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...Washington. Catlin was fascinated by their exotic dress, their fierce bearing and, above all, their dignity. He resolved to become their historian. As he wrote: "I have flown to their rescue-not of their lives or of their race (for they are 'doomed' and must perish), but to the rescue of their looks and their modes, at which the acquisitive world may hurl poison and every besom of destruction, and trample them down and crush them to death; yet, phoenix-like, they may rise ... and live again upon canvas...
...training resources officer at NIH, is that private benefactors will pressure scientists to hold off on patenting their innovations--keeping them secret--until the discoveries "are fine-tuned and ready to be sold." In what has become a widely quoted warning, Merritt told the NIH conference. "Publish or perish doesn't need the corollary of patent or perish...
only in the province of irony. He can no longer adhere to the liturgical beliefs of his father, but he refuses the blandishments of Stalin's comrades, many of whom will later perish in the Gulag. On his way to Paris, he rides through Germany eating matzohs and looking numbly through train windows at German flags displaying an unfamiliar design: the swastika...
...that humanity needs myths and heroes to embody them. But he also knows the danger posed by those who claim to be the sole carriers and interpreters of those myths. Dune folk who subscribe unquestioningly to Leto's self-proclaimed godhood are shown as virtual automata, doomed to perish with him or to be lost without him. In Herbert's dry and gritty world, the future belongs only to those who think for themselves...
Sands, who weighed 155 pounds when he began his hunger strike and less than 85 pounds when he died yesterday, is the 13th Irish nationalist hunger striker to die in a British jail this century and the first to perish in Northern Ireland