Word: adapters
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...Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age, in which he warns parents against spoiling their children either materially or emotionally, against trying to make kids' lives perfect. Using the body's immune system as a metaphor, Kindlon argues, "The body cannot learn to adapt to stress unless it experiences it. Indulged children are often less able to cope with stress because their parents have created an atmosphere where their whims are indulged, where they have always assumed...that they're entitled and that life should be a bed of roses...
Tony Eldridge, 40, a senior manager with consultants Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, taught himself to adapt to this changing landscape. "Before, it was all about what you as an individual could achieve and get credit for. Now you have to give up personal ownership--which goes against all my education in business school. But sometimes you have to put down that voice in the back of your head screaming 'Me! Me! Me!' and ask, 'O.K., if I get the recognition, what will be the cost to me?'" The cost is high, Eldridge says, because co-workers get turned...
...began his career as a playwright in the early 1970s but found his work banned. Undeterred, he donned a frowzy dress and created his famous alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, the saccharine-sweet wife of a conservative politician - and used her character to lampoon apartheid's absurdities in farces like Adapt or Dye and Skating on Thin Uys. His Evita not only escaped the censors - she soon had the nation eating out of her well-manicured hand. After the end of apartheid, Uys found plenty to satirize in the new "designer democracy." In 1995, he was back onstage with...
...More public investment in GM technology, both by national governments and by international research groups, would certainly help. That way each nation can can adapt and make use of global research if it chooses. Every country that wants to use GM technology also needs to establish a strong bio-safety system to ensure that any risks that these new crops might bring can be handled safely. And part of having an effective bio-safety system means setting up consultations with farmers and consumers so that informed and open debates can be held and communities can make their own choices...
...these factors make it more difficult for Latino politicians to play traditional ethnic politics, they have also forced the most successful among them to adapt to the realities of an increasingly multicultural electorate. Former state assembly speaker Antonio Villaraigosa beat 14 other candidates in April's Los Angeles mayoral primary with help from labor, women's groups, environmentalists and the Democratic Party establishment. Villaraigosa made a strong showing among gays, despite the fact that he was running against an openly gay opponent, and among Jews, though there were two Jewish rivals on the ballot. For this week's runoff election...