Word: adaptions
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...charts. He has written and produced hits for Santana and Whitney Houston and has also worked with Destiny's Child and Sinead O'Connor. "He's like a chameleon," says Melky Jean, Wyclef's sister and frequent supporting vocalist. "He can adapt from rap to pop to country because, growing up, that's what he used to listen to; he never limited himself...
...When you're there for a while you adapt to that outlook," Jacobsen says. "Bob did the same thing and I did the same thing...
...investments into large and self-sustaining improvements in a society's health or education or housing. "We really don't want to be mistaken for a foundation," Drayton says somewhat disdainfully. "Philanthropy has been dominated by governments and foundation bureaucracies that have not evolved quickly enough and don't adapt well to changing demands from the field. We need to invent new institutions...
...every revolution there comes that bitter moment when the flag-waving has to stop, the grand social theories have to adapt to reality, and a large number of the revolutionaries inevitably find themselves hauled off to the guillotine. The dotcom revolution is no different, except that, true to form, it has accelerated the process. The time it takes to go from hero on the barricades to zero with your head in a basket has shrunk to a nanosecond...
...press PLAY. Visual and aural information from the real world is overridden; your bioport provides all the sensory stimuli you need. Technically, it's just a question of getting the right hookups. If there's anything we already know from playing games, it's that our brains eagerly adapt our physical responses to the onscreen action. Next time your six-year-old plays Pokemon on his Game Boy or your teenagers blast away at their pals on Quake, watch what happens to their breathing and blink rate. One steadily increases; the other drops away to almost nothing. Their bodies...