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Citing the Coop's varied history, from originally selling firewood to storing steamer trunks and later serving as a laundromat and pharmacy, Murphy said, "We will always support what is going on at the University and adapt to what the students want...

Author: By Rebecca F. Lubens, | Title: Coop Announces Losses, Cancels Member Rebate | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

...emphasis on academic information technology follows on the heels of Project ADAPT, which is designed to overhaul the administrative computing system and centralize some functions...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Rudenstine: International Center, Information Technology Top Goals | 9/25/1996 | See Source »

...Rudenstine said the academic computing initiative will be individually tailored to each school's needs and will not likely have the same centralized character as Project ADAPT...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Rudenstine: International Center, Information Technology Top Goals | 9/25/1996 | See Source »

There is another aspect, however, in which Clinton's presidency does not rate well at all. The ability to sense what is politically possible and adapt to it is one measure of a President. Clinton passes that test with the greatest of ease. Another test, though, is to sense the challenges looming in the future and prepare the nation to face them. That test Clinton has so far resoundingly flunked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: THE LEARNING CURVE | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...these changes are, in fact, part of the natural life cycle of such rituals. "African traditions are not vanishing," says Mullen Kreamer of the National Museum of Natural History. "They are changing. Even ceremonies that have been performed for hundreds of years have changed throughout the centuries as people adapt to new stimuli and new ideas." Still, there is a poignancy in Beckwith and Fisher's images, a sense that we are seeing some of the last things on earth that have not been subsumed by 20th century Western culture. Jason Clay, co-founder of Cultural Survival Quarterly, uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropology: LOST AFRICA | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

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