Famine
* Most famines are man made
  - have long gestation periods, typically covering two or more crop seasons
* affect more people in the world than ever before.
* affects society at large.
* are common, limited resources, poor food, and poor medical coverage
  - complex things since parts of Ethiopia produce a grain surplus
  - entirely preventable through changes in policy
  - extreme shortages of food that cause people to die of starvation
  - really the withholding of food as a political act
  - the largest indirect hazard produced by volcanic eruptions
* becomes a social rather than a physical phenomenon.
* can induce spiritual hunger
  - occur even when there is plenty of food
* causes hunger.
* constant finding in Africa, especially in Ethiopia and Sudan.
* creates a variety of birth defects.
* destroy life today, as well as the hope of development.
* disaster of food insecurity.
* human phenomenon and therefore a political one Back.
* is an absolute lack of food affecting a large population for a long time period
  - act of man
  - inevitable result of poor weather and bad soil
  - calamities
  - disasters
  - rife, everywhere, and thousands are dying for lack of medical attention
  - simply a widespread scarcity of food
  - usually the sad effect of war
  - widespread and increasing as the population rises
* occur when there general shortage of food.
* occurs in northern India and western China
  - western India
  - when there is an area of acute undernutrition
* reality that many species face as competition can be fierce for food resources.
* situation of extreme scarcity of food, potentially leading to widespread starvation.
* sums up the essence of a world order based on profits and state power.
* threatens ever larger portions of the globe despite increased food production.
* thrive even in the absence of any general decline in food availability.

Financial independence
* is important due to a fear of being without the main necessities.
* means choices, freedom, strength, dignity.

Fibrinoid necrosis
* is usually the etiology of the weakness in the arterial wall.
* special form of necrosis usually caused by immune-mediated vascular damage.

Federal jurisdiction
* allows federal authorities to assist the states in bringing their own case.
* is defined under accepted principles of international law.

Financial planning
* are planning.
* can increase wealth and reduce estate taxes.
* complex field and each individual's situation is different.
* covers all aspects of in vesting, all the way to retirement and death.
* dynamic process affected by changes in personal circumstances
  - that's affected by changes in personal circumstances
* encompasses complex disciplines that require a strong conceptual foundation.
* goes far beyond budgeting or playing the stock market.
* involves the accumulation and protection of an individual's estate.
* is actually a byproduct of corporate strategic planning
  - always about the future
  - an ongoing process from the time one reaches adulthood through retirement
  - designed to help families plan for the full cost of a college education
  - one of the most important aspects of total planning
  - regulated in only a few states
* is the development and implementation of such a plan
  - key to creating wealth
* learning process.
* rapidly growing and changing market.

Foreign travel
* includes trips beginning or ending in any other country.
* is all other travel.
* is travel outside of the United States including Mexico and Canada
  - the United States except for travel in Canada