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But, as financial and economics writer Morgan Harman notes in a succinct essay, the benefits of feeding the hungry go far beyond the obvious immediate economic ones:

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“Whenever we got hungry, my girlfriend would open some old website that had a list of restaurants with matchbooks broken down by borough.”

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"I don't think there's been any sudden, dramatic change," he said, despite estimating that on a normal day around half the hungry diners who queue outside his door are Chinese.

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But in a dramatic twist, Gen Alpha now prefers theaters more than Gen Z, millennials or Gen X. If anything, they’re hungry for experiences that are more theatrical.

That instinct led one hungry black bear to a South Lake Tahoe home across the Nevada border, surprising an 87-year-old man who had stepped into his garage for firewood before dawn Wednesday.

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