Word: adaptability
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...Conversely, cities decayed because of internal and social strife, costly military campaigns to maintain trading empires or other commercial interests, protectionism, inability to adapt to changing economic conditions and intolerance toward minority groups, which encouraged merchant families or religious minorities to leave. And there has been another, frequently overlooked agent of urban decline: disease. For example, the Black Death, caused by the Pasteurella pestis, reappeared in Europe in 1346 when the port city of Kaffa was besieged by the Mongol leader Kipchak khan Janibeg, who catapulted dead bodies into the city (the first recorded case of biological warfare). The plague...
...regular season at an end, the sailors have nearly a month to prepare for Nationals, preparation that may require trips away from the Charles. Harvard owns, and uses, two kinds of boats—Larks and FJs. But Nationals will be raced in 420s, requiring the Crimson to adapt...
Fortunately, the medical community is starting to adapt to the new realities of women and heart disease. Two studies suggest that women may finally be benefiting as much as men from angioplasty, a procedure in which doctors use catheters and balloons to open up dangerously narrowed arteries and insert stents to keep the arteries open. In the past, catheters and stents were all made in one standard size--to fit men's larger arteries. As a result, women suffered more complications and a much higher risk of death from angioplasty. Also, until about three years ago doctors prescribed the same...
...mean to imply that pursuits like investment banking and consulting are unworthy; I simply mean to remind Kosman—and the Harvard community at large—that success is a broad term. Or, to adapt a phrase, success is found in the eye of the beholder. When we let others’ judgments of success determine our own happiness, we are almost guaranteed to feel as though there is always more ground to cover...
...tale of Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer who goes to Africa to live with the European expatriate community (which is now mostly Jewish) in and around Nairobi. After opening with scenes of his family’s comfortable home life back in Germany, the film depicts the Redlichs adapt to their new home on a desolate Kenyan farm and struggle with relationships between family members and other refugees from Nazi-controlled Europe. Particularly interesting is Walter’s daughter, Regina, who quickly transitions to life Kenya, embracing the country as her true home and being accepted by native Kenyans...