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...executive director of Project ADAPT, a multimillion-dollar initiative which will overhaul the University's accounting systems, left last month to work at an Internet-based educational company--just as ADAPT's core systems whirred into place with few hitches...
Peter J. Segall has been at the helm of ADAPT since 1997, when he inherited a project already experiencing difficulties that put it behind schedule...
Under his direction, on July 1, the University launched the money-management Web sites that are the second phase of ADAPT, an initiative to reform the way records and finances are organized across Harvard's 10 schools. The first phase was entirely planning...
Segall's departure should not affect ADAPT's course too greatly, as his successor, Sara E. Oseasohn '74, already has been working with the program for three years...
...technology shows no signs of slowing down, which means that even dramatic changes in the natural world won't necessarily have evolutionary consequences. Argues Wolpoff: "We're not going to [adapt to] the next ice age by changing our physical form. We'll set off an atom bomb or set up a space mirror or whatever [to control climate]." Manipulation of the human genome, meanwhile, will eventually let us change the basic characteristics of our species to order. Evolution by natural selection could be replaced, perhaps chillingly, with evolution by human intervention...