1.0 link 187190 <![CDATA[The Sign Guy Goes on Hunger Strike]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-boose/the-sign-guy-goes-on-hung_b_187190.html After three years of standing stoically on the street corners of Chicago, Farhad Khoiee-Abbasi has stepped it up. Or actually, he's sat it down: The man with the blank stares and the loud signs has finally taken a seat.

But it appears it's because he's too weak to do otherwise.

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On what looks to be his fifth day of a hunger strike (photo taken on Wednesday), Khoiee-Abbasi sat crumpled on a park bench on the corner of...

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