Word: adaptable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite Cambridge's religious past, filmmaker Volker Schlondorff, who helped adapt the story for the screen in 1990, says the city's more recent decidedly left-of-center leanings also make it appropriate for the novel...
...addition, the University's extensive bookkeeping overhaul, known as Project ADAPT, has made the Y2K conversion easier in some respects, since its new methods of keeping track of Harvard's books already took the millennium into account...
...Scientists have calculated that Europe is now slightly warmer than it was 100 years ago and they predict that it will continue to get warmer, and at a faster rate, during the next century because of the greenhouse effect of pollution. ?Evidently some species are already taking steps to adapt to what we have wrought,? says Kluger. Which raises a big question: If butterflies are wasting no time to vote with their wings, where does that leave...
Because Latin pop draws from different cultures, it also has the power to bring people together. "Latino people have a golden key in their hands, a common treasure," says Colombian-born pop-rocker Shakira, 22, who is working with Gloria Estefan to adapt her acclaimed 1998 Spanish-language CD Donde Estan los Ladrones? into English. "That treasure is fusion. The fusion of rhythms, the fusion of ideas. We Latinos are a race of fusion, and that is the music we make. And so at the dawn of a new millennium, when everything is said and done, what could possibly happen...
...final clubs will admit women into their ranks. They can open their doors of their own volition or hesitate until some yet unforeseen from of coercion accomplishes that for them. It is only a matter of time before women may actually welcome the opportunity to join. They can adapt quickly to a world where they are welcomed instead of barred. If it is only a matter of time--as it certainly is--why not let the time be now? Jenny E. Heller'01, a Crimson editor, is a Romance languages and literatures concentrator in Lowell House