Word: adaptibility
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...find it disheartening that a religion such as Christianity believes it has a divine right to convert all peoples to its ways. A society's religion helps it adapt to the stresses of its environment. Once a culture is changed by outsiders, it begins to deteriorate...
...Sony plans to adapt this technology to large-screen formats. The dream-or the nightmare-of a TV set the size and thinness of a painting hanging on the living-room wall may soon be a reality. In fact, the West German firm of Siemens AG, using a different technology, has built a prototype 14-in. screen just 2.3 in. thick. The prototype will have a more immediate application as a computer accessory than as a home TV screen. But one slender advantage is already possible: the Siemens screen can be folded up for storage or transport...
...they might to blend with the local population and to adapt the Christian message to their ways, the visitors inevitably bring Western values with them. For instance, missionaries in Asia expect newly baptized Christians to take personal blame for their actions; that is not an easy lesson for people raised in neo-Confucian societies that emphasize group responsibility. New Christians, whose cultures have taught them to mask emotions or express them indirectly, have difficulty accepting the evangelical emphasis on a public affirmation of faith...
...deepest worry in all this for the American public is that the Reagan Administration is losing touch with reality. No one can reasonably demand that the President abandon the beliefs he has argued all his political life. But a successful President must adapt his strongest convictions to changing circumstances, and he cannot let the optimism that is a major virtue blind him to disagreeable facts. Overseas, not every policy is well founded just because it is anti-Soviet; at home, the greatest threat to American prosperity seems to be the stratospheric budget deficits that are aggravated by Reagan's policies...
...operation costs $15,000, and the equipment, including the heart, $16,450. The hospital estimates that the family will have to spend $2,700 to adapt an apartment to the patient's needs. Clark's activities will, however, be limited not only by the reach of his life lines but by the fact that the heart cannot pump enough blood to support more than moderate activity. In the past, DeVries has commented that "sex may be the most strenuous thing these patients...