Word: adaptability
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...write the merger off completely. United is a savvy airline that can adapt (the last bit of evidence being the formation of a business jet unit aimed at its most valuable passengers). And United's executives have no doubt closely read the decision last month by a federal judge that threw out the first-ever Department of Justice suit against a major airline for predatory practices - against United rival American Airlines for unfairly driving competitors out of business...
...Stuart Kauffman--philosopher, medical doctor, evolutionary biologist and entrepreneur--all these problems underscore a single phenomenon: complex, self-organizing systems continuously adapt to and change with their environments but do so in ways that are impossible to predict. It's a head scratcher. In a universe damned by entropy to gradual dissolution, things sure seem pretty well put together. So, how is it that evolving systems as diverse as the biosphere, your immune system or the global economy have grown from nothing into organizations of imponderable complexity...
...folly or masterpiece, the French comix artist Stéphane Heuet has decided to adapt Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." Proust's masterwork, a seven-volume, 4000-plus page French novel published between 1913 and 1922 will become twelve comicbook volumes published between 1998 and perhaps 2020. The first of these has now been translated into English (NBM Publishing, $19.95, hardcover...
...means to be a human being. We are all more similar than racists or nationalists like to think: the genetic variance throughout the 6 billion humans on earth amounts to less than that in a single troop of chimpanzees. But those genes have afforded us an ability to adapt from foraging for hazelnuts to searching the Web in the evolutionary blink of an eye. What happens in the next blink is anybody's guess...
Jeremy Funke: For my AP English midterm during my senior year of high school, I had to present an original artistic response, so I presented Hamlet from Hamlet’s point of view. I had three weeks to adapt, direct, produce and star in a two hour version of Hamlet. Then, last semester, my father mentioned this bizarre theory he had about Hamlet. His theory was that the lead player was hired by Horatio to play the role of Hamlet’s father’s ghost, under the assumption that Hamlet would hear the ghost, kill Claudius...