"I was surprised to see the signs of hunger everywhere" in Ethiopia, writes Helen Epstein in a penetrating analysis published by the New York Review of Books.
" There were babies with kwashiorkor, a disease caused by malnutrition, which I'd assumed occurred only in war zones. Many of the older children were clearly stunted and some women were so deficient in iodine they had goiters the size of cannonballs."
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