Word: flourishing
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Given the flimsiness of the evidence, why do such theories flourish? One reason is that the war against drugs has been so ineffectual. Another is that U.S. history is replete with episodes that help make even fanciful theories seem plausible: just consider what happened to the Native Americans. On a much smaller scale, there is the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, during which the U.S. Public Health Service, working with black-controlled Tuskegee Institute and other agencies, deliberately withheld treatment from 400 Alabama blacks between 1932 and 1972 to study the progress of a disease whose course was already well known...
...completeness with which Church absorbed Humboldt's ideas, acted on them and gave them pictorial form. In a sense he did indeed become, as the New York Times announced in 1863, "the artistic Humboldt of the New World," come to fulfill Humboldt's prophecy that "landscape painting will flourish with a new and hitherto unknown brilliancy when artists . . . shall be enabled, in the interior of continents, in the humid valleys of the tropical world, to seize with genuine freshness . . . on the true image of the varied forms of nature...