Word: organismic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In its 75 years, TIME has proved to be an adaptive organism, reinventing itself periodically. The red border on the cover, first used in 1927, and the familiar lettering of the logo have made the magazine unmistakable, giving it instant identity and reassuring familiarity.
Staphylococcus aureus, an "elite force" in the bacteria battalion, is an adaptable organism that has always developed antibiotic resistance with haste. For example, staphylococcus aureus becomes resistant to erythromycin, a protein inhibitor, after only seven to ten days. Resistance to penicillin developed a few years after its commercial production in...
"Differentiation and integration are fundamental to the dynamic maturation of the human organism." (Social Relations)
Although the first section of the book, "Angels of Disease," focuses primarily on events and personalities in the history of medicine, Holub's real interest is in the development of the social organism. Holub uses immunology, the study of what the body recognizes as "self" and "other," as model for...
"When you have a core of actors that work together over a period of time," Brustein says, "they form a unit or an organism that helps to realize a Chekhov or a Shakespeare better than through another approach."