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While not all transitions are so smooth, Harvard athletics must adapt to the best of its ability. Far from flashy to begin with, as long as maintaining healthy competition and high morale across Crimson teams remains a priority, we should be okay with a few less sweaters...
...safe from the threat of extinction. Dip below that level, and any sudden change - the loss of a valued habitat, a new disease - could wipe out a species before conservationists would have time to act. "Small populations have therefore reached a point of departure: away from the ability to adapt to changing environmental circumstances and toward inflexible vulnerability to those same changes," writes Traill. (Read "Extinction 'Gene': Why Some Species Are More at Risk...
Kolman added that the compilation of recipes was the product of searching for creative ways to adapt to a vegan lifestyle in a college environment not usually amenable to special dietary concerns...
...else do you adapt a wizard sport for the Muggle world? Take the Snitch, who is actually "a guy running around all dressed in yellow." Tackle him, catch him, beat the sh*t out of him, and it is 150 points for your team and the end of the game...
...other states, including many in the South and Midwest, have not attempted such bold reform, meaning they will probably be slower to adapt to potential new responsibilities. There is also a concern among some policy experts that state legislators, who could have a lot of control over reform implementation, are too beholden to local interest groups like small insurers and health systems. "There's no question that lobbyists win cheaper on the state level," says Len Nichols, a health economist at the New America Foundation. "With a set of [Arkansas] Razorbacks tickets for one weekend and they...