Word: adaptions
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JOHNSON: We're getting smarter in certain ways--pattern recognition, problem solving, abstract problem solving, system thinking, system analyzing with complex sort of multiple variables, visual intelligence, obviously technological intelligence, ability to adapt to new interfaces and find the information you need. On all of those levels, kids are much brighter today than they were 20 or 30 years ago. And part of my argument is, if you're thinking about the office place of the future, what are the skills that are going to be the most important for those kids? Is it going to be mastering new interfaces...
...follow through on your kindergarten proposal to the girl who had the cubby next to yours. That would probably be jumping the gun. Who you are as a senior in college could be very different from who you will be at 50, and not all relationships can survive or adapt to such changes. If you and your partner are truly comfortable with who you are individually, you are more likely to be able to weather changes that will spring up over the years. I do not think most people know themselves well enough at age 22 to be married, because...
...They not only provide abundant food, from fish, shellfish, seals and otters that thrive there, but they also reduce wave energy, making it easier to navigate offshore waters. By contrast, the inland route along the ice-free corridor would have presented travelers with enormous ecological variability, forcing them to adapt to new conditions and food sources as they traveled...
...derives from the good, decent and generous character of its people. "I never thought Australians had any doubt as to what their identity was," he says. "It's a very strong personality. It owes a lot to certain influences that are predominantly home grown." Howard feels that Australians are adaptable. "We are still a relatively classless, egalitarian country, and we can therefore adapt to change and embrace change more readily. There are fewer things holding us back now than used to be the case." Never a fan of the ambiguous word "multiculturalism," he also rejects the idea that Australia could...
...Wild, and Got a Life,” will be available in bookstores this spring. The book, which tracks an academically-driven girl of Indian descent as she learns to loosen up, has already been picked up by DreamWorks Studios, who is in talks with Viswanathan about a film adaptation. Contrafilm and Alloy Entertainment will produce, according to Variety. The joint English and American Literature and Language and Economics concentrator—who turned 19 just last month—directed all requests for comment to her publicist, Michelle Aielli, But Aielli remained tight-lipped about the film deal, only...