Word: adaptive
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...took years, but the big networks have learned to adapt The Sopranos' strengths to their own needs and audiences. Lost is, in its adventure-story way, an HBO show in structure, with one complex story played out over years. (In fact, its fans complain, much as Sopranos fans have, that the plot wanders too much and fails to give closure.) And antiheroes? Take your pick: nearly every major Lost character has a criminal or checkered past, from fugitive to druglord to torturer to addict...
...threat in the distant future. Now it is increasingly regarded as a clear, observable fact. This sudden shift means that all of us must start thinking about the many ways global warming will affect us, our loved ones, our property and our economic prospects. We must think-- and then adapt accordingly...
Public discussion of global warming in the U.S. is years behind the rest of the world, and adaptation is no exception. "You can't adapt to a problem you don't admit exists," notes Richard Klein of the Stockholm Environment Institute, another IPCC co-author. The U.S. has only recently acknowledged global warming, while other countries are already taking concrete action to prepare for its impact. The Netherlands has some of the strongest flood defenses in the world and is making them stronger. Britain has doubled spending on flood and coastal-defense management, to about $1 billion a year. France...
...Leigh. "Today is an ominous one for those who wish to research a book of their own and come up with their own theories," they said in a statement. "It is a carte blanche for those who would rather not bother, but simply take another author's ideas and adapt them." The decision means the Holy Blood authors can't claim massive royalties from Random House (who also published their book) and still have to pay the $6 million legal bill. They can still appeal the appeal and try to convince the House of Lords, Britain's answer...
...league rejected their proposal then, but the coaches went back to the bargaining table last year and convinced the league brass to adapt the same format as baseball...