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The Worldwatch Institute, an independent Washington-based research organization, in its annual report said that 1.2 billion people, the largest number ever recorded, are underfed and undernourished. At the same time, another 1.2 billion are eating too much or too much of the wrong food and have become "the fastest-growing group of the malnourished." The report says that the two extremes of hunger and obesity are increasingly found in...