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Coleman, who got a masters degree from the Kennedy School in 1975 and one from the Graduate School of Education in 1976, said his years at Harvard "taught me to be able to adapt to different situations...
...Northridge quake -- which seismologists now said may have struck with two successive pulses -- was a superior vertical force. This caused some buildings that would have survived back-and-forth swaying to be subverted at their foundations. Accordingly, experts are looking at futuristic designs that will allow buildings to adapt to such tremulous variations. Japan, for example, has equipped buildings with computer-controlled systems that dynamically compensate for quake-induced motion; if an earthquake tips a building forward, these systems can activate massive weights and "thrusters" that force it in the opposite direction. Less expensive are suspension systems like the rubber...
...where the focus is women, I for one would support them. I believe it would be a positive experience for male undergraduates to deal with the sense of being outnumbered, over whelmed and out of their natural habitat. But it should be the men who make the effort to adapt to Radcliffe, rather than the other way around. The question is, how many would be willing to make such a sacrifice...
...report says: "The financial implications ofthe need to adapt are clear; institutions mustrethink their programs, streamline theirorganizations, reduce their bureaucracy andincrease productivity if they are to completeeffectively...
Away from the Hollywood power-breakfast scene, Tartikoff struck out on his own road to recovery. First he produced shows for New Orleans TV, among them a quiz program called N.O. It Alls, which he hopes to adapt for other cities. As his daughter's condition has improved, he has plunged back into his old world, this time as seller rather than buyer. "Anybody who has been in a position of power for 14 years," he observes, "says no far more often than he gets to say yes. And people remember those nos. I'm sure there...