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...based World Health Organization estimates that 2 million to 5 million Africans are now carriers of the AIDS virus. Leading researchers believe at least 50,000 people have already died of AIDS in Africa, and unless a treatment and vaccine are found, a million and a half more may succumb over the next decade...
Only those possessed by a demonic vision would condone the perpetuation of the nuclear arms race ad infinitum. But only fools, or perhaps Neville Chamberlains, would succumb to the temptation to suddenly and completely change the political and military landscape without considering the possible consequences. A Reagan-Gorbachev agreement to dismantle nuclear warheads would render both of them, at least today, the greatest leaders of modern times. Tomorrow, however, they would face the uncharted and perhaps equally perilous challenges of a nuclear world without nuclear superpowers...
Tisch has tried to avoid any situations that could compromise his reputation. Says he: "American companies must be represented by people who have the highest standards of business ethics." Insider trading scandals on Wall Street, Tisch suggests, are "sad. There are certain pressures on these people that make them succumb...
...Englishwoman in Two More Under the Indian Sun observes, "Indian men have such marvelous eyes . . . When they look at you, you can't help feeling all young and nice." Foreigners succumb to this seductive appeal at their own peril. In Passion, two British roommates take up with men they find "typically Indian." They are, naturally, stark opposites. Christine goes out with a handsome Sikh officer; Betsy has an affair with a scrawny clerk who is married, sensitive to a fault and abusive to her when the mood hits him. "I suppose all passion is unhealthy," she tells Christine...
Five years after the Civil War, the Signet's founders formed their club in the hopes that it would not succumb to the politics they perceived as dominating the other 11 final clubs...