Word: succumbing
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...times of crisis, we all want answers. However, it is important to remember that no matter who committed these heinous acts, no community or group of people should be impugned based on the actions of a small number of individuals. Let us not rush to assign blame or succumb to stereotyping. We also pray that these trying times bring the community together, rather than rend it apart...
...THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES: The toll from Alzheimer?s continues to mount. Since 1975, the number of Americans afflicted with the disease has jumped from 500,000 to 5 million. Over the next fifty years, an estimated 80-100 million people worldwide will succumb to Alzheimer?s. On September 4, Doubleday will publish "The Forgetting: Alzheimer?s: Portrait of an Epidemic" by David Shenk. Says the publisher, "A magnificent synthesis of history, science, politics, psychology, and profound human drama, ?The Forgetting? explores the nature of a disease that attacks our memory and, by extension, the very core of our human...
...says his old friend Keegan. "He was all brain, no heart. Sex was an addiction for Ira. If he was interested in a woman, that was the only thing that existed. For many women, getting all this attention from Ira Einhorn was flattering, and it would be easy to succumb." Keegan remembers a party where Ira "came over and said, 'Would you take Holly home? I'm going home with someone else.' Holly just sat there, silent. She put up with it, and unfortunately...
...mass extermination of megafauna in Australia, New Guinea, Madagascar and North America, where species were suddenly confronted by able human hunters. Diamond points out that it would have been unlikely for these giant creatures to survive countless climatic catastrophes over tens of millions of years and then succumb to environmental changes in a wide variety of habitats just after the first humans arrived. I only hope that modern research can help us learn from our prehistoric mistakes before it's too late for other species. DARREN MCKELLEP Oslo...
...This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about," wrote Rudyard Kipling in 1898. More than a century on, Burma's lure endures: only the individual can decide whether or not to succumb...