"When we force-feed ducks and geese and we stop the force-feeding, the liver recesses to normal, " Daguin says.

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Perhaps a million cross the Gulf in May, and when they reach the U.S. coastline, they must stop to rest and feed.

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It can only be hoped that the overwhelming majority of American Jews who clearly wish to support Israel will join these activists' call and demand that all Jewish Federations stop allowing anti-Israel groups to feed from the communal trough.

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The purpose, Mr Sankoh's lieutenants explained, was to stop people from growing rice that might go to feed government troops.

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