Word: adaptiveness
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...lizards and other exotic pets. But the sheer scale of demand from China makes everything else pale into insignificance. Up to 80% of the illegal wildlife smuggled out of Southeast Asia is headed for China, says Steve Galster, who heads WildAid's Bangkok office. Illegal traders have had to adapt to the changed marketplace. "I had to take a crash course in Mandarin," laughs Hendrawan, an affable young Indonesian who runs a sprawling wildlife processing facility in South Sumatra. "My family is Chinese but we don't speak it at home, so when business began to go through the roof...
Saini, who said he is eager to adapt his store to serve students’ needs, also plans on installing a suggestion box to receive student input...
...moral design of nature is as bungled as its engineering design. What twisted sadist would have invented a parasite that blinds millions of people or a gene that covers babies with excruciating blisters? To adapt a Yiddish expression about God: If an intelligent designer lived on Earth, people would break his windows...
...Moviegoers--black plus a substantial white crossover--didn't much mind, giving the Ice Cube hit a $75 million gross and inspiring a sequel--two, if you count Beauty Shop. But it was hardly ambitious, so it was surprising that Showtime would ask screenwriter John Ridley (Three Kings) to adapt it for TV. "My first reaction was, 'Oh, that's what I want to do,'" Ridley says sarcastically. "Remaking somebody else's movie--that's what I want to be remembered...
...into Japan's telecommunications market. Last April, Japan's national telephone system was converted from a staterun monopoly into a private enterprise. While it is too soon to predict how much business will be captured by foreign firms, the winners are likely to be those companies that can adapt to the special demands of the Japanese market. Says Byron Battle, an undersecretary of economic affairs for the Massachusetts Office of International Trade: "In Japan, you have to sell it their way, not the Great American way." That is a lesson as old as world trade. --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported...