Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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M.I.T.'s civil engineering students will take courses in modern physics, thermodynamics, electrical engineering, statistical theory, operations research and computer development. They will also study social and political factors that influence engineering applications. Says M.I.T.'s Dr. John Wilbur: "All the structures, ground facilities and processes that adapt and control environment are the concern of the civil engineer...
...transforming the whole façade and function of the jet age's gateway: the airport. Nations and cities are taking a searching second look at the airports that served the piston-plane age -and finding them wanting. The result is an immense worldwide building boom to adapt them to the new and challenging problems-for pilots, passengers and cities -of the 600 m.p.h. jet planes. In the U.S. new or better airports are blossoming in Seattle, Miami, San Francisco, New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles-and dozens of other airports are also undergoing major face-liftings...
Elephant Walk. "Under increased gravity," says Wunder, after studying motion pictures of his high-G hamsters, "the hamsters walk around and seem to adapt very nicely, but their walking pattern is more like an elephant than a hamster. They're a bit perturbed about having to carry a bigger load." When young mice or hamsters are put on a centrifuge, they usually lose considerable weight for three or four days. "Apparently they have trouble digesting their food," says Dr. Wunder. "They level off and gain back their original weight, but they never get as big as ordinary mice...
...weakness of 19th century theology, as Barth sees it, was that it tried above all to confront and adapt itself to the times. Through theology's wide-open doors and windows "came so much stimulation for thought and discussion that there was hardly time or love or zeal left for the task to be accomplished within the house itself. With all its energies captivated by the world, 19th century theology achieved little in terms of a new and positive understanding of Christian truth...
...pointed out that the government has found it "impossible" to carry through "the mass withdrawal of [ black] labor from European industries." Just as "Karoo farmers do not waste their time arguing whether the low rainfall of the area they farm in is something they should like or dislike . . . and adapt themselves to it," wrote Fagan, "we have to accept the fact of interdependence of the races in South Africa...