Word: adaptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMONG the most despised of creatures is the slug, a night-crawling enemy of every gardener. But one scientist collects them, thinks his study might help man adapt himself to difficult environments such as outer space. See SCIENCE, Slug Time...
...Segal does not know how the slugs' clock works, is trying to find out if slugs can adapt their clocks to suit new artificial environments. He is also fascinated by another talent of slugs. When the temperature of their environment rises, their heartbeat, breathing and metabolism all increase. But a speeded-up slug kept at high temperatures does not burn out. After a while, it resumes a normal, sluglike pace. Some regulating system has adjusted its behavior to the new high temperature...
Flying over Cuba at 19,000 feet, Castro broadcast a harangue down to his subjects via Havana radio stations: "It is difficult to adapt myself to the idea of passing over Cuba. Naturally, I feel emotional." But he kept right on going-to Brasilia and a meeting with President Juscelino Kubitschek, to Buenos Aires, where President Arturo Frondizi pointedly kept him from provocative public appearances...
...most of these students intend to marry; and a girl's position as far as education is concerned is expected to be more flexible than that of her husband. The man can concentrate his education with a career in mind: his wife must usually adapt hers to him. Consequently, it is better that the girl come out of school with a wide-ranging background (even at the expense of its being a little nebulous) rather than emerging a rigidly intellectually formed botanist or medieval philosopher or drama critic or anything else...
Though architect's drawings for a $1 million Non-Resident House have been put on the shelf, Lehman Hall (the University's "counting house") may be converted for commuter use. According to a preliminary study, the building would be easy to adapt, except for the problem of providing a service entrance off busy Massachusetts Ave. But, before commuters can occupy Lehman, the Comptroller's Office must move out, and this change must wait until the College raises $10 million to build its Health Center-Office Building complex on the block where Dudley now stands...