Word: adaptive
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...Existing programs in financial aid, academic support, and counseling certainly help individual students to adapt but are not sufficient to help develop a safe community for these first-generation college goers. The extraordinary essence that has enabled these students to thrive before Harvard will not readily transfer to their newly privileged roles as Harvard students without a comprehensive program to help them identify and navigate the transparent privileges and outsider status that confront them everyday...
...empirical scientific evidence documenting evolution.“Darwin got one thing particularly wrong,” Losos said. “He said that evolution had to occur very slowly.”In fact, Losos has proven that evolution can occur very rapidly and that lizards will adapt to different environments at observable speeds. Thus, according to his research, evolutionary biology can be an experimental science.Losos has published about 125 scientific articles—over a dozen in just the journals Nature and Science—and his first book “Lizards and an Evolutionary Tree...
...graduation for the festivities. The party will, in many ways, resemble more familiar Western weddings: the veiled bride will wear white as guests feast and dance. Aljawhary and Jou have also been careful to obey Muslim standards regarding courtship, while at the same time trying to adapt timeless traditions to the context of recent Muslim-American immigrant communities. “It’s definitely a challenge because you have to be very creative and you have to be open-minded,” Aljawhary said...
...coaches] told me I’m going to have to step up and be a leader,” Cohen said. “I’m not going to be able to surprise teams anymore. I need to be able to adapt and make myself better...
...bedrock of our nation," says Azeez, who works at a coral-research and -regeneration facility at the Banyan Tree resort. With enough investment, he reckons the country can not only pioneer methods to mitigate rising waters, but also provide a vital gauge of how nature itself can adapt to the ravages of global warming. Far more populous low-lying countries, from Bangladesh to the Netherlands, will watch with interest. "Very small places can offer very big answers," says Ahmed Moosa, the editor of the online Dhivehi Observer, who has also been appointed the nation's climate envoy...