Word: adapts
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...people convey information. "Humans communicate with language but also with everything else we do. The books you own, the way you decorate your house, whether you wear a tie or not are all signs of something else," he explains. "That's semiotics in a nutshell." His earlier novels neatly adapt this philosophy to the thriller format - Rose, for example, is a medieval whodunit set in a monastery, Foucault's Pendulum a conspiracy of sects and secret societies. The new storyline plunges the author into a forensic examination of nostalgia. "By definition, the word nostalgia is the desire to return...
...floresiensis would be nothing less than a revolution in the understanding of human evolution. It's not just that a new species has been claimed to be found, itself an event of seismic proportions. Conventional anthropological wisdom holds that animals, in the absence of big predators, shrink to adapt to life on small, closed habitats like Flores, a phenomenon known as island dwarfism. Humans, however, are thought to have evolved linearly, developing bigger bodies and brains. H. floresiensis, relatively modern yet small?but not a Pygmy, according to its supporters?explodes that theory. "[It'd] go completely against the flow...
...Muslim country on earth. All this should make it America’s new best friend in our color-coded terror era, for the country stands on America’s side of the church-state divide, and is a prime example of Islam’s potential to adapt to the 21st century. A stronger relationship with Indonesia would send the most powerful message yet to the silent, global, Muslim majority that America has distinguished between Islam and Islamism, and stands in solidarity behind the former. This ought to be a small step towards the long-term goal...
...officers check IDs at tailgates and confiscate them. Over the past ten years, he says students have learned to adapt the tailgates and make them, for the most part, alcohol-free...
Hopkins will also have to adapt to the differences between Harvard and MIT. A frequent joker in his lectures, Hopkins said he often teases MIT students about Star Trek...