25,000 people die every day due to starvation.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Heed \Heed\ (h[=e]d), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Heeded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Heeding}.] [OE. heden, AS. h[=e]dan; akin to OS. h[=o]dian, D. hoeden, Fries. hoda, OHG. huoten, G. h["u]ten, Dan. hytte. [root]13. Cf. {Hood}.] To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.

With pleasure Argus the musician heeds. --Dryden.

Syn: To notice; regard; mind. See {Attend}, verb (used with an object)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

34 Moby Thesaurus words for "heeding": accordance, acquittal, acquittance, adherence, attention, audibility, audition, aural examination, aural sense, auscultation, care, carrying out, compliance, conformance, conformity, discharge, eager attention, ear, examination by ear, execution, fulfillment, hearing, heed, hushed attention, keeping, listening, observance, observation, performance, practice, rapt attention, respect, satisfaction, sense of hearing

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