopped stockpiles and ammo dumps in old Soviet bloc allies, from Albania to Kazakhstan. Albania was a big customer for Chinese armaments in the 1960s and '70s, the Times reported.

Angelo Diveroli, Efraim's grandfather, told CNN affiliate WPLG-TV that his grandson is being targeted by "jealous competitors" in the international arms market.

Since he was a boy, the grandfather said, Efraim Diveroli has known his way around weapons. Read the WPLG story

"He's a genius about anything to do with weapons," the 72-year-old says. "Ever since he was a little boy, I would take him to gun shows and he could identify every model of guns. People would ask: How can he do that so young? He has a gift, I would tell them.''

Michael Diveroli, Efraim's father, told CNN affiliate WFOR-TV that he wished his son had turned his intellect elsewhere.

He said Efraim was "a boy genius" who is "hard to control." Read the WFOR story

"I would prefer he became a nice Jewish doctor or lawyer rather than an arms dealer," WFOR quoted Michael Diveroli as saying.  Watch how father says son runs his own show Â»

But his son seem to have a good idea of the circles he was running in.

"What goes on in the Albanian Defense Ministry," the New York Times quoted him as saying. "Who's clean? Who's dirty? Don't want to know about it."

On a MySpace page Efraim Diveroli last updated in 2005, he says "I probably grew up way to (sic) fast."

But in a hint of where the then-19-year-old's future was heading, he wrote, "I definately (sic) have the desire to be very successful in my business and this does take up alot (sic) of my time."

The MySpace page also hints of his need for thrills.

"I'm one of those guys who needs to be entertained and having lots of fun all the time so if your (sic) also an undiagnosed case of ADD look me up," it says. He lists the weapon-heavy films "Heat" and "Scarface" among his favorites.

A CNN search of Diveroli's Florida criminal record shows arrests, but no convictions, on offenses from misdemeanor battery to felony possession of stolen property.

He has yet to appear in court on a March 3 arrest for driving under the influence.

For now, relatives say Efraim Diveroli is out of the country. CNN attempts to contact him have not been successful.

His grandfather told WPLG that Diveroli is now in Turkey or Albania doing his "patriotic" duty. "He's all over the world getting what the military needs," Angelo Diveroli says.

But in a MySpace message exchange with Radar magazine, a person thought to be David Packouz, a 25-year-old who was AEY's vice president, refers to Efraim Diveroli as "my former scumbag partner" and says he is motivated by money.

"Efraim Diveroli has a serious psychological illness called 'extreme greed,' " Radar quotes him as writing in a report on its Web site.

Packouz would not discuss AEY with CNN on Friday, saying he had no comment "because of the ongoing investigation."  E-mail to a friend

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question: What did the grandfather say?

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question: What age is the arms dealer?

answer: 22-year-old

question: What called for bullets made in Hungary?

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question: Who supplied ammunition made in China?

answer: Efraim Diveroli,

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question: Company supplied ammunition made in China decades ago

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question: Who faces a congressional inquiry?

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question: Where did the company's contract call for the bullets to be made?

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