Word: adaptive
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There is some skepticism about the policies. Harvard, several students note, has been slow to adapt to new technologies...
What is creative is Cornell's fascist response and its underlying inability to adapt effectively to a technology leaping faster and faster into the homes of people everywhere. This is a problem many schools--including Harvard--have not yet begun to address...
...sophomore, I've already had the full experience of being a first-year at Harvard. I can proclaim that it differed greatly from my utopian hope. It wasn't just that it wasn't as much fun. It was learning how to adapt to circumstances...
...been transformed from a purely economic institution to a political one, Britain has been slow to adapt, said Lord Roy Jenkins, chancellor of Oxford University...
Microbes' extraordinary ability to adapt, observes Harvard microbiologist Fields, "is a fact of life. It's written into evolution." Indeed, the end run that many organisms are making around modern antibiotics is a textbook case of Darwin's theory in action (anti-evolutionists, take note). In its simplest form, the theory states that new traits will spontaneously appear in individual members of a given species -- in modern terms, mutations will arise in the organisms' genetic material. Usually the traits will be either useless or debilitating, but once in a while they'll confer a survival advantage, allowing the individual...