About 25 children left the lunchroom with empty stomachs, said Whitson's Culinary Group in a statement.

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Without that relief, even more children head back to the streets to beg for the smallest morsels to fill their empty stomachs.

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Setting off with empty stomachs, my boyfriend and I asked the front desk at our hotel for directions, but the clerk raised her eyebrows in alarm.

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Women's stomachs empty more slowly than men's which effects how quickly drugs are absorbed.

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