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...hammy image of a heroine of World War I anti-Hun propaganda, Nurse Edith Cavell preparing to face a German firing squad. The irony was that Bellows, in trying to turn himself into a European painter -- or what he imagined a sophisticated European artist to be -- did succumb to provinciality. Earlier he had been a good artist immersed in a particular place: a very different thing...
...campaign against AIDS was no exception. Soon after researchers announced in the mid-1980s that they had discovered the virus that causes AIDS, U.S. health officials confidently crowed that a vaccine would be ready in two years. The most frightening scourge of the late 20th century would succumb to a swift counterattack of human ingenuity and high technology...
Orchard Professor in the History of LandscapeDevelopment John R. Stilgoe predicts that in thecoming years, many of Harvard's familiar treeswill succumb to the blight...
...were so promising that an NIH watchdog committee has already okayed a similar test on humans. The risks are high. The researchers will, in effect, be putting mouse genes directly into human brains. But the payoff could be great. Scientists are now searching for other inoperable cancers that might succumb to what they are calling "molecular surgery...
Deans, department chairs and professors often harbor an exaggerated conception of their "needs," and even the tweediest academics can succumb to the human emotion of greed...