Word: adaptive
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...nonvirtuosos will spend significant stretches of their adulthood rediscovering the single life. Current trends suggest that this will be particularly true of women, both because they live longer than men and because they are less likely to remarry. Women will adapt by developing new types of relationships: dating younger men, seeing more males in platonic friendships and living together in groups with other women, not unlike the Golden Girls model. Computer and videophone dating services will help with matchmaking far more than they do today...
...adapt to new environments...
...longer in vogue; figuring out ecologically correct ways to get mosquitoes to do themselves in is all the rage. "The era of insecticides is coming to an end," says Donald Barnard, the Mosquito Unit's chief. "They're still our first line of defense. But the bugs adapt very quickly to whatever we throw at them. The emphasis now is on outsmarting them, and to do that you have to understand their behavior...
...argue among themselves about whether it will be five or 10 or even 20 more years before dictation systems are that smart. For court reporters, stenographers or anyone else whose primary job is to put spoken words onto paper, that time might be well spent figuring out how to adapt to the technology -- or, if that's not possible, looking for a new career...
...women in Africa and parts of Asia. HIV has still not evolved in the industrialized world into a form that is easily transmitted by heterosexual activity. But it probably will, given the virus' proven ability to mutate. "Over time, in the U.S., more and more strains will adapt to become more efficient at heterosexual transmission," Essex says. "So far, there haven't been a critical number of people infected heterosexually. As that happens, you will get adaptation of the virus for transmission in that route. The heterosexual epidemic in the U.S. will expand...