1.   America should help North Korea deal with its devastating famine and should offer support if the North begins to move away from its disastrous command economy.

2.   After leading the work team that got China back on its feet after the devastating famine, Chen took flight.

3.   Fifteen years after a million of its people perished in a devastating famine, the specter of famine looms again in Ethiopia.

4.   North Korea is in the midst of a devastating famine.

5.   Canadian troops were in Somalia as part of the peacekeeping force seeking to rein in warlords in the aftermath of a devastating famine.

6.   They then turned on each other, unleashing a civil war that fueled a devastating famine.