41.   Western cosmetics from Channel, Max Factor and Estee Lauder are on sale, but most Burmese women wear thanaka, a makeup made from tree bark.

42.   While they await help, many famished North Koreans have been reduced to eating tree bark, wild plants, seaweed and corn stalks.

43.   Conditions in the non-agricultural North were particularly severe, she said, adding that North Koreans there were eating tree bark which caused intestinal bleeding.

44.   The official, Geoff Dennis, said that of those most in need, many trying to supplement their meager diets were eating roots and tree bark.

45.   WFP chief Catherine Bertini announced the new figure after visiting North Korea, where she said people were eating tree bark in order to survive.

46.   Villagers told him they were eating only one meal a day made from tree bark and wild vegetation -- the only nourishment they could find.

47.   Officials indicated that conditions were much worse in the northern part of the country, where consumption of tree bark was causing intestinal problems and bleeding, Bertini said.

48.   Quoting a North Korean government official, Bertini said some people were even eating tree bark, resulting in intestinal bleeding.

49.   She said officials indicated that conditions were much worse in the northern part of the country, where consumption of tree bark was causing intestinal problems and bleeding.

50.   Some wore rough clothes fashioned from tree bark.